Girl Scout Gold Awards 2016

2016 Gold Award
ANNA ZAGOREN

While volunteering at ECLC of New Jersey’s Chatham Campus, a school for students with special needs, I noticed that the students were only receiving forty minutes of art instruction per week.  During this time, I had the opportunity to meet some exceptional student artists, who demonstrated remarkable interest and/or ability in art, but did not have access to additional art instruction.  In response to their need for  more extensive art education, I created The Advanced Art Club, which provides an additional forty-minute period of time for the students in the Club to practice and refine their drawing and painting skills.  The goal is for these students to receive additional art instruction with individualized attention in a smaller classroom setting.  Reducing the classroom size and including myself as an assistant teacher, provided the Club members with the additional time making art and personal guidance.
During my Gold Award, the students completed a portraiture project and participated in an artistic collaboration with students from Chatham High School.  I hope that these students will be encouraged by the time in the Club, and through its continuation in coming years, to further develop their interest in art and continue their art education.

2016 Gold Award
MEG GORDON
TROOP 505

The Hope Project
The Hope Project was created and designed to help address the boredom and apprehension in patients receiving treatment at St. Jude’s Children’s’ Research Hospital.  The goal of this project was to make a hospital stay or the rehabilitation process more enjoyable and colorful.  Art has therapeutic aspects that impact patients positively both from seeing it and creating works.  Art has the potential to alleviate stress and anxiety connected to illnesses.  Patients, in this case, children can articulate their emotions through creativity.
The target audience was the children receiving inpatient and outpatient treatment at St. Jude’s Research Hospital in Memphis Tennessee.
Part One – was decorate 8x10” canvases with the word HOPE stenciled across it with paint to be donated to patients at the hospital.
Part Two – Making Activity Kits of art supplies for the patients. Ages 3 - 8 and ages 9 – 12.
St. Jude’s received 250 Activity Kits and 250 Hope Canvasses.