So the gold award is the highestearned award, as you said. What girls dos look at a problem in their community, a challenge, and they spend over 80 hours doing work to solve that problem. One of the things that we require is that it not only thelps that community bt it has a longlasting effect after they complete it. Ow n i know the gold award has been compared to the boy scouts eagle scout. Yes. Thats not a fairis comparon, though, is it . The gold award is project based. And unlike a rank, you dono haveve earned the other Precious Metals on your way to earn being the gold award. I call it the ph. D. In girl scouti, because it really is about having a girls, what she is curious and concerned about, taking that and making it something that she can improve. So there are 225,s this this region . This year. The girl scouts of the ncaions tal is the largest in the country. We have over 60,000 girls in maryland, virginia, western virginia and the districtf columbia. And it is the highest nu
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