CCSD Recognizes Students for Earning National Service Award
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CCSD Recognizes Students for Earning National Service Award
A group of Cherokee County School District students has earned a national award for community service!
Girl Scout Troop 23134, made up of second-graders from Arnold Mill ES, Hickory Flat ES, Indian Knoll ES and Knox ES STEM Academy, won the Daughters of the American Revolution Junior American Citizens’ National Service Award. On the path to earning the national award, the Scouts earned chapter, area, state and regional honors. The troop also was named the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta’s Unstoppable Girl Scout Troop of the Year.
Congratulations to Millie Banks, Isabella Boccagna, Symphany Dillard, Jalyazia Docks, Olivia Drgan, Piper Guy, Eliza Jackson, Addison Loizzo, Zoey May, Annalise Waldroup, Madeline Witt, Troop Leader Amber Witt and Volunteer of Excellence Award winner Emily Jackson! Thank you to the Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, a CCSD Partner, for its valued partnership and thank you to our School Board for supporting community partnerships.
The students earned these honors for a three-year community service project to provide “birthday bags” to bring joy to families in need. As kindergartners, they learned that some families struggle with food insecurity, and sometimes don’t have money to purchase birthday cakes and party supplies.
The troop responded to this need by using its Girl Scout Cookie sale proceeds to create “birthday bags,” which each contain the basics a family would need to make and decorate a birthday cake, plus plates, decorations and cards. The first year, the students made 10 bags; the second they made 133; and this past year, they invited other troops to help and together made 250 bags. They delivered the bags to food pantries, domestic violence family shelters, and foster care programs.
Superintendent of Schools Mary Elizabeth Davis this week presented the students with their honors during a ceremony at the school district office, which ended with them sharing a Scouts’ Friendship Circle.
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