On September 9, 2024, the Select Board voted to move the Annual Town Meeting from the first Monday in May to the third Monday in May. Annual Town Meeting will be held on May 19, 2025.
The Girl Scouts of Westwood is proud to announce four of their members have earned the prestigious Girl Scout Gold Award. The Gold Award is the highest award the Girl Scouts offers. Less than five percent of Girl Scouts achieve this honor. As described by Girl Scouts, “Girls who pursue their Gold Award aspire to transform an idea and vision for change into an actionable plan with measurable, sustainable, and far-reaching results.”
The Girl Scouts and their projects are described below.
Elizabeth Lowney: Spring Into STEM
Elizabeth, a junior at Westwood High, took her love for STEM and Girl Scouts to create Spring Into STEM. This series of educational workshops helped empower over 100 K-12 Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in Westwood to learn more about STEM through interactive demonstrations, hands-on learning and engaging activities.
Anglina Homsy: The Kitchen Garden
Anglina’s project, inspired by her interactions with her grandmother, focused on the challenges that food pantries face in providing perishable goods to their customers. Recognizing the nutritional importance of fresh produce, Angelina, a Westwood High senior, created nearly 100 kits to grow tomato and basil home gardens. The kits, which were distributed through the Westwood Food Pantry, included instructions and information on good nutritional habits.
Charlotte Scolaro: Composting Benefits, From Landfills to Backyards
Charlotte’s environmental awareness led her to observe that Westwood’s composting efforts seemed less robust than other communities, a weakness she sought to address through her Gold Award project. To reach students and families in Westwood, Charlotte, a Westwood High senior, developed a curriculum on how and why we should compost, including a video and instructional game, which she presented through multiple sessions to approximately 100 students in third to fifth grade.
Grace Barnett: SCRIIBE
Grace, a Westwood High senior, focused on her concern over the incivility in public discourse. Having learned about the idea of connective democracy— the theory that people can interact more successfully on complex issues if they have first connected through a shared interest —Grace created a virtual writing conference called SCRIIBE (Students Connecting Remotely in the Interest of Better Expression). Through intensive writing workshops, Grace hoped high schoolers from different geographic areas would get to know each other, and learn about and appreciate their different experiences, while connecting through a shared love of writing.
For more information and all the details of each project, please contact the Westwood Girl Scouts.
Contributed by Amy Amatangelo, Westwood Girl Scout Leader
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