Roe Achieves Girl Scout Gold Award
April 25, 2023 at 9:42 p.m.
Roe Achieves Girl Scout Gold Award
By David [email protected]
Barb Grumme, service unit manager for Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana, told the commissioners, “This morning we’re here to honor Keely Roe, who has earned her Girl Scouts Gold Award. A Gold Award is the highest award that you can earn as a Girl Scout. It’s somewhat equivalent to a Boy Scouts Eagle Award. It takes a lot of work, a lot of preparation.”
Pointing to Roe’s vest that was covered in badges and pins, Grumme said Roe has been involved in Girl Scouts for many years. She has 48 national patches alone. While she’s earned a lot of pins and recognitions, Grumme said the highest of those is the Gold Award.
“She served as a National Delegate. She’s very involved in Girl Scouts. She’s also very involved in her high school community. She is student body president here at Warsaw High School. She is a member of the speech and debate team, a member of the National Honor Society, a member of Phi Theta Kappa. Serves on the Kosciusko County Teen Court, and is a member of the board of directors of the Kosciusko Youth Leadership Academy,” Grumme said.
Roe will graduate this spring with a Core 40 Academic and Technical Honors. She also graduates from Ivy Tech Community College with a pharmacy technician’s certificate and a certificate in dementia care. This fall, she will attend Butler University as a student of their Honors College Program, studying biology in their pre-med track. Her possible long-term goal is to become a pediatric surgeon.
Grumme said, “Keely is a very hard worker, very involved and very giving and caring.”
Commissioner Brad Jackson asked, “That is amazing. What do you do in your spare time?”
He then read a letter the commissioners prepared for Roe, congratulating her for becoming a Girl Scouts Gold Award recipient.
“It is an outstanding achievement. This honor demonstrates you’re a hardworking young woman with good character. You should be proud of this accomplishment,” Jackson said. “Over the course of your years in Girl Scouts, you have learned many qualities that helped you and changed you into a strong leader and helpful citizen to your community. Our hope for the future is that you continue to learn and grow and lead with integrity.”
He said Girl Scouts provides the guidelines that Roe needs to become a strong, confident adult. The knowledge and attitudes that she developed as a Girl Scout will help her for the rest of her life.
“Congratulations on achieving a Gold Award,” Jackson stated.
After the presentation and photos, he also said, “I have to say that’s the most impressive resume I’ve (seen). She’s done more in her life than a lot have done and they’re much older. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for you.”
The daughter of Terry and Lori Roe, Keely Roe said after the commissioners meeting that she’s been in Girl Scouts since kindergarten.
“I have the 10-year member award, but I’ve been in since kindergarten. So, a lot longer than 10 years,” she said.
Among the requirements to get the Gold Award is a service project.
“Before I could even be eligible to try the project, I had to do two leadership academies essentially, so two leadership classes, an in-depth project and you have to do a community service project with those activities,” Roe said.
After that, she had to submit an initial report of what she wanted to do with her project. In that report, she had to include who’s on her committee - including community members and peers, find a project adviser, write out what her budget was going to be, what her quantitative and qualitative goals were and how much time she was going to spend on her project. Her project adviser was Suzie Light, retired Kosciusko County Community Foundation CEO.
Her report then was sent to the local council - Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana - and then she had to speak with the Gold Award Committee who had to approve her report.
After the report was approved, Roe got started on her project.
“I spent over 70 hours on my project total. I spent a few hundred dollars, but not over budget. The results were really good, too,” she said. “After you finish all of your project, you have to submit a final report. You have to type it all up and say what you did and how it impacted you. And then it gets sent back to the council and that same committee then interviews you and approves or wants you to go back and finish your project.”
For her project, Roe’s topic was about breast health wellness. She created a patch program that older Girl Scouts can earn.
“So, middle school and high school Girl Scouts can earn a patch that teaches them about self-exams, the importance of having trusted adults and just about breast health in general. And then I also created two different brochure designs, so one was about self-exams and the other one was about benign conditions,” she said.
The project stemmed from Roe’s own experience of having a benign tumor in her breast that she had removed when she was 16 years old.
“So I decided that since I didn’t know about how to find that or anything through school, I figured many of my peers don’t know about it either, so I created that project for that and wanted to help other Girl Scouts learn about it,” she said.
Girl Scouts she helped educate about it through her virtual sessions were from across the country, including California and Virginia. Roe’s breast surgeon from Parkview spoke during the sessions.
“My surgeon, Dr. Lindsay Hardley, she was the one that actually operated on me, and I had her join my committee. She also got some other nurses and pediatricians to join my committee as well from the community and Fort Wayne. They helped me with the research and with finding resources and funding,” Roe said.
Parkview’s media team created a professional interview with Roe about her project and put it on their social media. It can be found online at https://www.parkview.com/blog/raising-awareness-for-breast-health.
“That was a pretty awesome opportunity,” she said. “I also worked with Live Well Kosciusko with the Cancer Coalition. Some of their committee members were on my committee as well, So they helped with creating the patch and other faucets of the project as well.”
Barb Grumme, service unit manager for Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana, told the commissioners, “This morning we’re here to honor Keely Roe, who has earned her Girl Scouts Gold Award. A Gold Award is the highest award that you can earn as a Girl Scout. It’s somewhat equivalent to a Boy Scouts Eagle Award. It takes a lot of work, a lot of preparation.”
Pointing to Roe’s vest that was covered in badges and pins, Grumme said Roe has been involved in Girl Scouts for many years. She has 48 national patches alone. While she’s earned a lot of pins and recognitions, Grumme said the highest of those is the Gold Award.
“She served as a National Delegate. She’s very involved in Girl Scouts. She’s also very involved in her high school community. She is student body president here at Warsaw High School. She is a member of the speech and debate team, a member of the National Honor Society, a member of Phi Theta Kappa. Serves on the Kosciusko County Teen Court, and is a member of the board of directors of the Kosciusko Youth Leadership Academy,” Grumme said.
Roe will graduate this spring with a Core 40 Academic and Technical Honors. She also graduates from Ivy Tech Community College with a pharmacy technician’s certificate and a certificate in dementia care. This fall, she will attend Butler University as a student of their Honors College Program, studying biology in their pre-med track. Her possible long-term goal is to become a pediatric surgeon.
Grumme said, “Keely is a very hard worker, very involved and very giving and caring.”
Commissioner Brad Jackson asked, “That is amazing. What do you do in your spare time?”
He then read a letter the commissioners prepared for Roe, congratulating her for becoming a Girl Scouts Gold Award recipient.
“It is an outstanding achievement. This honor demonstrates you’re a hardworking young woman with good character. You should be proud of this accomplishment,” Jackson said. “Over the course of your years in Girl Scouts, you have learned many qualities that helped you and changed you into a strong leader and helpful citizen to your community. Our hope for the future is that you continue to learn and grow and lead with integrity.”
He said Girl Scouts provides the guidelines that Roe needs to become a strong, confident adult. The knowledge and attitudes that she developed as a Girl Scout will help her for the rest of her life.
“Congratulations on achieving a Gold Award,” Jackson stated.
After the presentation and photos, he also said, “I have to say that’s the most impressive resume I’ve (seen). She’s done more in her life than a lot have done and they’re much older. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for you.”
The daughter of Terry and Lori Roe, Keely Roe said after the commissioners meeting that she’s been in Girl Scouts since kindergarten.
“I have the 10-year member award, but I’ve been in since kindergarten. So, a lot longer than 10 years,” she said.
Among the requirements to get the Gold Award is a service project.
“Before I could even be eligible to try the project, I had to do two leadership academies essentially, so two leadership classes, an in-depth project and you have to do a community service project with those activities,” Roe said.
After that, she had to submit an initial report of what she wanted to do with her project. In that report, she had to include who’s on her committee - including community members and peers, find a project adviser, write out what her budget was going to be, what her quantitative and qualitative goals were and how much time she was going to spend on her project. Her project adviser was Suzie Light, retired Kosciusko County Community Foundation CEO.
Her report then was sent to the local council - Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana - and then she had to speak with the Gold Award Committee who had to approve her report.
After the report was approved, Roe got started on her project.
“I spent over 70 hours on my project total. I spent a few hundred dollars, but not over budget. The results were really good, too,” she said. “After you finish all of your project, you have to submit a final report. You have to type it all up and say what you did and how it impacted you. And then it gets sent back to the council and that same committee then interviews you and approves or wants you to go back and finish your project.”
For her project, Roe’s topic was about breast health wellness. She created a patch program that older Girl Scouts can earn.
“So, middle school and high school Girl Scouts can earn a patch that teaches them about self-exams, the importance of having trusted adults and just about breast health in general. And then I also created two different brochure designs, so one was about self-exams and the other one was about benign conditions,” she said.
The project stemmed from Roe’s own experience of having a benign tumor in her breast that she had removed when she was 16 years old.
“So I decided that since I didn’t know about how to find that or anything through school, I figured many of my peers don’t know about it either, so I created that project for that and wanted to help other Girl Scouts learn about it,” she said.
Girl Scouts she helped educate about it through her virtual sessions were from across the country, including California and Virginia. Roe’s breast surgeon from Parkview spoke during the sessions.
“My surgeon, Dr. Lindsay Hardley, she was the one that actually operated on me, and I had her join my committee. She also got some other nurses and pediatricians to join my committee as well from the community and Fort Wayne. They helped me with the research and with finding resources and funding,” Roe said.
Parkview’s media team created a professional interview with Roe about her project and put it on their social media. It can be found online at https://www.parkview.com/blog/raising-awareness-for-breast-health.
“That was a pretty awesome opportunity,” she said. “I also worked with Live Well Kosciusko with the Cancer Coalition. Some of their committee members were on my committee as well, So they helped with creating the patch and other faucets of the project as well.”
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