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Bronze Award for 5th Graders

The 5th Grade Junior Girl Scout Troop at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School earned their Bronze Award.

The culmination of two years of work, the troop completed their requirements by making boxes to hold maps of the equestrian and hiking trails. The Bronze Award is the highest award available to Junior Girl Scouts.

The final component of the award is the completion of a community service project planned and implemented by the girls themselves. The troop consisting of Savannah Adamo, Ayla Fox, Libby Mewbourne, and Jadie Pruitt are all interested in horses and wanted to do a project that would benefit the equestrian community.

After meeting the San Juan Capistrano Equestrian Coalition president Dr. Julie Johnson, the girls settled on their project of making wooden boxes that would house trail maps that would be provided by the Coalition. The girls then designed the boxes and created a proposal and prototype that was delivered to the city for its approval. Once approval was granted, the girls painted and assembled the boxes which stand on wooden fence posts that will be sunk in the ground by the city. The boxes will be planced so that they can be reached both by hikers and bikers on the ground and by equestrians so that the riders need not dismount to get a map.

The girls spent and cumulative 60+ hours planning and implanting the project. They could not have accomplished their task without the support of the San Juan Equestrian Coalition who underwrote the project, DeNault’s TruValue Hardware who provided a generous discount on the materials, and the city who will place the boxes.