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Independent scout earns Gold Award Juliette Gordon Low, Juliettes choose how to participate based on their schedule and interests, To earn a Girl Scout Gold according to the Girl Scouts’ Award is no easy feat. It takes website. C u l l e n - C o n ye r s wo rke d time, passion, dedication and extra hard to earn hard work. badges and move Lynbrook resiup the scouting dent Maya Cullenranks. Her hard Conyers, 19, a work paid off, as sophomore at she ear ned the Drexel University, scouts’ most presproved she has all tigious award. of that and more Her project, by completing a What’s the Buzz?, project on raising encompassed awareness of pollilear ning about nator conservapollinators, creattion. ing a garden and She partnered h o s t i n g wo rk with Crossroads shops to teach othFar m at Gross ers how pollinamann’s, in Malt o r s wo rk , a n d verne, to educate how to make their visitors about popown g ardens at ulation declines of home. many species of MAyA CUllEN“I’ve been realbees and other polly interested in linators. From pro- CoNyERS gardening since I posal to g arden Girl Scout Juliette was a kid, and building, her projhave always been ect took a year to going to Crossroads Farm as complete. Cullen-Conyers is not a well,” Cullen-Conyers said. “I member of a Girl Scout troop. learned about the pollinator She is an independent, also crisis, specifically about bees known as a Juliette. Named for ConTinued on pAGe 16 the founder of the Girl Scouts,
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The pollinator garden at Crossroads Farm at Grossmann’s, in Malverne, sustains Maya CullenConyers’ Gold Award project.
Cullen-Conyers created the garden from seed, and hosted six educational workshops.
he Gold Award means a lot about leadership, and taking a step forward in your community to help raise awareness of something, especially when it’s an issue.