Kirkwood High School Student Earns Highest Award in Girl Scouting
Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri (GSEM) is pleased to announce Reagan Redmon, a recent 2024 graduate of Kirkwood High School, has recently earned the mark of the truly remarkable–the Girl Scout Gold Award.
The Gold Award is earned by a high-school-aged Girl Scout who has dedicated on average more than 80 hours, to address an issue they are passionate about in a way that produces meaningful and permanent change. Whether it is on a local, national, or global level, Gold Award Girl Scouts provide innovative solutions to pressing and relevant challenges.
Gold Award Girl Scouts become innovative problem-solvers, empathetic leaders, confident public speakers, and focused project managers. They learn resourcefulness, tenacity, and decision-making skills, giving them an edge personally and professionally. As they take action to transform their communities, Gold Award Girl Scouts gain tangible skills and prove they’re the leaders our world needs.
The 2025 Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri class are identifying issues in their communities, taking action, and finding or creating solutions to earn their Gold Awards, addressing real-life problems such as environmental sustainability, food insecurities, mental and physical well-being, emergency preparedness and veteran affairs.
Reagan Redmon
After discovering that more than 75 percent of people with Alzheimer's Disease also suffer from anxiety, Reagan was inspired to help develop a solution that can calm those suffering from the disease, like her own grandmother. Reagan got to work creating fidget blankets for patients with Alzheimer's at a local nursing home, Bethesda Dilworth, to help soothe and relax the patients, ultimately decreasing their anxiety. She worked with the staff at the nursing home to demonstrate how to use the blankets effectively with patients and created a video showing others how to make the fidget blankets and showcasing their uses.
“The most successful part of my Gold Award project was seeing how beneficial these blankets were to bringing good spirit into the nursing home when I delivered the blankets,” sand Reagan. “It brought so much joy to the patients, the nurses, and me.”
“Gold Award Girl Scouts, like Reagan, are the leaders our world needs! She found a meaningful way to address a pressing issue facing her community, and discovered she has the power to create the future she wants to see.” said Danielle Washington, Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri Chief Program Officer. “We are proud of her remarkable achievement!”
