READING, Pa.- A Girl Scout in Reading is getting ready to complete her Gold Award project. It’s a major accomplishment for her and a way to give back to the community.<\/p>\n
“She was so afraid at the beginning. She was like I can’t do this,” says Crystal Gilmore Harris, the Reading Girl Boss Liaison.<\/p>\n
“Now she’s had such great success with her project,\u201d Harris added.<\/p>\n
Harris is one of many who helped support Girl Scout and Reading High Senior Ilee Wright with her Girl Scout Gold Award Project.<\/p>\n
“We are so happy that we’re shining a light on this and giving it the attention that it needs because the Gold Award is just as prestigious as the Eagle Award,” says Gilmore Harris.<\/p>\n
The project titled ‘Reaching Hands, Raising Scores’ will help promote literacy.<\/p>\n
“Reading has always had a huge impact on my life,” says Senior Girl Scout, Ilee Wright.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t enjoy it necessarily because it felt forced in elementary school, but as I’ve grown up, I’ve learned to love not just reading but the things I can take away from reading,\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n
Ilee and her mom built and designed the book boxes, but they still have to put on the finishing touches.<\/p>\n
Both boxes will be placed at 10th and Penn Elementary, where they will operate like a free library.<\/p>\n
“The kids will all receive a free bookmark and a free book to begin their trading process,” says Wright.<\/p>\n
The books will be inside the boxes where students will have opportunities throughout the day to take and exchange different books. There’s also a suggestion box for topics and books they’d like to see.<\/p>\n
As part of the project, she had to raise the money and collected more than 1,000 books with the help of the community.<\/p>\n
“I’m hoping that after I graduate and this is self-sufficient, that other schools will pick up on the same idea,” says Wright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.- A Girl Scout in Reading is getting ready to complete her Gold Award project. It’s a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[90571,111565,23304,30212,35000,111564,61103,28,736,128,130,129,111566,36196],"class_list":["post-264220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-book-box","tag-book-donation","tag-community-involvement","tag-elementary-school","tag-free-library","tag-girl-scout-gold-award","tag-literacy-promotion","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-student-project","tag-youth-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}