Girl
Scout Gold Award recipient and 2014 National Young Woman of Distinction Anna
Krauss from Girl Scouts of Suffolk County lobbied to change the auditory test
requirements for deaf students in the New York State Education System. As a result, the state revised the Test Access
Accommodations Guidelines for Students with Disabilities document so it would
offer hearing impaired students the ability to use written text during the
listening section of the state examination. Check out the below video to hear from
Anna about her project!
This
year, GSUSA received a record-breaking number of submissions from Girl Scouts
across the nation, their Take Action projects tackling a broad spectrum of
important issues, from green energy to gender-balanced leadership to sex
trafficking. These young women had the courage to dream big and the persistence
to make their dreams a reality.