When you invest in girls, they change the world! Just
look at Jamielee Bueneman, a Girl Scout from Eastern Missouri. For her Girl
Scout Gold Award project, Jamielee designed prototypes, gathered materials, and
drafted plans to construct a residential-scale wind turbine.
“In order to meet the growing energy consumption of the
technology-savvy world, we need to promote new sources of energy,” she said.
“If students of our generation become informed and call for a change, the
future of cleaner energy may soon be here.”
During the many months she spent on the project, Jamielee
followed scientific procedure and the engineering design process to devise the
project, collect data, and construct the wind turbine. She shared her research
at the Mastodon Regional Science and Art Fair, the largest fair of its kind in
the country. And she not only competed at two international science fairs, she
also gave a presentation to fourth-graders about wind energy, which enabled her
project to reach an even wider audience.
“When I witnessed them realizing they could make a
difference as students, I was thrilled to have been able to ignite that thought
process in these young scientists,” she said. “I hope my message on renewable
energy will continue to spread, exposing more citizens to the benefits of
renewable energy.”
Thanks to our investors, Girl Scouts continues to be a
place where girls like Jamielee are encouraged to explore creative solutions to
local and even global problems. Each of our funders has joined with Girl Scouts
as a part of the ToGetHerThere campaign, the largest fundraising campaign for
girls in history,
because they know that when girls succeed, so does society.
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a difference, one Girl Scout Gold Award at a time for more!