Ally Haas from Girl Scouts’ Lakes and Pines and Sartell High School received the Gold Award, the highest award a Girl Scout can earn, after completing a Take Action Project. Haas’ Girl Scout Gold Award Project was named Agiascendit which is Latin for “moving up.” Her project’s goal is to help struggling students at St. Francis Xavier Elementary School pair up with high school and college students for tutoring.
Grace Kuhl, daughter of Kathy and Mark Kuhl of Sartell, has been named a Clare Boothe Luce Scholar for 2017-18. Clare Boothe Luce Scholars are women engaged in science, technology or mathematics. Kuhl is a senior studying Chemistry at Creighton University, Omaha.