PQ Girl Scouts Receive Silver Awards

Posted on September 19, 2011

Elisa Lupin, Amanda Kiraly, Janice Miller (troop leader),and Isha Bagga (not pictured: Anjali Verma)

Four members from Girl Scout Troop 8191 received the Silver Award – the second highest award given by Girl Scouts of the USA.

The girls received their awards from Jo Dee C. Jacob, chief executive officer of Girl Scouts, San Diego-Imperial, at a presentation held during the summer at the Jewish Community Center’s Garfield Theatre in La Jolla.

The recipients included:

Isha Bagga, who designed and taught a reading and math program for a local preschool, and created a website containing the materials for her program.
Amanda Kiraly, who obtained donations and then designed and made one hundred fleece dog toys for donation to the San Diego Humane Society. She began a program at her church where children attending the Vacation Bible School program also learned how to make and then donate the toys.
Elisa Lupin, who implemented a music entertainment program at the Arbor’s senior center in Rancho Penasquitos.
Anjali Verma, who created coloring and activity books all about health and safety for children at Rady Children’s Hospital. She donated the books as well as crayons, and created a website so that the supply of books could be replenished as necessary.

All four are sophomores at Westview High School. PQ’s Troop 8191 is led by Janice Miller.