Heritage Girls earn distinction

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Noblesville’s Ciara Bright, left, and Jessie Hartline are the 90th and 95th girls nationally to earn the prestigious American Heritage Girls Stars and Stripes Award. (Submitted photo)
Noblesville’s Ciara Bright, left, and Jessie Hartline are the 90th and 95th girls nationally to earn the prestigious American Heritage Girls Stars and Stripes Award. (Submitted photo)

By Lauren Olsen

Noblesville’s Ciara Bright, 18, and Jessie Hartline, 18, have earned the highest recognition the American Heritage Girls has to offer – the Stars and Stripes Award. The girls are seniors at Noblesville High School and members of White River Christian Church.

“The award definitely made me feel like I accomplished a big achievement of mine, I feel very accomplished to finish something that I started,” Hartline said.

A requirement of the award is planning, developing and providing leadership to others in a service project of at least 100 hours.

For her project, Hartline worked with White River Church and its Global Expansion team to create educational materials to be used at a school in the Mathare Valley of Kenya. She was inspired to help WRCC Global Expansion team two years ago when the church raised money to build the school.

“It’s not just going to affect the kids; it’s going to affect the family, the schools and the community,” Hartline said.

Hartline and her team of volunteers spent more than 100 hours making English/Swahili flash cards, books and other educational materials for the school.

“It feels good to know I’m helping the kids in Africa, they are half a world away. They will be so excited to receive these flash cards, it will mean so much to them,” she said.

Bright chose to serve Prevail Advocacy Center, an agency providing women with emergency help, by organizing their supply closet and building much needed shelving for them. She was inspired to help Prevail while on a fifth grade school field trip where she was involved in making blankets and teddy bears for the center. Bright and her team of volunteers spent more than 100 hours sorting and organizing the closet supplies and building shelving in the closet so that the center could more easily help the women they serve daily.

Bright was unavailable for comment as this issue went to press.

Members of American Heritage Girls Troop IN2324, Hartline and Bright are the 90th and 95th girls nationally to earn the prestigious Stars and Stripes Award. Hartline has been a member of this troop for 11 years and Bright for five years. Each served as patrol leaders within the troop.

Know more

In addition to living out the American Heritage Girls Creed and Oath, award recipients have completed a number of requirements to achieve the Stars and Stripes Award, including:

• Earning a total of 16 Merit Badges

• Earning the Religious Recognition associated with their denomination

• Having held a leadership position in their troop for a minimum of six months

• Planning, developing and providing leadership to others in a 100 plus hour service project

• Writing a Life Ambition/Spiritual Walk Essay and mini-resume

• Receiving at least three letters of reference

• Pass a board of review

 

 


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