April Anya Grossi of Raleigh has been awarded the Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting.
For her Gold Award project, Grossi led three workshops on mandalas, circular art projects designed to help students reduce stress. Students at Leesville Road Elementary, Middle and High schools also learned about coping with stress in a safe manner and created a group mandala.
Grossi, the daughter of Fred and Carol Grossi, is a member of Girl Scout Troop 1472, led by Shelia Ewbank.
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Three minutes of speaking Chinese earned Brooklyn Fogerson first place in the N.C. Chinese Speech Contest earlier this month at N.C. State’s Confucius Institute. 
Mollie Melton of Raleigh is a recipient of the Meredith College Presidential Scholarship. 
Students in Joann Blumenfeld’s sixth- and eighth-grade classes and the after-school Dragon Explorers science club at Dillard Drive Middle School helped improve Lake Crabtree County Park in Morrisville this spring. 
Jeanine McCall of Raleigh has earned the Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting. 
Lauren Harper of Raleigh has earned the Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting. 
Hava Collins used her knack for talking about arthritis in her role as the Triangle Arthritis Walk’s 2012 Youth Honoree. 
Indira Puri of Chapel Hill has been named one of just 141 Presidential Scholars nationwide. 
Eight local students have been named EC Scholars by East Carolina University in Greenville. Keep up with the latest stories with our free local news e-mail newsletters, delivered straight to your inbox!
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