Emma Thorpe of Cary has earned the Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting.
For her Gold project, Emma created a series of lessons on exercise and nutrition for the children's program at The Carying Place, a local organization that assists working families with housing and finances.
Emma, the daughter of Suzanne and Tod Thorpe, is a senior at Athens Drive High School and a member of Troop 1860, led by Wanda Schramm.
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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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