Libby Gillis smiles as a Girl Scout Daisy in 2011.
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Libby Gillis speaks in a climate change awareness video.
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TUPPER LAKE — Libby Gillis earned the Girl Scouts’ highest level, the Gold Award, in October 2020 for her work to raise awareness about climate change.
A Gold Award is equivalent to the Boy Scouts’ Eagle Scout designation.
Gillis is a junior at Tupper Lake High School and the daughter of Robert Gillis and Lisa Littlefield-Gillis. She is part of Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York Service Unit 454, Troop 4123 of Tupper Lake.
With the support of her school’s environmental club, the Green Team, Gillis started an annual Green (spirit) Week at her school. She also created a Green Week video to raise awareness outside of the school, which won awards at the AdkAction Beyond the Peaks Student Film Festival, in both its category and second place in the Audience Choice category. She also created a video to teach others about the school’s cafeteria composting system, which she was instrumental in starting.