Gold Award winners, top from left, Lia Klofas, Katrina Bilbrey, Abby Do, Jeanette LeFevre and Kaitlin Solera (not pictured: Juliette Wigley); bottom, from left, Silver Award winners Katie Niemeyer, Colleen FitzGerald, Kirstie Bilbrey, Elizabeth Thomas, Sharon Peng and Neha Bhargava.

At a banquet held in their honor at the Garden House in Shoup Park May 15, 12 high school and junior high school members of Los Altos-based Girl Scout Troops 321 and 90 were recognized for earning their Gold or Silver Awards.

Six girls received the Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting. It is earned by only about 3,000 young women annually in the United States. To earn the Gold Award, a high school student must earn four Interest Project patches, the Career Exploration pin, the Senior Girl Scout Leadership Award and the Senior Girl Scout Challenge, then plan and implement a Girl Scout Gold Award project, approved by the Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County Council, that requires at least 50 hours of work.

This year’s Gold Award honorees are Katrina Bilbrey, a senior at Homestead High School who will attend the University of Washington in the fall; Abby Do, a junior at Los Altos High School; Lia Klofas, a senior at St. Francis High School who will attend Johns Hopkins University in the fall; Jeanette LeFevre, a senior at Henry M. Gunn High School who will attend Chapman University in the fall; Kaitlin Solera, a senior at St. Francis High School who will attend the University of Southern California in the fall; and Juliette Wigley, a freshman at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Six girls received the Silver Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting for seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students. To earn the Silver Award, a student must earn three Interest Project patches, the From Dreams to Reality patch, the Cadette Girl Scout Leadership Award and the Cadette Girl Scout Challenge, then plan and implement a Girl Scout Silver Award project that requires at least 30 hours of work.

This year’s Silver Award honorees are Neha Bhargava of Mountain View High School, Sharon Peng of Los Altos High School, Elizabeth Thomas of Egan Junior High School, Kirstie Bilbrey, Colleen FitzGerald and Katie Niemeyer.