Callie Boone, of Pinehurst, has been awarded the Girl Scout Silver Award by Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines, which is the second highest achievement in Girl Scouting. This award symbolizes outstanding accomplishments and a commitment to excellence, and helps girls build skills, explore careers, gain leadership skills and make a commitment to self-improvement.

For her Girl Scout Silver Award project, Boone worked with 24 Hispanic children in grades K-5 to improve their command of the English language through reading, singing and playing games.

Boone is a student at Pinecrest High School.

The Girl Scout Silver Award is the highest award girls in grades 6-9 or are the ages 11-14 can earn as a Cadette Girl Scout. It represents a girl's accomplishments in Girl Scouting and her community as she grows and works to improve her life and the lives of others. The first four requirements of the award help girls build skills, explore careers, gain leadership skills and make a commitment to self-improvement. The project can be undertaken when the first four requirements are completed. It can be done as an individual or with a group. If done with a group, a girl must be responsible for a specific part of the project and evaluate her contribution to the project and the group.

Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines serves more than 31,500 girl members and 9,000 adult members in 41 central and eastern North Carolina counties.

For more information on membership or volunteer opportunities, call (919) 782-3021 or visit www.nccoastalpines.org.