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Flotteron Honors West Islip Senior Girl Scout Gold Award Winner

Senior Girl Scout Deah Zajmi of West Islip Troop 2376 received the Girls Scouts' highest recognition.

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Manetuck Elementary School Building Principal Vanessa Williams, Award recipient’s mother Katie Zajmi, Gold Award recipient Deah Zjmi and Legislator Steven Flotteron.
Manetuck Elementary School Building Principal Vanessa Williams, Award recipient’s mother Katie Zajmi, Gold Award recipient Deah Zjmi and Legislator Steven Flotteron. (Colleen Valdini)

Press release from Suffolk County Legislature:

Jan. 25, 2021

Legislator Steven J. Flotteron along with Manetuck Elementary School Building Principle Vanessa Williams and Katie Zajmi congratulated Senior Girl Scout Deah Zajmi, of West Islip Troop 2376, Service Unit #17, on earning the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest recognition a girl can achieve in Scouting.

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As a young scout, Deah had a love for science, which wasn’t what other young girls appreciated. She wanted to share her passion while making it fun for other junior members of local Girl Scout Troops. As her Gold Award project, she developed fun activities demonstrating Stem Science technology to more than 200 seven to twelve-year-old Girl Scout members within the West Islip Elementary and Middle Schools over three months.

Ms. Zajmi is a freshman at Worcester Polly Technical School in Massachusetts studying Chemical Engineering.

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