Patch Whiz Kid of the Week: Megan Estelita

Each week, San Bruno Patch will feature an amazing kid, youth group, teen or sports team that wows us with their accomplishments. 

This week, we feature Megan Estelita, a recent high school graduate who received the highest honor in Girl Scouts.

Accomplishment: Megan Estelita, 18, is a recent graduate from and just received the Girl Scout Gold Award, which is the highest achievement in Girl Scouting. The award symbolizes outstanding accomplishments in the areas of leadership, community service, career planning and personal development. 

She successfully completed demanding prerequisites before she began working toward the Girl Scout Gold Award for her troop, Troop 30371. The requirements include completing a senior journey and earning the Silver Award, which Estelita did.

Each journey she completed gave her the skills needed to plan and implement her project for the Gold Award, she said.

For her project, which she called “Blankets and Meals for Buddies,” Estelita made 25 fleece blankets with younger Girl Scouts as well as made meals and donated them to Larkin Street Youth Shelter in San Francisco. She also made meals for St. Bruno's . 

She said she chose to do the project after taking a trip with her family to San Francisco and seeing a number of homeless teenagers there who were her age. “I wanted to do something for them,” she said in describing her project. 

Estelita will be attending College of the Sequoias in August where she plans to major in nursing.