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Martin High senior Courtney Brecheen secures a book vending machine for students at Wood Elementary School

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Courtney Brecheen, a Girl Scout, recently earned the Gold Award, the highest honor for completing a sustainable project that helps fix an issue in the community and makes a lasting impact. Her project, Order Up Literacy, entailed securing a book vending machine for students at Wood Elementary School. (Photo: AISD)

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What do you get when you combine your love for reading with a passion for helping others? Well, you actually give instead of receive.

  That’s exactly what Martin High School senior Courtney Brecheen did by making sure Wood Elementary got a brand-new vending machine filled with free books for students.

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  Brecheen is a Girl Scout who recently earned the Gold Award, the highest honor for completing a sustainable project that helps fix an issue in the community and makes a lasting impact.

  Her project, Order Up Literacy, is two years in the making and will help students at Wood in the future.

  “I’m just really excited because it’s a great opportunity to give back, and a lot of Girl Scouts don’t get this experience,” says Brecheen. “It will help me out when applying to colleges, too, because it’s such a prestigious honor and looks good on a resume.”

  She’s right about that. Fewer than five percent of Girl Scouts in the country receive the award, and Brecheen recently joined that distinguished group. She is just the 10th girl in the council to receive the award this year.

She didn’t do it alone though. She had assistance from her mom, Kristin Brecheen, who is a school counselor at Wood. For nearly four years, the school raised money by selling spirit shirts. When they finally met their goal, Brecheen knew it was time to start collecting books for the machine.

  Since the fall, she has collected more than 900 books and is on track to reach her goal of 1,400 by graduation. With about 700 kids at Wood, each student should be able to receive two free books by the end of the school year.

  At the ribbon-cutting ceremony earlier this spring, more than 30 students from grades pre-K through six traded in golden tickets for “Wildcat Coins” to redeem their free book.

  Even though Brecheen is graduating later this year, she has no plans of stopping book donations. Wood’s PTA has agreed to sustain the vending machine and will continue to host a book drive every year.

  If you’d like to contribute to the book drive, here are a couple of ways you can help her reach 1,400 books:

  • Ship books through an Amazon wishlist: bit.ly/orderupliteracy
  • To have books picked up at your location, fill out the form at

bit.ly/donategold

– AISD Communications

 

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