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Gainesville teen earns highest honor from Girl Scouts thanks to her Sow More, Grow More program
Katie Rose Dionne planting change in the world by feeding hundreds of hungry families in Gainesville
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North Hall High School graduate Katie Rose Dionne, 19, was named a National Young Woman of Distinction, the highest honor available to Girl Scouts. She is studying in Beijing for a year thanks to a scholarship from the U.S. Department of State.
Before she read her poetry to former poet laureates at the Library of Congress, before she received fan mail from President Barack Obama, before she fed more than 2,000 hungry kids and before the Georgia General Assembly issued a proclamation saying it was “confident that vast success is surely in this young woman’s future,” Katie Rose Dionne was a typical girl who sold cookies for her Girl Scout troop and liked to sing Taylor Swift songs. In her 19 years on Earth, the North Hall High School graduate has compiled a resume that would make some Ph.D.s jealous. She’s received the Congressional Gold Medal.