June 11, 2025
Continuing a tradition of excellence, two Prince George High School Class of 2025 seniors and members of a local chapter of The Girl Scouts of the USA have each earned the organization's Gold Award, the highest achievement Girl Scouts can earn, and were honored by the Prince George County School Board on Monday, June 9, 2025.
Days after graduation, members of the Prince George County School Board celebrated Pheobe Cahoon and Maryam Huggi for receiving the Gold Award during their regular board meeting in front of friends and family. The recognition also served as an opportunity to showcase both Pheobe and Maryam's achievements and contributions to their troop and community.
About Pheobe Cahoon
On April 15, 2025, Pheobe was awarded completion of her Girl Scout Gold Award through the Gold Award Review Board of the Girl Scouts of America, Commonwealth Council of Virginia Girl Scouts.
Pheobe is a member of Troop 3605 and currently serves as an Ambassador and a Counselor-in-Training for the Prince George/Fort Gregg-Adams/Sussex Girl Scouts of Commonwealth Council of Virginia, GSUSA, through a 40-hour leadership training program. The youth leadership program consisted of helping younger Girl Scouts to advance with the Girl Scout journeys and programming.
She completed her 96-hour project of creating a band program that teaches all elementary-age children how to create instruments, how to engage with brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments, and how to march with students in the marching band. Several Prince George High School band members helped to encourage and excite these students to become band members themselves. This process took several weeks working with students enrolled in the Champions After School Program. Her love of band through teaching children shines through in her project, and so did the excitement of the participants. Pheobe did a fantastic job engaging and exciting a future generation of Prince George County School band members.
Pheobe is in her second year as Head Drum Major for Prince George County High School Marching Royals, Head Drum Major For Prince George High School Marching Royals, Disney World Marching Band performance, and Senior Regional Orchestra Chair 2. She is a faithful volunteer in the community with the American Red Cross, Run for the Fallen, Fisher House, the Ronald McDonald House, James House, the First Thanksgiving Festival of Virginia Youth Committee, and the Prince George Girl Scout Honor Color Guard. Pheobe will be attending college at James Madison University School of Music Artist Scholar program, marching with the Royal Dukes in the fall of 2025.
About Maryam Huggi
On May 7, 2025, Maryam was awarded completion of her Girl Scout Gold Award through the Gold Award Review Board of the Girl Scouts of America, Commonwealth Council of Virginia Girl Scouts.
She is a member of Troop 305 and currently serves as an Ambassador and a Counselor-in-Training for the Prince George/Fort Gregg-Adams/Sussex Girl Scouts of Commonwealth Council of Virginia, GSUSA, through a 40-hour leadership training program. The youth leadership program consists of helping younger Girl Scouts to advance with the Girl Scout journeys and programming. Maryam has her Silver Award, as well as her Bronze Award, and over four hundred community service hours.
Maryam Huggi completed her 92-hour project of creating a program alongside "My Faith/My Promise Program" that teaches any age all about a day in the life of a Muslim woman, educating the audience through her poetry on her own experiences and creating cultural awareness, tolerance, and understanding through over fifty poems she wrote. Her love of poetry is magnificent. Her project is called "She Who Writes with the Sun, Echoes of the Olive Tree."
She is a faithful volunteer in the community with the American Red Cross, Run for the Fallen, Fisher House, the Ronald McDonald House, the Foster Home of Virginia, the First Thanksgiving Festival of Virginia Youth Committee, Wreaths Across America, and the Prince George Girl Scout Honor Color Guard. Maryam was a member of the Prince George High School field hockey and soccer teams, receiving 3rd team All-Region as field hockey goalie, as well as being a member of the Beta Club and the National Honor Society. Maryam will continue her education at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana while playing collegiate soccer.
Congratulations to our latest Gold Award recipients from Prince George County!