Gold Award Girl Scout, Mikaela
Mikaela created her Gold Award project to help preserve the history of the Swedish Colony. She created an accessible audio tour of the Lindsten Stuga, that can be shared with other historical societies and the Maine State Library.
The idea for Mikaela’s project came from visits to big museums with audio tours. Volunteering with her grandparents at their museum, she realized history was being lost and thought creating an audio tour would be a great way to preserve and share that history. It was important to her that the history would not need to be read because of the Due to her own struggles with reading, it was important that the history would be available in formats for everyone.
Mikaela learned “that I can do anything that I set my mind to with the right help no matter what challenges I may face.” The New Sweden Historical Society will continue to sustain Mikaela’s project by keeping the audio tour available and sharing it with other museums across the state.
