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The Young Professional Award This award recognizes an individual who has graduated from our program in the past 10 years, has excelled in the profession and exhibits a deep commitment to the field of recreation, parks and tourism. The recipient is recognized as having made a significant impact in the field in a relatively short time as a professional.
The Young Professional Award Recipient Ms. Lauren Reichstein An unlikely outdoor lover, Lauren spent her childhood convinced that everything outdoors would kill her and that life was best spent inside, nose buried in a good book. Yet, after one fateful summer as a camp counselor and a semester-long internship at Walt Disney World, she was hooked. She switched her major to RPTS, completed several internships and immediately after graduation applied to the Master’s program. As a youth development graduate student, she studied with Dr. Corliss Outley, focusing on bullying and the influence of recreational sex on teenagers. During this time, she also worked with the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto Council and was inducted as a member of Rho Phi Lambda. Since graduating, Lauren has broadened her experience internationally as a teacher with Disney English in China, worked with Keystone Adventures as a guide in southern China and with Our Chalet as a volunteer program assistant in Switzerland. Currently, Lauren is the Camp Director at Camp Holloway at Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee in Nashville. Camper sessions focus on desired outcomes of the Girl Scout movement through innovative programming. Since accepting the position in 2015, camper enrollment has increased by 30%, an accomplishment Lauren credits to the skills she learned at Texas A&M. Lauren continues to be inspired to grow her career in the camping industry so that she can continue to mentor young women and encourage her campers to take risks, be adventurous and gain confidence. She believes that her unique position working with both staff and Scouts allows her to focus on youth development at all levels and that there is no better feeling than hearing a success story from a former staff member, camper or student.
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