Local teen sets Guinness World Record for Girl Scouts Silver Award

MADISON – Madeline Harper was so determined to achieve the Silver Award in Girl Scouts that she decided to set a world record to reach it.

Madeline is a seventh- grader at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Madison at 1057 Hughes Road. More than 40 other middle school students supported Madeline’s project on May 9.

“Together, they succeeded in documenting and setting a new world record for ‘The Most Headbands Applied in One Minute,’ as specified by ‘Guinness World Records,’ reviewed and officially approved by Guinness on May 15,” Nicole Harper, Madeline’s mother, said. With her record, Madeline intends to raise awareness to the health benefits of animal companionship to humans.

“Guinness World Record” is the global authority on all record-breaking subjects.

To establish her record, Madeline applied headbands with an animal-ear theme to 37-plus students in one minute. She also distributed other headbands and informative brochures that she created to inform people about her cause.

Having pets and animals around us can help us live healthier, stronger, more enhanced lives, Harper said in her brochure. “Interacting with animals . . . can increase fitness, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, relive stress and improve