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Ariana Ayala, a 15-year-old Port Chester resident, sits on a bench she cleaned and revamped as part of her Eagle Scout project on Tuesday, Nov. 19. She is the first of the community’s relatively new all-girl Troop 420 to reach the highest rank in Scouting.

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First female Eagle Scout claims her spot in history

In December 2019, Ariana Ayala was a pioneering girl joining the mixed-gendered Cub Scout Pack 400. She was a Corpus Christi-Holy Rosary School fifth-grader with sharp ambition. On Nov. 12, she officially became an Eagle. Out of her own pure ambition, she even outpaced her older cousin who inspired her to join the Scouting world in the first place.

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