Diana Knobler is an American Girl Scout from Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles and a Girl Scout Gold Awardee.
When Diana was 14, her father was diagnosed with leukemia. As the only child in her family, she helped her mom considerably with her father’s care. With her own experiences in mind, for her Girl Scout Gold Award project Diana decided to help the kids at Camp Ronald McDonald, a cost-free camp where kids with cancer and their siblings can have a fun time together. The 18-year-old Girl Scout met with the camp’s executive director to ask what the camp needed, and the answer was kitchen tables. Turns out Diana, an aspiring biomedical engineer, had recently taken an engineering class, and so happily offered to design and build the tables herself! Not only did she fundraise the money needed to build wheelchair-accessible tables—she raised an additional $1,000 that went toward kitchen equipment for the camp.