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Girl Scouts in Their Communities Volume 2 Issue 8 | October 2011
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Jensen and Jaelyn Warnock from Portsmouth Girl Scout Junior Troop #1190 recently earned the Yellowstone Junior Ranger and Young Scientist badges while on vacation in Yellowstone National Park. While working on these programs the girls earned the Resource Stewardship/Girl Scout Ranger Badge. They enjoyed learning about the wildlife that lives there, the geyser basins, and the importance of protecting our natural resources.
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Committed to Their Community
Girl Scout Troop #1418 (Harmony Service Unit) passed out brochures and served cake at a Neighborhood Pride Community Night held earlier this summer at Brice United Methodist Church. The girls helped serve refreshments, picked up trash in the community, and helped read off raffle ticket numbers during the event.
Neighborhood Pride is a team effort by Columbus City departments, neighborhood groups and individual citizens, businesses, and other partners to make Columbus neighborhoods safer and cleaner, keys to a more vibrant and exciting future for Columbus.
The event lasted just a few hours, but taught the girls a bigger lesson, Troop Leader Crystal McGuirk Bunts said.
“We’re trying to introduce them to understanding the importance of government since we’re taking a trip to Washington, D.C.,” she said.
To stay engaged in the community, click here to learn about other opportunities in Girl Scouting.
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Girls in Girl Scout Brownie Troop #60656 focused on the Girl Scouts’ rich fashion history as they modeled Girl Scout uniforms from the past. The troop planned a fashion show for the New Heights Service Unit Cookie Rally earlier this year. In other service unit news, Junior Troop #60349 completed their Junior Aide awards by helping the girls of Brownie Troop #60656 earn their Make It, Eat It Try-It.
Fascinated by historical Girl Scout uniforms and memorabilia? Click here to learn more about the Historic Uniform Exhibit coming in 2012!
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Girl Scouts Bonds Beyond Bars troop members Uniqua, Lehnniah, and Rayshawna showed their commitment to helping their community through the LeaderSpark program this summer. They volunteered one day a week for seven weeks at the Central Community House in Columbus. During each session, they worked on their practical leadership skills, tackling such topics as leadership styles and qualities, working with groups, planning projects, dealing with conflict, public speaking, and preparing for job interviews.
The girls worked to clean up graffiti, create murals to beautify vacant houses, and encourage peace in the community. Rayshawna helped cleaning up the graffiti on one of the businesses on Main Street in Columbus and Lehnniah designed panels for the murals, which were put on the windows of abandoned houses in the community. The girls recently received certificates for their hard work.
LeaderSpark began in 1987, as The L.E.A.D.E.R. Program (Leaders Exploring and Developing Excellent Resources), when volunteers from the League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Columbus and the Franklin County Educational Council partnered to bring leadership development to female students in Columbus City Schools and other suburban schools. Today, LeaderSpark is a nonprofit program that focuses on igniting the power of youth leadership through hands-on community action.
Click here to learn more about how Girl Scouting guides our girls and young women to become outstanding leaders in the community.
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Gold Award Winner Travels to France on Scholarship
Recent Westerville graduate Girl Scout Leah Schultheis was named the recipient of the 2011-12 Corinne Jeannine Schillings Foundation scholarship and she is using the award to study abroad in France.
Her submission was one of 117 outstanding applications from 24 states. The selection process clearly ranked her as one of the top applicants, representatives from the foundation said. The foundation’s goal is to provide financial assistance to young women who are pursuing college degrees in the study of languages, or who are studying in a foreign country as enrichment for their college program. The foundation is dedicated to preserving the memory of Corinne Schillings, who lost her life on March 6, 2004 in a water taxi accident in Baltimore Harbor. Corinne loved to learn about languages and other cultures.
The impact of earning the Girl Scout Gold Award has moved Leah to many successes. Click here to learn about other benefits you can achieve by going for the Gold.
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With Girl Scouts of USA’s 100th Anniversary just around the corner, members of Girl Scout Cadette Troop #1145 recently wrote GS Journeys to tell us about their trip to Savannah, Georgia, the birthplace of Girl Scouts’ founder Juliette Gordon Low. Read all about their experience in their own words. …
“Our troop (Girl Scout Cadette Troop #1145) spent eight hard years of fundraising to come up with the money needed to visit the wonderful city of Savannah, Georgia. We spent those years working cookie booths, cookie sales, fall sales, and hosting two scrapbooking seminars. It had been our goal to visit the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. By going to Savannah, visiting the JGL birthplace, the Marine Science Center, and cleaning up trash on Tybee Island beach, we fulfilled requirements for the Photography and Travel IP badges as well as the Daisy’s Neighborhood and Coastal Georgia badges. We also visited Old Fort Jackson, the Ships of the Sea Museum, the Riverwalk and City Market areas, and ate at some great restaurants. Our favorite was the historic and haunted Pirate’s House.
Our trip to Savannah was very educational for our Girl Scout experience. As a troop we learned about Juliette Gordon Low’s life, the history of Savannah and how to cooperate. The trip was a short, fun-packed week, spanning from June 11 to 16. Although our time there was short, the memories will last forever.”
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Members of Worthington Girl Scout Cadette Troop #1052 donated their Gift of Caring cookies to Operation Buckeye, which sends care packages to troops overseas, and they’re already gearing up for more giving this fall. The recipients of Operation Buckeye packages usually are from Central Ohio or have a Central Ohio connection. The girls helped to pack 50 boxes, putting a package of Girl Scout cookies in each one! They learned how best to pack the boxes so that the contents would not get crushed in route to their destinations. The troop plans to help Operation Buckeye again in November when the organization has a 1,000-box packing day planned.
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We’d love to hear from you and help you spread the word about your troop’s good deeds! Send us digital photos (jpeg format) and information about your community activities for this newsletter and if we feature your story, we’ll send the girls a fun P.R. patch as a thank you.
Submit stories and digital photos to Khalila Perrin, editor: kperrin@gsooh.org or contact the editor at 614-487-8101 ext. 8851 or 800-621-7042. If you wish to unsubscribe to this newsletter, please click the opt out link below.
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