Troop Spotlight: October 2023
October 31, 2023
Girl Scouts around our council are always active – camping, traveling, doing service projects, and making the world a better place. Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains invites all Girl Scouts in our council to share photos of their adventures, achievements, projects, and more. Send your photos to us at customercare@girlscoutsgwm.org. Be sure to include a description of the event, your troop number and levels involved, when it took place, and any other relevant information. Please check that all those in photos have given photo permissions.
Sandwhich Fair paraders
Troop 58666 in Meredith, Center Harbor and Moultonborough, NH, took first place for their float - a red wagon they dressed up with posters and fall décor - and banner presentation for the Sandwich Fair Parade.
Learning to save lives
Cadette and Senior Troop 58007 of Shaftsbury, VT, learned CPR and the Heimlich maneuver from their middle school health teacher, who is also a certified trainer, and nurse Gerry O’Neil.
Chopstick skills
Junior Troop 10427 of Raymond, NH, learned how to eat with chopsticks, which was an activity they chose to work toward their Social Butterfly badge.
Girl Scouts in Candyland
Girl Scouts in Troop 51726 of Manchester, VT, put on their first troop trunk or treat. Leader Rachel said the Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors brainstormed themes, voted on their favorite – Candyland, came up with designs, and all chipped in to make decorations.
Taking action at Hooksett schools and moving up
Troop 58754 of Hooksett, NH, has been working on two Bronze Award projects. For one, the girls used the theme of inclusion and dismantled and old rotted picnic table at their school and replaced it with an 18-foot pressure treated table that was handicap-accessible at the end.
For their second Bronze Award project, they built a foot bridge at another school so students can easily access their outdoor classroom. They are also adding information boxes on differences to label and give information on the different trees in the outside classroom.
They also held bridging ceremony at Great Wolf Lodge in Fitchburg, MA.
Halloween Howl
Troops 20507 and 20368 in Concord, NH, created games and ran them at Concord's Halloween Howl.
Helping at David's House
Troop 20507 also cooked meals at David’s House in Lebanon, NH, which is a place for families to stay while their loved ones are taken care of at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Advocacy, democracy, and more
Brownie and Daisy Troop 61345 of Concord, NH, has been working on their Democracy and Community badges this fall. They hosted a community art project booth at the Concord Multicultural Fair in September. In October, they were busy with a visit to the State House to learn about the executive and legislative branches of government and to the state Supreme Court to learn about the judicial branch of government. Attorney Amy Manzelli taught the girls about the equal protection clause- the 14th Amendment, and the girls got to deliberate and read the verdicts from several historic cases while sitting in the justices’ chairs. It was a powerful experience! The girls also learned about advocacy from Concord City Council member Stacey Brown, who took them on a tree tour of the area around the Concord State House. The girls did advocacy yoga and got to hear the stories of advocacy related to the buildings, trees, and statues along the route.
Waterfalls and state park overnight
Ten of the 13 Girl Scouts in Nashua, NH, Troop 51595 took a hike up to Zealand Falls in the White Mountains and spent the night there on Friday, the 13th of October.
Leader Stacy shared the details:
We pitched tents in Bethlehem at Apple Hill Campground.
We made for the trail head after a hearty breakfast.
Each girl carried their own pack - sleeping bag, bag lunch, rain gear, clothes, first aid kit, light, layers, compass, whistle, snacks.
We took Zealand Falls Trail up to the hut where we had reservations to stay.
We hiked the 2.8 miles in 3 hours with a 30-minute lunch stop to take in some scenery.
We traversed four water crossings and ascended a 1/10 of a mile steep stone staircase to the hut. Once there we were pleasantly greeted by hut staff and volunteers!
The girls drank coco and explored the falls while waiting for dinner, which was a five-course extravaganza! After dinner the four-person all girl crew told us their stories and how they came to be here ... it was truly inspiring to our girls! We wound down and headed to bed around 9:00 p.m.
We were awakened at 6:30 a.m. with a song, and entered the dining area to get our full breakfast which was amazing... and the best oatmeal I have ever had, as well as homemade coffee cake, eggs and bacon!
We cleaned up, packed, got our gear on, and headed back down at about 9:30 a.m.! All in all, it was a fantastic experience!
Hooksett Hikers
Fall brought a chance for Hooksett, NH, Troop 59084 to hike at Pulpit Rock in Bedford, NH, led by Jo Hendry, a retired science teacher and former Girl Scout.
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