Troop Spotlight: April 2024
Troop Spotlight: April 2024
April 30, 2024
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.
Giving and gaming
Troop 61556 in Brighton, VT, donated Girl Scout Cookies to the Brighton Fire Department and worked on their Board Game Design badge. They created a game with a castle, drawbridge, and tower, and made characters like a dragon, unicorn, and knight.
Cars, competition, climbing…
Girl Scouts in Milton, VT, Troop 60336 earned their Automotive Design badge this winter. To get inspiration for their designs, the troop visited Vermont Sports Car, the home of the world’s largest Subaru motorsports program. Girls got to ask questions of the engineers and technicians while they worked, view and touch the Mount Washington Climb to the Clouds hill climb world record-holding car driven by Travis Pastrana in 2021, and they had the chance to get a feel for racing while sitting in other rally cars.
After designing their own cars, they cut, shaped, and prepped their Pinewood Derby cars and raced them at Milton’s BSA Pack 43 Pinewood Derby. They were crowned a Fastest Car and voted on five design category winners. Troop leaders got in on the action, too.
Troop 60336 has also planned monthly field trips this year and the girls have really enjoyed the new adventures. Trips included Girls in Aviation Day sponsored by WAI and Beta Technologies, archery at Pelkey’s Archery in St. Albans, and climbing at PetraCliffs.
More recently, the troop visited the Vermont Air National Guard (VTANG) to see the F-35 jets. It was an amazing experience and the girls got to ask all kinds of questions about the jet, being deployed, and military life.
Cookie Monster – Vermont version
Even the Champ, mascot for the Vermont Lake Monsters Collegiate Summer Wooden Bat baseball team, loves Girl Scout Cookies! Junior Laura of Troop 58806 had a cookie booth at a game.
Police and paper plate glasses
Daisy Troop 64100 of Essex Junction, VT, visited the Colchester Police Department to earn their Respect Authority petal, then made paper plate eclipse glasses.
Camp eclipse
Troop 10857 of Windsor, VT, spent the weekend of April 6-8 camping at Camp Farnsworth, and stayed long enough to view the eclipse from the porch of the program center. Leader Jennifer said it gave them a peaceful and lovely view.
Making a splash at Jay Peak
Cadette/Senior Troop 60248 from Bennington, NH, had a great time at the Make a Splash event at Jay Peak! The girls tried all the slides, lounged in the lazy river, climbed the rock wall, and soaked in the hot tub. There was lots of excited conversation in the car on the way home, swapping stories of what they did and comparing favorite parts of the park.
Bringing smiles to veterans
Troop 69262 of Amherst, NH, coordinated the collection of Girl Scout Cookies to donate to the Veterans Home of New Hampshire. With the help of Amherst and Mont Vernon troops, they were able to collect over 350 boxes, which they delivered on April 6 in Tilton, NH, joined by Troops 59155, 22707, and 64300. They spent the afternoon with the residents playing board games and a beach ball game, and the residents were thrilled to get cookies.
Reaching new heights
Community 226, which includes troops from the Concord, NH, area, enjoyed their first community event since COVID-19 shut things down. Forty-four Girl Scouts scaled the walls at NH Climbing and Fitness, stacked crates, and collected items for a food pantry.
Volunteer of Excellence
Stephanie Rowell, leader of Troop 63557 in Barre, VT, was recognized as a Volunteer of Excellence by the council recently. She has been a leader for two years, saving a troop from disbanding and bringing girls close together.
Dairy farm visit
Daisy and Brownie Troop 30121 participated barn tour of a local dairy farm, Sweet Farm in Fletcher, VT, to learn the importance of farming and how the milk they drink gets from local farms to their refrigerators.
Recycling eclipse glasses
Troop 51726 of Manchester Center, VT, decorated cookie boxes to reuse as collection boxes for solar eclipse glasses to be reused! They mailed the gently used glasses to Eclipse Glasses USA, who will distribute them to children in South America where the next eclipse will occur. They placed boxes at several local businesses, including the library. They had a HUGE turnout with hundreds of glasses collected instead of ending up in the landfill.
Clearing out cookies
Troop 58754 of Manchester City, VT, sold a total of 205 boxes of cookies at the Wild NH Day in Concord, NH during their hour at the council’s booth. Leader Michelle said “that was the most fun I have had as a leader standing at a booth. It was just so busy and I really enjoyed watching the girls do their thing. Thank you so much!”
More Wild NH Day
Several Girl Scout troops sold cookies and many volunteers helped at the council booth at Wild NH Day. Top left, Gov. Chris Sununu stopped by early and bought a few packages of cookies.
Crafty tinkerers
Junior Troop 10427 of Raymond, NH, worked on their Craft and Tinker badge. They made snow globes out of baby food jars, a travel game, then sewed a pouch to carry the game, made a piece of upcycled jewelry, and then completed a craft-and-tinker vocabulary word search.
Glowing in the dark
Troop 51879 enjoyed a lesson in chemiluminescence (how temperature affects the reaction in glowsticks), bioluminescence (dinoflagellates - bioluminescent plankton), triboluminescence (the mini lightning that results when wintergreen mints are crunched or struck), and learned about the rods and cones in our eyes vs. animal eyes during a Night Science event with the STEM on-the-go van at Camp Twin Hills in Richmond, VT.
STEM on-the-go van hits the road
Several Girl Scout troops gathered in Duxbury, VT, to take part in the geology program brought to them by our STEM on-the-go van.
In Bethel, VT, Girl Scouts learned polymer clay science.
Polymer clay science also came to Essex, VT.
In Middletown Springs, VT, Girl Scouts tried out LEGO engineering.
The STEM van brought a geology experience to Girl Scouts in East Dover, VT.
Geology was the theme in Orwell, VT.
Here’s a closer look at the geology experience, this time in Proctor, VT.
And in Hinesburg, VT.
The STEM on-the-go van also traveled to New Hampshire – here in Littleton.
How strong a structure could you build with toothpicks and mini marshmallows? How many penny rolls can your lasagna-pasta bridge support? Girl Scouts in Barton, VT, worked on those challenges and figured it out.
One more geology lesson in Island Pond, VT.
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