Troop Spotlight: February 2024
Troop Spotlight: February 2024
February 28, 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.
Concord troop catch-up
Troop 61345 in Concord, NH, has had a busy year so far. Leader Alison says:
November: We visited Owen Farm in Hopkinton and learned about the STEM career (towards STEM careers badge) of agriculture from Penny Owen, met the animals on the farm and learned about what the farmers do over the course of the year to care for them (towards Pets badge). The pic from this experience is of the girls in the shelter of the giant wind harp on the property.
We supported two of our troop members who performed as the youngest children in the Concord Community Theater production of "The Sound of Music." Our troop meeting was going to their performance.
December: We made holiday cards for the Concord Coalition Against Homelessness and had their Executive Director in as a speaker while we made "homes" out of recycled materials.
We learned about entrepreneurship in a delicious way from the Maddie Hatter cookie company and got to decorate and eat cookies.
We went ice-skating as a troop over winter break.
Also over break, we visited the DHHS public health water lab and got to learn a lot about STEM careers in chemistry, biology, and molecular biology and all about the various work the water lab does to monitor the safety of all kinds of water in our state. Bonus, all of the lab employees were women! Check out the lab coats and glasses they gave the girls to wear - they cover uniforms, but were ridiculously adorable and awesome!
January - cookies of course and the second half of our Entrepreneurship badge with Marcia Fletcher Interior Designs.
We're doing the Space Science badge through the Night at the Museum program at McAuliffe Shepard Discovery Center in Concord and are finishing up our Pets badge with a day of volunteering (to walk dogs and pet puppies... oh so difficult) and weave dog toys at Darbster Doggy, a dog rescue organization in Chichester. Our troop had a great time at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord learning about life in space and doing our Space Science badge.
We are up to 17 girls in our troop of mostly Brownies and have yet to untangle a human knot without letting go.
Uniform to uniform
Raymond, NH, Troop 10427 participated in the Uniform to Uniform Challenge offered by Girl Scouts of the Silver Sage, where they spent time with a uniformed police officer, learned about his role, and shared their roles as Girl Scouts.
How to catch a Loveosaurus
At a council-run event in Rutland, VT, Girl Scouts made Valentine’s Day cards, kindness rocks, and their own Loveosaurus to take home.
Spreading a little love
Troop 51726 of Manchester, VT, made valentines to be distributed to local nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals.
World Thinking Day in Raymond, NH
Troop 10427 is a K-8 troop in Raymond with 37 members, so each level picked a country and researched Girl Scouts in their chosen countries. They set up their displays which included foods, crafts, games and facts about Girl Scouts in Russia (Daises), Italy (Brownies), Nigeria (Juniors), and Australia (Cadettes).
World Thinking Day for Service Unit 200
Service Unit 200, which encompasses the towns of Keene, Roxbury, Marlborough, Harrisville, Nelson, Sullivan, Gilsum, Surry, Chesterfield, Westmoreland, Walpole, Alstead, Langdon, Acworth, Marlow, and Stoddard, was attended by eight troops. The troops researched topics about a country they chose to represent and learned about Girl Guides, the culture, food, activities, and games.
SU 200 goes ice skating
Ten Girl Scout troops from Service Unit 200 in the Keene area enjoyed some ice skating on January 15.
World Thinking Day returns to Greenfield
Troops in Service Unit 248 gathered in Greenfield, NH, for a World Thinking Day event on February 4. Each troop chose and researched a country, preparing a presentation of what they learned. Presentations included visual displays, samples of snacks or drinks, and a SWAP to share! Attending troops completed the steps to earn the World Thinking Day award and gathered donations to put toward purchasing and planting a tree in their community. It was their first World Thinking Day event since 2020, and they were happy to get together once more!
Front-page news
Girl Scouts of Troop 62658 of Hudson, NH, made the cover of The Hudson Times, as well as more inside the newspaper.
Dancing and didgeridoos
Troop 30456 of Saint Albans, VT, Troop 30121 of Cambridge, VT, and Service Unit member Cheryl Heneveld celebrated World Thinking Day on February 23. They had several booths for the girls to rotate through that included information on various countries and offered food and SWAPS. The girls of 30456 danced the Macarena and the Chicken Dance along with reciting the Girl Scout Promise in Spanish. The girls of 30121 put on a performance using homemade didgeridoos.
Out on the ice
Girl Scout Troop 62561 of Littleton, NH, recently had an ice fishing class and went ice fishing with Let's Go Fishing NH!
Two of their trained volunteer instructors came to their troop meeting to talk with the girls about safety on ice, how to dress, the equipment they would be using, and some of the process. Then on February 11 they met them on the lake.
Corey's Sport Shop in Littleton also donated the bait for the troop to use.
Girl Scout Cookie booths!
Troop 30456 in Saint Albans, VT.
Daisy Troop 64100 of Essex Junction, VT, prepares for their first cookie booth.
Mont Vernon, NH, Troop 62018 (Grade 3 Brownies) had a cookie booth at Shaw’s in Milford on February 17.
Troop 20507 in Concord, NH. See a story in The Hippo about our cookie sales that featured a Q&A with this troop’s leader!
Brownie at Dude’s in Hooksett on the first weekend of cookie sales. She said her troop hopes to take a trip to a water park or movie.
Troop 63228 of Bow, NH, plans to give a little, spend a little, and save a little.
Cadette Sophia of Troop 40126 in Bethel, VT, is ready to take orders!
Troop 61416 of Bow, NH, got family support.
Troop 58710 of Pembroke, NH.
Troop 58245 of Concord, NH.
Azalea and Selena of Raymond, NH, Troop 10427 dressed for Twinning Tuesday at their cookie booth.
Top and below right, Troop 63135 of Chester, NH, at Showtime Computers in Hudson, below left at the Walmart in Derry.
It may have been cold and windy, but Girl Scouts of Troop 51943 of Salem, NH, stayed warm in their new Girl Scout hats!
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