Troop Spotlight: June 2025
Troop Spotlight: June 2025
June 30, 2025
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.
A visit to Atkinson’s fire department
Daisy Troop 65830 in Atkinson, NH, visited their local fire department, getting a tour, climbing inside fire trucks and ambulances, and even trying on firefighter gear.
Gaining outdoor skills
Several volunteers took the council Basic Outdoor Living Skills training at the end of May, learning skills like one-match fire starting and tent construction. Above is the group that attended the training at Camp Farnsworth.
And this is the group at Camp Twin Hills.
Representing New Hampshire in Georgia
Brownies through Cadettes learned new skills and worked towards a variety of badges at the council’s Try New Things weekend, including a camp carnival and tarp teambuilding.
Brownies worked towards the Tree Promise Patch, Mechanical Engineering Badge – Fling Fliers , Outdoor Art Creator Badge, Outdoor Adventurer Badge, Cabin Camper Badge, Snacks Badge, Art and Design Badge and Math in Nature Badge series.
Juniors worked towards the Tree Promise Patch, Mechanical Engineering Badge – Paddle Boats, Outdoor Art Explorer Badge, Gardner Badge, Flowers Badge, Camper Badge, Simple Meals Badge, Art and Design Badge and Math in Nature Badge series.
Cadettes worked towards the Tree Promise Patch, Think Like an Engineer Badge, Outdoor Art Apprentice Badge, Trees Badge, Night Owl Badge and Good Sportsmanship Badge.
Sisters Lilla and Katie H of Troop 58554 of Essex Junction, VT, also participated in the council’s Try New Things weekend. Things they tried for the first time included sleeping overnight in a cabin, participating in a flag ceremony, foil packet cooking, toast on a campfire grate, S’Macos, and carnival games.
Crown and country
2023 Gold Award Girl Scout Alum Corinne Kelly spoke to Liz Simmons Troop 59095 recently. For her Gold Award project, she developed a program to share the stories of military veterans and recognize their contributions to our country. She has continued her work and is speaking with local community groups while she is home from college. Her talk focuses on bringing attention to the stories and needs of veterans, and to understand the difference they can make in a soldier or veteran's life by being supportive. The troop really enjoyed Corinne's presentation. Corinne was crowned Miss New Hampshire Volunteer America 2025 and her goal is to present to one Girl Scout troop in each county.
Working on her Media Team patch
Anne F, a Junior in Troop 58710 in Pembroke, NH, has been busy fulfilling the steps for the council’s Media Team patch. She shared her photos and wrote that multiple troops enjoyed exploring the outdoors safely at Clark’s Bears. Participants received a certificate and enjoyed seeing Wolfman and the bear show. A week later, Troops 64623, 58710, and more attended the Castle Nature Hike at the Castle in the Clouds. “There were Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors on the hike. Lola, Lyla, Marlee, Rowan, Azlynn, Anne, and more watched a video and toured the castle. They even had toys from the 1950s!”
Emergency help
Morrisville EMS donated their time to help Troop 61654 of Wolcott, VT, earn their First Aid badges and Safety Awards.
Elf shelf
Brownie Troop 63738 worked on their World of Girls Journey and built a little library in Sheldon, VT.
Get Outdoors More Challenge
Samantha W, a Girl Scout Ambassador from Coopersburg, PA, won the Get Outdoors More Challenge, completing most of the activities on the list. We also got submissions from Amy V., a Daisy from Tulare, CA; Rachel T., a Junior from Hinesburg, VT; and Samantha B., a Cadette from Chelsea, MI.
Having s’more fun despite the rain
Girl Scout Troop 64935 of Holderness, NH, along with several other troops, attended a camporee at the Circle Camp in Hebron, NH. Although it rained most of the weekend, it did not dampen the girls’ spirits and fun. Activities included reverse tie-dye, a talent show, sling shots, making edible fires, kayaking, and many other activities. The weekend ended with a service unit bridging ceremony. Everyone had a great time!
Troop 64935 also visited the NH Humane Society in Laconia, NH, to work on their Pet Badge. Whitney and the rest of the staff were very welcoming, patient and friendly. Whitney gave the girls a tour of the facility, explained medical care available to the animals, feeding, exercise, and all aspects of pet care. The girls ended the visit reading to the cats. They had a great time and earned their badge at the same time.
More camporee
The weekend of June 7, Pemibaker and Winnibel service units had a joint camporee at Circle Camp in Hebron, NH. Despite the downpour, girls had a great time with our activities based on our theme “Let’s Have S’more Fun.” Some were even able to do kayaks and the low ropes course before the rain hit hard. They made spaghetti towers, marshmallow catapults, did reverse tie dye, used sling shots, had a “S’morsgaboard” snack (each troop brought a snack made of 1-2 of the s’more components), learned knots, had an edible fire, and participated in a talent show called “The Grahamies.”
Bottle drive and cookie donations
Four Barre, VT, troops - 30002, 30048, 30560, and 30056 - did a bottle drive for the Veterans Place, Inc., in Northfield, VT, and also donated cookies.
A battleship visit and donations
Troop 30228 in Duxbury, VT, donated cookies and food to their local food pantry and enjoyed an overnight on a battleship for a new experience.
Play ball!
Girl Scout Junior Lilla H of Troop 58554 of Essex Junction, VT, and her family enjoyed a baseball game with the Vermont Lake Monsters. Lilla’s mom said the barbecue was great and the fireworks were spectacular! Lilla got to pose with Champ, the team’s mascot, and they met up with Girl Scouts from other troops and made some new friends.
Troop 30228 of Duxbury also attended the game.
Overnighters at a museum
Troop 58554 of Essex Junction, VT, spent an overnight at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium.
Also at the overnight were Girl Scouts from Troop 58225 of Grantham, NH. Nora S reacts to her hair blowing up and girls work at the circuit bench.
A cleaner park
Merrimack, NH, Troop 62031 put a $200 Take Action grant toward buying a new trash can for Veterans Park in Merrimack. They wanted to stop littering and specifically to stop trash from getting into the waterways. Parents pitched in to cover costs beyond the Take Action grant.
Magical Baking
It’s easy to bake with our Magical Baking virtual lessons! Girl Scouts made Thai magic custard cake and khanom chan. The Thai magic custard cake really is magic! One very thin batter bakes into a three-layer cake; a fudgy layer on the bottom, which is from the starch of the flour settling, a creamy custard-like vanilla pudding in the middle, and a layer of sponge cake on top.
Khanom chan is a popular treat for kids in Thailand, especially at holidays. It’s made from rice and tapioca flour (GF flour blend works, too), coconut milk, sugar, pandan extract (vanilla), then steamed in alternating thin layers of different colors (white and green is traditional). It turns out with a gumdrop consistency and the kids like to peel the layers to eat it.
What are the chances that a parent would be Thai? She said she had eaten khanom chan before but never made it herself. She also helped with pronunciation.
Feedback included:
- Mom likes it! Girl Scout not so much! She’s not a fan of any coconut things. Can’t believe she’s half Thai
- Glad to have ingredient measurements. The cake is awesome.
- We forgot to mention in our survey that we loved having the directions on the screen as well! When you have a mixer going you get worried you missed something. Especially, my daughter’s ADHD brain that fixates and ruminates. Also, my husband ate two pieces of the cake! He had a sense memory of French pancakes his mom made when he was a child. Thanks for doing this program.
Flags and Fisher Cats
At Girl Scout Night at the Fisher Cats game on Saturday, June 21, Brownie Madalyn and her family had a great time despite the sun and heat. Madalyn and Girl Scouts from several troops participated in a flag ceremony.
Bridging by the beach
The three Seniors in Troop 10162 of Concord, NH, bridged to Ambassador. The girls are a troop from Concord led by Stacy Duffy who has been their leader since they were Daisies. The three girls are Madi D., Caia K. and Maia B. They are all rising juniors at Concord High School.
The bridge is on Lake Winnipesaukee where they have now celebrated a few bridging ceremonies. Madi is currently working on her Gold Award where she is focusing on melanoma awareness, education and prevention.
The bridging ceremony included a ribbon ceremony where the girls tied ribbons to flowers, each ribbon represented a tenet of the Girl Scouts. They also had a candle-lighting ceremony as well.
They enjoyed a lakeside picnic afterward.
Adventure-packed end-of-year overnight
Girl Scout Troop 62216 of Nottingham, NH, celebrated the end of the year with an adventure-packed overnight. To complete the Democracy in Action badge, they learned about our national level of government by visiting Senator Shaheen’s Manchester office. They were excited to see her Girl Scout sash proudly displayed on the wall - she was the first woman governor of New Hampshire, first woman senator from our state and a Girl Scout alum!
Next, they visited the Federal District Courthouse in Concord to meet Judge McCafferty. She is the first woman to serve as a federal judge of the District Court of New Hampshire and also a Girl Scout alum. Judge McCafferty showed the troop her courtroom and led a mock trial. They even saw the jury room!
After dinner and ice cream, they headed to NH Climbing and Fitness for rock climbing. Half the troop tried it for the first time and many girls reached the tops of the walls! They spent the night in the gym and headed home the next morning proud of all they had learned.
First aid for hikers
Girl Scout Brownie Troop 62987, rising fourth graders from Windham, NH, just completed a service project for their town. Their leader shared the story:
“We voted for our service project to be focused on the towns land and hiking trails, so we contacted our local conservation board and had a member come to one of our meetings to help brainstorm. Together we landed on a project to build first aid boxes for the hiking kiosks in town.
“The girls presented at a conservation board meeting to get the project approved, then they built the boxes and designed them. After that we had a meeting with a local health teacher who taught us about first aid and CPR. They helped determine what items should go in the box. Once the project was complete, they did a second presentation at the conservation board meeting to get permission to hang the boxes. The girls then met a board member to help hang the boxes.
“They are hanging at seven hiking trails in Windham, and we've committed to checking and restocking the boxes every three months.”
From cookies to Canobie
Raymond, NH, Troop 10427 Juniors used some of their cookie proceeds to have a fun trip to Canobie Lake Park.
A hot time in the Big Apple
During the heat wave, five Girl Scouts from Troop 20354 of Goffstown, NH, crushed a three-day trip to New York City! They visited the American Museum of Natural History, had a guided tour at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, saw St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the NYC public library. Girl Scout Central in the heart of the city welcomed them with open arms and they did their historical experience and earned a patch. They shopped till they dropped at FAO Schwartz and other locations. “Times Square didn’t see us coming!” said their leader, Danielle Boucher. A boat cruise down the Hudson allowed them to wave to Lady Liberty and see the Empire State Building. They used a combination of subway and buses during the oppressive temps and still logged almost 20 miles of walking during our trip!
These girls were troupers!” said Boucher.
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