Troop Spotlight: November 2025
Troop Spotlight: November 2025
November 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.
Veterans receive gratitude
Girl Scout Troop 65850 in Salem, NH, spread smiles among the veterans who live at Salem Woods Residence just before Veterans Day.
Leader Samantha said, “The girls started out with a jar and decorated it with American flag stickers of all sorts. They used their cutting skills to cut out gratitude /appreciation labels, each girl signed a card for their jar, added American flag wrapped chocolate candy and lastly added an up cycled American flag from The Honor Bear Project which was gifted to us. It truly means the world to us because of all the time, thought, organizing and dedication we put in. We absolutely love our troop and cannot wait for our next meeting at the local food pantry!”
Caring Sharing Bags
Merrimack, NH, Troop 62031 obtained a Take Action Mini Grant from the council so they would help the unhoused people living along the river and roads in the Manchester area. They purchased bags, snacks, water, hygiene products, and more. Toothbrushes were donated by Delta Dental to the council, who supplied them to the troop. The bags will be distributed through Families in Transition.
Helping with yard work
Troop 30066 of Ferrisburgh, NH, helped one of their community members with some fall yard work and clean up.
Snapping into action
Troop 58611 in Winchester, NH, are serving weekly meals to their neighbors in need until the SNAP food assistance program is restored. Leader Kimberly said they are budgeting, shopping, preparing, and cooking meals for about 100 people – their neighbors, friends, and classmates. They are collaborating with the ELMM Community Center and ACCESS to make sure no one goes hungry.
Planning for their dreams
Granite State Credit Union helped this group of Girl Scout Cadettes with the My Dream Budget Badge Workshop in Rochester, NH, on November 8. They had a great time and learned a lot.
Ice cream and caring for veterans
Troop 60262 of Amherst, NH, visited the Veterans Home in Tilton in October, where they hosted an ice cream social for the veterans, scooped ice cream, and hung out with them for the afternoon. They used their cookie proceeds to pay for ice cream and toppings.
Having a blast with robots
Lilla and Laura of Troop 30463 in Hinesburg, VT, had a great time learning about robots with our Robotics Badge Blast.
Space explorers
Troops 64935 of Holderness, NH, and 62526 of Plymouth, NH, enjoyed a visit from the STEM van on November 6 to work on the Space Science badge. The girls enjoyed making moon dust, clay planets, looking at the phases of the moon and going outside to look at the constellations.
Marching for veterans
Nashua, NH, Troop 51605 participated in the Veterans Day parade there.
Toasty Turkeys
Toasty Turkeys ran at Camp Twin Hills with more than 35 people! It was a snowy, chilly day but everyone had fun hanging out by the fire, making crafts, playing games and making snowmen/snow turkeys, and warming up with Belle Pfeiffer’s heaters.
Friendsgiving in Gilford
Gilford, NH, Troop 10424 hosted their fourth annual Friendsgiving event with Service Unit 243! Forty Girl Scouts from Daisy to Senior level and their leaders enjoyed a pizza dinner, game night, cupcakes, and holiday card-making for a nursing home. The five troops in attendance also made a Thanksgiving meal basket will all the fixings to donate to families in need. Troop 10424 donated the five baskets to Lakes Region Community Services in Laconia. Troop 10424 charged a small fee to attend. And after expenses and badges for all girls in attendance, they will be fulfilling three or four holiday gift tags for children this holiday season.
Girl-power derby
Troop 60262 of Amherst, NH, hosted a Girl Power(ed) Derby in Mont Vernon. They had 65 girls from their service unit who raced their cars and competed for the fastest car but also for Best in Show, Best Workmanship, and Most Original. Leader Chiara said “We had a blast!”
Questing for apples
Troop 30121 of Cambridge, VT, visited an apple orchard in Essex, VT, to complete their Apple Quest patch.
Service and fun
Multilevel Trailblazer Troop 63154 in Randolph, VT, has had a fun start to the year. They started with carving pumpkins, served dinner to veterans in their local American Legion, and just enjoyed the Think Like an Engineer workshop at the University of Vermont with the Society of Women Engineers.
Collecting needed hygiene products for Silver Award
For her Girl Scout Silver Award project, Sophia Caron of Troop 60262 partnered with Share Outreach to support families in Milford, Brookline, Amherst, Mont Vernon, and Wilton. After learning that SNAP benefits cannot be used for non-food essentials, she focused her efforts on increasing donations of personal care items—an area where Share Outreach relies heavily on monetary contributions to fulfill demand.
Sophia raised awareness among Girl Scouts and local organizations, placed collection boxes at the Amherst and Mont Vernon libraries, and organized a donation drive at Shaw’s. Her initiative resulted in the donation of 132 personal hygiene items. As a lasting contribution, she also built a permanent collection box for year-round donations. The box has been placed outside Share Outreach in Milford.
From waste to wonderful
Troop 59205 of Mont Vernon, NH, officially hit our 1,000-pound plastic recycling goal right on target on Halloween! The troop has now earned a Trex bench through the NexTrex recycling challenge!
They posted on Facebook that “this project was truly a community effort, and we are so grateful. Month after month, the residents of Mont Vernon came together and averaged a 100 pounds of plastic recycled per month—an incredible achievement for a small town with a big heart. We absolutely could not have reached this milestone without your support, your consistency, and your willingness to help our girls make a difference.”
This spring the troop will present the bench to the Mont Vernon Conservation Commission for Carleton Pond.
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