Author Archives: Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts
Brookline Juniors Earn Including All Girls Patch
Earning the Including All Girls Patch heightens Girl Scouts’ awareness, understanding and acceptance of people’s differences and disabilities. Junior Troop 88200 from Brookline, MA, recently earned this patch through the five steps described below. 1) Strengths and Weaknesses: Together, the girls looked at how individuals with disabilities are portrayed in advertising, and how this influences […]
Tessa – A Girl Scout who makes a difference
Tessa, an Ambassador Girl Scout from Reading, joined Girl Scouts in kindergarten after receiving a flyer in her school mailbox. She immediately loved it, and stayed involved because she enjoyed earning badges and completing Take Action projects. She most recently earned the Silver Award for her project to remove invasive species in a local conservation area. Tessa […]
Meet Goosey and Kitty!
Molly “Goosey” Clark, camp director for Favorite Resident Camp, is returning for her third summer as director, and her 15th summer at Camp Favorite. She has been a Girl Scout for 19 years. She has worked at Camp Favorite as a camp counselor, sailing instructor, sailing manager and waterfront director. Outside of camp, Molly […]
2016 Gold Award Centennial Ceremony and Celebration
What better way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the highest award in Girl Scouting than to partner with our sister council, Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts! At a ceremony at the Massachusetts State House yesterday, June 13, 2016, we celebrated our awesome and inspiring 2016 Gold Awardees from across the Commonwealth. Girl […]
Going for Gold: Enhancing Greenhouse Sustainability
Wanting to get high school students involved in growing food locally in order to understand the many benefits, Lucy, a Girl Scout Ambassador from Lincoln, organized a team of volunteers to enhance the high school greenhouse and garden plot. Together, they added an irrigation system, which included a rain collection bucket, a solar-powered lamp, pipes […]
Girl Scouts Honor the Fallen on Memorial Day
This past weekend, Girl Scouts from all over eastern Massachusetts honored those who died while serving in United States of America’s armed forces. Here are some stories from around the council: Two Junior Girl Scouts from troop #65295 of Sharon honored fallen veterans by placing American flags and flowers on their graves at Rock Ridge […]
Going for Gold: Pleasant Street Transformation
Katherine, a Girl Scout Ambassador from Millis, noticed there wasn’t a place in her community where people could learn about nature, go for a hike or camp for a weekend. She decided to renovate an abandoned lot in her town to create this space. She started by disposing of trash and debris that had accumulated over […]
Going for Gold: Warm Hands
Jules, a Girl Scout Ambassador from Concord, started an initiative to bring relief to Syrian refugees displaced from their homes as a result of the Syrian Civil War. Thousands of refugees have fled their homes to avoid the violence, and many have evacuated to refugee camps in Turkey. These refugees face a lack of basic […]
Celebrating Cookies for a Cause 2016 at Hanscom
The sun was shining brightly on Saturday, March 19, when we gathered at Hanscom Air Force Base to distribute nearly 20,000 packages of Girl Scout Cookies to six military and veteran organizations. The event concluded our 2016 Cookies for a Cause program, which allows Girls Scouts to accept donations for military organizations, food pantries and other […]
How We Celebrated World Thinking Day 2016
Last week we celebrated World Thinking Day, a Girl Scout holiday that aims to unite girls in scouting on a global level. We heard so many great stories about the ways troops celebrated the holiday; here are a bunch we love. Brownie Troop 68174 and Daisy Troop 86222 from Lowell explored this year’s theme, “Connect,” […]
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