Eleven Girl Scouts in Troop 52359 from Oakmont recently
earned the Bronze Award, the highest award a Junior Girl Scout can achieve.
Working
an average of 25 hours each, the girls designed and installed a geocaching
course at Camp Skymeadow in Avonmore, Armstrong County.
Troop members are Aine Hasselman, Alexandra Pastor, Anna
Pinto, Audrey Myers, Carley Watts, Georgia Tsambis, Gianna Portera, Gwyneth
Fichte, Isabella Nolan, Riley Russell and Isabella Ruby Bee.
Learn more about their project—and perhaps get inspired to earn the highest awards—through this summary provided by troop leaders Susan Portera, Madeline Welsh and Jill Myers.
Well done, Girl Scouts!
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| The girls met with camp ranger Tim Shank. |
Title of project:
Install a Geocaching Course
They began by working together to determine what they wanted
to do.
Since the girls loved geocaching they decided that they wanted to create
a course so that other Girl Scouts could experience geocaching and earn their
badge.
First, they met with Tim Shank, the ranger at Camp Skymeadow, to understand
what was possible.
They conducted research to plan their course and the
containers they’d need. They prepared their containers, put together the
information that would be shared in the instruction booklet for the course, and then installed the caches at Camp Skymeadow.
The girls worked together well, respecting each other and
the property where their course was being installed. They also completed this
project in support of "being a sister to all Girl Scouts."
The troop hopes that their course will inspire others to do more geocaching.
