So I am proud to say that my girls got to do a really cool STEM event with Pepco. Thank you Girl Scouts of the Nation's Capital and Pepco Watershed for sponsoring this event.
I loved seeing my girls (as well as girls from other troops) get SO into playing with wires, batteries, electricity, getting to tour a green home, learning about solar panels, and so much more.
The idea of teaching sustainability to girls is not only super important it is also empowering. We know that women tend to but don't always, of course, make decisions about house things. So seeing them teach girls, who will eventually be running their own home, to think more green and sustainable was a great thing to see.
Here is the description of the event the girls did:
"We are very excited about you joining us for an electrifying day of learning about energy use with our partners at Pepco! Girls will get a tour of a model sustainable home, do a hands on electronics and solar power activity, design their own sustainable home, and learn about energy use from experts! They will also enjoy a hot dog lunch while they watch a demonstration of electric currents blow up a hot dog! Girls will earn the Investigate Award for the Get Moving journey and complete parts of the Energize award as they rotate through the different stations."
Here is a written piece by Girl Scout Junior, Via about what she did:
This program helped me learn more about how, and why we save energy. I learned a lot about the different types of energy. At the Pepco watershed, we went to a building with the most amazing ways of saving energy things like self-water draining sidewalks, solar heating systems, and recycled sinks with many more cool things. Next, we went to another building but this time we are designing our own house with good ideas that save energy. Finally, we go to the last but not least station. At this station, we learn about circuits and we got to experiment with what the wires and batteries and all the other stuff we were given. After we messed with that we moved over to the last activity at the station. At this part, we did a project of putting in stuff to a wood house that was used to model well a house and with the energy saving objects in there we went to lunch.
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As such, a few years ago, my girl scout troop did a consumers energy patch program just for scouts. However, since my girls had done that already, and we had patches left over, I thought it would be great for my newer set of girl scouts to be able to create their own patch program using the leftover patches and so I suggested it to them and let them decide if they wanted to do that or something else for their innovate award. Now isn't that just sustainable thinking of me? Haha.
Now what is great about this, is that with a multi-level girl scout troop AND a cub scout pack this multi-level as well, this provides an opportunity for scouts to earn the next patch up with this scout designed program and makes it easier for leaders to keep track of what is done.
Why is that?
With scouts who have done the other program already, they can put it to more practical use and not get bored of implementing what they have learned into their daily lives.
Energy Patch Program-- written by Juniors, Via, Romi & Janelle of Troop 5823
This is part of their Innovate Award of their Junior Journey, Get Moving. They had a million good ideas of what to do to help get the word out. Some of which I am sure will translate into great Bronze Award projects. To help the community and other scouts in the community of all levels, they created a patch programme to help kids put into action what they can do as well. So the effect is multiplied.
For Cub Scouts in Pack 33-- you will have this during the summer time as one of the activities you can do to earn your summertime pack award! And you get a patch. Win-win.
For Girl Scouts in SU 34-8 or Troop 5823-- do this and return to the email. Our leader will get the patches to your leader by mail or the next service unit event. Patches while supplies last.
For Those in My Home School Co-Op-- You can earn this as well. Just follow the instructions and email it back to me or bring it in with you (email on the form).
For Other Girl Scout/Cub Scout/Boy Scout leaders-- feel free to use the program and order your own patches-- you can do pretty cheap from snappylogos.com
Even though this is embedded in the post- click on it directly to be able to download the pdf!
For Cub Scouts in Pack 33-- you will have this during the summer time as one of the activities you can do to earn your summertime pack award! And you get a patch. Win-win.
For Girl Scouts in SU 34-8 or Troop 5823-- do this and return to the email. Our leader will get the patches to your leader by mail or the next service unit event. Patches while supplies last.
For Those in My Home School Co-Op-- You can earn this as well. Just follow the instructions and email it back to me or bring it in with you (email on the form).
For Other Girl Scout/Cub Scout/Boy Scout leaders-- feel free to use the program and order your own patches-- you can do pretty cheap from snappylogos.com
Even though this is embedded in the post- click on it directly to be able to download the pdf!
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Get your energy saving on!
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