My Badge Explorer 1 of 110 BADGE DESCRIPTION Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout Daisy (Grades K-1) Life Skills Relationships Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. Violet, called "Vi," is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too! Talk about "Vi's Story" 1. Create a mural about girls around the world with your Daisy friends 2. Practice being a sister to every Girl Scout 3. When you've earned your Vi petal, you'll know how to be a sister to every Girl Scout, just like Vi the Violet. GET THIS BADGE Considerate and Caring Daisy (Grades K-1) Life Skills Relationships Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. The Zinni petal is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too! Talk about "Zinni's Story" 1. Come up with ideas of how to be like Zinni 2. Practice being considerate and caring 3. When you've earned your Zinni petal, you'll know how to be considerate and caring, just like Zinni the Zinnia. GET THIS BADGE
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My Badge Explorer
1 of 110
BADGE DESCRIPTION
Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout
Daisy (Grades K-1)Life Skills
Relationships
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. Violet, called "Vi," is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
Talk about "Vi's Story"1. Create a mural about girls around the world with your Daisy friends2. Practice being a sister to every Girl Scout 3.
When you've earned your Vi petal, you'll know how to be a sister to every Girl Scout, just like Vi the Violet.
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Considerate and Caring
Daisy (Grades K-1)Life Skills
Relationships
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. The Zinni petal is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
Talk about "Zinni's Story"1. Come up with ideas of how to be like Zinni2. Practice being considerate and caring 3.
When you've earned your Zinni petal, you'll know how to be considerate and caring, just like Zinni the Zinnia.
When you earn this badge, you'll get to see what an adventure camping is! You'll get to play in nature, eat outside, and sleep under the stars with your family, buddies from your troop, or other friends.
Help plan a camping trip1. Help pack for your trip2. Go camping3.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to go camping-at a campsite or in a back yard-with your family or friends.
Find out how you can help your communities by being a good neighbor.
Explore your school1. Discover your city or town2. See what makes your state special3.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know more about the communities you belong to-and how the people in your communities work together to be good neighbors to each other.
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Journey: 5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for
Animals
Daisy (Grades K-1)Life SkillsJourney
In this Journey, you will:
Find out what animals need and how to care for them-go on nature walks to observe animals; visit a farm, zoo, or animal shelter; or create an animal sculpture.
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Plan a Take Action project that teaches others how to care for animals.2. Earn 3 leadership awards: Birdbath Award, Red Robin Award, and Tula Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
Explore nature and learn how to keep the Earth healthy-visit a park or farm, talk to a scientist, or make origami butterflies to celebrate nature.
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Plan a Take Action project, such as planting a tree, creating a garden for a children's hospital, or putting on a play about protecting the Earth.
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Earn 3 leadership awards: Blue Bucket Award, Firefly Award, and Clover Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
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Journey: Outdoor (Daisy)
Daisy (Grades K-1)Journey
Outdoors
In this Journey, you will:
Explore the wonders of camping and learn how to make art outdoors.1. Plan a Take Action project that helps make your favorite park, beach, or forest a better place for everyone.
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Earn the Buddy Camper badge, the Outdoor Art Maker badge, and a Take Action Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
Find out how scientists use the scientific method to investigate the world and make discoveries.
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Do hands-on activities to learn how to make observations and collect data.2. Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
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Journey: Think Like a Programmer
Daisy (Grades K-1)STEM
Journey
In this Journey, you will:
Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems.1. Do 3 computational thinking activities: Building a Foundation, Happy Maps, and Plant a Seed.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems.1. Do 3 hands-on design challenges: design and build a fairy house, a car powered by air, and a way to get across a canyon.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
3.
Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
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Journey: Welcome to the Daisy Flower
Garden
Daisy (Grades K-1)Life SkillsJourney
In this Journey, you will:
Explore the world of gardening-plant a mini-garden, learn about composting, find out how ladybugs help flowers, take a field trip to a public garden, or talk to a beekeeper.
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Plan a Take Action project, such as planting vegetables in a community garden or flowers at a nearby hospital.
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Earn 3 leadership awards: Watering Can Award, Golden Honey Bee Award, and Amazing Daisy Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
Find out the difference between needs and wants1. Try setting a goal to save for what you want2. Help others with what they need and want 3.
When you've earned this leaf, you'll know more about how to make choices about using money.
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Mechanical Engineering: Board
Game
Daisy (Grades K-1)STEM
Create board games and engineer your own game spinner.
Come up with an idea for your board game1. Design a spinner for your game2. Test your game and make it better3.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have created your own board game and learned what inventors and engineers do.
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Mechanical Engineering: Model
Car
Daisy (Grades K-1)STEM
Build a model car and test the friction of your car on different surfaces to prepare for a Troop Car Chase!
Design and build model cars1. Use model cars to test the friction of different surfaces2. Race your cars!3.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have learned about friction by building and testing model cars. You will know how to design and test new things that you invent.
Learn about the many things robots do. Then, work in teams, like engineers, to design a robot that solves an everyday problem.
Learn about robots1. Find out what robots can do2. Team up to design your own robots3.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know about the many things robots can be designed to do.
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Robotics 2: How Robots Move
Daisy (Grades K-1)STEM
Think you might be a good robot? See if you can follow your programmer's algorithm. Then become a programmer and create algorithms for robots and friends.
Learn about the parts of a robot1. Find out how robots move2. Make a robot move3.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to create a program that could be run by a robot.
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Robotics 3: Design a Robot
Daisy (Grades K-1)STEM
Now that you know what robots can do and how they do it, it's time to design your own! Plan and build a prototype of your robot that solves an everyday problem.
Plan your robot1. Create a prototype2. Get feedback on your robot3.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to design a robot that solves an everyday problem.
When you take part in the Girl Scout Cookie Program, you are helping with the largest business run by girls in the whole world. Now, choose what to do with the money you earn.
Decide how to use your cookie money1. Talk about how to use cookie money to help others2. Inspire your customers 3.
When you've earned this leaf, you'll be able to decide how to best use your cookie money.
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Brownie First Aid
Brownie (Grades 2-3)Life Skills
Health
Find out what to do in an emergency so you can be prepared if the unexpected happens.
Find out how to get help from 9111. Talk to someone who treats injured people2. Make a first-aid kit3. Learn how to treat minor injuries4. Know how to prevent and treat outdoor injuries 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to get help in an emergency and treat minor injuries.
Find out what computers can help you do and learn to be a safe, secure computer expert.
Paint or draw with an art program1. Find some cool facts2. Take a trip online3. Make a connection4. Have some computer fun 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to do many useful things on a computer.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Computer Expert, My Best Self, Dancer, Home Scientist, and My Family Story badges.
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Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Brownie (Grades 2-3)STEM
Find out how you use technology and how you can keep your technology safe.
Find out how you use technology1. Discover what your technology can do2. Find out how to create layers of security3. Find out how to use real-life safety rules when you go online4. Find out how messages travel on the internet5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know cybersecurity basics and understand the role technology plays in your life.
Create your identity1. Find out what information to keep private when you go online2. Find out how to share information safely online3. Find out why you have to be careful about who you trust online4. Test your knowledge of online safety rules5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know what information is private and how to share information safely.
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Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Brownie (Grades 2-3)STEM
Put on your detective hat and solve cyber crimes.
Crack a code to solve a problem1. Investigate what's real and fake in photos2. Find out about digital footprints3. Investigate how a computer virus can spread4. Explore a cyber attack5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to use investigative skills to spot problems in the cyber world.
Playing fair means that everyone has the same chance to play, because everyone follows the same rules. That's what this badge is about. You'll learn to work together to have the most fun possible. That's fair play!
Follow the rules1. Include everyone2. Be part of a team3. Keep score4. Have a field day5.
When I've earned this badge, I'll know how to play fair in sports.
Find out how philanthropists give money to help others. Then use the skills you learned to come up with ideas for how to give back with some of your cookie money!
Find out about businesses that give back1. Set a giving goal2. Involve your customers3. Practice giving back4. Tell your cookie customers how they helped5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how businesses help others-and how you can do the same thing.
Find out about girls around the world and how stories can give you ideas for helping others-play a game from another culture, invite storytellers to talk about what they do, or draw a self-portrait that shows what's unique about you.
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Plan a Take Action Project, such as sewing a quilt, painting a mural, writing a play, or creating your own ad.
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Earn 4 leadership awards: Hear a Story Award, Change a Story Award, Tell a Story Award, and Better World for Girls! Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
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Journey: Brownie Quest
Brownie (Grades 2-3)Life SkillsJourney
In this Journey, you will:
Find out how to take care of yourself, your family, your Girl Scout sisters, and your community-do an activity with your family to chart everyone's special talents, play games at your troop meetings to learn how to work together, or do a fun "clue hunting" activity to learn the Girl Scout Law.
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Plan a Take Action project, such as visiting a nursery school to read to younger children or teach them a game, creating a school skit about healthy eating, or making a presentation to your city council about fixing a broken sidewalk by your school.
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Earn 4 leadership awards: Discover Key; Connect Key; Take Action Key; Brownie Quest Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
3.
Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
Deepen your outdoor skills when you earn your Brownie First Aid, Hiker badger, and Cabin Camper badges.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps others.2. Earn a Take Action award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
3.
Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
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Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
Brownie (Grades 2-3)STEM
Journey
In this Journey, you will:
Find out how citizen scientists make observations, collect data, and work with scientists to receive feedback on research.
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Do 3 citizen science activities: sharpen your observation skills through 2 observation games and a SciStarter project.
2.
Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
3.
Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems.1. Do 3 computational thinking activities: find out about paper programming; create a functional suncatcher to explore algorithms, variables, and functions; and create a personal innovation to discover rapid prototyping.
2.
Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
3.
Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
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Journey: Think Like an Engineer
Brownie (Grades 2-3)STEM
Journey
In this Journey, you will:
Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems.1. Do 3 design thinking activities: design and build an assistive device, a water collection device, and a device that can launch a ball across a room.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
3.
Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.
1. Explore the wonders of water by find out more about its importance and how it's used around the world. 2. Plan a Take Action project, such as making informative posters, promoting recycling at school, or planting low-water gardens. 3. Earn 4 leadership awards: The LOVE Water Award, the SAVE Water Award, the SHARE Water Award, and the WOW! Award.
If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Letterboxer
Brownie (Grades 2-3)Outdoors
Learn about letterboxing, an amazing adventure game played by people all over the world. To play, you'll follow clues to find a hidden box with special items inside.
Get started with letterboxing1. Find your own stamp2. Practice solving clues3. Search for a letterbox4. Make a letterbox 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to have fun adventures by finding and hiding letterboxes.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Letterboxer, Pets, Making Games, Inventor, and Making Friends badges.
Work like an engineer to create a Fling Flyer, an airplane you'll make, and explore what keeps it and other things, such as birds, planes, and space ships, in the air.
Learn about forces that affect flight1. Design and build a Fling Flyer2. Test your Fling Flyer3. Analyze and share your results4. Brainstorm ways to improve your design5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have learned about the forces that affect flight as you design, build, and test a Fling Flyer. You'll know how to design an investigation-and fine-tune your design after testing it, just like engineers.
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Mechanical Engineering: Leap
Bot
Brownie (Grades 2-3)STEM
Design, build, and test things like an engineer as you create your own Leap Bot.
Learn about springs1. Build your Leap Bot2. Create a way to test how well your Leap Bot performs3. Record the results of your test4. Share your results5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have learned about engineering, gravity, and force by building and testing a Leap Bot. You will know how to build and test a new product.
Design, build, and test your own race car to explore how science can make a faster race car!
Learn how design can affect speed1. Design and build your race car2. Design your racetrack3. Conduct a fair test and record results4. Share what you learned5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have designed a race car and a race track and carried out "fair tests" to learn how design affects speed.
Find out how to manage your money by pretending to be a customer. Then use what you learned to make sure your cookie customers enjoy buying from you.
Find out where your customers are1. Talk to some customers2. Practice handling money and making change3. Role-play good customer relations4. Thank your customers! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to find customers and be comfortable selling to them.
Find out more about your family-the people you love and who love you.
Explore family stories1. Know where your family is from2. Make a story tree3. Find an object that means something to your family4. Share your family story 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to tell your family story.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Computer Expert, My Best Self, Dancer, Home Scientist, and My Family Story badges.
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My Great Day
Brownie (Grades 2-3)Life Skills
Relationships
Try out ways to get organized and learn how to help your family and friends stay organized too.
Start your day right1. Sort out your stuff2. Make homework a breeze3. Plan ahead4. Help others get organized 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll be able to organize yourself to have a great day every day.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Potter, Household Elf, Senses, Hiker, and My Great Day badges.
Find out more about basic human needs and learn how you can be a "philanthropist"-a person who gives to people who need help!
Learn what every person needs1. Investigate how to help people who are hungry2. Find out how to help people who need clothing3. Know how to help in times of emergency4. Think-and act-like a philanthropist 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to help people in need.
Explore the history of clay art and become a clay artist yourself.
Find some pottery1. Get to know clay2. Make a simple pot3. Make an art piece4. Paint and glaze! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll be able to make your own projects out of clay.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Potter, Household Elf, Senses, Hiker, and My Great Day badges.
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Robotics 1: Designing Robots
Brownie (Grades 2-3)STEM
Team up with your fellow Brownies to design a robot. Plan, build, and share your robot prototype.
Explore how robots imitate nature1. Learn about the parts of a robot2. Plan your robot3. Create a prototype4. Get feedback on your robot5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to plan, build, and share feedback like an engineer by creating a prototype of a robot that helps other people or animals.
Learn about the robot brain by engineering a machine that helps a robot to land
Learn how robots work1. Discover the robot brain2. Learn about programming3. Try simple programming4. Code a robot5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to create a program that could be run by a robot.
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Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots
Brownie (Grades 2-3)STEM
After engineers build their robots, they show them to others and enter them into challenges and competitions.
Create a presentation to share how you designed your robot1. Tell others how you designed your robot2. Learn about robotics competitions3. Learn about robotics teams4. See robots in action5.
Note: Unlike the other Robotics badges, these steps include options. You may be able to complete multiple steps, particularly three through five, at once.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to share your robot with others.
Find out how you can turn something you love into a successful business.
Explore a business you might like to start someday1. Learn the basics of running a business2. Find out what kind of support is available for small-business owners3. Investigate what makes great customer service4. Understand the importance of consumer research 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know the basic steps to plan and create a new business.
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Camper
Junior (Grades 4-5)Outdoors
Find out how to plan a camping adventure.
Start planning your adventure1. Gain a new camping skill2. Find your inner camp chef3. Try a new activity4. Head out on your trip-and have some nighttime fun! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to have a great overnight camping trip at a campsite or cabin.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Jeweler, Gardener, Detective, Camper, and Independence badges.
Use what you learn from your customers to make your cookie business even stronger!
Ask an expert what customers want1. Do some research at the grocery store2. Find out who buys cookies and why3. Learn from people who don't buy4. Listen for clues and ask great questions 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have a better understanding of your cookie customers.
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Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Junior (Grades 4-5)STEM
Find out how computers talk to each other.
Find out how computers read information1. Discover how networks work2. Find out what protocols are and create one3. Explore computer communication protocol4. Find out what malware is5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know the basics of cybersecurity and how computers communicate.
Create and protect a username1. Create and protect a password2. Discover how you share information and what to share3. Find out how information online can last forever4. Find out who is trustworthy online5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know know how to protect your online identity and stay safe online.
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Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Junior (Grades 4-5)STEM
Become a cybersecurity investigator and learn how to spot threats online.
Create and crack a shift cipher code1. Find out how updates can help your security2. Explore identity theft3. Find out what to do if your identity is stolen4. Investigate if a message is real or fake5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how computers use codes to communicate and how to spot cyber crime.
Practice the power of observation1. Communicate in code2. Fingerprint for fun3. Try out detective science4. Follow the clues to solve a real mystery! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to follow clues and discover facts like a real detective.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Jeweler, Gardener, Detective, Camper, and Independence badges.
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Digital Photographer
Junior (Grades 4-5)STEM
Art
Find out how to capture a winning photo with your digital device, whether you're using a phone, tablet, laptop, or digital camera.
Learn about digital cameras from an expert1. Take tons of photographs!2. Edit three photos3. Make a digital photo project4. Share your photos 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to use a digital camera to create one-of-a-kind photos.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Digital Photographer, Staying Fit, Musician, Entertainment Technology, and Scribe badges.
Learn techniques to make your drawings even better.
Experiment with different materials1. Learn how to add shading2. Get some perspective3. Use your imagination like a graphic artist4. Make your masterpiece-and show it off! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know some great drawing techniques.
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Eco Camper
Junior (Grades 4-5)Outdoors
Find out how to protect the environment when you go on a camping trip.
Learn the Leave No Trace Seven Principles1. Plan meals with the environment in mind2. Prepare a minimal impact campsite3. Have fun with Leave No Trace4. Take a conservation hike5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have learned skills for minimal impact camping and know how to protect the environment when you go outdoors.
Explore the ins and outs of entertainment technology.
Animate your own artwork1. Dig into video game development2. Try the science of amusement park rides3. Create your own special effects4. Surf a sound wave 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know the science behind the world of entertainment.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Digital Photographer, Staying Fit, Musician, Entertainment Technology, and Scribe badges.
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Flowers
Junior (Grades 4-5)Outdoors
Discover that there's more to flowers than just good looks.
Uncover the science of one flower1. Look under the petals2. Find out how flowers help people3. Have fun with flowers4. Send a message in flower code 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know all that's wonderful about flowers.
Know the basics of horseback riding1. Take care of a horse and learn about safety2. Prepare for your ride3. Practice your ride4. Go for a ride5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know what it takes to be a good rider-from understanding horse body language to controlling the horse's speed while you're riding.
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Independence
Junior (Grades 4-5)Life Skills
Get to know yourself and what you're capable of so you can feel confident on your own.
Get transportation smart1. Make your clothes look great2. Break a bad habit3. Help around the house4. Show off your independence! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll feel more confident doing things on your own-and know how to help others be confident in you.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Jeweler, Gardener, Detective, Camper, and Independence badges.
Find out more about the basics of government and start to become an active citizen.
Decide what being an active citizen means to you1. Go inside government2. Look into laws3. Report on the issues4. Get involved in government 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know more about how government is run.
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Jeweler
Junior (Grades 4-5)Art
Discover different ways to make jewelry.
Get to know the tools of the trade1. Make jewelry with metal2. Turn everyday objects into jewelry3. Create jewelry inspired by another culture4. Make a sparkling gift 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to make different kinds of jewelry.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Jeweler, Gardener, Detective, Camper, and Independence badges.
Explore how powerful individual women have been throughout history, how your own individual powers can be linked together to create a powerful team, and how your team power can become community power.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps others.2. Earn 3 leadership awards: Power of One, Power of Team, and Power of Community. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Bronze Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Juniors!
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Journey: GET MOVING!
Junior (Grades 4-5)STEM
Journey
In this Journey, you will:
Explore energy and how to use it wisely by interviewing power-use experts and conducting an energy audits of a building in your community.
1.
Plan a Take Action project to fix an energy problem in your community. Your could launch carpools, work to dim the lights on city buildings, or promote energy savings at your school.
2.
Earn 3 leadership awards: The Energize Award, the Investigate Award, and the Innovate Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
3.
Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Bronze Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Juniors!
Deepen your outdoor skills when you earn your Animal Habitat, Camper, and Eco Camper badges.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps make your favorite park, beach, or forest a better place for everyone.
2.
Earn a Take Action Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
3.
Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Bronze Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Juniors!
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Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
Junior (Grades 4-5)STEM
Journey
In this Journey, you will:
Find out how citizen scientists make observations, collect data, and work with scientists to receive feedback on research.
1.
Do 3 citizen science activities: sharpen your observation skills through 2 observation games and a SciStarter project.
2.
Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
3.
Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Bronze Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Juniors!
Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems.1. Do 3 computational thinking activities: create algorithms to make images with tangrams; create mad libs and craft suncatchers to learn more about algorithms, abstraction, functions, and variables; and create a personal innovation to discover rapid prototyping.
2.
Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
3.
Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Bronze Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Juniors!
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Journey: Think Like an Engineer
Junior (Grades 4-5)STEM
Journey
In this Journey, you will:
Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems1. Do 3 design thinking activities: design and build a paper structure that can support the weight of heavy books, an emergency shelter, and a prototype of a structure that can withstand an earthquake's shaking.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Bronze Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Juniors!
Explore roles you play in your life and try on new ones-play a role-playing game, invite actors to talk about the characters they've played, or learn to spot stereotypes on TV, in movies, or in ads.
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Plan a Take Action Project, such as putting on a performance that creatively urges an end to stereotyping, drawing a graphic novel to share with younger girls, or starting a "mix it up" day in the school cafeteria and having girls sit with new people.
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Earn 3 leadership awards: Reach Out!, Speak Out!, and Try Out! If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Bronze Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Juniors!
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Junior First Aid
Junior (Grades 4-5)Life Skills
Art
Find out how to help people when they're ill or injured and learn how to respond during an emergency.
Learn the first steps to take in an emergency1. Talk to first responders2. Make a portable first-aid kit3. Find out how to handle urgent first-aid issues4. Know how to take care of someone who's sick 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to help people who are sick or hurt.
Find out about Girl Scout traditions and share activities and spirit that are a century strong.
Match songs to an occasion1. Celebrate the Girl Scout birthday2. Share sisterhood3. Leave a place better than you found it4. Enjoy Girl Scout traditions! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to use the Girl Scout ways and traditions to make the world a better place.
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Mechanical Engineering: Balloon
Car
Junior (Grades 4-5)STEM
Learn about air power and create an alternative fuel car.
Learn about potential and kinetic energy1. Design and build a balloon car2. Test your balloon-powered car3. Analyze and share results4. Brainstorm ways to improve your design5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to engineer a balloon-powered car and understand potential energy, kinetic energy, and jet propulsion.
Learn about simple machines and how they work together as you build your own heavy-lifting crane.
Explore simple and compound machines1. Design and build a crane2. Test your crane3. Analyze and share your results4. Brainstorm ways to improve your design5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to build and test a crane and understand simple and compound machines.
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Mechanical Engineering: Paddle
Boat
Junior (Grades 4-5)STEM
Explore how paddle boats work and engineer your own paddle boat.
Explore how paddle boats work1. Design and build a rubber band-powered paddle boat2. Test your rubber band-powered paddle boat3. Analyze and share your results4. Brainstorm ways to improve your design5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to build and test a paddle boat and understand buoyancy, potential energy, and kinetic energy.
Find out what it takes to make an innovative product and come up with one of your own.
Observe what makes a great product1. Be an innovation detective2. Figure out what's working and what's not3. Innovate to find solutions4. Mess up so you can try again! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to think like a product designer.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Geocacher, Animal Habitats, Playing the Past, Product Designer, and Social Butterfly badges
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Robotics 1: Designing Robots
Junior (Grades 4-5)STEM
Plan and build a prototype of a robot that solves a global problem.
Discover the future of robots1. Determine your robot's expertise2. Plan your robot3. Create a prototype4. Get feedback on your robot5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to plan, build, and share feedback like an engineer by creating a prototype of a robot that solves a global problem.
Engineer a simple machine that helps a robot land, learn about the robot brain, and create programs for your friends.
Learn how robots work1. Discover the robot brain2. Learn about programming3. Try simple programming4. Code a robot5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how robots receive instructions in a way similar to the human brain. You will be able to create simple programs that could be run by a robot.
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Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots
Junior (Grades 4-5)STEM
Now that you have your robot prototype, create a presentation and share your design with others. Then, find out about robot teams and competitions.
Create a presentation to share how you designed your robot1. Tell others how you designed your robot2. Learn about robotics competitions3. Learn about robotics teams4. See robots in action5.
Note: Unlike the other robotics badges, these steps include options. You may be able to complete multiple steps, particularly steps three through five, at once. When you've earned this badge, you will have shared your prototype and design process with others. You will see a robot in action and learn about robotics teams and competitions.
Explore the difference between needs and wants, and learn how to save for both.
Explore your needs and wants1. Look into why you want what you want2. Find out what makes people happy (or not!) with what they buy3. Learn how to decide what to buy4. Make a plan to buy something you need or want 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know the difference between what you need and what you want-and you'll be able to wisely save money for both.
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Scribe
Junior (Grades 4-5)Art
Explore what you can do with words and find out how you can encourage, entertain, and excite people with your writing.
Start with a poem1. Create a short story2. Use words to share who you are3. Write an article4. Tell the world what you think 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to write different kinds of stories-both true tales and ideas from your imagination.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Digital Photographer, Staying Fit, Musician, Entertainment Technology, and Scribe badges.
Venture through the Solar System and beyond, and see that space is even bigger than you may have imagined.
Model the Solar System1. Circle the Sun2. Discover the stars3. Use the tools to explore4. Share your sky5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll understand that the Earth orbits the Sun, and how far away the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are from our home planet, Earth.
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Staying Fit
Junior (Grades 4-5)Health
Figure out what fitness, food, and fun you need to stay strong for life.
Start moving!1. Keep your fit body fueled2. Know how to stress less3. Get the truth about health4. Help your family stay fit 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know what you need to get strong and stay that way.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Digital Photographer, Staying Fit, Musician, Entertainment Technology, and Scribe badges.
Explore the connection between humans and animals1. Find out how animals help keep people safe2. Know how animals help people emotionally3. Check out how animals help people with disabilities4. Look at how animals might help us in the future 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how animals help humans and how to help them keep it up.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Night Owl, Animal Helpers, Field Day, Entrepreneur, and Netiquette badges.
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Archery
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Outdoors
Find out about archery, an exciting sport that takes strength, focus, good form, and practice.
Get to know archery equipment1. Learn about archery safety2. Practice archery before you go on a range3. Shoot on an archery range4. Create an archery challenge5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to take aim outdoors with your archery skills.
Find out how to make a budget, which is a plan for spending and saving money.
Practice budgeting for what you value1. Learn to track your spending2. Find out about ways to save money3. Explore different ways to give4. Create a budget that focuses on your values 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll be able to keep track of your money, save for things you need and want, and help others by giving.
Write your mission statement and business goals1. Increase your customer base2. Get into the details3. Make a risk management plan4. Gather expert feedback on your plan 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to write an effective business plan for your cookie business.
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Cadette First Aid
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Life Skills
Health
Find out how to deal with minor injuries and illnesses and how to tell when the problem is more serious.
Understand how to care for younger children1. Know how to use everything in a first-aid kit2. Find out how to prevent serious outdoor injuries3. Know the signs of shock and know how to treat it4. Learn to prevent and treat injuries due to weather 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to take care of people in an emergency, including younger children in your care.
Learn about Girl Scout traditions and share activities and spirit that are a century strong.
Lead a group in song1. Celebrate Girl Scout Week2. Share sisterhood through the Girl Scout Law3. Leave a camp better than you found it4. Enjoy Girl Scout traditions! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to use Girl Scout ways and traditions to make the world a better place.
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Comic Artist
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Art
Find out more about the world of comic art and then tell your own visual story.
Delve into the world of comics1. Choose a story to tell2. Draw it out3. Frame it in four panels4. Add the words 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to create your own comic.
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Comparison Shopping
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Financial Literacy
Learn how to use the internet to find great products and save money.
Learn to comparison shop1. Find out how to use online reviews2. Check out the fine print3. Investigate how to avoid online fraud4. Know how to manage your online shopping 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to go online to find the best deals on the best products in the safest way possible.
Learn digital video basics1. Film. Then film some more...2. Pick the perfect subject3. Action!4. Edit and premiere your movie 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to create a digital movie.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Digital Movie Maker, Eating for You, Public Speaker, Science of Happiness, and Screenwriter badges.
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Eating for You
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Health
Find out how eating well can help you both inside and out.
Know how good nutrition helps your body stay healthy1. Find out how what you eat affects your skin2. Explore how your diet affects your stress level3. Investigate how the food you eat affects your sleep4. Look at how your diet affects your energy 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to eat your way to a healthy mood, mind, and body.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Digital Movie Maker, Eating for You, Public Speaker, Science of Happiness, and Screenwriter badges.
Plan and take an outdoor trek-with minimal environmental impact.
Learn how to make minimal impact on a trek1. Plan an eco trek with a purpose2. Practice an eco skill while on your trek3. Make a difference on your eco trek4. Make a difference after your eco trek5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have learned the skills for minimizing your impact on the environment while planning and taking an outdoor trek.
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Entrepreneur
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Entrepreneurship
Find out what it takes to turn a great idea into a successful business.
Brainstorm business ideas1. Improve one idea2. Get into the financial side of things3. Imagine creating a business4. Practice sharing your business ideas 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to think like an entrepreneur.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Night Owl, Animal Helpers, Field Day, Entrepreneur, and Netiquette badges.
From friends playing in the park to countries competing against one another at the Olympics, games unite us all. And Girl Scouts have been inventing their own games since 1912! In this badge, you'll experience this firsthand, by organizing teams and events for an exciting, do-it-yourself field day.
Team up and dress up1. Host a historical game2. Play a scientific game3. Find fun in fiction4. Stage your grand finale!5.
When I've earned this badge, I'll know how to organize a field day filled with friends and fun.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Night Owl, Animal Helpers, Field Day, Entrepreneur, and Netiquette badges.
Find out how people in democratic governments make trade-offs, giving up some things they favor to gain support for others.
Get to know someone different from you1. Make decisions in a group2. Explore civil debate3. Understand a compromise4. Find common ground through mediation 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know strategies for bringing people together to find common ground.
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Good Sportsmanship
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Relationships
Citizenship
Find out how to make good sportsmanship a habit in games and in life.
Create your own definition of sportsmanship1. Be a good competitor2. Be a good teammate3. Psych yourself up4. Put your definition of good sportsmanship into action 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how you define sportsmanship and will have put your definition into action.
Find out about the air we breathe by visiting a wind farm, talking to an an environmental scientist, or doing experiments using wind.
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Plan a Take Action project to fix an air problem in your community. You could plant an indoor garden, campaign against smoking, or push for clean-air initiatives in your community.
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Earn 3 leadership awards: Aware, Alert, and Affirm. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Silver Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Cadettes!
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Journey: MEdia
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Life SkillsJourney
In this Journey, you will:
Explore media and find out how to reshape negative media messages into more positive ones-invite a TV show producer to talk about what influences her work, organize a movie night and discuss the film's messages, or write a rap song or TV script.
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Plan a Take Action Project that encourages positive messages in media-rewrite a song that has hurtful lyrics about women, create a blog that reviews how movies and TV shows depict girls, or start a Twitter campaign responding to stereotypes you see in the media.
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Earn 3 awards: Monitor Award, Influence Award, and Cultivate Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Silver Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Cadettes!
Deepen your outdoor skills when you earn your Night Owl, Trailblazing, and Primitive Camper badges.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps make your favorite park, beach, or forest a better place for everyone.
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Earn a Take Action Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Silver Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Cadettes!
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Journey: Think Like a Programmer
Cadette (Grades 6-8)STEM
Journey
In this Journey, you will:
Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems1. Do 3 computational thinking activities: categorize various objects as "Computer" or "Not a Computer" to explore the four tasks that define a computer, create a card-sorting algorithm to learn about processing, and design technology that willl best meet a user's needs using user-centered design.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Silver Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Cadettes!
1. Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems. 2. Do 3 design thinking activities: design and build prototypes of a life vest for a dog, a model camp cabin inspired by nature, and a prosthetic leg for an elephant. 3. Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Journey: aMAZE!
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Life SkillsJourney
In this Journey, you will:
Find out how to develop true friendships, navigate cliques, and move beyond stereotypes, with the ultimate goal of peace in your interpersonal relationships.
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Plan a Take Action Project that shares your new friendship-building skills.2. Earn 3 leadership awards: Interact, Diplomat, and Peacemaker. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Silver Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Cadettes!
Find out how to sort through promotions, deals, and ads to find the best bargain for you. Then use what you learned to create a strong advertisement and marketing message for your cookie sale.
Find out more about brand identity1. Check out the competition2. Research other products that have a philanthropic angle3. Develop your marketing message4. Create your marketing campaign 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to create a marketing plan for your cookie business.
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Netiquette
Cadette (Grades 6-8)STEM
Citizenship
Our digital world makes it easy to stay in touch and share friendships, memories, and ideas. But we've all heard embarrassing stories in which people wish they'd never hit the "send" button. Once you've put it out there, it never goes away. But you can use that to your benefit, too. This badge is all about knowing how to make positive choices in the online world.
Explore "oops!" and "wow!" moments1. Dig into stories of "ouch" -- and repair some hurt if necessary2. Look at e-mail, commenting, or blogging3. Decide what makes a great social media profile4. Spread better practices5.
When I've earned this badge, I'll know how to make -- and keep -- my online world a positive place.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Night Owl, Animal Helpers, Field Day, Entrepreneur, and Netiquette badges.
Cook up four dishes from across time and distance, and find out where your taste buds want to travel.
Make a dish from another country1. Create a dish from another region of the United States2. Whip up a dish from another time period3. Cook a dish that makes a statement4. Share your dishes on a culinary "tour"! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll be able to make amazing dishes from all over the world and way back in time.
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Night Owl
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Outdoors
Grow your imagination and expand what you know about the night.
Take a field trip to explore the night1. Tour your world after dark2. Meet people who work night hours3. Explore nature at night4. Host an Extreme Nighttime Party 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have uncovered the mysteries of the world after dark.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Night Owl, Animal Helpers, Field Day, Entrepreneur, and Netiquette badges.
Work on your stage presence and develop your onstage skills.
Get a feel for performing solo1. Focus on body language2. Find your voice3. Choose or create a piece to perform4. Get onstage! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have found your inner performer and be unafraid to speak up.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Digital Movie Maker, Eating for You, Public Speaker, Science of Happiness, and Screenwriter badges.
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Robotics 1: Designing Robots
Cadette (Grades 6-8)STEM
Build a prototype of a new kind of robot that could help someone to overcome a daily obstacle. Decide on a challenge, brainstorm solutions, plan, build a prototype, and test it to see how well it meets the challenge.
Pick a challenge1. Explore possible solutions2. Plan your prototype3. Build a prototype4. Get feedback on your robot5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to design a robot and build a prototype.
To help you understand how robots work, learn about the parts that make up a robot. Get started with electronics by making a simple sensor, something robots use to function without human operators. Then practice coding robots using important programming concepts like functions and loops.
Learn about robots1. Build a robot part: simple sensors2. Make a box model robot with sensors3. Learn about programming4. Write a program for a robot5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll understand how robots work and how to control them.
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Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots
Cadette (Grades 6-8)STEM
After engineers build a working version of their robots, they release them to the public. They may enter them into challenges and competitions or market them through a website or crowd-funding campaign. Now that you've built your robot, share your design with others and explore a future in robotics.
Learn about robotics events and organizations1. Create a presentation about your robot2. Present your robot pitch to others for feedback3. Find out about robotics opportunities for teens4. See robot makers and robots in action5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to share your robot designs with the world.
Find out how scientists measure happiness and put their results into action.
Make yourself happier1. Think differently for happiness2. Get happy through others3. Do a helpful happiness experiment4. Create a happiness action plan 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to use the science of happiness to make your world the happiest place it can be.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Digital Movie Maker, Eating for You, Public Speaker, Science of Happiness, and Screenwriter badges
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Screenwriter
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Art
Try your hand at writing for the big (or small) screen.
Decide what makes a good script good1. Come up with an idea for a story2. Get to know your characters3. Build the plot4. Write a 12-page script-and share it! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to create a screenplay for a show or movie.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Digital Movie Maker, Eating for You, Public Speaker, Science of Happiness, and Screenwriter badges.
Come up with a big goal and then take your cookie business to a whole new level so you can achieve it.
Come up with a big idea1. Take your sales to the next level2. Sell your big dream to others3. Ask experts to help you take your plan up a notch4. Share your experience in a big way 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to set bigger goals for your cookie sale and come up with creative ways to reach them.
Gain new outdoor skills when you stay at least one night at a backwoods or primitive site.
Start planning your adventure1. Get your body and your teamwork skills ready2. Create your menu3. Gain some trailblazing know-how4. Head out on the trail 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to take a safe and fun overnight backpacking trip.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Book Artist, Woodworker, Special Agent, Trailblazing, and Babysitter badges.
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Trees
Cadette (Grades 6-8)Outdoors
Find out all about trees: from the shade to the science, the fruit to the forest, and the legends to the lumber.
Try some tree fun1. Dig into the amazing science of trees2. Make a creative project starring trees3. Explore the connection between people and trees4. Help trees thrive 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have gone to the root of what trees are all about-and branched out as a naturalist.
Find out how to use wood to make stylish, useful things for yourself and others.
Swing a hammer1. Keep it level2. Use a screwdriver3. Saw some wood4. Build something yourself 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to use some basic tools to make simple woodworking projects.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Book Artist, Woodworker, Special Agent, Trailblazing, and Babysitter badges.
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Adventure Camper
Senior (Grades 9-10)Outdoors
Find out how to add overnight camping to an outdoor adventure, such as kayaking, mountain biking, or rock climbing.
Plan your adventure camping trip1. Gather your camping gear2. Plan and prepare your trip meals3. Use a camping skill on your trip4. Go adventure camping5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have planned and gone on a camping trip that includes adventure activities with a group of Girl Scouts or family members.
Watch the skies1. Investigate the science of the skies2. Explore the connection between people and flight3. Help clear sky pollution4. Create sky art 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll understand the sky-from science to stars to stories.
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Behind the Ballot
Senior (Grades 9-10)Citizenship
Learn about the importance of voting and find out about the electoral process in the United States and around the world.
Find out more about elections1. Investigate the ins and outs of voting2. Get out the vote3. Plan a campaign4. Explore voting in other countries 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know the importance of voting and how people get elected to office.
Find out about the long-term impact of making a big purchase and understand how you need to be prepared to keep paying for your purchases long after you've started to use the items.
Compare costs and options1. Conduct consumer research2. Calculate the long-term costs3. Investigate ways to find better deals4. Create a savings plan for a big purchase you'd like to make 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to research and budget for a big purchase for yourself or your family.
Master maintenance tips that keep a car in top form and driving skills that will help you rule the road safely.
Get a handle on basic car maintenance1. Investigate vehicle safety2. Research safe driving practices3. Find out what to do in case of an emergency4. Drive for a greener world 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know tips for driving safely and how to take care of a car.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Textile Artist, Room Makeover, Truth Seeker, Adventurer, and Car Care badges.
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Collage Artist
Senior (Grades 9-10)Art
Find out about the world of textile arts. Then pick up your needles (or loom or spinning wheel) and make two projects.
Choose your textile art1. Find your tools and materials2. Learn the basics3. Make something for everyday use4. Create a gift or item for a special occasion 5. When you've earned this badge, you'll have learned the basics of a textile art-and you'll have two fantastic projects to show for it.
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This badge comes in a packet that includes the Textile Artist, Room Makeover, Truth Seeker, Adventurer, and Car Care badges.
Get the skills you need to customize a cross-training fitness program that's effective and fun.
Set your cross-training goal1. Start a stretching and flexibility program2. Add a cardio element3. Add a toning or strengthening element4. Stay motivated to reach your goal 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have developed a great cross-training routine that keeps your workouts interesting and fun.
Find out how to engage your cookie customers so they'll keep coming back for more. 1
Show how cookie money helps girls1. Connect with former cookie sellers2. Build your customer list3. Create a customer-appreciation program4. Keep your customer connection 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to build your cookie business by increasing customer loyalty.
Become an eco explorer as you get hands-on experience with environmental issues and help make positive changes to the environment.
Meet an eco explorer1. Explore biodiversity2. Investigate a global ecosystem issue3. Plan a trip to explore and work on an issue4. Share what you learned5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have researched different environmental issues and taken at least one trip to see how an area is impacted.
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Financing My Future
Senior (Grades 9-10)Financial Literacy
Declare your dreams for your educational future and then figure out how to finance them so you can start planning thoughtfully for your future.
Declare your dreams1. Decide what you need and want2. Go comparison shopping3. Explore your financial aid options4. Build a blueprint for your future 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have a plan for your educational future-including ideas on how to pay for it.
Use your creativity and imagination to invent unforgettable games.
Break the ice1. Imagine all the world's a board2. Create a physical challenge3. Get puzzled4. Make an ultra scavenger hunt 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll be able to design and organize games that will bring people together for creative and thoughtful fun.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Traveler, Voice for Animals, Game Visionary, Social Innovator, and Business Etiquette badges.
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Journey: GIRLtopia
Senior (Grades 9-10)Life SkillsJourney
In this Journey, you will:
Develop your vision for an ideal world and acquire the skills to make it a reality-paint a mural, write a poem or story, film a video, or perform a show about ways society can improve.
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Plan a Take Action project that addresses an issue in your community.2. Earn the Senior Visionary Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
Discover the powerful benefits of sisterhood and ways to nurture healthy friendships-invite a women's shelter counselor to talk about her work, role-play friendship scenarios to explore trust in relationships, or create a collage about what sisterhood means to you.
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Plan a Take Action Project that focusus on a sisterhood issue you care about-organize a school film club that focuses on positive movies about women, help younger girls expand their friendship circles, or host a girls' mixer.
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Earn the Sisterhood Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
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Journey: Outdoor (Senior)
Senior (Grades 9-10)Journey
Outdoors
In this Journey, you will:
Deepen your outdoor skills when you earn your Adventurer, Senior First Aid, and Adventure Camper badges.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps make your favorite park, beach, or forest a better place for everyone.
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Earn a Take Action Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
Learn about food: how and where it's grown, harvested, processed, distributed, and consumed, and why it matters.
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Plan a Take Action Project to share your knowledge with others-host a farmers market, inspire others to eat locally, or plan a community vegetable garden.
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Earn the Harvest Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
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Journey: Think Like a Programmer
Senior (Grades 9-10)STEM
Journey
In this Journey, you will:
Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems.1. Do 3 computational thinking activities: create rules for how to stack cards to share messages and learn about encoding information, develop an algorithm for building a simple block arrangement, and test whether an app will meet a user's needs to explore user-centered design.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems.1. Do 3 design thinking activities: design and build prototypes of a can holder that isn't harmful to animals, a kinetic sculpture, and an assistive device for the elderly.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
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Locavore
Senior (Grades 9-10)Health
Citizenship
Find out how the efforts of locavores-people who are committed to eating locally grown, seasonal foods-can be an important and delicious part of healthful eating.
Explore the benefits and challenges of going local1. Find your local food sources2. Cook a simple dish showcasing local ingredients3. Make a recipe with local ingredients4. Try a local cooking challenge 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to prepare a meal of seasonal and locally grown dishes.
Find out how you can use your cookie sales experience to stand out in the future.
Create a cookie resume1. Put together a cookie portfolio2. Get feedback about how to market yourself for a job or college interview3. Write an essay about what you learned from the cookie sale4. Learn how to ace an interview5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll be able to show college admissions officers and employers what you've learned from your cookie sales experience.
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Novelist
Senior (Grades 9-10)Art
Experience the fun of a novelist's career and learn the steps involved in writing a novel. Then, write your own work of fiction.
Deconstruct a novel1. Create great characters2. Develop a plot3. Write at least 20 pages4. Edit your pages 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know what it takes to write a great novel and you'll have written at least 20 pages of your own.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Website Designer, Women's Health, Troupe Performer, Science of Style, and Novelist badges.
Learn to see nature with an artist's eye and create something helpful to the environment.
Explore art outdoors1. Make something!2. Create or share music inspired by nature3. Capture nature digitally4. Design outdoors5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have learned how to create art outdoors with a focus on the environment.
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Paddling
Senior (Grades 9-10)Outdoors
Choose one of three paddling activities-canoeing, kayaking, or standup paddleboarding (SUP)-and learn the knowledge and skills you need to have an unforgettable experience.
Explore the three paddling sports1. Learn paddling safety2. Practice paddling techniques3. Go on a short paddling adventure4. Take your paddling skills to the next level5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have paddling skills and know how to be safe-and have fun-on the water.
Build a prototype of a new kind of robot that helps or replaces people who work in difficult or dangerous situations. Decide on a challenge, brainstorm solutions, plan, build a prototype, and test it to see how well it meets the challenge.
Pick a challenge1. Explore possible solutions2. Plan your prototype3. Build a prototype4. Get feedback on your robot5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to design a robot and build a prototype.
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Robotics 2: Programming Robots
Senior (Grades 9-10)STEM
To understand more about how robots work, explore the parts and systems that make up a robot, and then learn about different ways to control a robot, including computer programming.
Learn about robots1. Build a robot part: robot arm2. Learn how robot systems work together3. Learn about programming4. Write a program for a robot5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll understand how robots work and how to control them.
After engineers build their robots, they show them to others and enter them into challenges and competitions. Now that you've built your robot prototype, it's time to share your design with others.
Create a presentation about your robot1. Present your robot pitch to others for feedback2. Hold a mini robotic scompetition3. Explore robotics opportunities in high school, college, and beyond4. See robot makers and robots in action5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to share your robot designs with the world.
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Room Makeover
Senior (Grades 9-10)Art
Find out how to use design concepts and fix-it tactics to turn a simple space into a creative statement.
Gather ideas and inspiration1. Paint something2. Sew or glue something3. Redo something4. Build something 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to do a fast, fun, and thrifty room makeover.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Textile Artist, Room Makeover, Truth Seeker, Adventurer, and Car Care badges.
Use the science of style to create and imagine your own products.
Test skin care and makeup1. Examine the science behind fabrics and accessories2. Explore the science behind hair products and perfume3. Investigate the sociology of style4. Formulate future style 5.
When you've earned this badge, youI'll know the science behind makeup, perfume, fashion fabrics, and skin care products.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Website Designer, Women's Health, Troupe Performer, Science of Style, and Novelist badges.
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Senior First Aid
Senior (Grades 9-10)Life Skills
Health
Find out how to differentiate between minor and major injuries, provide emergency treatment in some life-threatening situations, and share important information about injuries or illness.
Find out how to perform triage1. Know how to help someone with a head or neck injury2. Learn how to use everyday objects to make splints3. Recognize the signs of drug overdose and alcohol poisoning4. Share your knowledge with others 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to give first aid for life-threatening injuries and illnesses.
Share the Girl Scout way and bring together generations of Girl Scouts.
Explore Girl Scout music1. Help younger Girl Scouts celebrate a special day2. Spread sisterhood through the Girl Scout Law3. Leave your environment better than you found it4. Enjoy Girl Scout traditions! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to use the Girl Scout ways and traditions to make the world a better place.
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Sky
Senior (Grades 9-10)Outdoors
STEM
The sky is a masterpiece. Every day it graces us with living art, whether through a glorious sunset, shifting cloud formations, or the stunning display of night stars. No wonder we take every opportunity to spend time outdoors. Our world is a stage, and the sky performs with beauty, wonder, and mystery.
Watch the skies1. Investigate the science of the skies2. Explore the connection between people and flight3. Help clear sky pollution4. Create sky art5.
When I've earned this badge, I'll understand the sky -- from science to stars to stories.
Find out how you can go from identifying a social problem to developing a social solution. Then, use what you learned to create Take Action projects that truly do change the world.
Explore the big picture1. Make connections2. Build empathy for people affected by the issue you've identified3. Develop a solution from a specific point of view4. Practice pitching ideas and getting feedback 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to think like a social innovator.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Traveler, Voice for Animals, Game Visionary, Social Innovator, and Business Etiquette badges.
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Textile Artist
Senior (Grades 9-10)Art
When you see all the colors and textures of fabrics and yarns, do you dream up a million things to do with them? Get ready to turn those visions into reality as you meet with artists, learn about the world of textile arts, and make two projects in the craft that most inspires you to pick up your needles (or loom or spinning wheel).
Choose your textile art1. Find your tools and materials2. Learn the basics3. Make something for everyday use4. Create a gift or item for a special occasion5.
When I've earned this badge, I'll have learned the basics of a textile art -- and I'll have two fantastic projects to show for it.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Textile Artist, Room Makeover, Truth Seeker, Adventurer, and Car Care badges.
Get the travel savvy you need to make the most of your adventures, now and throughout your life.
Research destinations1. Look into fun itineraries2. Find out how to create a budget, including ways to travel inexpensively3. Gain travel expertise before you go4. Take your trip-and make a memory 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to plan a great trip of at least one night-whether it's around the corner or across the globe.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Traveler, Voice for Animals, Game Visionary, Social Innovator, and Business Etiquette badges.
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Troupe Performer
Senior (Grades 9-10)Art
Find out what goes into putting on a show.
Pick your performance style1. Find and develop material2. Rehearse!3. Launch your performance4. Put on your show 5.
When you've earned this badge, youI'll know how to organize a team of people and put together a performance.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Website Designer, Women's Health, Troupe Performer, Science of Style, and Novelist badges.
Gain the skills you need to separate fact from fiction and judge sources on credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and support for their claims.
Evaluate your sources1. Investigate what the experts say2. Be a wise consumer3. Find truth in your everyday life4. Become a citizen journalist 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll be able to figure out what is true in the media, online, and what you hear in your daily life.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Textile Artist, Room Makeover, Truth Seeker, Adventurer, and Car Care badges.
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Voice for Animals
Senior (Grades 9-10)Outdoors
Citizenship
Find out about the complex relationship between animals and humans so you can make informed choices and help others make them too.
Find out about domestic animals1. Investigate animals used for science2. Explore animals in husbandry3. Take a look at animals used for sports and entertainment4. Look into an animal issue 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll better understand animal issues worldwide and know what you can do to help.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Traveler, Voice for Animals, Game Visionary, Social Innovator, and Business Etiquette badges.
Build yourself a safe space online where you can show your readers what moves you.
Find a worthwhile subject for your website or blog1. Be the host with the most2. Build a blueprint3. Create must-see content4. Go live-then drive! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to design, build, and promote your own website.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Website Designer, Women's Health, Troupe Performer, Science of Style, and Novelist badges.
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Womenâs Health
Senior (Grades 9-10)Health
Find out how to make the health decisions that are right for you and what kinds of support exist to guide you.
Investigate the tests that help women stay healthy1. Find out how fads and beauty practices impact health2. Focus on techniques to help you stay emotionally healthy3. Take a closer look at a women's health issue4. Get the word out on a women's health topic 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how women can lead healthy lives.
This badge comes in a packet that includes the Website Designer, Women's Health, Troupe Performer, Science of Style, and Novelist badges.
Know how to handle injuries and other urgent medical situations that can happen outdoors.
Learn how to deal with medical emergencies in the wilderness1. Research careers that save lives in extreme conditions2.
Find out how to care for a critically injured person3. Know how to move an injured person4. Explore real-life examples for handling wilderness emergencies5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know more about how to provide first aid in extreme conditions.
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Ambassador Girl Scout Way
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
Citizenship
Find out how you can share the Girl Scout legacy.
Use song to bring people together or to spread a message1. Celebrate World Thinking Day2. Share sisterhood around the world3. Leave your world better than you found it4. Enjoy Girl Scout traditions! 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to use the Girl Scout ways and traditions to make the world a better place.
Understand the important role coaches have in athletics and share your love of a sport.
Begin to outline your coaching strategy1. Conduct a first assessment2. Design your coaching plan3. Put your plan into action-and revise it, if necessary4. Attend the big event, and make a final assessment 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know what it takes for a coach to be successful.
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College Knowledge
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
Life Skills
From test prep to financial aid, explore the ins and outs of the college admissions process.
Explore your options1. Start the admissions process2. Make a financial plan3. Get set for success4. Build healthy habits5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll understand the steps in the college admissions process and be prepared to attend the school of your choice.
Try on the role of chef as you throw a great dinner party.
Create your menu1. Make a budget and shopping list2. Practice timing your courses3. Explore imaginative ways to present food4. Host your party 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to make and serve a fabulous three-course meal.
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Eco Advocate
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
Outdoors
Discover a nature issue that's important to you, find solutions, and make a difference.
Learn what eco advocates do1. Find an issue you're passionate about2. Come up with a solution3. Advocate for your issue4. Teach others how to advocate for your cause5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have learned how to advocate for environmental issues concerning nature.
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Good Credit
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
EntrepreneurshipFinancial Literacy
Know what it takes to keep good credit and borrow money wisely, including how to pay back what you owe in time.
Get the scoop on credit scores1. Find out how bank loans work2. Learn the ins and outs of credit cards3. Gather real-life borrowing stories4. Write your own credit commitment5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know more about ways to responsibly borrow money and understand the importance of establishing good credit.
Find out how to fulfill your dreams and help others realize their dreams as well-invite an athlete to talk about how she pursued a goal, write songs and create artwork about following dreams, or find and share stories about women who successfully pursued their goals.
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Plan a Take Action Project that helps someone else follow her dream.2. Earn the Dream Maker Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
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Journey: Justice
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
STEMJourney
In this Journey, you will:
Identify global environmental issues and create your own vision for change.1. Plan a Take Action project to address food and land-use issues, improve food delivery systems, fight hunger in developing nations, or rediscover healthy eating traditions.
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Earn the Sage Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
Deepen your outdoor skills when you earn your Outdoor Art Master, Water, and Survival Camper badges.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps people.2. Earn a Take Action Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
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Journey: Think Like a Programmer
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
STEMJourney
In this Journey, you will:
Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems.1. Do 3 computational thinking activities: build a message-sending machine out of everyday objects to learn about binary, develop an algorithm to find the smallest playing card in a row of cards, and design an app that solves a problem for others to explore user-centered design.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems.1. Do 3 design thinking activities: design and build prototypes of an animal enrichment product, a zip line course, and mobility equipment.
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Plan a Take Action project that helps others. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions.
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
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Journey: Your Voice, Your World
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
Life SkillsJourney
In this Journey, you will:
Find out how to advocate for change by networking, planning, and speaking up for what you believe-invite a woman advocate to speak about her work or visit your state capital to find out how to advocate for causes you believe in.
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Plan a Take Action project about an issue you care about.2. Earn the Advocacy Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions
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Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award - and help your community - with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide. Then use your leadership skills to earn your Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors!
Know how to create and stick to a budget so you can avoid financial pitfalls and be independent.
Plan for where you'll live1. Plan for your daily needs2. Plan for having fun3. Plan for the unexpected4. Plan for sharing with others 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll understand the importance of creating a budget-a skill that will help you wherever life leads.
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Outdoor Art Master
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
OutdoorsArt
Bring art and the outdoors together and get inspired by the beauty in nature.
Explore outdoor art1. Make something!2. Find music in nature3. Be a nature photographer4. Design with nature When you've earned this badge, you'll have explored nature and created several different kinds of outdoor-themed art.
Find out how to apply the values of honesty and responsibility to your cookie business.
Find out more about business ethics1. Create your own cookie promise2. Pass on your customer list3. Teach younger Girl Scouts about the business ethics of the cookie sale4. Leave a legacy 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to apply your Girl Scout values to your cookie business.
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Photographer
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
STEMArt
Hone your artistic skills and find out how to use different types of cameras to present the world through your eyes.
Explore the power of photography1. Focus on composition--shoot five landscapes2. Focus on light--shoot five portraits or still lifes3. Focus on motion--shoot five action shots4. Tell a story with photography 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to capture your vision of the world in photographs.
Gain the knowledge you need to speak up about and act on issues that are crucial in your world.
Find out how activists advocate for change1. Engage as a global citizen2. Dig into national or state public policy3. Explore local or community policy4. See public policy creation in action 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know about public policies and how you can advocate for issues and legislation that matter to you.
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Research & Development
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
Entrepreneurship
Find out more about one way that businesses plan for the future-research and development, or R&D- and then apply what you learned to your cookie business.
Analyze sales trends1. Research how other companies innovate2. Find out how companies use R&D to improve their products3. Explore possible projects during your cookie sale4. Develop a fun, new way to use Girl Scout Cookies 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to research and develop new ways to build your cookie business.
Explore the Design Thinking Process as you build a model of a social robot that can make life better for others. Decide on a challenge, brainstorm solutions, plan, build a prototype, and test it to see how well it meets the needs it is designed to address.
Pick a challenge1. Explore possible solutions2. Plan your prototype3. Build a prototype4. Get feedback on your robot5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to design a robot and build a prototype.
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Robotics 2: Programming Robots
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
STEM
To help you understand how robots work, learn about the parts that make up a robot. Get started by making a simple motorized robot to see how robot parts work together. Then practice coding robots, using important programming concepts, like functions and loops.
Learn about robots1. Build a robot model: motorized robot2. Explore the way robotics systems work together3. Learn about programming4. Write a program for a robot5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll understand how robots work and how to control them.
After engineers build their robots, they share their work with others through challenges, competitions, or marketing campaigns. Now that you've built your robot, share your design with others and explore your future with robotics.
Learn about robotics events1. Hold a mini robotics event2. Give a presentation about your robotics activities3. Find out about robotics career opportunities4. See robot makers and robots in action5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll know how to share your robot designs with the world.
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Survival Camper
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
Outdoors
Test your skills with limited supplies and have an unforgettable experience with your camping crew.
Plan a survival camping trip1. Gather your gear2. Plan and prepare your trip meals3. Learn a survival camp skill4. Go camping5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have planned and gone on a survival camping trip with a group of Girl Scouts or family members.
Go on five adventures where you can step up your outdoor skills and do things you've never done before. You decide what you'll do, where you'll go, and what your goals will be.
Experience an ultimate adventure on a trail1. Take the ultimate camping trip2. Dive into an ultimate water adventure3. Go on the ultimate offbeat adventure4. Do an ultimate recreation challenge unique to your area5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have planned and taken five outdoor adventures that challenged and transformed you.
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Water
Ambassador (Grades 11-12)
OutdoorsSTEM
Find out more about water and reflect on the role water plays in your life and our world.
Have fun reflecting on your relationship with water1. Celebrate water art-and create your own2. Find out about water issues3. Explore water solutions4. Educate and inspire 5.
When you've earned this badge, you'll have dived deep into water-from its scientific origins to the joy of splashing around.