Drop-in Session

We had a small but fun group of girls show up last Sunday to talk about their Gold Award Projects.  

As you know, I hope, the Gold Award Support Team offers these sessions quarterly to girls who are ready to begin their Gold Award Project process.  That means, each of the girls had completed a Senior/Ambassador Journey, and a Silver Award Project OR two Cadette Journeys. She is now ready to begin work on her Gold.   The drop-in sessions are there for the girls to chat with someone, not a relative, leader or advisor, about their plans.

Pretty much, each girl had an idea, and some even had the starts of their applications, when they came in to talk with us.  I chatted with three girls from one troop. Two had a pretty good start on their ideas for the Gold, they just needed to finish sleuthing out some details before writing up their proposals and submitting them.  One girl was still in the throes of deciding what to do!  She started off talking about a project to benefit Girl Scouts.  I had to nix that right away.  

The Gold Award Project must benefit the community, not the GS community.  So we talked a bit about what she liked:  what was her passion?  Turns out, she's a violinist.  So how could she use that passion to help others?  Or how could she use those students to become her team for her Gold Take Action Project?  I think that there were more questions that answers, but she was open to looking at it from different directions.

I hope she's successful, and works with her advisor to identify the issue and root cause that she wants to address.  I look forward to seeing her proposal, along with the other two girls'.  All 3 are on the road to Gold success, and I wish them all the best.