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Girl Scouts
The Daisies made Christmas ornaments and gingerbread houses and celebrated their mid-year awards with a holiday party! The 1st grade Brownies colored reusable water bottles and donated them to University of Maryland Children’s Center/Child Life Program for patients to have. We colored ornaments and decorated a tree that was donated by Debbie Liberto (3rd grade teacher). The tree and ornaments as well as cards that were made were given to the residents at Stella Maris. The 2nd grade Brownies earned their Snacks badge and had a holiday cooking party at Young Chefs Academy. The 4th grade Juniors did some Christmas crafts and had a Christmas Movie night. The 5th grade Junior troop began to think about projects for their Bronze Award. They also purchased and donated gifts to the Toys for Tots outreach.
The Cadettes (grades 6-8) are beginning to pick projects for their Silver Award and preparing to lead a Daisy troop through one of their Journeys. They also visited the VA in Perryville and decorated the outside courtyard of building 14H. Once again because of Covid they were not allowed to go inside to decorate so they dropped the trees and ornaments, and the staff was going to help the Vets with the decorating of their trees. This was the 14th year that St Stephen Girl Scouts have done this service project.
The Ambassador troop is beginning to choose projects for their Gold Awards. The Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards are the highest award that a Girl Scout can earn at her level. The Bronze and Silver are steppingstones leading to the Gold Award the highest a girl can earn. This is done at the Senior/ Ambassador level (grades 9-12). These are leadership projects that the girl identifies in her community and then plans and executes the project, teaching others about the root issue she addresses.
Pack 877 News: The Scouts in Pack 877 were busy over the month of December! We started the month off by participating in the White Marsh Holiday Parade on the Avenue- if you attended the Parade, we were the Scouts with the Pinewood Derby float. Scouts even had a chance to take photos with Santa. The same weekend, our Webelos I and II Scouts were invited on an Adventure Day with Scouts BSA Troop 877 to Camp Rodney. They were able to meet several Scouts from the Troop, see some of the differences between the Pack and Troop and join in on some Pack Activities. We also had Pack Meeting which featured the Bear Carnival. Our Bear den (3rd grade) completed the Grin and Bear It Adventure where they have to plan, design, build and run a carnival type of game. Santa also made a special appearance at the Pack Meeting! Our next activities include a 1st Day Hike and our Pinewood Derby