State College Girl Scouts

06/21/202206/12/2022

Black Moshannon Moss-Hanne Trail

Looking for a new local trail to hike with your Troop or family this summer? Try the Black Moshannon Moss-Hanne Trail. Starting this trail from Beaver Road and heading in toward trail marker #6 (which is also the part of the trail that overlaps with the Allegheny Front Trail) will take you through three different biomes – a boardwalk bog that feels very much like a tropical area followed by the fern forest, and finally a sparse floored pine forest area where it can be tricky to find your yellow trail blazes. It is a quick hike with minimal elevation changes, doable for all ages. Happy hiking!

06/14/202206/14/2022

State College High School Aquaponics Tour

Cadette Troop 40421 recently took a tour of the State College High School aquaponics lab! Aquaponics is a food production system that couples aquaculture (raising aquatic animals like fish in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) whereby the nutrient-rich aquaculture water is fed to hydroponically grown plants! Cadettes were able to meet the fish used in the system as well as do some planting!

Special thanks to senior Stella G. for taking the time to teach the Cadettes about this awesome system and given them a wonderful tour of the high school lab!

06/12/202206/12/2022

World Thinking Day Fun!

Our 2022 World Thinking Day is a wrap! We had a fun day at Park Forest Elementary school learning about countries and cultures from across the globe. Many thanks to our leaders for helping the girls make swaps, research fun facts, and create some awesome posters!

While covid kept some of our Girl Scout sisters at home, they were with us in spirit as we learned about South Korea, Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Croatia, Ukraine, India, Italy, Canada, and the Czech Republic. We had 70 girls in attendance from Daisy level up to Seniors/Ambassadors.

The theme this year was “Our World, Our Equal Future: The Environment and Gender Equality.” We took a Girl Scout Tree Promise together and handed out trees for Troops to plant. Check out our WTD pictures!

06/10/202206/12/2022

Brownie Airport Tour

Brownies and rising Brownies were able to embark on a tour of the Penn State Aviation center. The tour started at Life Flight. where we saw the helicopter and met with some pilots before moving to the GA Term building for a tour and talk about the Airport.

06/10/202206/10/2022

Blue Bird Conservation

GSHPA Troop 40170 Daisies spent this past year working on their 3 Cheers for Animals Journey. For their Red Robin Project, they completed a Blue Bird conservation program with the Pennsylvania Game Commission during which they learned why blue birds are important to Pennsylvania and received blue bird box kits. The troop then received permission from Harris Township and installed three boxes in Nittany View Park. The birds are already utilizing their new homes!