GSHPA Service Unit 416
Have you found a geocache at Millbrook Marsh? Ever wanted to learn how to orienteer or see a partial lunar eclipse? Check out the State College Girl Scouts Fall Outdoor Challenge checklist for fun ways to get outside and celebrate fall.
If you finished up the Summer Outdoor Challenge Checklist, don’t forget to order your patch and/or rocker!
If you have an idea for items for our next checklist or patch design, let us know!
Over the summer, Brownies from Troop 41162 grow a Sunflower House in Tudek Park with the help of the entire Service Unit. Thank you to all our dedicated Sunflower Tenders as well as the girls who painted rocks to help line the house entrance!
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As part of their Bronze Project, girls from Troop 40170 designed a Gabriel Patch for girls who want to help expectant mothers. Girls can earn this patch by learning about organizations that help expectant or new mothers and then helping expectant or new mothers either by volunteering time or donating supplies.
Proceeds from the patch sale will be used to buy supplies for the Gabriel Project at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church. The Gabriel Project works with women in crisis pregnancies to provide them with needed supplies and support. Troops wishing to learn more about the OLV Gabriel Project can email troop40170@statecollegegirlscouts.org.
Based on feedback from several members, we are opening up Fall Camporee to families. This means that girls have the option of attending either with a troop following GSHPA girl/adult ratios or with their family.
Adults attending as part of a family are NOT required to be registered and cleared Troop Activities Chaperones in order to stay overnight with their families. Unregistered adults do not count towards ratios for any troop that they are affiliated with. Families with unregistered adults attending will be sleeping in a different section of the camp than troops that are following ratios.
Please feel free to email camp@statecollegegirlscouts.org if you have any questions about this update! We hope that all our girls will be able to enjoy a fun day at camp, either with their troop or their family.
This past weekend our older girls finished out our summer program series with Trout Unlimited’s S.T.R.E.A.M Girls program. We learned about stream conservation (how to tell if a stream is healthy by surveying macroinvertebrates, measuring water flow, etc) and how to fly fish.
All told, Service Unit 416 organized and ran 7 different programs benefiting 68 girls this summer. A huge thanks goes out to our adult volunteers who made these programs possible by organizing and developing programing and volunteering as supervising adults: David and Nicolle Nicastro (Troop 40170), Christine Clouse (Troop 40213 and 40427), Megan Roberts (Troop 40170), Jen Leopard (Troop 40080), and Verna Kale (Troop 40421).
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