Tonight, we will hold our final Girl Scout meeting of the school year. Traditionally, we have a Bridging and Award Ceremony to end the year, but we are doing it differently this year.
We have 8 girls who could earn their Bronze Award. Each girl has between 7.5 and 13.5 hours left to complete the project. We will be talking to the girls about what they can do to finish their project and give them a due date this summer to turn in all evidence. It will be each girl's responsibility to finish. We have gotten them this far, and now it is their chance to take responsibility and finish. We will have a special celebration in late August or early September, when we will hold a Bronze Award, Bridging, Awards, and Investiture Ceremony.
We will also give the girls the opportunity tonight to plan next year. They will work in GS levels to decide on badges they want to earn and what field trips they want to take. It is our hope that they will have a great plan by night's end. This is the next step in building leadership skills and giving our girls ownership of their troop.
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Well, our last meeting didn't go as planned. Our meetings begin at 6:30. At 6:30, I messaged my co-leader to see if I changed the time on accident when I sent out the reminder email because no one had arrived. Finally, within about 5 minutes, one girl arrived. Then my co-leader and her daughter arrived. It was probably a good 15 more minutes before the next two girls arrived. Our 5th and last girl arrived after 7:00. We had a relaxing meeting. We ordered pizza, snacked on fresh fruits and vegetables, let the girls play outside, let them begin planning for next year, and finished the evening with Savannah Smiles and popsicles.
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