Welcome to the GSCSA blog! We look forward to sharing how Girl Scouts are taking action in our council — for themselves, their communities, and the world.
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Silver Award Girl Scout Sarah had a unique vision: create a pesticide-free pollinator garden at Cedar Bluff Middle School to help increase the dwindling bee population. The 520 square-foot garden utilizes local plants to attract pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds. Sarah’s goals for the project were to build a sustainable and healthy garden that Cedar Bluff… Read more
Girl Scouts has made a commitment to put 2.5 million girls through hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) programs by 2025 to help bridge the ever-widening STEM gap in the United States. At Girl Scouts of the Southern Appalachians (GSCSA), we’re doing our part through partnerships with local community colleges that provide Girl Scouts with interactive… Read more
More than 200 Girl Scouts of all ages gathered in the East Tennessee State University (ETSU) Mini Dome for the Introduction to Nursing Badge Bash on Nov. 10, 2018. Thanks to a partnership with the Appalachian Consortium of Nursing Education and Practice (ACNEP) and Ballad Health and a year of planning, Girl Scouts of the Southern Appalachians… Read more
After a year of intense preparation and hard work, all three of our Girl Scout camps are now accredited by the American Camp Association (ACA). In addition to the Girl Scout safety checkpoints, Camps Adahi; Wildwood; and Tanasi, our resident camp, now follow ACA standards as well. “Becoming ACA accredited was important because it provides us with an unbiased, third… Read more
The National Girls Collaborative Project recently released statistics on the state of girls and women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) which found that in kindergarten through 12th grade, girls and boys test at about equal levels in math and science. However, there exists a large gap in those test scores between students from minority and… Read more
After launching our brand-new Girl Scouts of the Southern Appalachians (GSCSA) Outreach program this summer, we already have programs in 18 sites and are serving about 200 girls. Those statistics are projected to grow even more before the program celebrates its one-year anniversary.We recently sat down with Ashley Smallwood, outreach program coordinator, as she shared… Read more
