Category: Activities
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Nursing Event was Largest Badge Workshop in GSCSA’s History
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…
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Outreach Program Helps Girls Keep Up in STEM
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…
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Outreach Program Coordinator Shares Why Outreach is Needed
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…
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Girl Scouts Work to Bridge the United States STEM Gap
The United States is on the brink of a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) “talent vacuum,” reported an article published by The Hill on May 2. With the government encouraging companies to stop outsourcing in addition to tighter regulations on immigration, U.S. companies are facing a shortage of skilled laborers. The article cited research by Ranstad…
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Girl Scouts Gives Girls Hope
According to the National Census Bureau, about 14 percent of families and 18 percent of individuals within our service areas live below the poverty line, ranking this region at 39th in the country. We want to help change those numbers and bring not only help but hope to girls and their communities in need. In…
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Annual Hiwassee River Raft Race
The Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians had a great year at the 32nd Annual Hiwassee River Raft Race! This year fourteen rafts had nearly perfect weather for the annual run down the Hiwassee River on their homemade floats. The rafts were built using lashing and knot-tying skills, bamboo, and inflatable tubes. Each raft…
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Girl Scouts Create Recycled Bench for Animal Shelter
The Oak Ridge service unit (SU) collected over 1,000 pounds of plastic caps during the 2018 membership year. Once the caps were all collected, the SU members drove to Evansville, Indiana to have the caps melted down into benches. The Girl Scouts within the unit decided that their benches could be best utilized at the…
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2018 Summer Resident Camp
We had a great summer at GSCSA summer resident camp! This year we served about 320 girls across 27 programs throughout the summer. We had 25 staff that worked directly with the girls, 2 property rangers, and 7 kitchen staff that kept us well fed the entire summer. Every girl who attended camp earned badges…
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Girl Scout STEM Badge College Event
On June 2, Girl Scouts of the Southern Appalachians and Pellissippi State Community College partnered together to create the STEM* Badge College event for Girl Scout Cadettes and higher. At the event, girls learned about 3D printing, computer coding, DNA, robotics, movie-making, and much more. We sat down with some of the girls and asked…
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Girl Scout Picnic in the Park
Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians (GSCSA) hosted Picnic in the Park on May 26 for six service units based in the Knoxville metro area. “We wanted to show girls that Girl Scouts is so much bigger than just their troop or service unit,” said Ashley Smallwood, experience manager at GSCSA. “Girl Scouts is…