Category: GSCSA
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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 Lifetime Member Advocates for Girl Scouts in the Knoxville News Sentinel
In the Press: Sydney Gabrielson, Girl Scouts lifetime member, defended Girl Scouts in a recent guest column in the Knoxville News Sentinel. “There’s no doubt in my mind that the environment that Girl Scouts provided through outdoor adventure and thought-provoking discussion laid the framework for my success. It was disconcerting to read the article and…
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GSCSA Welcomes New Vice President of Communications, Gretchen Crawley
Girl Scouts of the Southern Appalachians (GSCSA) is proud to welcome Gretchen Crawley to the team as the new Vice President of Communications. With more than two decades of experience, Crawley will oversee the marketing and communications department beginning in September. Crawley, a Knoxville native, graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1993 with a…
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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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Tanasi: Over 60 years of serving Girl Scouts
Camp Tanasi, located on 461 acres of scenic wooded land on the banks of Norris Lake, has served as a camp for Girl Scouts since 1957. In the early 50s, the Girl Scouts Board of Directors realized there was a definite need for a new camp facility. The land by Norris Lake was bought on…
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Girl Scouts: A Place for Every Girl
From a young age, Mattalyn loved to explore how things worked. When she was only four years old her uncle bought her a Holley carburetor that she loved to take a part and put back together with a toolkit she received for her birthday. More recently, Mattalyn helped her dad find a blockage in his…
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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…
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Memorial Day Flag Placement
Girl Scouts from our north area participated in Memorial Day flag placement activities in honor of our veterans. Girls placed flags on veteran’s graves at the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery on May 25th in honor of Memorial Day. Park Rangers said it was the largest group of Girl Scouts ever to attend one of these events.…
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Girl Scouts meet Elizabeth Nyamayaro
Girl Scouts from our north area had the honor of meeting Elizabeth Nyamayaro, Senior Advisor to Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women and the head of the HeForShe Initiative, a global solidarity movement which seeks to engage men and boys as advocates for gender equality.
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