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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 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…
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“Sleeping with Sharks” adventure at Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies
How would you like to sleep with sharks? Girl Scouts in our central area did just that at Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies. During the adventure the girls got to pet a baby shark, painted fish on pillowcases, had a pizza snack, and scavenger hunt before bed! The girls slept in the shark tunnel where…
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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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Bronze Award Girl Scouts Donate to Niswonger Children’s Hospital
When Hannah, Isabel, Kaycee, Briley, and Allie (who helped with the project) decided on their Girl Scout Bronze Award project, they choose something close to their hearts. After a close friend of their troop volunteer lost her son Tyler to a rare form of cancer, the girls decided to take action in his name to…
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Girl Scouts help clean up the Obed Wild and Scenic River
As Girl Scouts, we love the outdoors and serving our communities! To celebrate Earth Day 2018, girls from our council worked with local park rangers to clean up Obed Wild and Scenic River. This year also marked the 50-year anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 that protects wild and scenic rivers…
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