Congratulations to area Girl Scouts for 10 years of commitment and dedication.
@royal52gens (5488)
United States
May 11, 2007 9:13am CST
Last night at the school Spring concert, the band teacher (a former Girl Scout herself) presented three Girl Scouts from our community their 10-Year pins. The girls had a conflict of schedules. They could travel to the Council offices for a ceremony there or attend their school's band concert. The girls choose to play music for their community. Tia plays clarinet. Stephanie plays flute. Amanda plays saxophone.
A short presentation was done by the band teacher, the troop leader and the troop co-leader. They were congratulated by many area scouts who attended the concert.
It is rare that any child will commit themselves or stick with something for 10 years. Tia and Stephanie are Cadettes and will be bridging into Senior scouting on May 15th, 2007. They started Girl Scouts in Kindergarten. Amanda is a Senior scout who serves on the Mackinac Island Honor Guard. She started Girl Scouts in 1st grade.
We are very proud of our girls and their accomplishments.
Please share your troops achievements for the 2006-2007 year of scouting.
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@tammyr (5945)
• Etowah, Tennessee
11 May 07
You have a great group of girls. I hope their parents are as proud of them as you are!
We had 4 to earn their bronze awards. They actually atarted them last spring, but did not finish until summer, so they got them this year.
We had two get perfect attendance and every girl got some sort of certificate. I want every one of them to feel like they added to the troop in some way.
I got outstanding leader award, and one of the Cadettes got her Silver award, perfect attendance, and another got one that I can not remember the name of, the patch has 'PA' on it though.
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@royal52gens (5488)
• United States
11 May 07
PA is the Program Aide Leader program. So one of your girls is now PAL's trained. I have five girls that are PAL's trained. They are looking to take the next level of training on that program. The class is not offered every year. I also received the Outstanding Volunteer award this year. Looks like you and I are headed in the same direction. Congratulations to the girls in your troop. May they bring you many long years of joy and happiness.
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@tammyr (5945)
• Etowah, Tennessee
12 May 07
The leader said she did the class, but not the hours. She gave her the certificate and told her she would get the pin and badge when she does the hours.
This is the same girl who got 12 hours on her Bronze and thought she should still get the award. I told her it as not fair to the other 3 that put in over 20 hours on the project, or the brownie who put in around 15 hours, and would not get any award for it.
I am not sure what the PA is all about. I have to go next month to get my Cadette training, and I am going to re-do my Junior training. It now includes the Studio 2B training. Last year it was separate, but the girl in charge of it left the council and they are combining the together now.
I will never get all my training done if I have to keep re-doing things! They change them a lot to and some I have had are no longer offered, or have been changed!
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@royal52gens (5488)
• United States
12 May 07
PA is Program Aide Leader training. It trains the girls to lead, teach or help to run or to render aide/assistance at programs, meetings, workshops and events for other scouts. (usually scouts younger than themselves) It is a program that teaches scouts to "Lead and Teach Others". After the training, they receive their pin and then they have to spend 25 hours using that information to get the patch. The 25 hours of service has to be written down or logged. During this time, the girls usually earn their leadership badges and leadership torches and leadership awards.
It is one of the steps before taking the Counselor-in-Training program.
