Financial Literacy Badges

Say goodbye to the Daisy leaves!  This summer they were phased out and new, cloud shaped badges took their place.  I loved how the leaves created a scene with the daisy petals so this is a big bummer.  On the other hand, it will be easier to place these badges with the other cloud badges and not worry about spacing as much.  The requirements are pretty much the same as before so basically just a shape change.  

My troop works on a financial literacy badge every year.  We normally aim for December so we can either start planning how to use proceeds from our cookie sale or discuss spending and budgets around the holidays.  This year we have a Junior, several Cadettes, and a Senior.  This is an easy badge to adapt for a multi-level troop.

Similar steps include discussing wants vs needs, creating a budget, and learning something new about money each year

2021 Retiring and New Girl Scout Badges

GSUSA has just released 28 new badges, retired 13 badges, and changed the design of the Global Action Award badges.

Cookie Business:

Some of the old cookie badges are getting kicked out to make room for new and improved badges.  Thirteen very different badges are out, with thirteen very similar badges coming in.  This could make it easier to combine badges with a multi-level troop since many of the steps are similar, like set a troop goal and budget.

Retiring Badges:

Digital Leadership Badges

Find out how to stay safe online while using technology to make a difference in the real and digital world.

Math in Nature

Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors have a new series to bring math concepts outside of the classroom and into nature.  I am pretty excited about these, I only wish my troop was younger!

Global Action Awards

The Global Action Awards are no longer dated and instead are Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3 like the Cookie Family Entrepreneur pins.  The requirements each year differ and can be found here.

Senior Journey Overvew

Switch to Daisy  Brownie  Junior  Cadette  Ambassador

Seniors have seven different Journeys available to complete. Below is a guide to help them choose which ones spark their interest.

GIRLtopia

In this Journey, you will:

1. Develop your vision for an ideal world and acquire the skills to make it a reality—paint a mural, write a poem or story, film a video, or perform a show about ways society can improve.
2. Plan a Take Action project that addresses an issue in your community.
3. Earn the Senior Visionary Award.

Mission: Sisterhood!

In this Journey, you will:

1. Discover the powerful benefits of sisterhood and ways to nurture healthy friendships—invite a women’s shelter counselor to talk about her work, role-play friendship scenarios to explore trust in relationships, or create a collage about what sisterhood means to you.
2. Plan a Take Action Project that focusus on a sisterhood issue you care about—organize a school film club that focuses on positive movies about women, help younger girls expand their friendship circles, or host a girls' mixer.
3. Earn the Sisterhood Award.

Outdoor (Senior)

In this Journey, you will:

1. Deepen your outdoor skills when you earn your Adventurer, Senior First Aid, and Adventure Camper badges.
2. Plan a Take Action project that helps make your favorite park, beach, or forest a better place for everyone.
3. Earn a Take Action Award.

Sow What?

In this Journey, you will:

1. Learn about food: how and where it’s grown, harvested, processed, distributed, and consumed, and why it matters.
2. Plan a Take Action Project to share your knowledge with others—host a farmers market, inspire others to eat locally, or plan a community vegetable garden.
3. Earn the Harvest Award.

Think Like a Citizen Scientist

In this Journey, you will:

1. Find out how citizen scientists make observations, collect data, and help scientists conduct scientific research.
2. Do 3 citizen science activities: make observations about your environment, design a way to test a hypothesis, and a SciStarter project.
3. Plan a Take Action project that helps others.

Think Like a Programmer

In this Journey, you will:

1. Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems.
2. Do 3 computational thinking activities: create rules for how to stack cards to share messages and learn about encoding information, develop an algorithm for building a simple block arrangement, and test whether an app will meet a user’s needs to explore user-centered design. 

Think Like an Engineer

In this Journey, you will:

1. Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems.
2. Do 3 design thinking activities: design and build prototypes of a can holder that isn't harmful to animals, a kinetic sculpture, and an assistive device for the elderly.
3. Plan a Take Action project that helps others

Easy charts for voting: