Girl Scouts: 4th Grade Bronze Award Day

Hello!

Our 4th Grade Girl Scouts have the opportunity to earn one of Girl Scouting's highest awards, the Bronze Award.  It's the first step on the road to earning the Gold Award, which is the Girl Scout equivalent of the Eagle Scout Award.  

To give you an idea of what a big deal this is, Girl Scouts who earn their Gold Award are generally recognized by the state and village governments, qualify for various scholarships for college, and if the scout enters the military, she even starts at an advanced pay grade.

Through our work during our meetings, the girls fulfilled a lot of the requirements for the Bronze Award.  The project most worked on about keeping kids from starting to smoke has the best potential to fill out into a full Bronze project.  What I'd like to do, is schedule a "Bronze Day" after school in May for the 4th grade scouts where we can put the time and work in to finish up the project.

What we'll do is:

1)  Finish up the anti-smoking video we made.  We'll re-shoot parts and add narration and explanations of the demonstrations we did.

2)  The girls had (at the time) planned to use chalk writing on the sidewalks around school to spread anti-smoking messages, so we'll do that too.

What I'll need from you, as parents and families, is for the girls to spend at least an hour on their own researching and writing some notes about anti-smoking facts so they can come prepared to the Bronze Day.

We'll try to spend 3-4 hours at the Bronze Day though, so I'd like to plan it from 4-7:00 on Wednesday May 13th. 

For the girls that complete their Bronze Award, in addition to the recognition from Girl Scouts, they'll also be recognized for their accomplishment at the Bridging Ceremony June 10th.   

Please let me know if this is something your scout could participate in.  It would be great to recognize them in June!

Aleks