Moon Day 2015

I had the pleasure of taking three ladies to Moon Day 2015 at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas to see what Moon Day is all about.

The museum holds Moon Day every year. Let me tell you, if you have the chance to go, take the family, take a group of friends and go!

The ladies got to hear the 1st woman space tourist speak about her trip into space, learn all about the moon, see real moon rock, learn how telescopes work, make paper airplanes, and lots more.

- "The Leader"

STEM - Coding Camp with AT&T

Coding Camp with AT&T and Bold Idea

Summer is filled with lots of chances to attend camps all over the place. 

This summer AT&T asked if they could host some Girl Scouts for a few days at their Plano, TX offices and teach young ladies about how to do computer coding. 

My mother asked me 'Hey, "M" do you want to go to this Coding Camp and learn all about computer coding?' I was like ya, sure, sounds like fun I have never done that before. Plus I was thinking it might be fun, three days without my little brother, sounds good to me. 

Day 1 -  I was very excited to arrive at Coding Camp. "E" and I were surprised to find out that we had change into special shirts that we had to wear all week. (Hope mom likes doing laundry every night)  We had a lot to get done in three days, so we started right away, with splitting into 6 groups of ladies that would each be working in their every own website with the help of two mentors for each group. We learned a lot that day about HTML Coding and how it works and how to plug it in. We also learned a little about CSS, which is the styling program.  

Day 2 - We arrived and went right to our groups to work on our websites. I was in a group that was making a website to educate people about bullies. By the end of the day our website was mostly complete. I also had made three new friends. Our mentors were a lot of help and Bold Idea sent us home with links to our websites so we could touch up our websites before our big presentation on Day 3. I went home that evening and spend hours on the computer touching up my section of the website. 

Day 3   - Today was the day our groups arrived and we presented our websites to all the other groups and some special guests. The Mayor and female engineers were their to hear all about our work in the last three days and to speak with us to let us all know that even though we are young ladies we CAN DO ANYTHING! After all the presentations were done we had a tour of the building and then even tough it was pouring outside we were given Popsicles and visited in the lobby while waiting for our transportation home. 

I overall had fun and learned a lot. I want to thank AT&T and Bold Idea for putting on the summer Coding Camp for Girl Scouts to attend. I hear that next summer they are planning Geek For Good being even more advanced and I can't wait to attend!

-"M"

Girl Scout State Gold Award Ceremony

This weekend I had the privilege of attending the State Wide Gold Award Ceremony. I was there on behalf of the Honor Guard of Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, to present the colors, not to receive my Gold Award. I was very inspired to hear what all those girls did to receive their Gold Award. Whether they were helping the hungry, homeless or underprivileged. I really liked how all the girls from all over Texas gathered to celebrate giving back to their community. I really am looking forward to earning my Silver Award on the way to my Gold Award. I believe that all of the girls there have very much gone far out of their way to help others. I know these girls will continue to represent Girl Scouts in a positive way, and to make a positive impact on their communities. I believe they will do great things going forward.      

From,

    M

Flag Day 2015

• One of our ways we give back to our community is by helping the Rotary Club post flags all over our town. Last year we held our own flag education class on flag day with a special flag retirement ceremony to close it out. 
• This year our Troop has decided to attend a rather large flag retirement ceremony in Dallas, this event is open to the public and all Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are invited to attend in their uniforms and help with the ceremony. 
• Here are the details - 
• Flag Pole Hill Park at 1:00 pm 
• E. Northwest Hwy at Buckner
  
  Celebrate Flag Day this June 14th by attending a public flag retirement ceremony. Bring any old worn flags (national or state) to the ceremony for retirement in a dignified and respectful manner.
  
  Sponsored by http://www.Oldwornflag.com, the Dallas Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and the East Fork-Trinity Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution with several other community organizations in attendance. The Lone Star Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America will present a live rifle volley.
  
  Join your neighbors as we commemorate the adoption of the flag of the United States and properly retire old, worn flags that are no longer suitable to be displayed.
  
  For more information, or to volunteer, contact Jeanette Prasifka at jeanetteprasifka@gmail.com
• Hope to see you there!
• M

About us

An Introduction to our Troop.

     Hello. We are Girl Scout Troop 878 of Waxahachie, Texas.

We are a multi-level troop of Juniors and Cadettes. We are making this blog to post and share what we learn as a Girl Scout Troop and all the fun we have when we meet. We would like to share how much fun we have as a Girl Scout Troop to show other girls how much fun it is to be Girl Scout.

      Our troop has done many exciting things together, including going on camping trips and attending parades. Also, we have completed many community service hours by ringing the bell for the Salvation Army, setting out flags for the Rotary Club, picking up trash around our town, and building little libraries for the benefit of the children.

     This year, our Girl Scout Troop sold a total of 4,552 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, which is the most our troop has ever sold. In fact, over the years, we have been selling more and more cookies. This year has been our best: we sold the most cookies with the least amount of Girl Scouts! Not only that, we had to freeze horribly in the frigid weather at every booth sale this year. Brookshire's was even kind enough to let us sell our cookies inside their store one day because it was so cold and windy! (Thank you very much Brookshire's! Your kindness hasn't and will never be forgotten!)

      We want to help answer your Girl Scout questions, we are asking that you send us requests and we will be happy to get those questions/topics answered for you in our Girl Scout Blog. 

Thanks, 

C, L, and M

Here we are working on starting our blog!