PGMA Girl Scouts

As salaamu alaikum,

The next regularly scheduled troop meeting will be tomorrow, Friday, April 27, 2018, 6 – 8PM, inshaAllah. Please be timely. Arrivals after 6:15PM are disruptive to troop meetings and strongly discouraged.

DAISIES

• InshaAllah, this week the Daisies will finish their STEM: Think Like An Engineer Journey and work on their exciting Take Action Project. Parents: please check your email and sign up to bring items for the Jared Boxes. You can come and assist us in making the boxes for local sick children.

BROWNIES

• Brownies will be making puppets for their Quest Journey Take Action Project. The puppets will be donated to their doctor or dentist office for families to enjoy while in office waiting rooms. Each girl should bring a pair of socks to make her puppet.
• There are many upcoming activities and the Brownies will be ending this year with a Bang! So, Parents, please turn in payments, permission forms and waivers for Fencing Fun (Apr 28), Day Camping (May 12), and Bugs Badge (May 19).

JUNIORS

• Juniors will take a quick detour from working on their Programming Robots badge to earn their My Promise, My Faith pin. My Promise, My Faith allows girls to further strengthen the connection between their faith and Girl Scouts. Sis. Whittni will guide the Juniors in carefully examining the Girl Scout Law and tying it directly to the tenets of Islam.

SENIORS & AMBASSADORS

• Upcoming Senior/Ambassador activities:
  • April 28: 4-hour Service to Girl Scouts training resulting in Program Aide bar at GSCNC Council Office. This training will prepare girls for the Earth Defender camp in July inshaAllah.
  • May 12: Sisterhood Take Action Project (Senior Journey) / Brownie Day Camp, 11AM – 7PM
  • July 16 – 20: Earth Defender Camp at Camp Aquasco. Girls can earn volunteer hours. Bus transportation is available.
  • Date TBA: Visit to National Arboretum Bonsai Tree exhibit.
  • Date TBA: Photography Seminar

MULTIPLE LEVELS

• Early Bird Registration has begun for the 2018 -2019 Girl Scout Year and will end on June 6. Re-register your Girl Scout online. A registration event at PGMA Girl Scouts will be announced soon.
• Save the Date! The annual PGMA Girl Scouts Ramadan Lock-in will be Friday, May 25 inshaAllah.

PARENTS

• Parents should see Snack Mom, Sis. Marnice, during the troop meeting to sign up to bring healthy snacks for upcoming troop meetings inshaAllah.
• PGMA Girl Scouts is recruiting troop leaders who would like to be actively involved with building girls of faith, courage, confidence and character. Please connect with Sis. Alia if you are interested.

As salaamu alaikum,

The next regularly scheduled troop meeting will be tomorrow, Friday, April 13, 2018, 6 – 8PM, inshaAllah. Please be timely. Arrivals after 6:15PM are disruptive to troop meetings and strongly discouraged.

DAISIES

• Daisies will continue working on their STEM: Think Like An Engineer Journey!  Please dress them in play clothes since they will be conducting fun, but messy experiments.
• Turn in permission forms and payments for the Daisy Flower Garden Journey at Chesapeake Children’s Museum on April 21.

BROWNIES

• Brownies will work on their Senses badge and do yoga again. Girls should bring a yoga mat and water bottle, and dress in active attire so that they are able to move comfortably. Please bring extra yoga mats to share, if you have them.
• Parents: please turn in permission forms, waivers and payments for upcoming events.

JUNIORS

• Juniors will begin their Programming Robots badge. Robots are simple machines made of many different parts that are programmed to run automatically. Programmers are the engineers that create step-by-step instructions, or algorithms, that tell robots how to understand and respond to their environment. We’ll start by engineering a simple machine that helps a robot to land then learn about the robot brain. After, Juniors will create programs for their friends to make images using tangrams and complete an obstacle course before coding on a device.
  1. Learn how robots work
  2. Discover the robot brain
  3. Learn about programming
  4. Try simple programming
  5. Code a robot

  When Juniors have earned this badge, they will know how robots receive instructions in a way similar to the human brain. They will be able to create simple programs that could be run by a robot.

MULTIPLE LEVELS

• All Summer in Savannah participants must attend a planning meeting immediately after the troop meeting this Friday, April 13. Second deposits of $175 are due at this meeting.

PARENTS

• Parents should see Snack Mom, Sis. Marnice, during the troop meeting to sign up to bring healthy snacks for upcoming troop meetings inshaAllah.
• PGMA Girl Scouts is recruiting troop leaders who would like to be actively involved with building girls of faith, courage, confidence and character. Please connect with Sis. Alia if you are interested.