Troop_Dad

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I found this today, and I had to share it. I've posted it on several Girl Scout and BSA forums. This is way too cool. YIS Rich http://www.chroniclenewspapers.com/articles/2006/02/17/north_county/news/news02.txt High School Seniors Make Scouting History--Ten Young Women Earn Highest Awards from Boy and Girl Scouts of America The young women from Girl Scout Troop/Boy Scout Venturing Crew 1886 made history on Friday, February 10, at a Court of Honor ceremony. All 10 of these Scouts earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, equivalent to the Boy Scout rank of Eagle Scout. In a rare event, nine of those ten young women also received the highest award offered by the only co-ed division of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), the Venture Scouting Silver Award. "Earning the highest award possible as a Girl Scout or Venture Crew member is no small feat," Alan Lambert, Scout Executive for the National Capital Area Council, BSA, said. "It requires an exceptional commitment on the part of these young women and we congratulate all of them on their achievement. To earn one of these awards is incredible. To earn both of them is nothing short of amazing." This isn't the first time the young women from Troop/Crew 1886 have made history though; by now they're accustomed to it. The girls first made a name for themselves in 2002 when their Girl Scout troop registered as the first all-female Venturing Crew in the Powhatan District of the National Capital Area Council, BSA. They again made headlines when, in the summer of 2004, they completed the first-ever Cavalcade Trek composed entirely of women at the Boy Scouts' Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, NM. The young women of Troop 1886-Diana Brown, Katie Dean, Melissa Duvall, Nichole Graff, Lauren Jones, Leigh Lotocki, Elissa Marshall, Erica Notarangelo, Katie Pocalyko, and Lindsay Ward-have been inspired and guided by Sue Graff and Catherine Pressler, who have led the girls in their Scouting activities for the past 12 years. "In this day and age, it is rare for this many girls to have remained together as an active Scouting troop for more than a decade," said Catherine Pressler, co-leader of Troop 1886 and advisor of Crew 1886. "I believe wholeheartedly that these young women will continue to be extraordinary role models and citizens." Both awards require the Scout to complete a time-intensive (50 hours minimum) service project that will positively impact the community, demonstrating both leadership and organizational skills. To earn their Gold Awards, troop members undertook projects ranging from teaching cooking to at-risk children or coordinating the collection of school supplies along with preparing bilingual homework tips for families in a Hispanic housing community for a back-to-school rally. Girl Scout Troop and Venturing Crew 1886 are sponsored by the Community of Faith Methodist Church in Oak Hill, VA. To learn more about the Girl Scout Gold Award, visit www.girlscouts.org. For more information on the Venture Scouting Silver Award go to www.scouting.org.

ACCO40, I agress with you. Rich

Hey Fuzzy Bear, That will work. And if your a male 01 in the troop, your council will misquote Safety Wise and try to make you sleep 1/2 mile away from the troop in another campsite. No, I'm not kidding. All, it says is seperate sleeping accomidations not seperate zip codes. Rich

The patrol method works if and only if your troop is big enough to support 2 or more patrols. A Patrol being 6-8 girls. It also works if and only if the patrol leaders are properly trained to led. Plus the troop needs to have a Court of Honor/ Patrol leaders council to plan out the events and meetings. Otherwise it's just a girl with a yellow troop. YIS Rich

Fuzzy Bear Wrote" " In spite of how people choose to live in different ways and even though there is a general acceptance of those arrangements and even if the unconventional relationship is based on love, joy and rich fulfillment, the BSA is not as accepting. I find that answering this question stretches the limits way beyond rational thought, logic, and convention, so it is easier to separate the men and the women and just go camp. FB" I have the raise the B.S. Flag on this one. Per Safety Wise,people are seperated by sex not by relationships. So a Homosexual couples can share a tent, yet two married couples can't. Where's the accepting as BSA for married couples. Per G2SS, married couples can share a tent. Girl Scout is not as accepting on family camping a BSA. YIS Rich

Safety Wise (Girl Scout Version of G2SS prohibits Mixed Adults from sharing sleeping accomidations. That includes married couples. It also prohibits Dads from sharing a tent with their daughters. Female leaders can share a tent with the girls but not their husbands. Rich

I think that key thing is what to you or the girls define as camping. ( i.e. In a tent on the floor in a sleeping bag or at camp on a bed in a cabin? ) It's also going to depend on the amount of equipment that the girls or the troop has. Rich

IF your daughter would like to attend Cub Scout meeting and the den doesn't have a problem with it, then let her. Make sure that you have two oththe leaders there too. Register her as a Juliette Girl Scout and use her activities with the Den toward her Girl Scout Advancement. She not member of Cub Scouts but a observer. If you have several girls that like it, then have 4 leaders, 2 with BSA and 2 with GSUSA. Do joint meeting, joint openings and seperate advancement. From a Brother Den and Sister Troop relatiionship. If there's ever a time that GSUSA rules that you can't do something per Safety Wise. Then have the pack sponsor a Learning For Life group for the girls and play by LFL rules for that one activity. It's basicly the same rules as the G2SS. YIS Rich