New Mat Storage Containers For The Junior Girl Scout
Bronze Award Project
Submitted By Junior Girl Scout Trop 10340, Genevieve, Laney,
Kida & Jazmine
Barnstead Junior Girl Scout Troop 10340 ... left
to right Jazmine Witham, Genevieve Charity, Kida Smith & Laney
Henry
Barnstead Junior Girl Scout Troop 10340 with completed Mat
Storage Container ... left to right Principal Mr. Tim Rice,
Jazmine Witham, Kida Smith, Laney Henry, Genevieve Charity &
Physical Education teacher and Project Advisor Mr. Ryan McKenna
Bronze Award Project presented to the Barnstead Elementary
School on Monday, September 24th, 2018 by the Barnstead Junior
Girl Scout Troop 10340
The
Bronze Award is the highest achievement that a Junior Girl Scout
can receive. A Junior Girl Scout must complete a Girl Scout
Journey before planning their project, and this is just what the
Barnstead Junior Girl Scouts of Troop 10340 did.
This Junior troop had an overnight Journey experience in their
school gym and while there, they discovered an issue that they
wanted to solve. The Juniors decided to look towards helping
their school, by figuring out a solution to the gym mat storage
area.
The
mats were previously stacked along the wall in the
gym/cafeteria, creating an unsafe area for students that try to
climb on the mats, which also made it a difficult area to clean.
These Girl Scouts talked with their school Principal Mr. Rice,
and their school Physical Education teacher Mr. McKenna, and
came up with the clever idea to create two Mat Storage
Containers on wheels. Mr. McKenna also signed on to be the Girl
Scouts advisor during this project.
A
lot of work has gone into this Bronze Award idea, including;
making plans, writing letters, having meetings, watching a
webinar, researching, buying materials, drawing a draft,
measuring the gym mats, touring Home Depot, building the two Mat
Storage Containers, painting, sewing, presenting at the school
and writing this article.
The
Bronze Award, besides completing a Junior Journey, also requires
at least 20 hours of work to be completed by each member of the
team and sharing your project with others. The project must also
be sustainable.
The
Junior Girl Scouts partnered with a local Woodworker, Bill
Kriete of BAK Woodworking whom volunteered many evenings towards
teaching the troop all about the equipment in his shop, how to
use it and also assisted the troop to build the two Mat Storage
Containers. The Barnstead Farmers Market, which is managed and
organized by Lori Mahar, tirelessly collected donations from the
Barnstead Community to help fund this project. The Girl Scouts
would like to thank Lori Mahar for all her support and
dedication to the troop for not only managing the Barnstead
Farmers Market, but for being a powerful female figure as a
selectperson in town, a Planning Board Member, Coordinator for
End 68 Hours of Hunger, and the Founder of Women in Business.
The Barnstead Farmers Market is co-managed by Ann Paige, a local
business owner of Unless Flower Farm whom was also a big
supporter of the Girl Scout troop. The Barnstead Junior Girl
Scouts would like to extend their thanks and appreciation to
everyone involved in making this Bronze Award Project a success.