Organize a collection of towels, toys and food for your local animal shelter.
The Girl Scout Bronze Award recognizes Girl Scouts who successfully research, organize and execute a service plan within their communities. Award recipients must be registered Girl Scout members in the 4th or 5th grade. The Bronze Award is the first of several community service awards offered by the Girl Scouts of America and the skills you use to achieve it will assist you in further Girl Scout achievements.
Instructions
1. Ask a parent or volunteer to be your project adviser. This person helps you monitor the development of your project and pin down details. If possible, select someone with community service or Girl Scout experience.
2. Compile a team of fellow Girl Scouts who share your community interests and have the maturity to help execute your project.
3. Choose a service project pertaining to your community. Your project could assist a recent natural disaster or an ongoing problem in the community such as homelessness or healthy eating habits among youth.
4. Create your plan. Work with your team and adviser to sort out the individual steps, dates and logistics of your project. For example, if your project goal is collecting items for the local animal shelter, determine which items the shelter needs, where you'll place collection bins, when you'll collect the bins and how you'll transport them to the shelter.
5. Complete your steps as set forth in your plan. Work with your adviser to ensure that the necessary permissions, support and resources necessary for your project are in place well ahead of time.
6. Document your project in a booklet, poster or video log for other Girl Scouts and family members that allows you to share your achievement with the community.
7. Submit your final project presentation to your Girl Scout troop leader to receive your official Girl Scout Bronze Award.
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