jamie 10 Posted August 29, 2003 Share Posted August 29, 2003 Dear Scouters Hi this is Jamie. I am a senior Girl Scout that is earning my gold award. My project is a camping how to book. One of the chapters will be camp stories. I would like it if you could foward me some storys at camping4gold@yahoo.com. Theas storys can be funny, sad, happy or jest about anything else. Some other chapters will be ways to use ducttape and bandanas, heath and safty, diffrent ways to start a fire, diffrent ways to go camping, how to cook while camping and recipes. If you would like to contribut about any of the of the above topics. Please fell free to contact me via email at camping4gold@yahoo.com. Thank you Jamie Link to post Share on other sites
AnneinMpls 10 Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 Hi Jamie, I'm wondering in your Council do they allow Gold Award projects to serve the Girl Scout community? Link to post Share on other sites
hops_scout 9 Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 "Hi Jamie, I'm wondering in your Council do they allow Gold Award projects to serve the Girl Scout community?" They do in the area council near me too. My oldest sister, for her Gold Award, directed a day camp for Girl Scouts. Also, my youngest, but still older, sister is doing a similar project right now. Link to post Share on other sites
jamie 10 Posted August 30, 2003 Author Share Posted August 30, 2003 no this is for my community and the boy scouts to. Link to post Share on other sites
ScoutNut 147 Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 Officially, a GS Gold Award Project should touch the community beyond Girl Scouting. From GSUSA national: "The whole idea of the Girl Scout Gold Award is that you do something to benefit your community and learn those skills that make you a citizen of your community and the world." Unfortunatly, some GS councils, like some BS councils, allow some questionable projects to be done. Jamie, yours sounds interesting. How are you going to be putting this together, a booklet, video, website, etc? Who, & how, will you be distributing this to. If you do some searches online you will find tons of stuff on various scouting and camping sites! Link to post Share on other sites
AnneinMpls 10 Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 Hi Jamie - I had another thought about your Gold Award project... There already is a whole lot about general camping knowledge available in libraries and online, but what's *really hard to find* are guides to how to get into the outdoors in your own community. It took me a full year of researching to find a "cabin camping" situation that would be workable for our very large Brownie troop (we found an awesome youth hostel to stay at a state park) You could help families in your community by pointing the way to the really neat stuff in your area - and you could have different chapters on "first-time" adventures, and high-adventure opportunities, and chapters for families, and for youth groups. In the index you could have all the local contacts for your state and county parks, local volkssports chapter, hostelling association, area businesses that sell outdoor gear, groups that offer classes like canoeing and rock-climbing... You'd be doing your community a real service, helping them to experience the outdoors Anne in Mpls Link to post Share on other sites
AnneinMpls 10 Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 Hi Jamie - I had another thought about your Gold Award project... There already is a whole lot about general camping knowledge available in libraries and online, but what's *really hard to find* are guides to how to get into the outdoors in your own community. It took me a full year of researching to find a "cabin camping" situation that would be workable for our very large Brownie troop (we found an awesome youth hostel to stay at a state park) You could help families in your community by pointing the way to the really neat stuff in your area - and you could have different chapters on "first-time" adventures, and high-adventure opportunities, and chapters for families, and for youth groups. In the index you could have all the local contacts for your state and county parks, local volkssports chapter, hostelling association, area businesses that sell outdoor gear, groups that offer classes like canoeing and rock-climbing... You'd be doing your community a real service, helping them to experience the outdoors Anne in Mpls Link to post Share on other sites
LovetoCamp 9 Posted August 30, 2003 Share Posted August 30, 2003 Jamie, I'm going to send you my journal from a backpacking overnighter I took with my twin 5 year olds this summer. Hope it helps. Link to post Share on other sites
red feather 10 Posted August 31, 2003 Share Posted August 31, 2003 Welcome to the campfire. Try a search for the 'ol geezers cook book' great stuff there. Maybe a listings of good web sites might be a uselful part of your project. yis Link to post Share on other sites
jamie 10 Posted August 31, 2003 Author Share Posted August 31, 2003 I will be making a book with the information that I gather and I will be giveing this to a number of locol and community liberys and some area schools to. Link to post Share on other sites
jamie 10 Posted September 30, 2003 Author Share Posted September 30, 2003 Hi, The post that I posted on 8/20/03. Needed to be revised so I am posting another one that I would like to have true stories about your personal wather it is in scouting or not. I would like it if you could send me your true stories by november 15 via email at camping4gold@yahoo.com. I would also like it if you could send me some true information about any of the topics I wrote about in the first post that was ascing for your help. Thank you jamie Link to post Share on other sites
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