Submitted by Melissa Hinton Monument
To earn Bronze Award, the highest award a Junior Girl Scout can earn, three 4th grade Juniors from Troop 43107 in Monument planned the Pi = Pie Fun Run/Walk that took place in Palmer Lake on 3/15/2014 (the day after Pi Day). The fun run/walk was 3.14 miles long and at the end everyone got a piece of pie.
Kaitlyn, Sarah and Zoe met every week for 6 months to plan this event. They created a budget, wrote business letters soliciting local businesses for donations to cover the cost of the event, filled out the special event permit application, applied for event insurance, set up an online registration page, designed a flier and visited local businesses to display the flier, ordered race numbers, designed bracelets for the give-away and baked pies.
When registration in February was slow, the girls brain-stormed additional ways to get the word out and decided to participate in their school math and science fair with a pie experiment and hand out fliers. They also contacted local running clubs and requested that the Pi=Pie Fun Run/Walk event information be posted on their websites.
The day of the event the temperature was 38 degrees with a wind chill of 22. Of the 71 people registered for the event 61 people came. The girls were out in the cold for 3 hours while they set up the event, ran it and then cleaned up afterwards.
This event raised $835 to purchase healthy snacks for the Snack-Pack Program at the Tri-Lakes Cares Food Pantry. The Snack-Pack Program provides supplemental snacks for the weekend for children who are at risk of not having enough to eat.
Zoe, Kaitlyn and Sarah earned Bronze Award with courage, confidence, and character by making a real difference in the lives of the children who rely on the Snack Pack Program to have enough to eat and by making the world a better place (with pie :).
–Melissa Hinton, Troop Leader (Troop 3107)
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