To compliment our Coding for Good badge series, we will be giving Girl Scout Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors access to Vidcode, a coding platform for teens and tweens for the month of June 2020. Vidcode uses activities such as creating personalized memes or game avatars to teach girls how to code. Extra bonus- Vidcode was founded by female engineers! Once in Vidcode, girls will have access to lots of fun activities, but we have outlined which of these activities will help them complete requirements for the Coding for Good badges. Cadette Coding Basics: Video Meme Cadette Digital Game Design: Avatar Cadette App Development: Personal Data Senior Coding Basics: Portraits Senior Digital Game Design: Game Mechanic Senior App Development: Community Map App Ambassador Coding Basics: Karaoke Ambassador Digital Game Design: Jumping! Ambassador App Development: Global App To participate on Vidcode for free, girls must first register to receive an access code. Girls and caregivers will also receive a “how to” navigate the site. Please note that these activities do require a reliable internet connection. Looking for a coding event for Girl Scout Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors? Check out our post on how to register your girl for our codeSpark Academy, a learn-to-code app, coding events. Question? Email GirlExperience@gscolorado.org. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #GirlScoutingatHome #STEM #oldergirls #CodingforGoodbadge #CodingforGoodbadges #Vidcode #CodingforGood #GirlScoutsatHome #badge #codingbadges #badges

To compliment our Coding for Good badge series, we will be hosting two coding events for Girl Scout Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors. Girls will be able to access codeSpark Academy, a learn-to-code app, for a one-hour session on June 16, 2020 and June 20, 2020 and can decide the time that works best for their schedule. Once they log in, they will have one-hour to access the content on the site. During this event, girls will access puzzles to help them learn the ABC’s of coding while having fun! Girls will be able to learn about algorithms, create a maze game, and create a sequence of coding. The activities are targeted for specific ages and do not require reading- perfect for younger Girl Scouts. The puzzles teach girls how to use the platform before they begin. There are many puzzle options available, but here is a suggested list of puzzles that connect with requirements for the Coding for Good badges. Daisy Coding Basics: Donut Detective and Tool Trouble Daisy Digital Game Design: Create Game Daisy App Development: Create Story Brownie Coding Basics: Donut Detective, Tool Trouble, and Kite Plight Brownie Digital Game Design: Create Game Brownie App Development: Create Story Junior Coding Basics: Donut Detective, Tool Trouble, and Kite Plight Junior Digital Game Design: Create Game Junior App Development: Create Story To participate in the event, girls must first register to receive an access code to be able to participate for free. Caregivers will also receive a “how to” navigate the site. June 16 registration June 20 registration Please note that these puzzles do require a reliable internet connection. Looking for a coding event for Girl Scout Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors? Check out our event on Vidcode, a coding platform for tweens and teens. Question? Email GirlExperience@gscolorado.org. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #codeSparkAcademy #STEMbadge #GirlScoutingatHome #STEM #CodingforGoodseries #CodingforGood #girl #badge #youngergirls #codingbadges #badges

Girl Scouts of all ages are invited to celebrate World Environment Day (June 5, 2020) with GSCO’s Global Action Team. Throughout the year, girls can work together and participate in Girl Scout programming that relates to different global issues affecting women and girls. World Environment Day is one of nine international days and we are excited to engage Girl Scouts in Colorado in honoring this special day. Our founder, Juliette Gordon Low, was a famous lover of nature. By celebrating World Environment Day, Girl Scouts honors her legacy by promoting respect and love of the great outdoors far and wide. Through Girl Scouting, girls see the Earth as their home. Girl Scouts who register to participate will receive an email on May 31 with a welcome video from the Global Action Team to get them excited about the week, instructions on how to complete two/three activities at home and a link to join their Girl Scout level-specific webinar on Friday, June 5. On the webinar girls will have a chance to learn from and engage with fellow Girl Scouts from across the state! June 5 – Reflection webinars: Daisies – 1-1:30 p.m. Brownies – 2-2:45 p.m. Juniors, Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors – 3:30-4:30 p.m. Register now: https://gscolorado.formstack.com/forms/celebrate_world_environment_day_with_the_global_action_team_virtual_series_05_31_2020 Registration closes Thursday, May 28. We will use Zoom to host the webinars. Capacity is limited. Each individual participant should be registered, so we can track capacity. Please do not share the information on how to join with others who have not registered. This program is for members of Girl Scouts of Colorado only. If you need to register more than one participant, click the “back” arrow, edit, and re-submit. Questions? Email aimee.artzer@gscolorado.org. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #GlobalGirlScouts #GirlScoutingatHome #VirtualWorldEnvironmentDay #GSCOevents #2020WorldEnvironmentDay #GirlScoutsatHome #WorldEnvironmentDay #2020VirtualWorldEnvironmentDay

Submitted by Helmi Sandifer Metro Denver Littleton Bridging in 2020 was the last year all nine girls in Troop 61053 would be bridging together. Seven of the nine girls are moving on to their final two years of Girl Scouts, going from Seniors to Ambassadors. The other two are bridging from Cadettes to Seniors. With everyone separated at this time, they still wanted to connect with each other and create something interesting. After seeing different inspiring videos online, two girls arranged the project with the direction of the catches, throws, and finding cool different bridges. Then, everyone filmed their video with help from family and sent it in. After collecting all the videos, they were edited together and information about each one was added by two Girl Scouts. Seeing the final product, was so magical because it showed everyone that though we can’t be together, we can still connect. You can watch it here. The majority of Troop 61053 has been together since kindergarten, but they have grown and changed every year. As the years go on, they have continued to be creative and curious. Through Girl Scouts, they have learned women’s history, science, society, but most of all entrepreneurship, workmanship, compassion, and friendship. Every year they create cards for the military , and go caroling at a local nursing home around Christmas. They are always ready for the next adventure and what even happens in the future. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #2020VirtualBridgingCeremony #2020BridgingCeremony #VirtualBridgingCeremony #bridging #bridgingceremony #MetroDenver #Littleton #2020Bridging

Daisies and caregivers: You’re invited to a fun introduction to the concept of coding, the language that computer scientists use to tell computers what to do, on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 2:15 p.m. (MDT)! Dr. Laura Terrill from Girl Scouts of Central Texas and Alyson Freeman, Ph.D., from Dell Technologies Women in Action will work with girls and their families to write an algorithm in the form of a recipe for a pretend cooking robot! Register online: https://tockify.com/girlscoutsathome/detail/38/1589400900000?fbclid=IwAR1L-bsUPFk7Ky0G5KZbajIyCFW6MFh7CKeiiHrf_-HQbQfpogxW74MfeCs This program is grant funded by Dell Technologies for girls in kindergarten and first grade and will put Girl Scouts on the path to finishing the Daisy Coding Basics badge! This event is open to all girls so please invite your friends, near and far! The webcast is best viewed on a computer. Awesome Girls: Family STEM Series- Daisy Coding! event is made possible by the generous support of Dell Technologies. This event his hosted by GSUSA. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #GirlScoutsoftheUSA #Daisy #DaisyCodingBasicsbadge #STEMbadge #GSUSA #STEM #GirlScoutDaisy #Daisies #DellTechnologies #GirlScoutDaisies #badge #CodingBasicsbadge #STEMbadges #GirlScoutDaisyCodingBasicsbadge #badges

Submitted by Michelle Ingle Metro Denver Broomfield Seven Girl Scout Juniors from Troop 65579  joined forces with Coyote Ridge Elementary School to make a donation to staff at Rose Medical Center ICU. The  girls contributed their entire stock of Hometown Heroes cookies to the school’s delivery. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #RoseMedicalCenter #2020GirlScoutCookieProgram #Broomfield #cookies #GirlScoutCookies #HometownHeroesGiftofCaring #HometownHeroes #MetroDenver #2019GirlScoutCookieProgram

Girl Scouts of Colorado’s Outreach Program team has developed a series of “Think Like an Engineer” Challenges for the week of May 11, 2020. These activities aren’t Girl Scout level-specific. However, they would probably be best for Girl Scout Daisies, Brownies, Juniors, and younger Cadettes. Each activity correlates with the Think Like an Engineer Journeys as each Journey asks girls to do three design thinking activities, and that’s basically what these are. Watch this video for your first challenge, structural engineering. You will need three pieces of paper, tape, and books. Your challenge is to build three different structures to find out which one is the most sturdy. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #Cadette #Daisy #Journey #ThinkLikeanEngineer #GirlScoutingatHome #Brownie #STEM #Cadettes #structuralengineering #Brownies #Junior #GirlScoutsatHome #Daisies #ThinkLikeanEngineerJourney #Journeys #Juniors #youngergirls #ThinkLikeanEngineerJourneys

Submitted by Penny W. Northern & Northeastern CO Greeley Troop 74404 delivered baskets of Girl Scout Cookies to Banner Hospital of Greeley and UCHealth to thank nurses for all they do. The girls were not able to do it as troop, so they designated Bree to deliver them for the troop. Bree also delivered cookies to two nursing homes. The girls picked first responders as their Hometown Heroes and will also deliver cookies to firefighters. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #NorthernampNortheasternCO #Greeley #2020GirlScoutCookieProgram #BannerHospital #cookies #GirlScoutCookies #GirlScoutCookieProgram #HometownHeroes #UCHealth

Submitted by Megan Standifer Pikes Peak Colorado Springs For the past two years, Troop 45237 of Colorado Springs has been working with Ridgeview Elementary staff to give back to the school that housed troop meetings for four years. After several ideas and research, the troop was approved to install a new flower and tree garden at the school. After getting approval from the principal, facility manager, and district, the troop installed a flower garden, new tree, and edging in the school roundabout. They also painted rocks to leave. The principal wrote us to say thanks for leaving a legacy! This story was submitted using the Share Your Stories form. You can share your Girl Scout moments, too. #ColoradoSprings #PikesPeak #RidgeviewElementarySchool

Submitted by Cindy Opong Pikes Peak Colorado Springs Colorado Springs Daisy/Brownie/Junior Troop 43483 delivered Girl Scout Cookies to the recently opened local branch of Children’s Hospital. The troop of 14 girls chose the staff at Children’s Hospital for their Hometown Hero donations. They received enough donations during the Cookie Program to give 178 packages of cookies. Two sisters made the delivery on behalf of the troop due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #GiftofCaringHometownHeroes #ColoradoSprings #2020GirlScoutCookieProgram #cookies #GirlScoutCookies #GirlScoutCookieProgram #HometownHeroes #ChildrensHospital #PikesPeak

Submitted by Judy Therond Northern & Northeastern CO Superior Our service unit decided to create a fun “challenge” patch that Girl Scouts could do from home during this time. We picked activities that would be different from school, and also several geared toward service and brightening others during this time. We actually followed a format used by the school district for the first week of online learning. It was a “grid” which allowed students to pick out five activities to complete a day. However, we wanted our “grid” to be Girl Scout based, so we picked activities we felt encompassed many pieces of Girl Scouting. Some activities do not change by level, but others (e.g. cooking/camping) become progressively harder. If a girl choses to complete the patch, they fill out a Google Form when they are done with their name and troop number. I added a few more entries on the form since I would like to know what activities they picked, and what their favorite activity was, and there is even an optional area to upload a photo, but at a minimum name/troop number would be needed. By having the form, troop leaders do not need to worry about doing anything on their end except for picking up patches earned in the fall. We are giving Girl Scouts until the end of May 2020 to complete. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #COVID19 #funpatch #NorthernampNortheasternCO #Superior

Don’t forget! Girl Scouts of Colorado’s virtual Highest Awards celebration is scheduled to air live on our Facebook page on Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 2 p.m. Aren’t on Facebook? That’s okay.  Watch on GSCO’s YouTube channel! We encourage families to make the live event feel special for their Highest Awards Girl Scout in any way possible! Dress up with your Girl Scout vest/sash, decorate your  home, or maybe bake something special. You can also share photos and videos from your celebration at home with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Twitter and Instagram users should also use #GSColo. We also welcome you to access our KudoBoard to share congratulations for your troop and help our Highest Awards Girl Scouts feel even more proud of their huge accomplishment. Questions? Email highestawards@gscolorado.org. #2020VirtualHighestAwardscelebration #GoldAward #HighestAwards #GirlScoutingatHome #SilverAward #2020HighestAwardscelebration #virtualHighestAwardscelebration #GirlScoutsatHome #HighestAwardscelebration #BronzeAward #TakeAction #CouncilNews