Bridging Leaders

Wolftrap has a new digital Girl Scout program. Check it out whether you are local or not!!

CALLING ALL GIRL SCOUTS: young and seasoned, future scouts and alumni, leaders and troops! We are very excited to announce our new *digital* Girl Scout Ranger Program. This month marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Celebrate this groundbreaking win for women's rights and earn a commemorative 19th Amendment patch with a virtual dive into Wolf Trap's unique place in women's history. You will learn about the park's founder Mrs. Catherine Filene Shouse and her tireless efforts throughout the 20th century to empower women, and hopefully have some fun along the way🙂 Follow the link below to get started!

https://www.nps.gov/wotr/learn/kidsyouth/girl-scout-ranger.htm

#GirlScoutRanger #BeyondThe19th #FindYourPark

Took some time today to get additional first aid training. The provider Campaign Pay it Forward also offers a free training monthly called Stop the Bleed. Stop the Bleed teaches us how to respond to emergency injuries based upon data from the Boston Bombing and Sandy Hook.

For any troops that want to go beyond basic first aid, this is a wonderful opportunity.

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Loudoun County Public Library and the Society of Women Engineers are hosting a Q&A with an aerospace engineer tomorrow. This event is being hosted for middle and high school girls.

For more information, visit their website at http://loudouncountypubliclibrary.evanced.info/msignup/Details.

loudouncountypubliclibrary.evanced.info

Clorox names Linda Rendle as its next CEO, bringing the number of Fortune 500 women leaders to a record 38

This is something wonderful to share at your next virtual meeting.

https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/08/03/cloroxs-new-ceo-will-increase-the-number-of-fortune-500-women-to-38.html

cnbc.com Clorox announced Linda Rendle as its next CEO effective Sept. 14. With this appointment, Rendle will increase the number of Fortune 500 women CEOs to 38.

Captain Tammie Jo Shults On “Tamron Hall”

Prepping for today's Cadette Breathe Journey Workshop. Virtual events are a bit harder to prepare for and I started looking for an interview with a woman airplane pilot. I had not heard of this story until today. But Captain Tammi Jo Shults is pretty amazing. If you get a chance, you should listen to some of her conversation with air traffic control. A part of her airplane is missing, she lost her engine, a window broke and pulled a passenger out of the window and Captain Shults was so calm and poised throughout it all. I bet she was a Girl Scout too. :)

Captain Tammie Jo Shults garnered national attention when she safely wrestled a commercial airliner to the ground after catastrophic engine failure. She was ...

We are hosting virtual workshops. We would love to hear from you. ☺️

If you are in Loudoun County, troop 1420 is working hard to help out local families.

Any Maryland troops looking for a project once in person meetings are allowed?

Do you have a scout troop that's in need of a service project? We're looking to partner with a troop who can build and install a Little Free Library at the shelter. If you're interested in tackling this project, email our volunteer coordinator, Katie, at [email protected].

A friend shared this. It made me think of the lessons we share with our Girl Scouts. #maketheworldabetterplace #beasistertoeverygirlscout

This is a great opportunity for troops working on the Citizen Science Journey.

Here's your chance to count fireflies and contribute to science. Anyone in North America can participate in Firefly Watch! You just need to spend 10 minutes once a week during firefly season observing fireflies in one location, and report your data.

http://ow.ly/HXRG50zX1AH

We have definitely upped our zoom game. Reach out to schedule your troop’s custom zoom Badge or Journey Workshop.

Even though Bridging Leaders has been closed due to covid-19, we have been spending the time learning in order to improve our programming.

Today I spent some time with Bull Run Mountain Conservancy hiking with their Naturalist. We learned some great things including that foresters use tangent and co-tangent in forest planning.

You don’t have to be a Texas Girl Scout to particulate in this event.

[04/18/20]   Prepping for our very first VIRTUAL workshop.
If all goes well, we may be back in business. Fingers crossed.

My good friend, Larissa Symbouras is a very talented face painter. If you have Daisies or Brownies, check out her giraffe paint along on April 22 at 3 pm. See the link below for more information.

https://facebook.com/events/s/giraffe-live-paint-along/531747010817769/?ti=icl

All-women honor flight to celebrate the service of female veterans

If you are already planning for next year, there will be an all women honor flight coming into DC from Chicago in October.

https://wgntv.com/news/all-women-honor-flight-to-celebrate-the-service-of-female-veterans/

wgntv.com Over the last 12 years, Honor Flight Chicago has flown nearly 9,000 veterans to visit the war memorials in Washington, D.C., and this fall they hope to add 100 more. Of the more than 7,000 senior w…

Flare gun with one flare
Tarp
Twine
Pair of eyeglasses
Umbrella
Pantyhose
Hunting knife

What do these items have to do with babysitting? We use this list in our babysitting badge workshop.

How to feed the world ?

How would you feed the world? A topic of discussion during our Senior Sow What Journey Workshop.

https://vimeo.com/8812686

a film directed by Denis van Waerebeke for the « Bon appétit » exhibition, in Paris "Cité des Sciences", aimed mainly at the…

From Bridging Leaders, Happy Valentine’s Day! We are spending the evening hosting the Cadette Babysitter’s Badge Workshop!

Negativity online is contagious. So is kindness.

February 13 is International Day of Self Love because
“[e]very young person deserves an online community of supporters who make them feel safe and included.”

Kindness is contagious.

medium.com This week I joined a group of amazing education leaders and student activists to host a worldwide online event on rethinking digital…

A group of innovative Junior Girl Scouts created this newly discovered solar system complete with constellations, planets, moons, and more!

Using these supplies, create your own Mars Rover.

Check this out!

Update: Unfortunately the launch will not take place as planned due to a technical issue.

Looking for an activity on this beautiful Sunday afternoon? How about watching a rocket as it flies through the atmosphere above #Loudoun on its trip to the International Space Station!

This evening, at approximately 5:39 p.m., an Antares rocket, carrying supplies, will lift off from a small launch facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. Residents of Loudoun will be able to see the rocket approximately 90-120 seconds after launch.

Keep your eyes on the skies this evening!

https://bit.ly/2OzWigP

We’ve got no cookies in our house so far this season.

Our Cadette Animal Helper Badge Workshop was very popular. In fact, we are still hearing what great fun girls had. 🐕☺️🐶

We would love to have your troop for our next workshop.

We had a last minute cancellation for February 23. So we are hosting a combo journey event at a reduced price of $15 per girl. Junior aMuse, Cadette MEdia, and Senior Mission: Sisterhood, the It's Your Story Tell it Journeys! Link in the comments.

During December, we had some fun cookie decorating workshops. We would love to plan a cookie decorating event for your troop.

Yes, I am!!

Cadette Woodworker Badge Workshop

Check out our website for upcoming workshops.

#truth
Just being a Girl Scout Leader. ☺️😚💕

At Bridging Leaders, we love working with your teen Girl Scouts! Contact us to schedule a custom workshop for your troop.

One of the activities from our recent Cadette Think Like an Engineer Journey Workshop included making a prototype of a dog and a life vest for the dog. The girls in this workshop were happy to see many of their pups would have survived in the life vests the girls designed. 🐕🐶🦮🐕‍🦺

Isn’t this exactly what we are trying to give our girls???

Check out our upcoming events to see how we can help your Girl Scout develop her vision.

Cadette Think Like an Engineer Journey Workshop. If your troop is interested in hosting a custom event, please contact us at [email protected].