 Project Ideas:
- Prepare a community history for the town library
- Develop a babysitting service to aid single parents
- Sponsor a bicycle safety project/rodeo
- Restore historic landmarks
- Organize nutrition and exercise seminars for children
- Start a foodbank for the needy
- Create an after-school homework center for children
- Introduce a bill requiring North Carolina children to wear bicycle helmets
- Provide a camping experience to children in low income families
- Sponsor an event for teens on teenage violence, dating, teenage pregnancy, suicide or other teen issues
- Develop a songbook/video of popular Girl Scout songs
- Conduct a sports clinic
- Start a tutoring program for diverse populations moving in to the area
- Create a famous NC women patch program
- Develop tree identification display for camp
- Raise and obedience train a seeing eye or other helping puppy. Local contacts are available.
Past Gold Award Projects in the Girl Scout Council of the Catawba Valley Area:
- Pet care video and brochure to help pet owners
- Constructed a gazebo for troop sponsor (church)
- Organized and trained peer counselors at high school
- Built a tricycle safety course for Headstart $$
- Taught others how to sew and sewed hospital gowns
- Created a book with pictures to introduce the court system to children who are having to go to court because of family problems $$
- Produced a video on how to do Girl Scout ceremonies for troop leaders to use
- Reorganized the council's library
- Created a butterfly habitat in community $$
- Literacy awareness project bought books, recorded for children, worked with children to improve their reading skills in the local schools $$
- Compiled a scrapbook on the history of Camp Ginger Cascades
- Improved the children's department at a church by redecorating the children's rooms, organizing materials and brightening bulletin boards
- Organized Christmas in July to obtain donations for needy
- Designed and constructed garden for a non-profit agency $$
- Built a Habitat for Humanity House $$
- Wrote a book
- Tutored Hispanic children
- Started a Preventing Violence group at school
- Renovated a county park
- Restored a local cemetery and conducted historical research
- Started a Daisy or Brownie Troop
- Developed a nature trail at Camp Ginger Cascades
- Compiled "Places to Visit" booklet for troops
- Developed walking/biking trails/pathways in area
$$ Received Reader's Digest or other grant money for project ($100 - $30,000) |
