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Keep up to date with the Girl Scout happenings in our area.
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Troop 74821 Donates $540 of Food to Hingham Food Pantry
Troop 74821 raised $540 in their neighborhoods by planting fall bulbs and selling bead and duct tape jewelry. They then purchased food and donated to the Hingham Interfaith Food Pantry over the holidays.
Girl Scouts Become Energy Trackers - The Hingham Journal 12/26/11
Hingham — If you were asked to predict what baked the best chocolate chip cookies using the least amount of energy, would you choose an Easy Bake oven, a conventional oven, or a wine box oven, made from cardboard covered in aluminum foil and heated with charcoal briquettes? That was the challenge put to the 10 fifth-grade girls of Hingham Girl Scout Troop 74837 by its troop leaders, Alison Baird and Michelle Lifton. The baking challenge didn’t come up to earn a badge in baking, however. According to Baird, within the last couple years, Girl Scouts of America’s revamped its badge system.
Read more: Girl Scouts Become Energy Trackers - The Hingham Journal 12/26/11
Cat Neville Earns Silver Award
Catherine "Cat" Neville of Hingham Troop 74000 recently earned the Girl Scout Silver Award, the highest Leadership Award for Cadette scouts.
The Silver Award honors girl leaders who are organized, determined and dedicated to improving the community.
Cat started her Silver Award project a year ago by contacting animal shelters to identify