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News Around Town

Keep up to date with the Girl Scout happenings in our area.

To list information here, contact our public relations volunteer, Allison Baird at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Active Gold, Silver and Bronze Projects

Girl Scouts in Hingham are actively working on sustainable community improvement projects.  For more details, contact Vickie Chipman, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Gold Award Projects

 

  1. Gardening after-school program and training manual at the Elementary school level
  2. Special needs Best Buddy program at the Middle school promoting socialization settings and interaction between the school community and students
  3. Music program and period music CD using friends in the Hingham High Orchestra promoting music from a lost era Hingham Historical Society
  4. Trail certification, signage new trail and informational brochure, mile markers to be tied in with a running event  Wompatuck State Park
  5. Educational Diabetes support website for Hingham students all levels and the nursing community in the schools
  6. Internet, social media education program and training manual Hingham Senior Center ongoing program run by High school students
  7. Environmental recycling program and beach clean-up program Chile, South America ( Hingham High foreign exchange student)

 

Silver and Bronze Award Projects

 

  1. Band Buddie Program Hingham High School, pairing up younger musicians with High School students to promote a stronger sense of music programs in our community
  2. Instrument Share and used instrument collection program for those less fortunate South Shore Conservatory
  3. Documentary New Orleans, Katrina devastation and ongoing work outreach to the local community
  4. US Flag program, includes education program for all levels of scouting (boy and girl), recycling and disposal/ community service program in conjunction with Veteran Administration and Department of Public Works bottle and can recycling program, reimplementing flag burning ceremony with Hingham Fire Department.
   

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

Cat Neville organizes project for Scituate Animal ShelterCatherine "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

Read more: Cat Neville Earns Silver Award