Girl Scouts Build Friendship, Life Skills

BY CHARLISE HYATT

Among the many extracurricular activities CTK students enjoy, Girl Scouts is one of the year-round opportunities that keep our girls engaged – learning life skills, making friends, and having fun!

We have a number of troops that remain busy throughout the year on and off campus. Girl Scout Troop 33424 is currently for Brownie girls in the third grade (class of 2028). This troop has been active since their Kindergarten (Daisy) year, went virtual during the pandemic, and will be “bridging” to the Juniors level in June.

I have the privilege of leading Troop 33424 along with our finance lead Shantelle Durbin and cookie manager Jessie McKeown, with a significant amount of troop meeting support by multiple parents. We currently have 17 girls in the troop and would love to fill out our ranks with the remaining girls in the class. (Talk to me about signing up!)

We are a casual troop and our goals include: having the girls form a sisterhood, having fun together, and learning lifelong skills.

Over the school year, we met once a month and the girls learned about a number of topics, including: Girl Scout traditions, how to be a good friend, how to be our “best self,” how to help around the house and in the community, pottery, hiking, first aid, entrepreneurship, and goal-setting.

We mostly meet on campus at CTK after school and we sometimes take after-school field trips to local spots, such as “i heart art” craft studio, the Pleasant Hill Police Department, Rockin’ Jump, local museums, and more.

Cookie sales are one of our favorite parts of being a Girl Scout! Not only do the girls earn money to pay for the troop’s activities themselves, but they learn how to be good business owners and entrepreneurs.

This year, our troop sold more cookies than in prior years and earned enough money from cookie sales to support the activities for the coming year!

Our troop will cap the year with a cooking class and end-of-year bridging ceremony. We are excited to become Juniors in the 2023-24 school year, continue building our sisterhood, and supporting our community! n