The Trefoil Files: All Girl Scout Levels
March is Women’s History Month! Women’s History Month highlights the often overlooked or unwritten contributions of women in history, society, and culture. Girl Scouts of Nassau County invites you to celebrate Women’s History Month by completing the Trefoil Files, a scavenger hunt in participating local public libraries starting on March 1, 2024. The Trefoil Files is inspired by the incredible women who worked as codebreakers in World War II. Now it’s your turn to crack the codes, solve the riddles, and unravel all the benefits your library has to offer.
HERE’S A SNEAK PEEK: Juniors (4th-5th Grade) Clue: Palindromes Codebreakers often look for word or number patterns when trying to solve a puzzle. A palindrome is a word, number, or phrase, that reads the same backwards as forwards. These mirror images can be found in music, dates, names, and in our everyday use of language. For example: Names: Ava and Emme Words: wow, solos, radar Numbers: 12:21, 262, 10/02/2001, 05/02/2050 Eve wrote a letter to let her mom know she is meeting her friends at the library. How many palindromes can you find in her note? (each palindrome counts once) Use the QR code above or visit https://bit.ly/gsnctrefoil-files-j to solve this clue.
Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors (6th-12th Grade) Clue: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor Set in a dystopian future, tributes are selected from each district to compete in a deadly competition called the Hunger Games. The games are a political statement intent to instill obedience and fear among the districts, and entertainment for capitol citizens. Heroines Lucy Gray Baird and Katniss Everdeen competed in the Hunger Games decades apart, but their stories are connected. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the prequel to The Hunger Games, uses symbolic imagery to foreshadow Katniss’s conflict with President Snow, how her resourcefulness and loyalty poses a potential threat to the future of the games, and her compassion resulting in a sign for hope. Scan the QR code or visit https://bit.ly/gsnc-trefoil-filesCSA to see the cipher found in district 4. Each symbol represents one letter of the alphabet, but the codebreakers have not been able to uncover a letter for every symbol. Using the key, can you decode the cipher?