Design Detectives - Day 6

Day 6 Design Detectives – This is the final installment of the Design Detectives! Day 6 was spent showing off all the cool challenges we did all week to our parents, GSHS Staff and Miss Wendy from GSUSA. The girls presented their final Re-Designs to the audience and all did an outstanding job!!!

Thank you to Janis from the Memphis office who came down to hang out with us for the last two days of the week to take pictures and video of the girls and their projects.

Thank you to all of you who have followed us this week via our Blog and FacebookJ

Design Detectives - Day 5

Day 5 – Today was the last full day of Design Detectives. The girls finished working on their re-design projects to present in front of their parents, GSHS staff and Ms. Wendy Friedman, Project Research Analyst from GSUSA. The Design Detectives also created a Kicking Machine and tried their hands at Marble Madness. It was another great day at Design Detectives.

GSHS Regional Program Specialist, Marlowe Brownlow, who organized Design Detectives and who spent the week with the girls had this to say, "The week comes to a close tomorrow at the Re-Design Presentation. I know I can speak for the adults who worked with the 17 wonderful young ladies and say that we will greatly miss having these girls around everyday. Girls you hold the world in your hands and I am confident that you will make this world a better place. Thank you for joining us this week."

Design Detectives - Day 4

Today the Design Detectives worked on making Rubber Band Cars, finished their re-designs of their Paper Tables and started their Re-Design Projects. We were joined by Laura from the Memphis Service Center who came down to see what this group of creative young ladies have been doing all week!

COMMUNITY EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES

JUNE 25, 2010

JULY 2010: THE ALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHIER GENERATION
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a partnership between the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, is searching for a select group of young people to serve on our Youth Advisory Board (for 2010-2011) and roll up their sleeves for a few hours a month of critical thinking, engaging conversations, good fun, new friendships, and high-profile leadership.

Applicants must be between the ages of 8 and 17 years old when membership begins July 2010 and live in the United States. Interested youth can visit empowerme2b.org for more information.

Design Detectives - Day 3

Day 3 Update – The Design Detectives took a trip to the Sardis Dam Field Office today and met up with Mr. Dale who is a Civil/Electrical Engineer. Mr. Dale showed us around the Dam and spillway area of Sardis Lake. We got to explore the inside of the Dam’s control room, saw the area that is used to keep the Dam from breaking apart in case of an earthquake and other really neat sites that keep the Dam in working order. Even Mr. Tim our bus driver enjoyed today’s fieldtrip. After eating lunch at Sardis Lake we got back to work and learned about open and closed circuits using lights & buzzers and made sections of a dance pad like the video game Dance, Dance, Revolution. We also had three visitors today: Raleigh and Stacey from the Memphis Service Center and Natalie from the Jackson Service Center. We are looking forward to more visitors during the final three days of Design Detectives.

Girl Scout to Testify at Congressional Hearing on Cyberbullying

Courtesy of GSUSA Blog Posted: 22 Jun 2010 11:07 AM PDT

In testimony to the U.S. House Healthy Families and Communities Subcommittee, Girl Scout Dominique Napolitano, 15, from Long Island, New York, will discuss cyberbulling from a teenager’s perspective. As part of her presentation to the subcommittee chaired by U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), Dominque will explore the challenges young people face in navigating life online and dealing with the bullying that takes place online and through social media. Awesome!

Girl Scouts of the USA is continuing to take the lead in highlighting the importance of online safety for girls, highlighting their innovative online safety campaign called LMK (Let Me Know), launched by Girl Scouts of the USA and Microsoft Windows. LMK (Let Me Know) has been previously featured at the California’s Women’s Conference in Long Beach, CA, and at the Family Online Safety Institute 3rd Annual Conference in Washington DC.

While the full scope of online threats, such as cyberbullying, are difficult to measure, we do know that nearly one in six U.S. children grades six to 10 (that’s 3.2 million students) are victims of online bullying each year, according to the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges. Bullying is not "just a phase" or behavior in which "kids will be kids." The repercussions of cyberbullying can be so grave that at least 13 U.S. states have passed or are proposing laws to make it a crime.
LMK includes an interactive Web site for parents and girls, as well as an e-newsletter for parents. The e-newsletter and parent site are designed to provide parents with guidance and also serve as a tool to help families have open and honest conversations about the dangers that lurk in cyberspace.

Kudos to Dominique!

Design Detectives - Day 2

Today the Design Detectives spent the morning at GE Aviation in Batesville, MS. This was a first for GE Aviation and Girl Scouts Heart of the South. We toured the plant where they make parts for the engines of Boeing airplanes. After the tour we met up with 5 of the plants women engineers from various fields, one was a Chemical Engineer, one an Environmental Engineer, two were Industrial Engineers and the last was a Mechanical Engineer. The Design Detectives were able to learn about what type of schooling is required to be an engineer, how much they earn in their careers and what our new friends do at the GE plant. We spent the rest of the day working on our engineering challenges for the day.