05/16/15: End of Year Gymnastics Party

Half of the pictures are a blur but the girls had a blast at their end of year party!

Meeting #18: 05/06/15

What a fun meeting! We had a visit from a Pharmacologist, Karen, who walked the girls step by step through the process of making their own bath fizzies. Hands on home science is clearly very interesting . . . this project had everyone's attention! 

We finished the meeting by passing out the hard earned and much anticipated cookie sale rewards. It was like the holidays watching the girls open their bags to get their goodies!

04/25/15: Girl Scout Day with the Society of Women Engineers at WVU

We had a family attend the SWE event at WVU this weekend. They enjoyed a "gravity globe" and experimenting with centripetal force with not only jello in a cup being spun in circles but also with a spinning balloon containing a penny.

Another fun activity was a rocket that blasted off from straws!

04/16/15: Globetrotters Game

The Globetrotters put on quite a show and in spite of some bad officiating, they beat the Washington Generals :) The girls were laughing for hours!

Meeting #17: 04/15/15

The Brownies finished 3 of 5 projects toward earning their Home Scientist badge and Daisies got fired up for working on their Science badge for the next meeting.  

With the help of a super-chilled brine solution (rock salt + ice) we made ice cream using sugar, cream and vanilla:

While shaking our ice cream bags there was time to check out the flower garden we planted in the fall:

"Cheese Man" helped with our mentos geyser: 

We wrapped up the meeting making slime with Borax, glue and water. Thank you girls for all of the fun and thank you volunteers for helping measure and mix and clean up!

The girls were pretty excited to get a thank you plaque from several members of the army who enjoyed the cookies our girls donated. They enjoyed some of the pictures the guys sent along too!

And look who dropped off the cat scratch pads to Animal Friends of WV!  Thanks so much!