I've made preliminary inquires regarding the establishment of a Girl Scout merit badge or other achievement award in online encyclopedia improvement. There is precedent for such a program in the 1960's "Wing Scouts" Girl Scout aviation program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Scout#Wing_Scouts_in_Northern_California
San Francisco's Girl Scout camp, Camp Ida Smith, is due to be returned soon from the Department of Public Works after renovation of the Lake Merced pumping station -- see p. 4, topic 12 of http://www.girlscoutsnorcal.org/documents/08-07-07-MM-No-Co.pdf -- presenting an opportunity for the re-commissioning ceremony.
It is still not clear to me what is necessary to establish a new achievement award, but I would ask that list members in the US contact their local Girl Scouts USA Council in support of the proposal: http://www.girlscouts.org/councilfinder/
For those of you outside of the US, please contact the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts -- http://www.wagggs.org/ email wagggs at wagggsworld dot org -- and/or the USA Girl Scouts Overseas -- http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/overseas/committees/ or email kathryn.m.owen at eur dot army dot mil.
Richard, how have the New York Chapter efforts to contact the Girl Scouts been going?
We're still in the process of working out the possibility of Wikipedian-In-Residence stuff.
The topic of merit badges did also come up awhile back, too :)
Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:21 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
I've made preliminary inquires regarding the establishment of a Girl Scout merit badge or other achievement award in online encyclopedia improvement. There is precedent for such a program in the 1960's "Wing Scouts" Girl Scout aviation program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Scout#Wing_Scouts_in_Northern_California
San Francisco's Girl Scout camp, Camp Ida Smith, is due to be returned soon from the Department of Public Works after renovation of the Lake Merced pumping station -- see p. 4, topic 12 of http://www.girlscoutsnorcal.org/documents/08-07-07-MM-No-Co.pdf -- presenting an opportunity for the re-commissioning ceremony.
It is still not clear to me what is necessary to establish a new achievement award, but I would ask that list members in the US contact their local Girl Scouts USA Council in support of the proposal: http://www.girlscouts.org/councilfinder/
For those of you outside of the US, please contact the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts -- http://www.wagggs.org/ email wagggs at wagggsworld dot org -- and/or the USA Girl Scouts Overseas -- http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/overseas/committees/ or email kathryn.m.owen at eur dot army dot mil.
Richard, how have the New York Chapter efforts to contact the Girl Scouts been going?