Second Presentation

We presented to a group of Daisy Girl Scouts today, and it went very well! Just like at the library, all of the children seemed to really enjoy our presentation. We actually had to stop one activity because the kids were having too much fun and made too much noise! We also sang a lot of Girl Scout songs, seeing as the girls were Daisies, the first level of Girl Scouts. We heard a lot of great vocal chords out there. We reall enjoyed presenting, and hope the kids had as much fun as we did!


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Presentation Success, and Wrapping up!

So we apologize sincerely about not posting last week; we were on April vacation!  However, we would like to share that our first presentation of our pro-peace workshop was a monumental success!  All of the kids we presented to were engaged in the activities, and seemed to enjoy the games we played.  Hopefully, they were able to take away lessons about how to use and promote peace and kindness in their everyday lives.  With one presentation down, we have one to go!  Next week, we'll present to a younger Girl Scout troop.  At this week's meeting, we started on our Silver Award Final Report forms, writing essay responses about what we did to complete the Silver Award, and what we learned.  We'll keep you posted on next week's presentation results!  Stay tuned!





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Rehearsal

Today was our last rehearsal before our presentation this Thursday.  We ran through our total presentation twice, and divided up all of the duties that go with our kit, such as who says what when.  We are getting very excited, and rather nervous as well.  We think that we're pretty well set for our presentation, and that we're going to nail it; the only thing that could use some work is the volume of our voices. Some of us need to remember to speak up!  But overall, we're well prepared, and ready to go!  Silver Award, here we come!



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Shifting towards Presentations

We finally heard back from someone else, and have set up an official presentation date!  We've been working very hard on our kits, but now we're going to shift our focus to getting our presentations ready.  Jillian is working on another podcast, which we hope to share with you all soon.  It seems like we're finally going to start this project rolling!  We're going to be presenting to a group of Daisy Girl Scouts, and we can't wait to teach them all about peace.  Hopefully they will take what they learn and use it in their everyday lives.

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Assembling The Kits

Today's meeting was pretty much devoted to assembling the necessary materials for our peace kits.  It was an excellent lesson in working together... lots of communication had to happen, to make sure we each knew what the other one was doing!  As of right know, we are working on editing and writing the information that will go into our actual kits.  Trust me, it's a long process.  But all of the information is really meaningful, so it's enjoyable to read.  And it's almost as fun to create pro-peace games as it is to play them!  We have 172 days until our Silver Award is due, so it's crunch time, baby!

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Presentation Update

We finished a plan of our pro-peace workshop; it's pretty cool.  We've set it up like it's in steps, and they're pretty vague.  As of right now, this script is just a skeleton, which we're going to build off of.  We estimate that this workshop would take between 45 minutes to an hour to present.  So, here's our draft...
1.) Introduce ourselves and our mission.
2.) Split the kids into groups, and have each group decide what they think peace is.
3.) Read The Peace Book by Todd Parr.  If everyone thought that peace was this simple, wouldn't life be easier?
4.) Split into same groups, and rework their thoughts of peace, after reading The Peace Book.
5.) Move onto team-building activities.  Part of peace is getting along with everyone.  Team-building activites expand your horizons, and help you come together as a group.
6.) Play the human knot.  Relationships can get complicated.  Peace, kindness, and understanding can help straighten them out.  This is what you learned by playing this game today.
7.) Play Stand-Up.  You guys had to rely on each other to help you stand up.  Trust comes from peace and understanding.

So this is the beginning of our presentation.  We think that this script will drive home our message perfectly: teaching peace, kindness, and understanding to all kids, and teaching them how to be peaceful in their everyday lives.

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Step 6: Develop Your Project

The sixth step in the Silver Award Pyramid is "Develop Your Project." With the development of this blog, we have fulfilled this step.  As we have traveled on this journey, we have developed all three of our projects: the blog, the podcast, and the presentation.  This step included lots of brainstorming... our troop never just does something, we plan it!  This step was the last in our Silver Award, and we're not completely finished with it yet.  We haven't finished the presentation or the podcast, but we will soon!  As this is our last week of posting the Pyramid steps, next week you'll be in for a surprise when you see what we post!

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Step 5: Pick Your Take Action Project

The fifth step on the Silver Award Pyramid is "Pick your take action project."  Well, you're looking at ours!  This step probably took us the most time out of all our steps.  For the longest time, we couldn't figure out how to verbalize all of our ideas into a simple project that people could relate to.  We actually thought of three different projects: a blog, a podcast, and a pro-peace presentation.  We started out with the blog, but then we thought that we should do all we could to spread our message: so now, we are actively working on all three projects.  The blog is almost done, and we hope that all those who see our presentation will check out our activities and posts, as well!
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Our ideas!