Congratulations
to Girl Scout troop 4026! As featured in
Juneau Empire, the troop, based in
Alaska is off to Kauai, Hawaii on a 10-day field trip that they
sponsored themselves. Four years of
hard work has paid off for this group of exceptional girls.
Each year,
a portion of the Girl Scout cookie money they earn they get to put aside and
decide as a group how they want to use.
After three years of saving, the troop leader Melanie Coleman, and
co-leader Tina Strong asked the rest of the troop where they would choose to go
with the money had saved. Hawaii was the unanimous answer.
The girls
took on many fundraising projects to meet their goal, including bake sales,
cookie sales, babysitting and events such as the clean-up at the Chapel by the
Lake, litter free trash pickup sponsored by John Logan, CPA, and helping run the annual overnight field house
event to name a few. They even made and
sold their own hand-stitched ski hats, pajama pants and other hand-made
products.
The girls
will snorkel, explore and hike the surrounding countryside of Kauai, Hawaii,
while staying in a villa overlooking Anini Beach. One of their goals is to also
meet up with their sister scouts who live on the island.
The
adventures don’t stop there however, as the troop plans to travel to Europe and
visit the historical sites Pax Lodge in London and Our Chalet in Switzerland,
which also serve as two of the Girl Scouts world headquarters. This motivation
comes from watching their fellow troop 4009 of Juneau travel to these locations
after they graduated High School.