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Girl Scout Juniors build a Gaga Ball Pit in Ridgley

Submitted by Daphne Klocek (Troop months. The Bronze Award is the Ridgely Town Hall meeting last fall
899 member, Centreville, MD) highest honor a Girl Scout Junior and the Town Commission accepted
can earn, and it requires the girls to the proposal. On June 2, the plan that
Girl Scouts do more than just sell
yummy cookies. Each year girls from identify a community need and help they had all worked so hard to create
the Eastern Shore learn skills and produce a solution. was put into action, and with the help
earn badges that help build them into They decided on helping make Ridgely of their dads, the girls constructed

better citizens. In addition to having and neighboring communities a better the pit. Through this process they
fun and learning how to be savvy place to play, and that lead to choosing learned how to draw up plans, take
entrepreneurs, the girls participate in to donate a Gaga Ball Pit to the park. measurements, and utilize basic
many community service projects and They presented their plan and asked construction skills.

work to identify and solve needs in for permission to build the pit at a
their hometowns.
Last month, Girl Scout Juniors from
Troop 869 and Troop 899 joined
together to construct a Gaga Ball
Pit at Martin Sutton Park in Ridgely.
Girl Scouts Charlotte Goss, Zoey
Waidner, Ava Jarrell, Eleanor Beach,
Elsa Gerber, Daphne Klocek worked
together to bring the project to Members of Girl Scout Trops 869 and 899
construct a Gaga Ball Pit at Martin Sutton
fruition. This Bronze Award service

Park in Ridgely. The project was awarded a

project was the culmination of
Bronze Award in honor of the time that the
hundreds of hours of planning and
girls dedicated to planning, prepping and
advocating over the previous nine building the pit.
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