Now that you’re three weeks (half way) into your senior project experience, are you answering your essential question?
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Essential Question: How can I create an active and supportive community for high school Girl Scouts?
I wrote about this a bit last week, but I have a different essential question than when I started. I figured that if my project was centered around providing resources for Girl Scouts, I should take their advice and see what types of resources they want. I’m excited about moving into May and seeing how I can start building that community more and more.
One of the biggest challenges so far is promoting my project. My project strongly relies on other people, and that can be hard at times. For example, I’ve sent out my form to over 100 girls, and I got 20 responses. Out of those 20 responses, 12 girls gave me permission to send them updates about my project. Out of those 12 girls, 10 joined the Discord server. I’m not complaining because I knew this would happen, but I’m hoping I can build a strong community out of the small group, and hopefully grow it.
I’ve done a lot of reading through various leader handbooks from different councils, but none of them really touch on the community part of Girl Scouts, mostly just how to run meetings and come up with activity ideas. In the next week or so, I am going to reach out to the leader of my CIT program who is in charge of camp activities to see her view on this topic. Camp is a very social place, and I think she would have some great advice/ideas.
Good point about growing your small community—you only need to connect to a few people for your project to be successful.
I think that it’s cool how you are creating a community on discord for girl scouts. For the community part, do you think that you’ll end up writing something that could be universally for handbooks? Or maybe like a guideline for how to run meetings and activities or just ideas.