Girl Scouts Information
These webpages are a resource for Girl Scouts interested in the geosciences as well as a starting point for geoscientists interested in working with Girl Scouts. The pages are currently under construction, so please have patience with us as we continue to add more ideas, activities, and information. If you have a specific problem that is not addressed by these pages, please feel free to email Elizabeth Goeke with your question.
The following are the areas in which the Association for Women Geoscientists (AWG) see as their role in contributing to the education of Girl Scouts within the geosciences:
- Wider Opportunities
- Career fairs/Activity fairs
- Resources for geoscience try-its, badges, and interest projects
For AWG members interested in proposing a Wider Opportunity
In 1998, AWG co-sponsored the "Nebraska Rocks" Wider Opportunity with the Homestead Girl Scout Council and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. "Nebraska Rocks II" will be run in the summer of 2003 and is sponsored by the same groups. AWG members provided support during the planning and implementation phases by helping to determine appropriate geoscience-related activities for the participants, supplying geoscience professionals to lead different portions of the Wider Op, and arranging for several geoscience graduate students to act as mentors to the Girl Scouts. The Association for Women Geoscientists Foundation also provided financial support for the Wider Op.AWG is interested in helping more councils consider geoscience-related Wider Opportunities. If interested, please contact Elizabeth Goeke to start the discussion. Learn more about Wider Ops.
Career Fairs/Activity Fairs
AWG is a national organization that has members across the United States. If your council or troop is interested in being in contact with a local geoscientist, AWG would like to arrange that connection. Due to privacy issues, we can not allow our membership directory to be open to the general public, but if you contact Elizabeth Goeke, she will facilitate the connection.
Try-its, Badges, and Interest Projects
This is the section that is currently being constructed. Unfortunately, it takes time for us to go through, analyze, consider, and suggest background material and project ideas for each one of the geoscience-related try-its, badges, and interest projects. We will be continually adding to this section as time goes on, but if you have a specific badge that your troop would like to try that we have not yet posted online, please feel free to email us for our suggestions and whatever help we can provide.We will also be adding a list of geoscience-related webpages that can be used as resource material once they have been "vetted" by one of us. If you have any suggestions for this list, please feel free to send them to us.
Contact Information
The main contact at the current moment for the AWG-Girl Scout connection is Elizabeth Goeke. Elli is a graduate student at the University of Iowa, which means that she is in contact with the rest of the world easily during the Fall and Spring Semester, but harder to find during university breaks. If it’s the middle of a school break, please be patient if you do not receive an answer immediately.
Elizabeth Goeke
Dept. of Geosciences
121 Trowbridge Hall
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
egoeke@space.mit.edu
