In activities throughout a weekend campout, 165 Girl Scouts earned their Space Science badge and the PUNCH Ancient and Modern Sun Watching patch (circled in yellow).
With the support of the PUNCH Outreach program and NASA’s Heliophysics Education Activation Team, Service Unit 654 of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland led a camping trip May 1-3 during which 165 Girl Scouts earned their Space Science badge and Ancient and Modern Sun-Watching patch. The badge and patch were earned over the course of the weekend through a series of activity stations. Girl Scouts of the USA have offered the Space Science badge series for kindergarten through twelfth graders since 2019. The Ancient and Modern Sun-Watching patch uses the PUNCH public Outreach products that are available for everyone and browsable at the PUNCH website (https://punch.space.swri.edu/punch_outreach_overview.php), curated in the patch activities for the Girl Scout experience. This group of K-12 Girl Scouts are the first Girl Scouts ever to officially earn the Ancient and Modern Sun-Watching patch.
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