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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My girls will be 3rd grade brownies -- they did one jouney this year as 2nd graders (I wasn't the leader). I will take over in Aug., so I'm trying to get info. on whether we should do a journey again or not. Looking at the ideas for try-its on line gave me lots of ideas... and then I realized that a lot of those try-its (now badges) are retired. I found one really cool one called "Every Vote Counts" from another council. With the presidential election this year, I'd like to do something related to voting/citizenship and get that badge if it's o.k. to do so. The space explore badge, math fun, and science in action are others that I'd like to do. All are discontinued/retired. I can see how doing the discontinued badges might not be feasible down the road. Just thinking of the upcoming year .... I don't want to cause a problem for my brownies if wearing the discontinued badges is forbidden. [/quote] I could be wrong but -- I don't think wearing the discontinued badges is a problem. It's just that as they run out of the badges, no more are being produced, so the girls won't be able to buy them anymore. They are coming out with new badges for most of the age levels. They are listed in the Girls Guide to Scouting. But I canot find an actual list of them. Here's a discussion of a few of them: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/10/12/141276815/new-girl-scout-badges-offer-different-choices-to-smart-cookies This one sounds really ... touchy feely.... [quote]Perhaps the most intriguing-sounding new badge is one called The Science Of Happiness. Developed with help from a psychology researcher, it calls on girls to work for one month on a strategy generally believed to increase personal happiness — Niehaus suggests, for instance, being forgiving towards others — and then evaluating its effects on their psychological well-being.[/quote][/quote]
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