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Can any Junior badges be worked into the path toward a journey?? We too are contemplating a Bronze, but we'd have to work a journey in and start planning.

We meet as a troop 1.5 times a month. so not sure it will work.

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by "cany they be worked into the path toward a journey" --- do you mean "do any badges satisfy journey requirements?"??  If that is your question, then the answer is "no."  I guess, in truth, it depends how much "connecting" YOU do to pull in the ideas of the journey.  For instance, my troop did Playing the Past (Medieval theme).  In meeting the badge requirements, the girls had to research/learn about the lives of someone who lived in Medieval times.  If I had spent some time discussing the gender differences in medieval times vs. now, that would have fit with the ideas of Amuse (which is about gender and discrimination).  We also did the Flowers, Gardener and Camper badges ... if I had spent time discussing energy and conservation during these badges, I could have counted it toward the Get Movin' Journey and we might have used a service project that we did to spruce up the school to satisfy the Take Action Project for Get Movin' journey.

BUT -- my troop is adamanty opposed to doing the journeys (partly b/c they sound like school and partly b/c the name "journey" sounds long and boring and partly b/c they are intimidated by the requirement of coming up with a "take action project."  Since GS is supposed to be "GIRL LED" -- I feel strongly that they do NOT need to do any journeys.

That said, if you are doing a journey, there are some other councils that have distilled them into two meetings plus a Take Action Project.  http://www.girlscoutsrv.org/volunteers/troop-leaders/junior-leaders/junior-planning-guide/

IMO, leaders have to adjust to making fewer decisions and letting the girls take more decisions as you move up from Brownies to Juniors.  Be cautious and aware of whether your plans are based on the GIRLS goals or your own ideas of what scouts "should" do.  Sometimes the leaders are more committed to the awards than the girls are -- it's o.k. if the girls don't value the journey awards or the bronze award or whatever.  It's not crucial for them to earn any particular award just b/c it exists.  [/quote]

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