By Isabella Zarate
As the school year comes to an end the second and third grade girls of troop 2191 are staying busy.
On Friday, May 6, 12 girls and their troop leader, Katrina Huber, got together to learn about engineering while also helping the community. As part of the girls’ Take Action Project they were tasked with learning about design and problem solving.
The girls then got to choose an activity that would help them make something out of what they have learned.
Troop leader Huber explained, “they decided they wanted to help the Village and they wanted to help the birds.”
Thus, on the first Friday in May the 12 members of troop 2191 came together to create bird houses and bird feeders that they would donate to the Village.
“The girls were really excited about helping the birds,” Huber mentioned.
As the Girl Scout Law mentions, it is valuable to use resources wisely. Doing just that, the girls and their families gathered recycled material that would otherwise be thrown away and used it in the construction of their bird houses and feeders.
“It was really neat watching the girls collaborate with one another,” Huber said.
“Using different resources and putting together their thoughts [the girls] were talking with each other animatedly about what birds wanted and how they could help. . . it was a really neat meeting.”
Once the bird houses and feeders were completed Huber surprised the girls as she had scheduled for them to present their final projects to the Village Board
Huber recalled telling the girls, “You are going to present them to the people in charge of the whole town.”
“They were like ‘Wow!’”
