Jordin Sparks

Jordin Sparks won American Idol.  With her money, she went over to Africa to give mosquito nets to children.  In Africa there are mosquitoes that give away really bad diseases when they bite you.  A mosquito net is like a canopy that hangs over your bed (or the floor because people in Africa are really poor) and stops mosquitoes from biting you when you are asleep.  The only bad part is that the mosquitos can bite you when you are awake. 

--By Morgan

Selena Gomez

In Girl Scouts we are doing a project on American women Hero.I’m doing Selena Gomez.Selena Gomez was born on 22 July 1992 in Grand Prairie,Texas,USA.Her nick name is Sel or Selly.She started out on Barney and Friends and was on so much more.Selena’s best known role is Alex Russo on Wizards of Waverly Place.She sighed a record deal in Holly Wood before her 16th birthday for an album due summer 2009.One of her personal quotes are “Be yourself always, there’s no one better.

--By Kassity

Julliete Gordon Low

                  Julliete Gordon Low is the founder of girl scouts.If she had not founded girl scouts,it might not exist. During Julliete’s childhood her nickname was “Daisy.”Julliete Low married a very good man named “Andrew Gordon Low.”Hewas a very great,kind,and nice man.When they got married they moved into a very nice house in Savannah,Georgeia this house is now known as the Andrew Low house.Then a couple streets over from the Andrew Low house,is the Julliete Gordon Low birthplace.Both of the houses are very large in size,and very pretty inside and outside.

--By Kayla

Kate Gosselin

     Kate Gosselin is very brave.She decided to create a TV show called Jon And Kate Plus 8. Jon and Kate had a set of girl twins named Cara and Maddy. After the twins she had six kids all at once,their names are Hannah, Joel, Collin, leah, Aidan, and Alexis. Kate Gosselin gave birth to all eight of those kids.  A lot of people are giving Kat a hard time about she and Jon’s divorce.  I feel very bad for Kate and wish people would think about the good things Kate did that helped her family, instead of maybe the one or two things that she could have done better.

--By Jasmin

Photo Credits:

1.http://earsucker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/jordin_sparks.jpg

2.http://static.blogstorage.hi-pi.com/…Selena-Gomez-diz-que-nao-precisa-de-um-namorado.jpg

3.http://www.artsjournal.com/outthere/juliette%20gordon%20low.jpg

4. http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/hpbNwaTgRcK…/8fHBlHnoKjR/Kate+Gosselin

The juniors are presently working toward their Power of One Badge.  It is the first in a series of three badges in the Change your World program.  We have been learning about our own individual “powers” as girls scouts, getting to know ourselves better and what we can accomplish by helping others in our every day worlds. 

We also began researching other women heroes (or heroines) from history, our community, and even amongst our own families.  This is meant to be a fun exercise they will complete by our next meeting by doing an interview with a woman from their family or researching about a woman in history – and her accomplishments.  (Did I hear someone say GOOGLE her?)

As we pool our information together in the coming weeks, the juniors will be learning more about other women that have accomplished great things, using their power to change our world.  These same women will be able to inspire our juniors to work toward doing the same – making a difference where they can – even today at the tender age of junior girl scouts.

Submitted by Katherine S.