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Get Ready for Cookie Season by Earning Leaves and Badges

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Daisy LeavesTo prepare for cookie season, Girl Scouts has specific badges for all ages that lead the girls through age-appropriate activities to help them prepare to sell cookies.  Daisies can earn leaves, older girls earn badges, and all of these activities help the girls learn how to interact with customers, set goals, learn about money, as well as to think about how they want to use the money they earn to pay for troop activities and to support charities that make the world a better place.

Here’s more information about the badges and leaves related to the cookie sale for each level.  Complete requirements can be found in each level’s Girl Scout Handbook.  Click here for an overview of the cookie badges from Daisies to Ambassadors.

In addition to these badges, the cookie sale is an ideal opportunity for Juniors to earn their Junior Aide Award.  This award is for Girl Scout Juniors who help lead activities for younger Girl Scouts.  By the time they are in 4th and 5th grade, Girl Scouts are cookie sale masters and they would be experts in helping younger girls learn about the different types of cookies, how to ask people if they want to buy cookies, and how to make change, for example.  To earn the Junior Aide Award, Juniors must help lead activities at three different meetings.  Click here for the complete requirements.

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If you know of a Junior who would like to earn this award, or if you are a leader of a Daisy or Brownie Troop and you would like to invite Juniors to come and help your girls learn about the cookie sale, contact Medford Girl Scouts through this page and we will try to help you make the connection.  https://medfordgirlscouts.org/contact-us/

Medford’s 2015 Cookie Sale Stats

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500ClubCookie sale season has ended and Medford Girl Scouts did a fantastic job selling cookies to raise money for their troops and the causes they support!

In total, 170 girls from 17 troops participated in the sale with a grand total of 27,441 packages of cookies sold.  That’s an average of 161.42 packages per girl!

The Top 3 Selling Medford Troops

  1. Cadette Troop 65007 (Monique O’Connell & Theresa Colbert) – sold 4,801 packages
  2. Junior Troop 71198 (Amy Jayne McCabe & Dee Fagan) – sold 3,000 packages (Troop 71198 combines their sales under one girl’s name and then and donates the recognition prizes to charity.)
  3. Brownie Troop 65456 (Andie Farro & Leigh Kinsella) – sold 2,818 packages

The 3 Top Selling Medford Girl Scouts

  1. Marianne – Troop 65007 – 2,400 packages
  2. Ellie – Troop 65007 – 1,500 packages
  3. Dylan – Troop 65456 – 663 packages

This year, Medford is sending 8 girls to the GSEM 500 Club for selling over 500 packages, other than the 3 mentioned above, our members of the 500 Club are:

  • Lorelai – Troop 65456 – 613 packages
  • Colleen – Troop 71194 – 530 packages
  • Briana – Troop 71194 – 510 packages
  • Nadia – Troop 66255 – 502 packages
  • Jenny  & Abigail (Representing Troop 71198 for their combined sale of 3,000 packages.)

Congratulations to the girls and troops mentioned above, and to all Medford Girl Scouts, for a successful cookie season.  Special thanks to Monique O’Connell for being our Medford Service Unit Cookie Manager and to Amy Jayne McCabe and Sammy Parris for being our Medford Cookie Booth Sale Coordinators.  We couldn’t have done it without you!