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Tag Archives: challenge
Sparks CAN Snowshoe!
This re-post is a great reminder of what girls – and Guiders! – can achieve on a moonlit winter’s night. Three years ago at my first monthly District Guider meeting, one of our (amazing!) 50+ year Guiders advised our group … Continue reading
Posted in Camping & Outdoors
Tagged challenge, outdoor activities, sparks, winter camping, winter fun
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What I got from my trip to the Sea of Cortez
This summer, I was fortunate to be able to participate in the Girl Guides of Canada Sea of Cortez trip. The trip description promised an exciting week aboard a ship in the Sea of Cortez with a patrol of Mexican … Continue reading
Posted in Global Guiding, Uncategorized
Tagged challenge, environment, international travel, pathfinders, rangers
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Ready for some adventure?
The applications and fact sheets for the Girl Guides of Canada 2015 travel opportunities are now online, and if you are eligible I hope you apply! I recently returned from the Newfoundland and Labrador Adventure 2014, my daughter has travelled … Continue reading
Posted in Global Guiding
Tagged challenge, international travel, leadership, pathfinders, rangers, travel
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Doing it all – and then some – at camp
What can you do at camp? Pretty much anything. Our friends at Caddy Lake Camp in Manitoba outline just some of the amazing experiences campers can expect this summer. When can we start packing?! Did you know going to camp … Continue reading
Guiding Underwater
Sitting around the dining room table at one of our weekly meetings before the end of summer last year, our Pathfinders were discussing all the things we wanted to do the following year. To me as a leader we had … Continue reading
Posted in Awesome Activities
Tagged challenge, meeting ideas, pathfinders, rangers, scuba
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How engineering could take you to Mars
March is National Engineering Month (NEM), which shines a spotlight on the role of engineering in society and (hopefully!) inspires future engineers to pursue engineering as a career path. As a soon-to-be mechanical engineering graduate at the University of Guelph, … Continue reading
Posted in Awesome Activities
Tagged challenge, female role models, meeting ideas, National Engineering Month, STEM
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Sparks CAN Snowshoe!
Three years ago at my first monthly District Guider meeting, one of our (amazing!) 50+ year Guiders advised our group that the district had a huge cache of snowshoes at our disposal. It was my first year as a Guider … Continue reading
How to Explain the Beauty of Winter Camping
“Why would anyone do that!?” That was the reply when I told a dinner companion that in 10 hours I’d be heading to the mountains of Manning Park, British Columbia, to go winter tent camping in record low temperatures, along with … Continue reading
We CAN Sing Challenge and Community Service Event
Being in Girl Guides allows us to work together as a team while planning a project that will bring about awareness for those who are less fortunate. Our We CAN Sing project was one of the ways that we as … Continue reading
Posted in Awesome Activities
Tagged challenge, community service, pathfinders, we can sing
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Our Guiding Tradition
Guides love crafts! So for their Christmas party, we decided to make a cute elf of felt and cardboard rolls. I was new to this unit and checked that we had glue guns, but didn’t realize we were really short … Continue reading
The Value of Friendship
One of my favourite parts of working with the National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC) is the creativity it allows. I’ve worked with groups of students and adults of all different ages and explored a variety of influences on body-image, … Continue reading
Lone Guiding Rocks!
Do you know any girls who give you grief about wearing their uniform, or having to sit beside so-and-so at a meeting? Is this maybe you, a leader, some weeks when you’re tired and stressed and unprepared? The next time … Continue reading
Adopt a District: Twinning Challenge
This post was originally published on Guider Shannon’s website Girl Guides For Change. Thank you Shannon for allowing us to share this with our audience! —————————————— I have had the opportunity to be a part of a really cool project … Continue reading
Challenges 101: My First Run-in [with PR]
In somewhat of an impromptu decision, I’d agreed to sit on the Public Relations committee here in Saskatchewan, with very little (okay, I’ll admit it … with absolutely no) PR experience. I was looking forward helping to promote the wonderful … Continue reading
The Challenge? Love Yourself
“Does this dress make me look fat?” How many times have you uttered this phrase, or one similar? This, along with the knee-jerk reaction you can have to a friend decrying her big behind – which is often commiserated with, … Continue reading