This year was my second year participating in the externship program. My host this year was the Silver Sage Girl Scouts. I learned an incredible amount during my time working this summer. Girl Scouts is a program that focuses on helping girls become well-rounded individuals. The activities and opportunities that this program provides to young girls is far above my initial understanding of Girl Scouts.

My initial task was to create a spreadsheet breaking down the highest awards and leadership awards. This included defining the award, the steps the participants needed to fulfill the award requirements, and examples of the awards.

The next task that I focused on was creating a booklet that contained all of the information accumulated in the spreadsheet. The goal of this booklet is to provide a go-to document that participants and their adults can refer to in assisting participants in accomplishing the highest and leadership awards.

I very much enjoyed working on these tasks! One of the reasons I enjoyed it so much is that I learned an incredible amount about the Girl Scouts program. I had no idea the level to which this program supports their participants. Another aspect that I enjoyed about my externship this year is that I learned a lot about using Canva, which is the program I used to create the booklet. Learning about Canva has been one of my goals over the last year and this was the perfect opportunity for me to accomplish this goal.

I hope that the Girl Scouts program can continue to use the work I performed!