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The IBPS Senior Girl Scouts was established in 1998, we started with sixteen girl scouts and three adult leaders. Our troop has been drawing tremendous attention from our community ever since and it is becoming one of the biggest Girl Scout troop there are. Leaders witnessed many girls transitioning into successful young adults. Celebrating the 20 th year anniversary of our Senior Girl Scout troop will recognize all the accomplishments made by the scouts, adult leaders and parents over the years.
We can start off with the first remarkable achievement made by Melissa Lin, recipient of The Future Woman of Distinction Award in year 2008, this award is given to one Ambassador Girl Scout in New York City. Furthermore, since the launch of IBPS Girl Scouts, we have had 19 gold award recipients.This award is the highest honor a Senior or Ambassador Girl Scout can achieve, the project gives the scouts an opportunity to learn more about a topic they care about globally or even in their community.
Our troop has scouts ranging from age 12 to 18. To insure communication between girls of all ages, we break the girls into 5 patrols with 1 adult leader. We meet on Friday night for indoor meetings and we usually have outdoor meetings on Sundays. We meet monthly with all of the adult leaders, committee chairperson, senior patrol leaders and patrol leaders to discuss about the programs and pick the activities. The adult leaders provide support and guidance. The activities consist of temple events, indoor meetings, outdoor activities and community services other than temple. We also follow Girl Scout Council badge programs designed according to the rank: Cadette, Senior and Ambassador.
Other than the Girl Scout Law and Promise, ¡§The Three Acts of Goodness¡¨ (say good words, do good deeds and think good thoughts) are principles that the IBPS Senior Girl Scout troop follows. The importance of these words impacts every meeting we have, regardless of it taking place within the temple or outside. Buddhism teaches that the source of unwholesome karma comes from our body, speech and mind. Therefore, in our cultivation, we should start from these three areas. We encourage our girls to continue to practice ¡§The Three Acts of Goodness¡¨ in the future and hopefully it will affect our future immensely.