SMITHVILLE — Late last year, Girl Scout Troop No. 1147 presented diabetic kits to the Smithville School Board as part of their Bronze award.Â
Girl Scout Juniors in fourth or fifth grade are encouraged to earn their Girl Scout Bronze Award. The process is to explore the community, decide on a project, make a plan of action, put the plan into motion and spread the word.
This is the first step toward earning the top Girl Scout award: the Gold Award.
The fifth-graders created the kits for all five schools — three elementary schools, Smithville Middle and Smithville High. The troop members come from Maple and Eagle Heights elementary schools.
The kits are designed for any diabetic that is experiencing a drop in blood sugar. If a diabetic's blood sugar drops to 70 or below, that individual needs to consume 15 carbs immediately, wait 15 minutes and check sugar levels again. The kit is also gluten free. One of the girls in the troop is diabetic and deals with celiac disease so the creation of the kits was a personal one for the troop.
The kits contain juice boxes, beef sticks, Smarties, Skittles, mints, Dumb Dumb suckers and Skinny Pop popcorn.
Girl Scouts earn Bronze award through health project
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Fifth-graders in Girl Scout Troop No. 1147 Sparrow Koenig, Kinley Bradshaw, Joy Peters, Anastasia Boley and Paisley Archibald present diabetic…
Girl Scouts earn Bronze award through health project
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Anastasia Boley and Paisley Archibald share the various items in the kits as well as present five for each of the Smithville schools in the district.
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