Date: Sun Aug 17, 2:00 PM EDT - Sun Aug 17, 6:00 PM EDT
Category:
- STEM
Level:
- Cadettes,
- Seniors,
- Ambassadors
Think Like an Engineer (CSA)
Sunday, August 17, 2025
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm CST (11:00 pm - 3:00 pm PT, 2:00 pm -
6:00 pm EST)
Journey Preparation:
CSA Think Like a Engineer
Supply List
Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador Girl Scouts will learn how to think
like a designer by participating in three hands-on design
challenges.
You'll earn two awards on this Journey. The
first one is called the "Think Like an Engineer" award. You
earn that for solving problems like an engineer.
The second one is called the "Take Action" award. You earn that for creating a Take Action project that solves a problem in your community and uses what you've learned about engineering and technology. Your Take Action project will make a sustainable difference in the world.
For this Journey, you'll use the Design Thinking Process to Take Action. You'll work as one team to identify a problem, investigate why it happens and who it impacts, brainstorm lots of possible solutions for the problem, then choose one solution to plan out in more detail and bring to life. After you create your Take Action Project, you'll share it with others, just like engineers.
You will complete three (3) Design Challenges for this
Journey. By completing these three means you will have earned the
Think Like an Engineer Badge.
The Take Action Project you will be completing
on your own. You will receive a Google Slides link at the end of the
event that will help you with planning and completing your Take
Action Project.
We have four hours to complete the three design challenges. To
help things run smoother and to help with time, I am asking that you
please set up three stations in your home or wherever you will be
doing the journey so that when I say it's time to do X challenge you
have all of your supplies ready to go.
We won't have time to wait for you to gather
your items. You will need to have them grouped per design challenge
and ready to go.
Questions? Contact Deb Black (dblack@gswrc.org).
