Date: Sat Sep 20, 2:00 PM EDT - Sat Sep 20, 6:00 PM EDT
Category:
- STEM
Level:
- Juniors,
- Daisies,
- Brownies
Think Like an Engineer (DBJ)
Saturday, September 20, 2025
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm CST (11:00 pm - 3:00 pm PT, 2:00 pm -
6:00 pm EST)
Journey Preparation: DBJ Think Like a Engineer Supply List
Daisy, Brownie, and Junior 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).
