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    • Juniors 4th-5th grade >
      • aMUSE for Juniors >
        • Amuse Optional Activities >
          • aMUSE Interviews
        • aMUSE Journey Take Action Project
        • aMUSE final presentation (Take Action Project) tips
    • Cadettes 6th-8th grade >
      • AMAZE for Cadettes >
        • AMAZE award patch info
        • AMAZE Take Action Project Planning sheet
      • MEdia for Cadettes >
        • Media Award Patch info
        • MEdia Survey
        • MEdia Journey Take Action Project & Follow Up
      • BREATHE for Cadettes >
        • Extra Resources for Breathe Take Action Projects
        • Breathe Interviews
        • Breathe Take Action Project Planning sheet
    • Seniors 9th-10th grade >
      • Mission Sisterhood for Seniors >
        • MIssion Sisterhood Take Action Projects
      • Girltopia for Seniors >
        • Girltopia Award Patches
        • Girltopia Inspiration
        • Girltopia Take Action Project planning sheet & Guide
        • Girltopia - Girl Page
        • Girltopia participants before final session (day 4)
      • Sow What for Seniors
    • Ambassadors 11th-12th grade >
      • Your Voice Your World for Ambassadors
      • Justice For Ambassadors
  • Schedule
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    • Waivers
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    • Testimonials and reviews
  • Take Action Projects
    • Leader/Parent Resources
    • Virtual Take Action Projects
    • Inspirational Projects
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    • BRONZE AWARD >
      • Great Bronze Award examples
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SMART - Specific,  Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and  Time-bound.

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How to use SMART planning to create effective Girl Scout Journey Take Action Projects  ​

Here is a sample of what that looks like. (Breathe journey(environmental theme)
Specific   What  is your issue ?             
Nonspecific The environment, trees 
Specific – Litter at the beach,  recyclables ending up in trash cans, lack of recycling bins, people don’t to know ways to reuse or have knowledge of resources for their non-recyclables, lack of awareness of tree planting programs, need for an increase in green space (starting a community garden), anti-smoking
 
Who is your t
arget  audience ?
Nonspecific  The whole world, people, everybody.
Specific  Three classrooms worth of kids at my school, a specific school service club, the youth group at my church, my cousin’s daisy troop, kids who haven’t started smoking yet, adults who already smoke, kids who text and drive, kids who haven’t started texting yet, kids at an after school program.
 
Measurable  We plan to email or interview in person, an expert about trees (or gardening or recycling or anti -smoking)    We plan to run a workshop with 20 attendees. We plan to send 50 emails apiece and get 500 unique views on YouTube. We plan to get  3 local clubs to post a link to our website or video. We plan to make 100 flyers and give them out at a booth at our school carnival. We plan to  put up 20 posters up at our school to increase recycling.
Achievable  Will you halt deforestation ? Probably not, but you can educate your audience about the importance of rainforests and you could teach them and show them resources to support causes or products that are rainforest friendly.
Realistic   If you plan to work together by email, do you all have email accounts that you check regularly? If you plan  to do research online, do you have internet access? If you plan to meet or go on field trips have you checked with leaders and adults?  
  Time  Bound  We plan to have our flyers done by Nov 1, we want our video edited by Oct 30,  we want to have 400 views of our video by Nov 15,  we plan to  present our video, class or project to 3 other troops by Feb 2.
 
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 Expertise  If they are  going to tell people about an issue, they need to  research so they know why it is important & so they can tell people.  They can do this by researching online or  interviewing more experts or community leaders in their  topic.

Pay it forward/Solving a  problem  While a journey TAP isn’t required to be sustainable, it should address the root cause of an issue and come up with a longer-lasting solution.  It should also contain a pay-it forward component where they ask people to help spread the news or you enlighten them so they change their behavior or habits to make lasting change. 

Advocacy   No matter the project, what I really want girls to gain from this process is a feeling that they cared enough to stand up and do the right thing & get people on board with them. 


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