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Hanging out with our troop co-leader-Kris:)

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Hanging out with our troop co-leader-Kris:)

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Wrapping gifts-helping families in need-go GS

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Wrapping gifts-helping families in need-go GS

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12/05/21 ❄️⛸

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Conquering the "U"-part 2

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GS team posing with their instructors:)

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Scouts in full concentration mode! 🛹

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I think I did something wrong....

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Bronze Award Project-cooking meals for community fridge in Germantown-10/3/21

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Bronze Award Project-cooking meals for community fridge in Germantown-10/3/21

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Awesome work everyone! Thanks for working together to provide meals for the community! Congrats scouts on completion of your Bronze Award.

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Only got 6 days cus I didnt have 7 more days as a junior when I started this

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The snack I made was a party mix with cheetos doritos apples and penut butter

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Here is what my vision board looks like at the end.

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Her powers are super optimisim if its not suposed to be actual powers and stuff-with-light if it is

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Share these posters so more people will get vaxxed and wear masks properly!

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I have already done every step, my take action is making posters that encourage people to get vaxxed and wear their masks properly. I will share my super hero in a diffrent post.

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Box 5!

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Box 2!

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Box 1 :)

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Emma my sister (who i did it on)

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FINALLY BOTH PARTS DONE sorry i kept you waiting for a WHOLE MINUTE

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Agent of Change - the Power of Team - how to create a superhero

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Agent of Change - the Power of Team - how to create a superhero

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use this video for a little inspiration in creating your own Super Girl Story.  tell us below in 5 sentences about your Super Girl. her name , her super powers, what problems she can solve.  Thanks for sharing!

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Creative Writing Idea: Invent Your Own Superhero

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Agent of Change - The Power of team - Teamwork

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Agent of Change - The Power of team - Teamwork

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Can you post the team and community videos for the Agent of Change Journey?

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Can you post the team and community videos for the Agent of Change Journey?

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Love Your Park is your portal to getting involved in Philly's parks. From regular volunteer workdays to citywide celebrations and year-round community organizing, Love Your Park brings Philadelphians together to clean, green, and celebrate our public green spaces. We love small neighborhood parks and large watershed natural areas alike. We are here for Philly's parks.

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Love Your Park is your portal to getting involved in Philly's parks. From regular volunteer workdays to citywide celebrations and year-round community organizing, Love Your Park brings Philadelphians together to clean, green, and celebrate our public green spaces. We love small neighborhood parks and large watershed natural areas alike.

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Some are still reaching skyward, others are gone but have amazing tales to tell, and one was the subject of a decades-old mystery.

The stench of shed gingko berries has been compared to "dirty gym socks, vomit or poop." During the two months a year when the fruits fall, you should avoid strolling through a gooey mess of them on the sidewalk and then going anywhere important wearing the same shoes.

But while the gingko tree is notorious for the unpleasant reek its berries bring each October and November, it's also a gorgeous tree, with fan-shaped leaves that twirl to the ground when the air cools, sometimes still a lively green, other times creating a deep gold blanket. And it's not unusual for most of a gingko tree's leaves to fall in a single dramatic day.

People love gingkoes (aside from their smell). Their nuts are a popular food in China, Japan and Korea (and in Asian markets in Philadelphia). And their fallen leaves make for a lovely photo backdrop. Here in Philadelphia, we've got a special connection to the gingko: The first of the species in the United States came to our city in 1784, to William Hamilton's Woodlands estate (now known as the Woodlands Cemetery in West Philadelphia).

Prior to that, monks in Chinese monasteries had cultivated the tree since the 11th century. And before that, the gingko survived two of Earth's five mass extinctions, including that of the dinosaurs, per the Seattle Japanese Garden. Because the gingko's plant order dates back more than 200 million years, it's often called a "living fossil." Renowned botanical researcher Peter Crane surmises that "there is no other tree with a prehistory so deeply intertwined with that of our planet."

So it only seems fitting that Philadelphia, home to the first gingko tree in North America, now boasts the continent's oldest living specimen. You can find the ancient gingko in Southwest Philadelphia's Bartram's Garden.

If all of this tickles your inner arborist - or if you're just itching for a reason to get out of the house - read on for a guide to some of the coolest and oldest trees in Philadelphia.

1. The oldest gingko in North America

You'll find the aforementioned Ginkgo biloba in Bartram's Garden in Southwest Philadelphia. It's one of the first three ginkgo trees sent to the country (the first two went to William Hamilton's estate) and was gifted by Hamilton to naturalist William Bartram in 1785. It's the sole survivor of the three.

The tree is located close to the main Bartram's Garden buildings, downhill along the cement path past the courtyard adjacent to the barn. (You can use this handy map.) You'll find a placard marking it.

2. Bartram's Oak

While we're in Bartram's Garden, I'll highlight another of its trees: a Bartram's oak, or Quercus heterophylla. This tree is nowhere near as old as the gingko, but it was planted in memory of John Bartram (William Bartram's father) in 1939, during a convention of national park executives in Philadelphia. John Bartram first observed the specimen, named after him, near his garden on the banks of the Schuylkill River sometime in the 1740s. Bartram's oak is a hybrid, and its seeds often resemble those of one or the other of its parents - the red oak and the willow oak. You'll find this tree near the Ann Bartram Carr Garden.

3. The Franklinia Tree

One more Bartram's tree before we leave the garden: The Franklinia alatamaha is the Garden's signature tree. The species was first discovered by John and William Bartram along the Altamaha River in southern Georgia in 1765. William brought some of its seeds to the garden in 1777 and named the plant after his father's friend Benjamin Franklin. His seed stealth saved the tree from extinction: It hasn't been found in the wild since the early 19th century, and all current franklinia are descended from those grown by the Bartrams.

4. The Moon Tree

You are now leaving Bartram's Garden ... and heading to the moon. Okay, not exactly. But almost as exciting, our city was once home to a tree grown from a seed that had visited the moon, by way of astronaut Stuart Roosa, who carried it and others on one of his galactic expeditions. Roosa then helped plant the seed in Washington Square during the Bicentennial on May 6th, 1975, to "mark the contributions forests have made to our way of life," according to NASA. Sadly, the original Moon Tree, a sycamore ( Platanus occidentalis), died in 2008. Its base remained until 2011, when it was replaced with a "clone" - a tree grown from one of its cuttings (which apparently isn't doing so hot either.) You can find plenty of old photos right here and on NASA's website.

5. The Penn Treaty Elm

It's said that more than 300 years ago, in 1682, William Penn made a peace treaty of friendship with the Lenni Lenape Nation under a large American elm tree in what is now Fishtown's Penn Treaty Park. During the British occupation of Philadelphia, from 1777 to 1778, colonists hired a military unit to protect the tree, according to Ursinus College. The elm was eventually torn from the ground by a storm in 1810 and temporarily replaced with a monument. Generations of offspring of "The Great Elm" have been planted throughout the region, including at Ursinus and Haverford College.

In 2010, Philadelphia residents and members of the Nanticoke Leni-Lenape Tribal Council and the Penn Treaty Museum board met in the park to plant a seedling.

6. The Buist Park Sophora

This must be one of the most beloved trees in Philadelphia, as proven by the fact that residents value it more than parking spaces. (They chose to forgo precious spots to preserve it.) The sophora ( Styphnolobium japonicum, a.k.a. Japanese pagoda tree) sits on Hobson Street just north of Buist Park in Southwest Philadelphia and dates back at least to 1919, when the city arboriculturalist at the time, Samuel Baxter, wrote an article expressing his concern for the fact that the tree was endangered by housing construction. It's still going strong today, and it's a sight to behold.

7. "The Great Beech"

The Wissahickon Environmental Center's "Great Beech" (a European beech, or Fagus sylvatica) dates back to the mid-19th century. It was planted between 1853 and 1862 by Richard Wistar, according to Friends of the Wissahickon. It's one of the largest trees in Philadelphia (the largest is a katsura tree in Morris Arboretum), but after more than 150 years, its health is declining. The good news? "When a beech tree's roots are damaged or the main tree dies, the root system begins to send up sprouts," says Philadelphia Parks and Recreation staffer Joe O'Connor. "The Great Beech has produced several sprouts already, and one has been selected by the Wissahickon Environmental Center to be the successor to the Great Beech. In this way, the Great Beech will live on."

You can find a map to the tree right here.

8. Pennypack Creek's Prickly Ash Trees

Prickly ash trees, or Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, a.k.a. Hercules' Club, are known for their sharp, bumpy bark and are sometimes called "toothache trees." You can find them at the beginning of the trail at the Pennypack Creek Environmental Center. You might not want to touch them, though.

9. The Resilient Washington Square Sycamore

"There is a peculiar sycamore along 6th Street, just outside the walls of Washington Square Park," says the Department of Park and Recreation's O'Connor. "Despite its inopportune real estate, the tree is thriving and could be the largest sycamore in Center City. It's just one of many large shade trees still standing in the square from an 1816 planting program."

There may not be anything particularly remarkable or historic about this tree, O'Connor acknowledges, but it serves as "a testament to the power and longevity of planting programs, like the modern-day TreePhilly giveaway program by Philadelphia Parks and Recreation."

10. The Mysteriously Missing "HISTORIC TREE"

This one isn't so much about a historic tree as it is about a historic tree sign, one that for years puzzled motorists and pedestrians on City Avenue in Overbrook. The placard points from City Avenue down 71st Street to ... nowhere. For decades, residents and travelers puzzled over the so-called historic tree, until the Inquirer solved the mystery last year: It no longer exists.

The sign was erected as part of a program during the Bicentennial celebration in 1976 to mark trees that existed when the Declaration of Independence was signed. A spokesperson for the Department of Parks and Recreation told the Inquirer he wasn't sure when the tree was removed, but it was believed to be a large American hackberry.

Something worth noting beyond the solved conundrum, though: With or without placards, historic trees are all around us. You might walk by one (and probably have) without even knowing. Want to identify a tree you see? Visit the PhillyTreeMap online. And if you're looking to take a historic tree tour, check out this field guide to local trees.

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10 of the Coolest, Oldest and Most Storied Philadelphia Trees

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A message about water conservation from Brownie Troop 70006

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Philly's Migratory Bird Take Action Project

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Philly's Migratory Bird Take Action Project

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We can help save migratory bird’s lives by taking a few simple steps.

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What is Lights Out? What is involved in the program? How do I participate? Learn more through our FAQs.

Lights Out is a voluntary program that involves turning off and/or blocking as many external and internal building lights as possible at night, when bird migration is occurring during the spring and fall.

Download the fact sheet and learn more about "Lights Out Philly", scheduled for April 1- May 31 and August 15 - November 15 this year. Turn off lights from midnight to 6 a.m. and helps save birds and money.

Whether you are a building owner, tenant, business, or resident, you can join us in helping to prevent night-time bird collisions during the months many are migrating. Sign up to participate in "Lights Out Philly"

Partners

A Bird Safe Philly program, Lights Out Philly is the result of a collaborative effort led by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, Audubon Mid-Atlantic, Valley Forge Audubon Society and Wyncote Audubon Society. In addition to the City of Philadelphia's Office of Sustainability, the Bird Safe Philly initiative is endorsed by the Building Owners and Managers Association Philadelphia, the Building Industry Association of Philadelphia, and PECO.

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Garlic Toast Pizzas, This was SO good I am definitely making this again!

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Garlic Toast Pizzas, This was SO good I am definitely making this again!

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Energy Pledge

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For those on the aMuse Journey, one goal was to interview a woman and I hoped to be able to get you articles of women telling their own stories in their voice. Here is Hevesh’s story!   It all started from being bored one afternoon.

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Draw My Life: My YouTube/Domino Story - Hevesh5

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For as long as there have been mountains to scale, there have been women who are trailblazers-resilient, innovative women who confronted challenges head-on and created a better world for everyone. Sounds like a lot of Girl Scouts we know!

This Women's History Month, we celebrate the strong change-makers who came before us and those who continue to push for a more just, equitable society. Each Wednesday, we'll highlight a few of the go-getting women who made and continue to make strides and bring about positive change. Read on for your weekly dose of inspiration-including, of course, stories about amazing Girl Scout alums!

Inventing is all about developing something new, and these innovative leaders created a path for future generations to follow.

Dr. Ellen Ochoa

The first Latina astronaut to go to space, Dr. Ellen Ochoa is the veteran of four space flights and has logged nearly 1,000 hours in space. Her most well-known flight is the nine-day mission aboard the shuttle Discovery to study the Earth's ozone layer. Today, she is the director of the NASA's Johnson Space Center and a true role model for young people everywhere.

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin, a Jewish woman who grew up in wartime Europe, is an unsung pioneer in scientific research. Her work was pivotal in discovering the structure of DNA. Unfortunately, she was not initially given credit for her contributions, and the world did not learn about her groundbreaking efforts until after her death in 1958.

Ynez was in her 50s and divorced when her therapist suggested she join the Sierra Club. As she discovered her passion for the natural world, she enrolled in science classes at U.C. Berkeley and joined local expeditions. Ynez collected as many plant specimens on her first solo expedition as Darwin had on his most famous trip. She continued her work in Latin American countries and Alaska, collecting more than 145,000 specimens and discovering more than 500 plants in the course of 13 years. More than 50 plant species are named after this little-known biodiversity scientist.

The Explorers

It takes bravery and persistence to explore new territory and blaze new trails-literally or figuratively-and these women have it!

Sacagawea

A legendary figure in the American West, Sacagawea served as a guide and interpreter for Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition to explore the land of the Louisiana Purchase. Her knowledge and leadership helped the famed explorers survive harsh winters and hunger, among other challenges they faced on a rough journey.

Junko Tabei

Outdoor adventurer Junko Tabei was not only the first woman to climb Mount Everest, but was also the first woman to reach the highest peak on every continent. Later in life, she became a powerful advocate for the environment and was named director of the preservation organization Himalayan Adventure Trust of Japan.

Rue Mapp

Outdoor Afro founder and CEO-and Girl Scout alum-Rue Mapp is one of the country's most influential voices on the importance of Black leadership in the outdoors. In 2015, Mapp was appointed as one of nine voting commissioners of the California state parks and won the 2019 Heinz Award in the Environment category for developing and training a national network of Black American conservation leaders.

The Advocates

Speaking up for others and showing up when it matters most-as Girl Scouts' founder Juliette Gordon Low knew, girls who discover the power of their voice can go on to change the world. Here are just a few more women who show us what it means to persevere and make a difference.

This proud Girl Scout alum's work to improve social and economic conditions for farm workers, immigrants, and women led to the founding of the United Farm Workers, through which Dolores fought for better working conditions and benefits to cover unemployment and healthcare. In 1993, Dolores was inducted in the National Women's Hall of Fame. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.

The youngest Nobel laureate ever, Malala survived an attack by a Taliban gunman on her way to school in Pakistan when she was 11. She has since become a leading advocate for girls' education, inspiring millions around the world. Her immense courage shines through in her philosophy: "When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."

Proud of her Native American heritage and passionate about caring for the future generations of her community, Wilma Pearl Mankiller made history when she became the first woman elected as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Through her career, she was an agent for change and helped make drastic improvements to the health care and education systems within the Cherokee Nation, and helped raise visibility for its people as a whole. In 1998, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her leadership and activism to better the lives of Native Americans.

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Women's History Month: A Celebration of Strong, Resilient Trailblazers Everywhere

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What did the Fox Toast say?

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World's Most Asked Questions: What Is Energy?