February 6, 2025 • 17 mins
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## Episode Summary
Makayla Hoefs shares the inspiring story behind her Girl Scout Gold Award project, *"Coding for Cookies."* This innovative initiative bridges Girl Scouts and robotics, offering young girls hands-on STEM experiences through engaging events. Makayla discusses how her project evolved, collaborating with the Minnesota and Wisconsin Lakes & Pines Council, and making the program sustainable for future generations. Listen to hear about the impact she's made, the challenges she faced, and how she encourages girls to explore STEM fields.
## More from Makayla
My name is Makayla Hoefs from Becker, Minnesota. I am a senior at Becker High School, and I plan on going to a four-year college next fall to get my master's degree in electrical engineering.
I have been a Girl Scout for about ten years. Throughout my time in Girl Scouts, I have earned my Bronze and Silver Awards and have completed many service projects. Last year, I was a Girl Scout delegate for my service unit.
I am also involved in Student Council, National Honors Society, archery, and robotics. This is my fourth year on the Becker Robotics team, *C.I.S. 4607.* I am part of the electrical department and facilitate *Failure Modes and Effects Analysis.* My time in robotics has inspired me to become an engineer and a woman in STEM.
## What You'll Learn in This Episode
- How *"Coding for Cookies"* introduced over 100 Girl Scouts to robotics
- The collaboration between Makayla's robotics team and the Girl Scout council
- Challenges in creating sustainable robotics kits
- Makayla's advice for Gold Award candidates and key lessons from the process
## Follow Makayla's Journey
Check out the resources from her project at [Coding for Cookies](https://sites.google.com/frc4607cis.com/cis4607/coding-for-cookies)
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Walter (00:00):
The hearts of gold podcast is brought to you by the grow and share network produced by off the Walter media.
Sheryl (00:00):
Welcome to hearts of gold. Today. We have Michaela with us. Hi.
Makayla (00:00):
Hi.
Sheryl (00:00):
Can you tell us about your Girl Scout Gold Award project?
Makayla (00:00):
So the project I did was called Coding for Cookies, and Coding for Cookies is a program that was started on my robotics team actually about two and a half years ago.
It started with me and another robotics teammate and she was really interested in getting girl scouts included in robotics. And since I was a girl scout myself, I kind of helped her out with the project. I'm reaching out to troops and inviting them to come to our robotics facility so we could teach them about robotics.
So, our 1st meeting with another girl scout troop, we taught them about. How to program a little FLL Lego robot and we taught them how to drive an FTC robot and we taught them about our high school competition robot and the Girl Scouts really loved it and enjoyed it. And we continue doing those sessions for local Becker and Big Lake troops for about a year.
And we taught over 100 Girl Scouts that way, but since we didn't. Like, reached out to most of the local troops in Becker and big lake. I kind of wanted to expand past Becker and continue to teach more girl scouts. So, in order to do that, I took the project on as my gold award and my. Goal for the gold award was to get it.
So Girl Scout troops and Girl Scouts individually could sign up for coding for cookies events. So they can actually like request to do them. And so the way I was able to make that happen was I worked with the, the Girl Scout council, Minnesota, Wisconsin, lakes and pines. And we did 2 sessions together where they handled the registration for the Girl Scouts.
So they put it all over their webpages and their program guides and got Girl Scouts to sign up through that event as an actual Girl Scout sponsored event. So, more Girl Scouts across the state, and even outside, they were able to sign up for those events and actually participate in coding for cookies in that way.
And in order to make it sustainable and make it so the Girl Scout Council could do more coding for cookie sessions by themselves, me and my robotics team created these portable robotics kits that included all of the materials needed for hosting a coding for cookie session. And we actually donated one of those kits to the Girl Scout Council.
So they own it now, and they're going to make it a program on the go. So Girl Scouts can actually sign up for those events and have the opportunity to do Coney Trick Cookie sessions all across the state.
And can you tell us a little bit about your council? Wisconsin Lakes and Pines is not a council that is.
As big as other councils, and so it doesn't get a lot of recognition. So can you tell us a little bit about your council? Because I think that your experiences and your project can really help some of the other councils that have similar distribution of Girl Scouts in, different areas.
It's a big part of Minnesota is Minnesota, Wisconsin, Lakes and Pines Council.
And I mentioned that our robotics kit was turned into a program on the go. So what that is, is they have like a certain kit or certain materials that the Girl Scout Council staff people have and then Girl Scouts can sign up. For those program on the goals and like, request to have like, a session with 1 of those.
So, once they have troops or girl scout signed up for that, that's 1 girl scout council staff members actually go out to those girl scouts location and are able to teach them in that way. So we do have some like bigger events, like bigger council events, but things like program on the go make it easier since we are kind of distributed over like Minnesota and makes it easier for girls to actually individually sign up for things like that.
And they actually get more opportunity to do those events.
Sheryl (00:04):
Yeah, your council is similar to a lot, especially like in the mountainous in the Western mountains and stuff where you have lots of small towns spread along a, around a large area of land, and council still has to serve all of those, even if they aren't close to the main headquarters.
Makayla (00:04):
For sure, that's why like events like programs on the go are really helpful and it's really helpful that those staff members are willing to travel so long because I know the staff members that came to my coding for cookies events, they were 1 of them was from Duluth and 1 of them was from like, Brainerd or something.
So they were driving like, hours and hours to get to my little town of Becker. So it's really cool to see those council members have like, the initiative to go and do that.
Sheryl (00:05):
What work went into working with Council in order to create that program on the go so that Council had that for longer term?
Makayla (00:05):
I kind of made it so we could figure out a certain date, you know, that would work for, for Council members to come and Watch the session too, but I also making those kits was very difficult for me and my robotics team was helping me because I needed to make sure that anybody could like, pick it up and use it.
Not just people with robotics experience. So that's where I got the help of like very technical people on my team who are good at making the FTC robots in the programming. So we programmed everything so they can just like, turn it on and basically use it like it is. And I also had the. Some of the people on my team that were like, good at writing and talking to people, I hope I have them help me write a step by step instruction manual, basically that went along with the kit.
So, any council member, or even troop leader, anybody can pick up the kit in the step by step and figure out how to use all of the materials that are contained in it.
Sheryl (00:06):
1 thing I found when I was researching your project, I was really impressed with your service unit. Because your service unit, you can't tell by the page how active they are, but clearly there is at least a service person, service unit person that is very technology driven.
And I was really impressed that they were able to support you in order to create a page within their website for you to share your project. Can you tell us how that came about?
Makayla (00:06):
My robotics team has their own web page so they share a bunch of stuff about the robotics processes that we have and also certain information for like buying apparel for our team or when other teams are researching our teams, that's where a lot of that information is.
So there's like one main mentor on my robotics team who kind of does all this stuff with the webpage. So I kind of got his help a lot with figuring out how to edit it. And he gave me access to create my own webpage on there. So after he helped me out was figuring all out how to actually put it together.
I was able to do whatever I wanted with my own webpage, so that was really cool opportunity that my team gave me.
Sheryl (00:07):
Yeah. Can you tell us about some of those resources? That are on that page in case, you know, somebody from outside of your council has an interest in trying to duplicate your program.
Makayla (00:07):
Some of the information that I have I have like the basic of like what coding for cookies is and then I have some statistics from Like women in stem and I have the resources I do have on there I have a few links one of them is the robotic step by step that I mentioned before so as A robotics team were to borrow 1 of our robotics kits because we, our team still has a few of them and we lend them to other robotics teams.
So they can teach Girl Scouts in their local communities too. So, if they were ever to want to borrow 1 of our kits, they can. Email us at the contact I have on the Web page, and then use the links that I have on that Web page for the step by step to use all of the materials in the kit. Another link that I have on there is the Girl Scout badge requirements.
So, you know, each level of Girl Scout badges have different requirements to earn them. And it depends on the age level of the Girl Scout. So we, me and my teammate who started coding for cookies with me kind of looks through each. Badge requirement for each level of Girl Scouts, and we kind of made sure that coding for cookie sessions would hit all of those requirements.
So the cookies binder is what it's called on the web page that has, like, a breakdown of what all of the requirements are for each badge. And I also have a presentation on there that is basically an introduction of what coding for cookies is, and how robotics team could easily implement it on their team and in their community.
Sheryl (00:09):
What was your biggest challenge during your project, and how did you overcome it?
Makayla (00:09):
Having to like, make sure, like the step by step was so everybody, anybody else could use it. So I guess part of that was making sure that I rely on some of my other teammates instead of me just doing everything myself. Because I am a person who I, I like to get things like done like.
Myself, and I completed totally, but there is, like, especially the step by step in the robotics kit, where it just took a long time and there wasn't a way to just do it fast and easy because it needed to be sustainable. So, I really needed to learn how to rely on my team members who. Some of them were way better at making the robots, and some of them were way better at writing the step by step, so it was hard for me to learn to rely on them, but it was really helpful once I was able to delegate some of those tasks and actually work with my team to do that.
Sheryl (00:10):
There's two teams here. You talk about your team. Your robotics team and then also the people that helped you with your gold award. So clearly there's crossover. There's members from your robotics team that helped you. Who else helped you?
Makayla (00:10):
Mostly was to look for my robotics team. Some council members helped me to with my gold work.
And I guess my mom helped me a lot too was like, reaching out to troops because she's a troop leader. So she was able to help me with reaching out to troops and stuff like that.
Sheryl (00:10):
Do you have a special memory or something really surprising that happened to you during your project you'd like to share?
Makayla (00:10):
It wasn't really during my project, but after I had earned my gold award I was at robotics and that's when I did my end presentation. over a zoom meeting for earning my gold award. And after they told me that I earned it, I went out and my whole robotics team was waiting for me with a bunch of gold balloons and everything.
And they were all there to congratulate me. And that was so amazing. So that was probably the best memory I have. It was so sweet of them.
Sheryl (00:11):
Oh, I love that. What did you learn about the gold award process itself that you didn't know before you started and could be helpful for others that are looking to earn the gold award?
Makayla (00:11):
The initial proposal process takes a long time. It's not just 1 proposal. You're proposing. It's done because I had somebody who was working with me. I did my whole proposal and turn it into her and she had provisions for me to fix. And then. I fixed some and then turn them in again, and she would have revisions for me to fix again.
And we went back and forth for a long time, just doing revisions and fixing things and making it. So I would get approved right away. So, I guess I wasn't aware that it was going to be so much of going over the initial proposal again. But I guess, like, if you're going to be doing your gold award, I don't want, don't be discouraged by that because it's not that your proposal is bad or anything.
We're just, you're just making sure that it's going to be perfect. So, when you do actually have your meeting in front of your council people, the committee, they're going to no doubt let you do your project.
Sheryl (00:12):
I'm a mentor in our council that fulfills that role that you were just describing where we go back and forth during the proposal process.
And I really try and encourage the girls and I tell them the proposal really is the hardest part of the project because once you're done with the proposal, you know what your project is and now it's just going out and doing you can learn a lot from doing that proposal. What did you learn from working on a proposal that you think is a skill that will help you in your future?
Makayla (00:12):
Revising and like doing a lot of research to because with the proposal, it required a lot of like, researching, like, the root cause of your problem that you're trying to fix or help.
So, like, I needed to do a lot of a lot of research on women in stem. And the gender gap in the stem industry, so obviously that's really interesting to learn about, but also the process of doing that research and getting sources is going to be really helpful for the future.
Sheryl (00:13):
Measurability is also a component of the gold award.
And with everything that you've shared, I bet you had some really interesting measurements. What were some of your measurements? What were some of your outcomes?
Makayla (00:13):
So, the session results from the session coding for cookie sessions that we did during my gold award, most of the Girl Scouts gained a basic understanding of FIRST Robotics and FIRST Robotics is like the organization that my robotics team competes under.
So, they got a basic understanding of what that is, and they all seem to gain an interest in STEM fields because after each session, we gave them. An evaluation form. So they filled them out and we got an experience rating of a, of at least six out of 10. So like the lowest rating we got was six, and most of those ratings were nine outta 10 for the session.
And we got a net promoter score of 77%. And they all learned how to code Lego robot, drive an FTC robot and operate an FRC robot. And many of the girls reported that their favorite thing was, like, the hands on learning, like, actually being able to drive their own robot or actually use the laptop to code the Lego robot.
And we got a 97 percent positive Girl Scout leadership experience rating. So yeah, most of the girls felt like they could have had more confidence in STEM after participating in our sessions.
Sheryl (00:15):
Well, congratulations on those outcomes.
Makayla (00:15):
Thank you.
Sheryl (00:15):
Can you tell us about what other Girl Scout experiences you've had?
Makayla (00:15):
I always think back to the Girl Scout camps that I go to because I have a troop of like five girls and most of them are like my best friends. So going to camps with them has been so fun over the years, but also working on service projects with them has been really fun too.
Sheryl (00:15):
What else would you like to share with the audience?
Makayla (00:15):
If you're a Girl Scout interested in maybe going and doing your gold award, or you have a little bit of an interest in it, I just don't want you to be discouraged by how much work it looks like, because I know 80 hours of service looks like a lot and it is a lot. But it's, it's a lot of fun to do when it's a project that you really care about.
It is fun to do. And then afterwards you can see the impact that you made with your project. So it is a lot of work, but it's really worth it. So if you're interested in it at all, I encourage you to like have that initiative to go and do it because it's a great opportunity.
Sheryl (00:16):
How do you make your s'mores?
Makayla (00:16):
Well, I cook the marshmallow until it's like golden brown, and then I have, you know, the Hershey chocolate and the two graham crackers.
Sheryl (00:16):
Well, thanks for joining us today.
Makayla (00:16):
Yeah, thank you. Appreciate it.
Sheryl (00:16):
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Sheryl (00:00):
Welcome to hearts of gold. Today. We have Michaela with us. Hi.
Makayla (00:00):
Hi.
Sheryl (00:00):
Can you tell us about your Girl Scout Gold Award project?
Makayla (00:00):
So the project I did was called Coding for Cookies, and Coding for Cookies is a program that was started on my robotics team actually about two and a half years ago.
It started with me and another robotics teammate and she was really interested in getting girl scouts included in robotics. And since I was a girl scout myself, I kind of helped her out with the project. I'm reaching out to troops and inviting them to come to our robotics facility so we could teach them about robotics.
So, our 1st meeting with another girl scout troop, we taught them about. How to program a little FLL Lego robot and we taught them how to drive an FTC robot and we taught them about our high school competition robot and the Girl Scouts really loved it and enjoyed it. And we continue doing those sessions for local Becker and Big Lake troops for about a year.
And we taught over 100 Girl Scouts that way, but since we didn't. Like, reached out to most of the local troops in Becker and big lake. I kind of wanted to expand past Becker and continue to teach more girl scouts. So, in order to do that, I took the project on as my gold award and my. Goal for the gold award was to get it.
So Girl Scout troops and Girl Scouts individually could sign up for coding for cookies events. So they can actually like request to do them. And so the way I was able to make that happen was I worked with the, the Girl Scout council, Minnesota, Wisconsin, lakes and pines. And we did 2 sessions together where they handled the registration for the Girl Scouts.
So they put it all over their webpages and their program guides and got Girl Scouts to sign up through that event as an actual Girl Scout sponsored event. So, more Girl Scouts across the state, and even outside, they were able to sign up for those events and actually participate in coding for cookies in that way.
And in order to make it sustainable and make it so the Girl Scout Council could do more coding for cookie sessions by themselves, me and my robotics team created these portable robotics kits that included all of the materials needed for hosting a coding for cookie session. And we actually donated one of those kits to the Girl Scout Council.
So they own it now, and they're going to make it a program on the go. So Girl Scouts can actually sign up for those events and have the opportunity to do Coney Trick Cookie sessions all across the state.
And can you tell us a little bit about your council? Wisconsin Lakes and Pines is not a council that is.
As big as other councils, and so it doesn't get a lot of recognition. So can you tell us a little bit about your council? Because I think that your experiences and your project can really help some of the other councils that have similar distribution of Girl Scouts in, different areas.
It's a big part of Minnesota is Minnesota, Wisconsin, Lakes and Pines Council.
And I mentioned that our robotics kit was turned into a program on the go. So what that is, is they have like a certain kit or certain materials that the Girl Scout Council staff people have and then Girl Scouts can sign up. For those program on the goals and like, request to have like, a session with 1 of those.
So, once they have troops or girl scout signed up for that, that's 1 girl scout council staff members actually go out to those girl scouts location and are able to teach them in that way. So we do have some like bigger events, like bigger council events, but things like program on the go make it easier since we are kind of distributed over like Minnesota and makes it easier for girls to actually individually sign up for things like that.
And they actually get more opportunity to do those events.
Sheryl (00:04):
Yeah, your council is similar to a lot, especially like in the mountainous in the Western mountains and stuff where you have lots of small towns spread along a, around a large area of land, and council still has to serve all of those, even if they aren't close to the main headquarters.
Makayla (00:04):
For sure, that's why like events like programs on the go are really helpful and it's really helpful that those staff members are willing to travel so long because I know the staff members that came to my coding for cookies events, they were 1 of them was from Duluth and 1 of them was from like, Brainerd or something.
So they were driving like, hours and hours to get to my little town of Becker. So it's really cool to see those council members have like, the initiative to go and do that.
Sheryl (00:05):
What work went into working with Council in order to create that program on the go so that Council had that for longer term?
Makayla (00:05):
I kind of made it so we could figure out a certain date, you know, that would work for, for Council members to come and Watch the session too, but I also making those kits was very difficult for me and my robotics team was helping me because I needed to make sure that anybody could like, pick it up and use it.
Not just people with robotics experience. So that's where I got the help of like very technical people on my team who are good at making the FTC robots in the programming. So we programmed everything so they can just like, turn it on and basically use it like it is. And I also had the. Some of the people on my team that were like, good at writing and talking to people, I hope I have them help me write a step by step instruction manual, basically that went along with the kit.
So, any council member, or even troop leader, anybody can pick up the kit in the step by step and figure out how to use all of the materials that are contained in it.
Sheryl (00:06):
1 thing I found when I was researching your project, I was really impressed with your service unit. Because your service unit, you can't tell by the page how active they are, but clearly there is at least a service person, service unit person that is very technology driven.
And I was really impressed that they were able to support you in order to create a page within their website for you to share your project. Can you tell us how that came about?
Makayla (00:06):
My robotics team has their own web page so they share a bunch of stuff about the robotics processes that we have and also certain information for like buying apparel for our team or when other teams are researching our teams, that's where a lot of that information is.
So there's like one main mentor on my robotics team who kind of does all this stuff with the webpage. So I kind of got his help a lot with figuring out how to edit it. And he gave me access to create my own webpage on there. So after he helped me out was figuring all out how to actually put it together.
I was able to do whatever I wanted with my own webpage, so that was really cool opportunity that my team gave me.
Sheryl (00:07):
Yeah. Can you tell us about some of those resources? That are on that page in case, you know, somebody from outside of your council has an interest in trying to duplicate your program.
Makayla (00:07):
Some of the information that I have I have like the basic of like what coding for cookies is and then I have some statistics from Like women in stem and I have the resources I do have on there I have a few links one of them is the robotic step by step that I mentioned before so as A robotics team were to borrow 1 of our robotics kits because we, our team still has a few of them and we lend them to other robotics teams.
So they can teach Girl Scouts in their local communities too. So, if they were ever to want to borrow 1 of our kits, they can. Email us at the contact I have on the Web page, and then use the links that I have on that Web page for the step by step to use all of the materials in the kit. Another link that I have on there is the Girl Scout badge requirements.
So, you know, each level of Girl Scout badges have different requirements to earn them. And it depends on the age level of the Girl Scout. So we, me and my teammate who started coding for cookies with me kind of looks through each. Badge requirement for each level of Girl Scouts, and we kind of made sure that coding for cookie sessions would hit all of those requirements.
So the cookies binder is what it's called on the web page that has, like, a breakdown of what all of the requirements are for each badge. And I also have a presentation on there that is basically an introduction of what coding for cookies is, and how robotics team could easily implement it on their team and in their community.
Sheryl (00:09):
What was your biggest challenge during your project, and how did you overcome it?
Makayla (00:09):
Having to like, make sure, like the step by step was so everybody, anybody else could use it. So I guess part of that was making sure that I rely on some of my other teammates instead of me just doing everything myself. Because I am a person who I, I like to get things like done like.
Myself, and I completed totally, but there is, like, especially the step by step in the robotics kit, where it just took a long time and there wasn't a way to just do it fast and easy because it needed to be sustainable. So, I really needed to learn how to rely on my team members who. Some of them were way better at making the robots, and some of them were way better at writing the step by step, so it was hard for me to learn to rely on them, but it was really helpful once I was able to delegate some of those tasks and actually work with my team to do that.
Sheryl (00:10):
There's two teams here. You talk about your team. Your robotics team and then also the people that helped you with your gold award. So clearly there's crossover. There's members from your robotics team that helped you. Who else helped you?
Makayla (00:10):
Mostly was to look for my robotics team. Some council members helped me to with my gold work.
And I guess my mom helped me a lot too was like, reaching out to troops because she's a troop leader. So she was able to help me with reaching out to troops and stuff like that.
Sheryl (00:10):
Do you have a special memory or something really surprising that happened to you during your project you'd like to share?
Makayla (00:10):
It wasn't really during my project, but after I had earned my gold award I was at robotics and that's when I did my end presentation. over a zoom meeting for earning my gold award. And after they told me that I earned it, I went out and my whole robotics team was waiting for me with a bunch of gold balloons and everything.
And they were all there to congratulate me. And that was so amazing. So that was probably the best memory I have. It was so sweet of them.
Sheryl (00:11):
Oh, I love that. What did you learn about the gold award process itself that you didn't know before you started and could be helpful for others that are looking to earn the gold award?
Makayla (00:11):
The initial proposal process takes a long time. It's not just 1 proposal. You're proposing. It's done because I had somebody who was working with me. I did my whole proposal and turn it into her and she had provisions for me to fix. And then. I fixed some and then turn them in again, and she would have revisions for me to fix again.
And we went back and forth for a long time, just doing revisions and fixing things and making it. So I would get approved right away. So, I guess I wasn't aware that it was going to be so much of going over the initial proposal again. But I guess, like, if you're going to be doing your gold award, I don't want, don't be discouraged by that because it's not that your proposal is bad or anything.
We're just, you're just making sure that it's going to be perfect. So, when you do actually have your meeting in front of your council people, the committee, they're going to no doubt let you do your project.
Sheryl (00:12):
I'm a mentor in our council that fulfills that role that you were just describing where we go back and forth during the proposal process.
And I really try and encourage the girls and I tell them the proposal really is the hardest part of the project because once you're done with the proposal, you know what your project is and now it's just going out and doing you can learn a lot from doing that proposal. What did you learn from working on a proposal that you think is a skill that will help you in your future?
Makayla (00:12):
Revising and like doing a lot of research to because with the proposal, it required a lot of like, researching, like, the root cause of your problem that you're trying to fix or help.
So, like, I needed to do a lot of a lot of research on women in stem. And the gender gap in the stem industry, so obviously that's really interesting to learn about, but also the process of doing that research and getting sources is going to be really helpful for the future.
Sheryl (00:13):
Measurability is also a component of the gold award.
And with everything that you've shared, I bet you had some really interesting measurements. What were some of your measurements? What were some of your outcomes?
Makayla (00:13):
So, the session results from the session coding for cookie sessions that we did during my gold award, most of the Girl Scouts gained a basic understanding of FIRST Robotics and FIRST Robotics is like the organization that my robotics team competes under.
So, they got a basic understanding of what that is, and they all seem to gain an interest in STEM fields because after each session, we gave them. An evaluation form. So they filled them out and we got an experience rating of a, of at least six out of 10. So like the lowest rating we got was six, and most of those ratings were nine outta 10 for the session.
And we got a net promoter score of 77%. And they all learned how to code Lego robot, drive an FTC robot and operate an FRC robot. And many of the girls reported that their favorite thing was, like, the hands on learning, like, actually being able to drive their own robot or actually use the laptop to code the Lego robot.
And we got a 97 percent positive Girl Scout leadership experience rating. So yeah, most of the girls felt like they could have had more confidence in STEM after participating in our sessions.
Sheryl (00:15):
Well, congratulations on those outcomes.
Makayla (00:15):
Thank you.
Sheryl (00:15):
Can you tell us about what other Girl Scout experiences you've had?
Makayla (00:15):
I always think back to the Girl Scout camps that I go to because I have a troop of like five girls and most of them are like my best friends. So going to camps with them has been so fun over the years, but also working on service projects with them has been really fun too.
Sheryl (00:15):
What else would you like to share with the audience?
Makayla (00:15):
If you're a Girl Scout interested in maybe going and doing your gold award, or you have a little bit of an interest in it, I just don't want you to be discouraged by how much work it looks like, because I know 80 hours of service looks like a lot and it is a lot. But it's, it's a lot of fun to do when it's a project that you really care about.
It is fun to do. And then afterwards you can see the impact that you made with your project. So it is a lot of work, but it's really worth it. So if you're interested in it at all, I encourage you to like have that initiative to go and do it because it's a great opportunity.
Sheryl (00:16):
How do you make your s'mores?
Makayla (00:16):
Well, I cook the marshmallow until it's like golden brown, and then I have, you know, the Hershey chocolate and the two graham crackers.
Sheryl (00:16):
Well, thanks for joining us today.
Makayla (00:16):
Yeah, thank you. Appreciate it.
Sheryl (00:16):
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Walter (00:16):
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