Twilight at Home Goals - Deliver a "remote day camp" experience for Girl Scout Campers and Caddies
- Ensure 2020 is a bridge year to 2021 for Twilight Camp (maintain continuity)
- Execute some kind of leadership experience for Caddies
- Help our respective service units maintain momentum across the summer
Twilight at Home Guiding Principles
We know we'll have some activities that may require parent help (using scissors for a craft; using microwave for a snack). We definitely want to do some things as a big virtual group, like flag raising, recognizing Higher Award recipients, and "streaming live now - Haka Dance Lessons with Mrs. Sticha!"). Our communities are suffering from "home school fatigue" and "Zoom fatigue".. Most activities should be something that happens in the back yard, in a girl's room, perhaps proctored and encouraged by caddies, but doable by the girl. - Minimize Parent Proctoring. No accidental home school for Daisies and Brownie
- Minimize Online Meetings. We don’t want camp to be a six hour Zoom call.
- Minimize Cost. $10? $20? With a T-Shirt and Patch? Ish?
- Asynchrous - Some activities can be real time but most should be doable at the girl's pace in an afternoon
- Shared Success - We need to figure out a forum/story/blog/web service platform to share pictures, stories, completed work, and give praise and atta-girls.
- Inclusivity - This will be our hardest pivot. Not every girl has access to technology, or a back yard, or hot glue guns. Normally we can solve that by providing it at camp. Our planning should embrace a continuum, with camp achievable through a packet in the mail but complimented with access to online experiences.
- Girl Led/Girl Proctored - Have Caddies do as much as possible. If we design something, let's have a girl lead it/make an example/record a video/make a one-pager. They will need guard rails and adult supervision on meeting deadlines.
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