Duz the girl scout council check to make sure you did the interest projects for the Gold Award?

Question

My mom said that they go over everything u did for the entire Gold Award project when u do your final project. is that true???

Answer 1

Yes.  Don't be a slacker.

Answer 2

Eagle Scout candidates are carefully examined on several levels- locally, council-level, and national-level. If there is ANY glitch or question, it must be cleared up before the process will continue.

They verify and reverify every detail to protect the integrity of the award.

I have no doubt the Girl Scouts do the same to protect their even more rarely-awarded honor.

Answer 3

If you haven't already picked your mission, check out the following website...it's really easy and rewarding...

www.thepencilproject.com

Answer 4

i know you have to put down the interest project and have to get it signed. they are really strict when it comes it leadership hours. and just so you know for it to count as leadership you need to actually be in charge and lead. leadership and community service is different. a good leadership thing is helping younger troops.

i have not gone to the final project yet but i went to the approval.

Answer 5

Every GS Council does things slightly differently, but one thing that seems common is a Gold Award committee that evaluates each girl's project individually, including reviewing the paperwork she submits.  They'd probably clue in pretty quickly if big chunks of work were missing.  It would probably be BEFORE your project was even approved, that's when they usually do the initial approval, then they'll go over more paperwork after the project.  And even if the Council committee doesn't, hopefully whoever your Gold Award Advisor is would pick up on it sooner.

But the other part of the issue is the whole idea of the GS Gold Award is about living the GS Law, and if you're just asking if you'd get *caught* making up requirements, not even worrying about the deeper issues of not being honest (duh), or fair (to girls who actually DID the work), considerate and caring (of the time others put in, of the time the committee puts in, trying to pull one over on them), courageous and strong (it IS a lot of work to earn the award - that's what makes it such a big deal), responsible for what you say and do (again, duh), respecting yourself or others (and, again, hopefully pretty obvious), respecting authority (yeah, another obvious one), and making the world a better place (the world doesn't need more people looking for shortcuts yet still wanting to get rewarded)... I left out friendly and helpful and using resources wisely... and even those could be twisted in there somehow.

I'm not trying to be rude, just pointing out how abhorrent the idea of trying to find ways to get out of doing the work is to the whole point of the GS experience.

Answer 6

Not really. I mean, if they have reason to believe you just totally didn't do it, then they might look into it a little, but they really don't care too much about IP's. They care about the project. And the project doesnt even have to be successful. As long as you DID it, it could have failed miserably but you tried and you still put in hours.

Leadership hours are more important than just IP's. As long as the IP has been signed off on, thats about as far as they go, but I would DEFINITELY keep the records because when it comes to the tedious paperwork at the end it might be helpful to have some records of your IPs so you can talk about some of them in your essay and stuff.