For more information about the listings in this book, please visit gsnetx.org/programpartners

PROGRAM PARTNER GUIDE

2019-2020

1 About this book

Girl Scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. This mission can be accomplished with the support and assistance of many program partners. As an integral part of the community, Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas is proud to partner with local businesses, organizations, and community members to deliver the Girl Scout Leadership Experience to our girls in fun and unique ways.

We encourage our volunteers to take advantage of our program partners for badge earning workshops, exciting field trips, and engaging experiences. Let this book be your guide to additional program opportunities for your troop. In addition to the book, visit our website gsnetx.org/programpartners for the most up-to-date information about our partners. New partners are being added all the time — you won’t want to miss out!

If specific age level is not listed, and for more complete badge offerings, visit the program partner webpage or contact the program partner directly.

Fall/Winter event registration for council-hosted events is open now at gsnetx.org/events

Questions? Please reach out to us at [email protected].

Table of Contents Art & Drama...... 3 Engaging & Fun Excursions...... 5 Exercise & Sports...... 6 Health & Cooking...... 7 Life Skills...... 8 Outdoors...... 9 STEM...... 12

2 Symphony Orchestra ART & DRAMA Dallas Will Travel: 40 miles Abrakadoodle North Texas 214.871.4025 Allen [email protected] 972.455.8180 mydso.com [email protected] All Girl Scout troops, groups, families and abrakadoodle.com/tx-north-texas friends will receive discount tickets to any Abrakadoodle brings art onsite through our concert in the 19-20 season. mobile art program. Awards Earned: Music Fun Patch Awards Earned: Daisy: Tula, Rosie; Brownie: Painting, Potter; Junior: Drawing Dynasty Dance Academy Dallas Acro Duo Courtney & Scott Will Travel: 25 miles Dallas 214.643.6468 Will Travel: 120 miles [email protected] 214.729.8774 ddatexas.com [email protected] Building leadership, teamwork, and expression facebook.com/AcroDuoCourtneyandScott/ through dance training and performances. Love the circus? Interactive circus performances and circus workshops are Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site available. Workshops are $30 for 2 hours and Denison include a fun patch. Call for performance quote. Will Travel: 50 miles Workshops are offered in partnership with Soar 903.468.8908 Creative Studios. [email protected] Awards Earned: Fun patch visiteisenhowerbirthplace.com This program uses presidential and patrotic Avant Chamber Ballet history to build leadership skills. Dallas Awards Earned: Brownie: Celebrating 214.871.5000 Community [email protected] avantchamberballet.org Holman Pottery Join us for kid-friendly performances! See Plano website for show details. 972.424.9982 [email protected] Bombshell Dance Project holmanpottery.com Dallas Brownies make a hand-built pot and glaze a Will Travel: 30 miles tile that they have created. Juniors through 214.683.5385 Ambassadors make a pot on the potter’s wheel [email protected] along with making one by hand. bombshelldanceproject.com Awards Earned: Brownie: Potter Dance and creative movement classes for all ages - no previous dance experience required! Make it & Take It Jewelry Awards Earned: Brownie Dancer; Junior: Dallas Staying Fit, Junior Practice with a Purpose 214.361.7019 [email protected] Dallas Museum of Art Make different kinds of jewelry! Learn the basic Dallas uses of different kinds of beads, the tools, the 214.922.1312 findings, and the materials for stringing. Also, [email protected] see how one designs a necklace, bracelet, or dma.org earrings. Classes consist of making two pieces Explore the galleries with a family gallery guide, of jewelry with all the supplies and design enjoy free art making in the Art Studio on the assistance provided. first and third weekends of the month, engage Awards Earned: Junior:Jeweler with local artists and the community in the interactive Center for Creative Connections gallery space, and much more!

3 North Texas Performing Arts SPARK! Plano, Frisco, Fairview Dallas Will Travel: 15 miles 214.421.7727 972.571.7626 [email protected] [email protected] sparkdallas.org ntpa.org SPARK! provides children from second grade Our Girl Scout Workshops are designed to high school with a fully immersive creative to develop communication, creative, and environment and hands-on learning that performing arts skills. Workshops are 90 develops their self-definition as creative minutes and cost $10 per Girl Scout (minimum individuals. Through an endless roster of seven girls.) Add a live theatrical performance workshops and pop-up activities, students for an additional $10. exercise their creativity and learn from creative Awards Earned: Performance, Storytelling, and experts, innovators, and artists. Manners Badges The Art & Drama Centre Theatre Plano Metropolitan Ballet Plano Plano Will Travel: 100 miles 972.769.0017 214.810.3228 [email protected] [email protected] planometballet.org artcentretheatre.com Special Girl Scout performances with a cast ACT can help with earning your Badges for the Q&A. arts! We offer workshops in a variety of artistic areas for scouts of all ages. Contact the theatre Plano Symphony Orchestra for complete information and to schedule your Plano workshop! 972.473.7262 Awards Earned: Performance and Storytelling [email protected] Badges planosymphony.org Join the Plano Symphony Orchestra for a Tuzer Ballet: The Nutcracker Family Series Concert and fun patch! Girls Richardson can earn a patch one hour prior to the concert 972.783.1735 by completing activities to learn about the [email protected] orchestra. Then enjoy a 45 minute movie music tuzerballet.com concert! Discover the enchanted world of The Nutcracker Awards Earned: Fun Patch Ballet and participate in a special activity to earn the Brownie Dancer Badge. Meet the Robert Garden Adventures in Art dancers to complete this magical day. December Irving 20 Performance at 1pm. Ticket sales begin in Will Travel: 80 miles October. 214.755.2681 Awards Earned: Brownie: Dancer [email protected] robertgardenart.com Tyler Civic Theatre Center Master Artist and Certified Instructor, Susan Tyler Garden, inspires Brownies and Juniors to create 903.592.0561 detailed paintings on canvas with award- [email protected] winning art curriculum. Art supplies and TylerCivicTheatre.com detailed instruction are provided to inspire Attend a play and take a backstage tour. frame-worthy masterpieces! Customized workshops may be arranged during Awards Earned: Brownie Painting your visit to explore dramatic arts and earn your badge or continue your Journey! SCRAP Denton Denton Tyler Museum of Art Will Travel: 20 miles Tyler 940.808.1611 903.595.1001 [email protected] [email protected] scrapdenton.org tylermuseum.org SCRAP’s mission is to inspire creative reuse The TMA offers free tours and family days. Can and environmentally sustainable behavior by provide Girl Scout programming with advance providing educational programs and affordable notice. materials to the community. Awards Earned: Ecology Badges, Art Badges

4 Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament ENGAGING & FUN Dallas EXCURSIONS 469.342.5555 [email protected] 1 Hour to Escape medievaltimes.com/dallas Lesiville A four course feast awaits as you watch the Will Travel: 50 miles pageantry and thrills of an authentic medieval 972.798.4688 tournament. Exclusive shows available for Girl [email protected] Scouts, leaders, and their guests! 1hour2escape.com Awards Earned: Medieval Times Fun Patch Race against the clock & test your puzzle- solving skills in an interactive, adventurous Mesquite Championship Rodeo environment. Become immersed into an Mesquite exciting challenge that naturally encourages 972.285.8777 cooperation packed with fun! [email protected] mesquiterodeo.com Allen Civic Ballet Scout Night at Mesquite Rodeo. Allen Awards Earned: MCR Patch Will Travel: 30 miles [email protected] Museum of International Cultures allencivicballet.org Duncanville Non-profit 501-C3 Ballet Company serving the 972.572.0462 community of Allen, TX and surrounding areas. [email protected] Awards Earned: Fun patch, Manners Badges micmuseum.org Badge workshops for all levels of Girl Scouts as AT&T Stadium Sleepover well as overnights can be scheduled for troops. Arlington 817.892.4660 Nestle Toll House Cafe by Chip [email protected] Highland Village stadium.dallascowboys.com 214.724.8528 Come to AT&T Stadium for one-of-a-kind [email protected] memories! Enjoy fun activities, drop off your FB page- @NestleCafeHighlandVillage blanket for Share the Warmth, sleep in the Both fun badge and GS badge workshops are led stadium and so much more! by owner, who is a former GS leader. All classes Awards Earned: Fun Patch are 90 minutes to 2 hours and include cookie decorating and a drink DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) Awards Earned: Daisy: Sunny; Brownie: Dallas Snacks; Junior: Business Owner, GS Way 214.749.2582 [email protected] Old Red Museum of Dallas County History dart.org and Culture Free transit education program for Girl Scouts. Dallas 214.757.1925 EF Tours [email protected] Cambridge oldred.org 800.457.9023 We take part in the Museum Explorers patch [email protected] and may be open to call-to-schedule workshop girltrips.eftours.com events. We also hold mock trials in our restored International programs that give Girl Scouts the courtroom. These are ideal for groups of 15 or opportunity to travel and grow. more! & FUN EXCURSIONS ENGAGING Awards Earned: Museum Explorer Patch; Junior: Playing the past

5 Paws for Reflection Ranch CPRinTexas Midlothian Plano 972.775.8966 Will Travel: 50 miles [email protected] 469.527.5082 PawsForReflectionRanch.org [email protected] Educational Programs at our animal-assisted cprintexas.org therapy ranch offer hands-on interaction with Teaches CPR/AED/First Aid Skills with Red Cross ranch animals, from horses to hedgehogs, Certified teachers. Can branch into Babysitting creating badge FUN! Animal/nature related and BLS. Taught for kids and teens specifically badge workshops for all levels. Special needs by relatable young adults. welcome. Awards Earned: Animal Badges Dallas Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 214.658.7643 Grand Prairie [email protected] Will Travel: 50 miles mavs.com/girlscoutnight 972.263.2391 Join us at a 2019-20 Mavs home game! Visit [email protected] mavs.com/girlscouts for your ticket special. ripleys.com/grandprairie/ We offer group discounts, sleepovers and special Dallas Roughnecks Pro Ultimate Frisbee events for all Girl Scouts! The Colony Awards Earned: Sleepover Fun Patch [email protected] dallasroughnecks.com Southwest Dairy Museum The Roughnecks are part of the AUDL league. Sulphur Springs They offer pre-game clinics focused on 903.439.6455 sportsmanship and the basics of Ultimate. [email protected] southwestdairyfarmers.com Excite! Gymnastics & Cheer Learn about dairy, dairy history and the Highland Village nutritional value of dairy products. Tours must 214.732.9233 be scheduled in advance. [email protected] excitegym.com The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Excite! is a top notch children’s physical training Dallas facility that can help with several badge and fun 214.389.3051 patch programs. [email protected] jfk.org Frisco RoughRiders Visit The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza to Frisco complete part of the History Museum Explorers 972.334.1935 Patch! Go to our website to book your Troop’s [email protected] museum visit any day of the year! ridersbaseball.com/scouts Awards Earned: History Museum Explorers Join the Frisco RoughRiders for the 5th annual Patch Covering the Bases of STEM pre-game program and post-game sleepover.

EXERCISE & SPORTS Jessica Turner Sports Clinics Allen Professional Hockey Club [email protected] Allen Intro to Basketball and Volleyball clinics Will Travel: 30 miles available for groups of 10 and up. 9729121019 Awards Earned: Athlete Badges [email protected] allenamericans.com Celebrate Girl Scout Night at the Allen Americans in March with a pre-game program and special Girl Scout experiences! Awards Earned: Scouting Northeast Texas Patch

6 The First Tee of Greater Dallas Heath Pediatric Dentistry Addison Heath 214.954.4402 469.453.3055 [email protected] [email protected] thefirstteedallas.org heathpediatricdentistry.com The First Tee is a non-profit youth development We are a pediatric dental office that is focused organization teaching life skills and character on engaging children on promoting oral health development using the game of golf to youth care. We offer a tour of the office and how a ages 7-18 in Dallas, Collin, Ellis, Denton and dental office runs, oral health activities, and Rockwall counties. a hands-on opportunity to practice with our instruments. Topgolf Allen Medical City Plano 469.675.9730 Plano [email protected] 972.519.1588 topgolf.com/allen [email protected] With seasonal academies & leagues, lessons and medicalcityplano.com parties throughout the year, Girl Scouts will have Programs include “All About Me”, Hospital tours a blast! and first aid badge earning on a regular basis. Awards Earned: Fist Aid Badges, Healthy Living Yogi Kids & Fit Family Badges Flower Mound 214.325.2547 North Texas Poison Center [email protected] Dallas myyogikids.com 214.590.9016 We offer a variety of programs for children, [email protected] including: yoga, fitness, zumba, art and cooking. poisoncontrol.org Free educational programs for Girl Scouts.

HEALTH & COOKING Prestige Emergency Room Plano, Texas Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center 972.527.3000 Dallas [email protected] 214.712.4900 prestigeer.org [email protected] The purpose of this course is to help participants dallasrapecrisis.org identify and eliminate potentially hazardous We provide education and training for the conditions in their environment, recognize prevention of sexual violence. We can provide emergencies, and make appropriate decisions presentations on bullying, sexual harrassment, for first aid care. healthy relationships, teen dating violence, Awards Earned: First Aid Badges consent, etc. Smallcakes A Cupcakery Fresh by Brookshire’s Dallas Tyler 469.248.0031 903.747.3503 [email protected] [email protected] smallcakesdallastx.com freshbybrookshires.com Cupcake fun and badge earning opportunities. Fresh by Brookshire’s tour is fun-filled and interactive. We can also help you with your Whole Foods cooking Badges! Highland Village 972.538.9710 Girls to Women Health and Wellness christie.streit@wholefoods@com Dallas wholefoodsmarket.com 972.733.6565 Store tour. We will be happy to help you work [email protected] on badge requirements in our store. We can go gtw-health.com over healthy eating, budgeting, and even ways to Girls To Women Health and Wellness is a conquer stress. comprehensive medical practice dedicated to meeting the medical, behavioral, psychological and nutritional needs of young women ages 10 to 25.

7 Empower You, PERIOD! LIFE SKILLS Dallas Will Travel: 20 miles Any Day CPR Training 214.514.7987 McKinney [email protected] Will Travel: 40 miles empoweryouperiod.com 317.514.2820 Addressing reproductive health, our workshops [email protected] provide creative and interactive sessions about anydaycpr.com menstrual hygiene education. We explore the Be a Better Babysitter includes CPR certification importance of “flowing” into womanhood, along with babysitting best practices. The management, stigmas attached to women and participants will role play both common and health & hygiene around the world, as well as the uncommon babysitting scenarios, and receive effects of diet and nutrition. tools to be successful babysitters. Awards Earned: Healthy Living Badges Awards Earned: Cadette: Babysitter Farmers Branch Historical Park Dallas Heritage Village Farmers Branch Dallas 972.406.0184 214.413.3674 [email protected] [email protected] fbhistoricalpark.com dallasheritagevillage.org Visit the Farmers Branch Historical Park where DHV offers fun and interactive badge workshop North Texas began. Museum offers tours, badge/ days throughout the year with a historical twist! journey workshops, special events and more! Awards Earned: Daisy: Gloria; Brownie: Making Call for ideas on badge/journey workshops. Friends; Junior: Social Butterfly; Museum Explorer Patch Kappa Delta at UNT Denton Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights 682.227.1082 Museum [email protected] Dallas unt.kappadelta.org 469.399.5219 Kappa Delta hosts several Girl Scout events [email protected] throughout the year with the goal of instilling dhhrm.org confidence in every girl. Bring your Cadette or Senior Girl Scouts for a docent-led tour of the Dallas Holocaust Longview Fire Department Museum’s permanent exhibition and a special Longview artifact interaction and activity. 903.237.1119 Awards Earned: History Museums Explorers [email protected] Patch longviewtexas.gov Come tour our historic fire station and see how Dallas Public Library a station operates. Please schedule a month in Dallas advance. 214.670.7943 [email protected] Mother Bear Self Defense dallaslibrary.org Dallas The J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in downtown Will Travel: 50 miles Dallas can help your troop earn three different 214.686.1312 Badges. And while you’re there, your troop can [email protected] also explore the 8-story building and discover Class focus is on strong vocal skills and the its many treasures to earn a Dallas History physical skills to protect yourself.All techniques Museum Explorers patch. are effective and age appropriate.Mother/ Awards Earned: Brownie: My Family Story; Daughter classes have been very popular! Junior: Detective, Scribe Call,text or email for more info. East Plano Murphy Pet Hospital Paris Fire Department Murphy Paris 972-516-0717 903.784.4870 [email protected] paristxfire.org planomurphyvet.com Come tour a fire department and learn basic We offer free tours for troops and experiences emergency tips and procedures. with small animal interactions.

8 Paris Jr. College Studio Bella for Kids Paris Dallas 903.782.0425 Will Travel: 10 miles [email protected] 469.878.8056 parisjc.edu [email protected] Tour Paris Jr. College and see what we offer. Find studiobellaforkids.com out about college life and how to prepare for your We are a STEAM-based program that provided future. customized programs to fit badges and Journeys and fun for all age groups. Our programming is Paris Police Department for groups of 8-100 or more. Paris Awards Earned: Most Badges and Journeys 903.737.4137 cityofparis.gov The Salvation Army Come visit and tour the police department and Dallas learn about being Safety Wise! 214.637.8275 salvationarmydfw.org Paris Public Library Girls can participate in various service Paris opportunities. Call to schedule. 903.785.8531 [email protected] Tyler Police Department paristexas.gov Tyler Check out a book, tour the library, or enjoy one of 903.531.1093 our many children’s programs. tylerpolice.com Bike safety and tours available. Pioneer Bank Richardson [email protected] 972.437.2888 Dallas [email protected] 214.632.8261 pioneer.bank [email protected] Classes about saving and finances to help Girl WE.org Scouts earn Badges. Free programs to help your Girl Scout make a difference in their community by learning Rhonda Bradshaw Self Defense about social issues. Frisco 469.540.3306 [email protected] OUTDOORS Self Defense and martial arts classes available for troops. Call to schedule. A.W. Perry Homestead Museum and Elm Fork Nature Preserve Secure/Higher Ed Carrollton Dallas 972.466.9811 214.642.9191 [email protected] [email protected] cityofcarrollton.com/museum securehighered.com Get a glimpse of life as it was in North Central Girl Scouts and their parents have fun learning Texas at the turn of the 20th Century. to avoid, escape, and fight off predators. Austin Ascents SheEO Academy Austin Dallas Will Travel: 200 miles Will Travel: 30 miles 805.350.8087 866.697.4336 [email protected] [email protected] austinascents.com beasheeo.com/dallas We offer SOLO wilderness First Aid, All levels of We help girls earn Badges at workshops rock climbing and Leave No Trace classes. We facilitated by SheEO™ Academy instructors. The are located in Austin Texas. We have permits for troop chooses the location and the badge(s). Let guided rock climbing at the Greenbelt in Austin, us host it or choose convenience and we will Reimers Ranch in Austin and Enchanted Rock come to you. We provide the enrichment and State Park. First aid courses we can come to you materials, the troop provides the future SheEOs. if need be. Awards Earned: Cookie Business, Financial Literacy, and Innovation Badges

9 Caldwell Zoo Elm Fork Education Center Tyler Denton 903.593.0121 ext. 228 or 229 940.369.8936 [email protected] [email protected] caldwellzoo.org efec.unt.edu Zoo offers Girl Scout FunShops that allow girls Bring your troop for some hands-on science fun to work on badges and Journeys. Overnight at a SciClub Day! Choose from our prepared list experiences also available. or we can customize a program for your group. Awards Earned: Daisy Journeys; Brownie: Pets, Senses, and Bugs; Junior: Animal Habitats Fossil Rim Wildlife Center Glen Rose Camp Tonkawa 254.897.2960 Collinsville [email protected] 940.440.8382 fossilrim.org [email protected] Fossil Rim Wildlife Center is a non-profit facility, camptonkawa.org specializing in captive breeding programs for Our program connects leaders and Girl Scouts to endangered and threatened species. We offer nature in a safe, fun environment. both day and overnight camp opportunities, and specialized classes and tours. Badge Camps with Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Garden multiple badge earning experiences available. Dallas Awards: Art in the Outdoors, Brownie: Hiker, 214.515.6540 Junior: Animal Habitats, Cadette: Animal [email protected] Helpers dallasarboretum.org Girl Scouts at the Dallas Arboretum experience It’s A Hoot, Honey! hands-on science and nature exploration! Girl Wills Point Scouts meet all requirements to earn a program Will Travel: 100 miles badge while engaging in classroom, outdoor or 972.841.3751 Overnight activities. [email protected] Awards Earned: Daisy: Clover; Brownie: Learn about current issues and trends related Painting; Junior: Flowers, Geocacher; Cadette: to foragers, pollinators and the beekeeping/ Eating for You agriculture industry from a true hobbyist beekeeper located within the GSNETX program Denia Recreation Center area. Denton Awards Earned: Environmental Stewardship 940.349.7784 Badges and Naturalist Badges [email protected] dentonparks.com John Bunker Sands Wetland Center Kayaking, rock climbing, bike riding, Seagoville backpacking, and archery programs available. 972.474.9100 [email protected] Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center wetlandcenter.com Cedar Hill Interested in water, wetland or wildlife? Want to 469.526.1980 conserve water and save the environment? Go [email protected] into the field to explore wetland ecology, water dogwoodcanyon.audubon.org conservation and wildlife habitats. See amazing Centrally located in Cedar Hill, Dogwood Canyon wildlife and net for aquatic critter at the water’s Audubon Center is an admission free nature edge. center, providing outdoor education and science Awards Earned: Brownie: Wonders of Water; education opportunities to communities of Junior: Animal Habitats; Environmental North Texas. Call or email for more information. Stewardship Badges

East Texas Arboretum and Botanical LISD Outdoor Learning Area (LISDOLA) Society, Inc. Lewisville Athens 469.446.8946 903.675.5630 [email protected] [email protected] lisd.net/domain/5671 easttexasarboretum.org Habitat Trails, geofitness course, interactive No specific program - we would be willing to facilities, water conservation, earth history, work with any scout working on a badge for a alternative energy. suitable project.

10 LLELA Nature Preserve Texas Freshwater Fisheries Lewisville Athens 469.635.5481 903.676.2277 [email protected] [email protected] LLELA.rg tpwd.texas.gov/spdest/visitorcenters/tffc From badge workshops to group camping, Visitors can see Texas freshwater species in hiking, service projects, and more, LLELA is a their natural habitat. great place for girls to learn and grow outdoors. Awards Earned: Daisy: Clover; Brownie: Hiker, Tiger Creek Wildlife Refuge Bugs; Junior: Animal Habitats, Playing the Past Tyler 903.343.9061 Oliver Nature Park [email protected] Mansfield tigercreek.org 817.804.5789 Learn about environmental stewardship and [email protected] protecting ecosystems through Tiger Creek’s olivernaturepark.com environmental education programs. The park offers an outdoor experience for Girl Scouts of all ages to earn Badges through hands- Trinity Forest Adventure Park on learning. Dallas Awards Earned: Daisy: Outdoor Art Maker; 214.391.1000 Brownie: Letterboxer; Junior: Animal Habitats [email protected] trinitytreetops.com Pure Land Farm Self-guided ropes course consisting of obstacles McKinney like cargo nets, wobble bridges, tight ropes, 469.795.8585 ladders, and zip lines. [email protected] purelandorganic.com Trinity River Audubon Center Bring your Girl Scouts to get their hands dirty Dallas learning how food is grown at a working fruit 214.309.5814 and vegetable farm! [email protected] Awards Earned: Brownie: Bugs; Junior: trinityriver.audubon.org Gardener Come explore and learn at a beautiful 120-acre nature preserve! Reptile Adventures Awards Earned: Outdoor Badges Fairveiw Will Travel: 75 miles Tyler Rose Garden 214.641.6013 Tyler [email protected] 903.531.1212 The theme of my program is ‘’Respect, but Not [email protected] Fear.’’ My hands-on programs are designed to tylerparksandrec.com educate children on the value and diversity Enjoy the Butterfly, Rose and Shade gardens of reptiles and insects and provide a level of while learning about plants and flowers. Master understanding and comfort. Gardener tours available. Awards Earned: Animal Badges, Naturalist Badges Tyler State Park Tyler Texas Discovery Gardens 903.597.5338 Dallas [email protected] 214.428.7476 tpwd.state.tx.us/state-parks/tyler [email protected] Fantastic programs cover topics ranging from txdg.org outdoor skills to nature and science to the Join us on the third Saturday of each month for history of NE Texas and Caddo Indians. a program or two! Most programs head out into our almost 8 acres of organic gardens. Your scouts may even get the chance to get a face-to-face encounter with a bug! Awards Earned: Daisy: Zinni, Rosie; Naturalist Badges

11 Challenge Island STEM Plano Will Travel: 20 miles Allyssa Loya- Disney Coding 469.371.1067 Sachse/Wylie [email protected] 469.999.1970 challenge-island.com/plano-tx [email protected] Challenge Island offers STEM badge workshops Allyssa is the author of Disney Coding for Daisies to Cadettes. Adventures! Contact her for more information. Awards Earned: STEM Badges Session can include coding discussions, activities, and question/answer sessions about City Light Astronomical Society for coding, becoming an author, and more. Students (C.L.A.S.S.) Plano Billings Productions 214.597.8023 Allen [email protected] 972.562.7265 classusa.org [email protected] C.L.A.S.S. offers Astronomy Workshops, Star http://billingsproductions.com/ Parties, and Solar Observing Sessions. Billings Productions has been partnering Awards Earned: Space Science Badges with zoos, museums, and other educational organizations to host animatronic exhibits City of Denton Waste and Recycling for the public. We worked with themes of Denton conservation and educated our audience about 940.349.8700 the prehistoric. Our standard tour is available by [email protected] appointment on Saturdays and Sundays. dentonrecycles.com Learn how Denton conserves and recovers Bold Idea resources with hands-on science activities that Dallas explore resource conservation. 214.442.1675 [email protected] CodeStream Studios boldidea.org Dallas Experience computer science by creating your 972.559.9051 own hands-on projects. Workshops and classes [email protected] for girls in grades 3-12. codestreamstudios.com Awards Earned: Think Like a Programmer; Fun and engaging STEM programming featuring Cadette: Netiquette; Senior: Website Designer Robotics, Web Development, App Creation and Game Development. Bricks Bots & Beakers Awards Earned: STEM Badges and Journeys Plano Will Travel: 20 miles Dallas Zoo 214.326.8255 Dallas [email protected] 469.554.7300 bricksbotsbeakers.com [email protected] Meaningful opportunities to experience a full DallasZoo.com range of STEAM classes. Ever wonder what it would be like to spend the Awards Earned: STEM Badges night at the Zoo? Now you can find out with a Dallas Zoo overnight! Special badge programs Center for Earth & Space Science Education for Brownies or Juniors are available with our Tyler overnight programs. These programs feature up- 903.510.2312 close animal encounters, an animal craft, and a [email protected] night tour! sciencecenter.tjc.edu Awards Earned: Brownie: Bugs; Junior: Animal State-of-the-art Planetarium, interactive Habitats displays and exhibits, classrooms and outdoor play spaces.

12 Discovery Science Place KD Conservatory Tyler Dallas 903.533.8011 214.638.0484 [email protected] [email protected] discoveryscienceplace.org kdstudio.com Discovery Science Place Museum ignites Our interactive and engaging workshops curiosity in young minds through fun, hands-on introduce Girl Scouts to the many aspects of exploration. television commercials, voice over, acting, Awards Earned: Think Like an Engineer, Think camera technique and film making. Like a Citizen Scientist, Robotics Awards Earned: Junior: Entertainment Technology; Cadette: Digital Movie Maker, Explorium Children’s Museum MEdia Denton 940.320.5444 Little Medical School of DFW and North [email protected] Texas exploriumdenton.org DFW Area Opportunities for children to experience the Will Travel: 50 miles wonder and excitement of science, technology, 833.362.5437 engineering, arts, and math through hands- [email protected] on exhibits, multimedia, and content-rich littlemedicalschool.com/dfw programs that encourage exploration, engage the We offer STEM based academic programs for learner, and ultimately educate the child. Badge after school, scouts, summer camps. We inspire workshops available. kids by teaching them important and essential life skills like first aid, 911, poison control, Frontiers of Flight Museum animal and dental care, etc. Our method is very Dallas interactive through role play, crafts and games. Will Travel: 50 miles Awards Earned: Brownie: My Best Self; First 214.699.4619 Aid Badge [email protected] flightmuseum.com Longview World of Wonders Visit us for one of our summer camps, Moon Longview Day, or at the GSNETX Launch Party to earn 507.720.4738 various Badges/patches. You can also book a [email protected] program with us for more opportunities to get longviewwow.org Badges and patches. Space exploration camp, culinary camp, Awards Earned: Brownie: Fling Flyer; Seniors: Shakespeare camp, Science of Storms camp, Sky; Space Science Badges; STEM Seal of Fairytale Mysteries, Upcycled Art Approval; History Museum Explorers Patch Awards Earned: Junior: Give Back, Simple Meals, Detective; Space Science Badges iCode of Coppell Coppell Microsoft Retail Store Will Travel: 10 miles Frisco 469.993.0515 972.987.1872 [email protected] [email protected] icodeschool.com/Coppell microsoft.com/frisco As a leader in computer science education, We provide hands-on, engaging activites for iCode’s goal is to meet that demand by enriching Scouts to earn their technology badge. the educational experience and capability of Awards Earned: STEM Badges tomorrow’s workforce. Through our approach, today’s students gain the technical expertise, Microsoft Retail Store Northpark Center cognitive flexibility and real-world skills to be Dallas tomorrow’s exceptional talent. 469.587.3183 Awards Earned: STEM Badges [email protected] microsoftstore.com/northparkcenter Free STEM focused badge workshops for Girl Scouts.

13 Wize Computing Academy Reunion Tower Dallas Dallas Will Travel: 50 miles 214.712.7051 214.226.4595 [email protected] [email protected] reuniontower.com wizeacademy.com Reunion Tower based STEM material that will Programs at the Wize Computing Academy engage each scout troop level. Price includes are designed to meaningfully extend STEAM materials and fun patch. Call to schedule. learning and expanding a child’s mind through Cost: $10 per person the development of critical thinking, logic and Awards Earned: Fun Patch reasoning skills. Project-based learning, specific to student’s age and expertise. We use a variety Sci-Tech Discovery Center of tools to teach coding and robotics. Frisco Awards Earned: Robotics & Coding Badges 972.546.3050 [email protected] North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) mindstretchingfun.org Plano Visit Sci-Tech for hands-on activities and mind 646.242.5820 stretching fun! Girl Scout sessions can be hosted [email protected] after school or on weekends. NTTA.org Awards Earned: Robotics, Think Like an Pave the Way Day - Interactive Learning Event Engineer, Think Like a Programmer for Families Featuring Engineering, Technology and Construction. Snapology Frisco Awards Earned: Fun Pacth Frisco Will Travel: 40 miles NuMinds Enrichment 214.885.8083 Addison [email protected] 877.678.7671 frisco.snapology.com [email protected] Snapology teaches enrichment programs using numien.com LEGO® bricks to teach engineering, robotics & NuMinds creates engaging, mixed-age STEAM technology concepts. We are all about learning programs. through play! Awards Earned: Brownie: Computer Expert, Awards Earned: Daisies: Roller Coaster Home Scientist, Inventor; Cadette: Public Design, Space Science Explorer; Brownies: Speaker, Digital Movie Maker Programming Robots, Designing Robots; Juniors: Crane Design Perot Museum of Nature and Science Dallas talkSTEM 214.756.5789 Dallas [email protected] 817.366.6194 perotmuseum.org [email protected] We provide Girl Scout specific sleepovers talkstem.org and badge workshops, and can provide walkSTEM offers free math walks designed in programming for individual families, troops, partnership with Dr. Glen Whitney, founder of and service units. MOMATH in NYC. These walks engage kids in Awards Earned: Cadette: Science of Happiness; learning how math is a dynamic part of our Think Like an Engineer, Investigation, surroundings. Naturalist Badges Awards Earned: Math STEM Seal of Approval Patch Plano Public Library Plano Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas 972.769.4211 Dallas [email protected] 214.998.9058 planolibrary.org [email protected] Our five libraries offer learning resources such texasastro.org as STEAM kits, online courses and programs. Learn about astronomy at one of our free Call to arrange classes for your troop: Robotics monthly meetings or star parties. Also available Badges, Digital Movie Maker, and more! to help out with troop and campout programs. Awards Earned: Cadette: Digital Movie Maker; Awards Earned: Space Science Badges Robotics Badges

14 theCoderSchool Wildlife On The Move, Inc. Flower Mound; Frisco Arlington 214.285.1903; 469.362.8228 Will Travel: 400 miles [email protected]; frisco@ 817.239.2345 thecoderschool.com [email protected] thecoderschool.com/locations/flowermound/; wildlifeonthemove.com thecoderschool.com/locations/frisco/ Fun and educational live animal presentations At theCoderSchool, we use coding to create to a wide-variety of venues and groups featuring creative problem solvers and technical amazing critters from around the world to entrepreneurs who will learn that they can enhance the scouting experience. change their world for the better. We get kids Awards Earned: Animal Badges, thinking outside the box! Environmental Stewardship Badges Awards Earned: Cybersecurity I, II, III; Digital Arts- Computer Expert, Website Designer; Robotics I NOTES:

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