Girl Scout Junior Badges

Girl Scouting Around the World
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#8 Come into the lab for our "Renew and Recycle" activity and learn about the process of recycling and even make your own plastic out of corn.

Girl Scouting in My Future
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#1 Plan a trip to The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis for your "Wider Op." Before you come in, look online at our lab schedule to see what activity we have planned for that day to see if you can work on another badge during your visit!

Careers
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#4 If you are interested in science, come in for one of our lab activities and talk to our lab supervisor to learn more about biotechnology.

Lead On
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#7 One community problem is trash/garbage. Come into the lab to learn about recycling and how it helps the community in our "Recycling" activity. Also, make your own biodegradable plastic from corn.

Food Power
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#4 Come into the lab for our "Healthy Cooking Oils" activity that explains nutrition labels and serving sizes.

Highway to Health
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#4 Instead of the listed activity, do our "Wash Your Hands" activity with a lotion that will show you where germs can hide on your hands. We will teach how to properly wash our hands so that they will be clean for cooking.

Earth Connections
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#10 Come in for our "Renew and Recycle" lab that will show you how to solve the problem of running out of landfill sites for garbage.

Eco-Action
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#7 Do the listed activity and then come into the lab to learn about a different type of plastic that is better for the environment in our "Renew and Recycle" activity.

Outdoor Creativity
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#6 You can start your garden from our "Green Thumbs" activity, in which you will plant a garden in a glove and learn about seeds, germination and vegetatable propagation.

Plants and Animals
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#2 Plant your seeds in the lab in our "Green Thumbs" activity, in which you will plant a garden in a glove and learn about seeds, germination and vegetative propagation.

Wildlife
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#7 Come into the lab and use our microscopes to see things more closely in our "Scoping Science" activity.

Your Outdoor Surroundings
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#1 Come into the lab for our "Plants to Pants" activity to learn how materials from plants are used to make pants waterproof.

Art in 3-D
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#2 Use modeling clay to make a model of a cell in our "Cell Modeling" activity that can be hung as an ornament or decoration when it has dried.

Discovering Technology
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#8 Come learn about recycling in the lab and make your own plastic out of corn in our "Renew and Recycle" activity.
#9 Come learn about nanotechnology in our "Plants to Pants" activity. Also, learn about biotechnology in any of our lab activities.

Jeweler
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#1 Come make a bracelet out of beads that correspond to a sequence of DNA using a special decoder. While making a bracelet, you will learn about DNA in our "Prehistoric Protein" activity.

Making it Matter
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#1 Come into the lab and make your own plastic from corn and learn all about recycling in our "Renew and Recycle" activity.
#7 Look at the harmful chemicals that are present in your own cleaning supplies at home and then come into the lab to learn about alternative cleaners and even make your own sample in our "Green and Clean" activity.

Oil Up
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#10 Come into the lab to learn about recycling, which lessens the amount of petroleum used in the production of new products. While in the lab, you will also get to make some plastic out of corn in our "Renew and Recycle" activity.

Science Discovery
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#7 Come into the lab for any of our hands-on lab activities to learn about science and biotechnology.

Water Wonders
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#4 Visit the aquariums in the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis’ What if ...? gallery, then visit the Biotechnology Learning Center to ask the supervisor how he feeds and maintains the fish.