Being involved in scouts is a fun way to help your community and enjoy communication between young men and women. Fourth grader Delaney Leonard is a student at Snyder Elementary that participates in Girls Scouts.

 “It’s fun, and I am happy to learn about nature,” Delaney said.

Maddison Campbell in 4th grade said she also enjoys scouts, commenting, “It’s fun, and I enjoy being with my friends.” Most scout troops have a lot of projects that help the community along with projects just for fun. Second grader Mia Gillette's troop did painting as one of her most recent fun projects. Ella Moore in first grade, along with her troop, helps the community by, “picking up garbage when we find it.” 

Sometimes the project looks more like doing what you can in the community, and that looks different for each person in the troop. Third grader Arya Daniels says that her troop's next project is to, “make sure everyone is giving peace to each other and making the world better.” This is a goal all scouts are always working on. 

Different troops create a ton of projects to help make the world a better place. If you have been to the Snyder Elementary building you have probably seen or heard about the Buddy Bench. Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Romberger said, “The Buddy Bench on the playground was designed, and put there by Madison Romberger when she was working toward her gold star in Girl Scouts." Madison was a Sayre graduate who was one of the first girls in our area to receive a gold star in Girl Scouts. The buddy bench is just one creative example of a project that came together by thinking outside the box to make the world a better place.

 Many troops meet once a week to work on projects/plans, help the community, or learn more about how to better the community. Fifth grader Jake Johnson says his troop meets every Sunday around 2:30 pm. A lot of these projects and the way the troops are able to help others in the community is by having the money to do that. You may have seen girl scouts selling cookies to raise money for their community projects. Kindergartener Lily Gillette says that she sells treats and soon is, “ supposed to sell popcorn to raise money.” 

September: Fifth Grader, Regan Thompson

"I love my art. I love my mountains and sunsets that I make. I do realistic landscapes and faces mostly," said Regan Thompson.

October: Third Grader, Kaiden Vanderpool

"Art is about expressing your heart's desires through your creativity," said Kaiden Vanderpool.

Meet Luke Rudloff from Miss Skerpons' class in Kindergarten.

Luke's favorite food is pizza and his favorite toy is a monster truck. Luke enjoys playing with his monster truck and his cat after school, but not usually together.

Luke loves school and his favorite thing about school is learning and all the different toys there. Luke's favorite subject in school is math and if he was a teacher he would just teach math all day.

Luke likes making new friends in school and said, "What makes a good friend is being nice to them." Outside of school, Luke also plays soccer. His favorite thing about soccer is going to practices and games and seeing his soccer coach.