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Alumnae show their support for Lafayette’s inaugural Girl Scout Badge Day.

Sixty Girl Scouts from the Lehigh Valley and eastern Pennsylvania explored campus on a Saturday in February. Instructional technologist Chris Tomik ’03 helped organize the day, along with Kelly Huth, assistant director, internal and community communications, and Jodi Fowler, associate director, civic leadership. Tomik, a local Girl Scout leader, brought her Daisies to earn engineering badges.
Badges offered included an interdisciplinary mix—Coding, College Knowledge, STEM Career Exploration, and Truth Seeker. Rachel Nelson Moeller ’88,P’21, a Lafayette retiree and manager of governance at Girl Scouts of the USA, congratulated Lafayette for creating the event, offering scouts a chance to build skills and confidence. “As someone deeply committed to the Lafayette and Girl Scouting missions, I am so proud of this partnership and look forward to next year!”
Prof. Lauren Anderson ’04, William A. Jeffers Dean of Engineering, organized four sessions in Acopian Engineering Center for scouts to earn Automotive Design and Engineering badges. Working closely with engineering students, Daisies and Brownies learned about the engineering design process, then built vehicles with recycled materials (water bottles, caps) before testing their cars to see how fast, and far, they could go.
Lafayette students also volunteered their time and expertise to help scouts grades K-12 earn two badges, including former Girl Scouts Grace Trautwein ’26, Katie Simpson ’26, and Megan Dursema ’26. Dursema, pictured left, co-led a session on Financial Independence with Wanos Bahiru ’25 for 11th and 12th graders.
For the Cadettes, former troop leader Elaine Stomber ’89,P’17,21 co-designed a Book Artist session with Skillman Library colleagues Ana Ramirez Luhrs and Elizabeth Sica.

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