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09/12/10
  
New Free Adventures

In Piscataquis County for Young Girls
   
Piscataquis County, Maine USA - Adventures Girls of Piscataquis County is brought to you by Hardy Girls Healthy Women and several local Piscataquis County service organizations, Adventure Girls is a unique, interactive program for girls in grades 2-6 that gives girls the opportunity to meet with women who are defying gender
stereotypes and challenging notions of what a girl or woman “should” do or be. Adventure Girls brings girls together with women in adventurous and daring professions to learn how women of daring chose to do what they do, where and from whom they find support and how they've found the inner resolve and courage to follow their dreams and pursue their profession of choice.

Adventure Girls meets every other Saturday for 2-3 hours of adventurous, hands-on, educational activities; Adventures will be held from approximately 1 pm - 3 pm on Saturday afternoons; Adventures are FREE thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation; Parents and guardians are welcomed and encouraged to participate with their daughters; and Groups and Girl Scout troops are welcomed at all events!
Preregistration is required. Please sign up as early as possible so we may help arrange possible transportation!

Fall 2010 Schedule of Adventures:

Join Shannon on Saturday, October 9th for a Wildlife Identification & Outdoor Tracking Adventure!
For our first adventure, join Shannon LeRoy, on Saturday October 9th for a Wildlife Identification & Outdoor Tracking Adventure! In the first portion of this adventure, hosted at the the Monson Community Center, Shannon, a Registered Maine Guide, will introduce girls to charts and other wildlife tracking tools. A bus will then transport girls to Mathew's Farm on Elliotsville Road to explore the great outdoors through the eyes of a certified wildlife tracker.

Adventures in Horticulture with Hannah on Saturday, October 23rd at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension office in Dover-Foxcroft! Come learn about general garden culture, why the field of horticulture is becoming more important in our global world, and ways everyone can make a difference by growing beautiful gardens. The Adventure Girls will have an opportunity to learn, hands-on, the “art and science” of plant propagation and everyone will take a plant home with them that they have chosen to propagate.

Exploring Wellness & Nutrition with Sydney on Saturday, November 6th at the YMCA in Dover-Foxcroft!
Learn exercises on posture and breathing, followed by activities on nutrition, making your own healthy and delicious smoothies. Sydney and our other Adventure Women presenters will also engage Adventure Girls participants in discussion about being and working in non-traditional fields.

Adventures in Soils, Bogs & Forests on Saturday, December 4th at the Piscataquis Soil & Water Conservation District Office in Dover-Foxcroft! Hands on learning about soils, how they are made up and what Soil Conservationist, Leslie Nelson of the Natural Resources Conservation Service does. Then strap on your boots for a guided walk into the bogs and forests of the area with Beth Postlewaite, PCSWCD Board Supervisor and the
Executive Director of The Trust to Conserve Northeast Forestlands where she will discuss the soils and forestry in the field. If weather conditions are not adequate, we will postpone until Saturday, December 11th or later.

Ways To Sign Up for Adventure Girls:
Online: PiscataquisResources.org & click the Adventure Girls Logo
In Person: Penquis, 50 North St., Dover-Foxcroft By Mail: Adventure Girls, c/o Penquis, 50 North St., Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426
FMI Contact PENQUIS at 564-7116
FMI Contact Sydney at (207) 717-9143
Or PiscataquisResources.org

A Hardy Thank You to our supporters for enabling Hardy Girls Healthy Women to offer programming for girls in
Piscataquis County!
· The Bingham Program
· The National Science Foundation c/o the Maine Girls’ Collaborative Project
· Sydney Haggerty, PENQUIS and all constituents of the Hardy Girls Piscataquis County Coalition

Remember the registration deadline is Friday, October 1st.

Join the Piscataquis County Coalition today by contacting Hardy Girls Healthy Women at info@hghw.org to ensure more such programming for girls
in your local school & community!

Adventure Girls is a unique, interactive program for girls in grades 2-6 that gives girls the opportunity to meet with women who are defying gender
stereotypes and challenging notions of what a girl or woman “should” do or be. Adventure Girls brings girls together with women in adventurous and
daring professions to learn how women of daring chose to do what they do, where and from whom they find support and how they've found the inner
resolve and courage to follow their dreams and pursue their profession of choice.