Brownie Cybersecurity Badges

GSUSA recently introduced three cybersecurity badges at each level.  While you can find the requirements on the publicly accessible Badge Explorer, the suggested activities are on Volunteer Tool Kit.  While there is a badge packet for sale that covers all three badges, it contains background information.  It does not provide the choice of three activities per requirement. It is also freely accessible compliments of Girl Scouts Farthest North.  Click here to see it.  

Volunteer Toolkit provides two complete lesson plans for each badge--in other words, if you do it their way, it will take you two meetings per badge.  The plans give you word-for-word scripts to follow as well as any handouts or coloring sheets you will need.  They are great for beginning leaders but many people find them difficult to skim through to pick out the activities so as to decide whether to use them or not.

This post is an attempt to summarize all the Brownie Cybersecurity badges in one easy to follow place.

Daisy Cybersecurity Badges

GSUSA came out with three cybersecurity badges for Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors in the fall of 2018,  While most Girl Scout Badges are available in hard copy or pdf brochures that give five (three for Daisies) requirements and three suggested activities (pick one) for reach requirement, these badges have five (or three) requirements shown on the Badge Explorer, and suggested activities on VTK, the pdf for sale DOES NOT include three suggested activities per requirement.  Rather, it is a colorful magazine-type source of information on cybersecurity for that age level.

Like other VTK plans, these contain word-for-word scripts for leaders and can be hard for some people to follow.  The VTK plans are "unplugged"; they can be done without computer access, and the idea is to teach principals, not techniques.  The talking points from the scripts are where the connections between the activities and cybesecurity are made.

Let's take a look at  the Daisy cybersecurity  badges and how GSUSA recommends earning them: