Date and time: Saturday, October 30, 2021, 1 – 3:30 p.m.
Location: In person at Stroud Water Research Center, 970 Spencer Rd, Avondale, PA 19311.
Audience: Girl Scout Brownies (Grades 2-3).
Cost: $14 for youth (Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania [GSEP] Member Rate that includes Bugs Badge mailed after your program and Stroud Center Education Programs fun patch received the day of your program). FREE for adults. Registration is REQUIRED.

This program is hosted and led by the Stroud Center. Registration is coordinated by GSEP.

Did you know that creeping, crawling insects can tell scientists if a stream is clean? Or that one crafty critter smaller than your pinky finger can spin silk stickier than most spider webs? Girl Scout Brownies, get your boots wet this Halloween weekend to learn more and earn your Bugs Badge at the Stroud Center! Explore stream habitats studied year-round by bug scientists, discover wriggling “stream bugs” (aquatic macroinvertebrates) that call those waters home, and create a model bug that will make you as “crafty as a caddisfly”! Stream boots provided for all boots-in-the-water activities.

All participants of all ages, including youth and adult chaperones, are required to sign and submit the Stroud Center’s Liability Waiver either by email or the day of the program. Registrants will be emailed more information on the waiver, including a handout of program expectations and what to wear, by GSEP approximately one week prior to the program.

COVID-19 Safety Protocols
💧 Except for use of indoor restroom facilities, program will take place entirely outdoors in our streamside forests and under our education pavilion.
💧 Face masks with proper fit (over the nose, chin, and cheeks) are REQUIRED when entering the building to use restroom facilities.
💧 Face masks are currently OPTIONAL during outdoor program activities, but this may shift based on COVID-19 surges in the best interest and safety of all participants. Registrants will be alerted to any changes to masking requirements by email approximately one week before the program.
💧 All participants are asked to maintain 6 feet of physical distancing whenever possible.
💧 Participants are asked not to attend the program if feeling any combination of atypical symptoms, including but not limited to fatigue, coughing, sore throat, fever, chills, etc.
💧 Independent use of the campus, including unguided use of trails for hiking or outdoor spaces for meals, is NOT permitted at this time.