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Girl Scout Badge Days

Spend the Day at Camp with Your Troop

A Camp Chingachgook staff facilitates a full day of activities keeping your troop on the move, playing, laughing, and learning together. There is time in the day to meet other troops and make new friends.

Meet Badge Requirements

Your troop comes to Chingachgook having already determined which badge to work on. Brownies and juniors generally are able to complete all the requirements and leave with a certificate of completion. Cadettes and seniors can achieve the more intensive outdoor and environmental requirements at Chingachgook under the guidance of Chingachgook outdoor educators. Troop leaders can focus on prerequisites and activities that can be done outside of Camp that involve service, interviews, extended time commitments, or more research.

Gain Outdoor Skills and Environmental Appreciation

Camp Chingachgook is uniquely located on the crystal-clear waters of Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains, and offers an ideal environment for water and land activities. Chingachgook staff are knowledgeable, skilled, and trained in outdoor activities and stewardship and are excited to share their expertise with the scouts.

Choose Your Badge

There are four sessions throughout the day to work on badge requirements. We will schedule your specific troop after registration. Please click here for the list of available options according to your troop’s level and for the chosen day. The availability of some badge activities are are determined by the number of troops work on them concurrently. Please select two choices.

 

Challenge Yourself

At Chingachgook, scouts learn new skills and get to know themselves and each other better. We promote an atmosphere that allows girls to challenge themselves personally and as a group.





Typical Schedule

8:30 a.m.      Register
9:00 a.m.      Activity Sessions 1 and 2
12:00 p.m.    Lunch in the dining hall
1:30 p.m.      Activity Sessions 3 and 4
5:00 p.m.      Receive badge certificates
5:30 p.m.      Depart





Bed and Breakfast

If you are staying Friday night:
     5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Check-in
     8:00 a.m. Saturday breakfast


If you are staying Saturday night:
     6:00 p.m. Dinner
     8:00 a.m. Sunday breakfast/depart

Rates

If your group is smaller than eight girls, please call the program director for the rate. For troops with eight or more girls, the rate is $30 per girl, which includes a hearty, wholesome lunch in the dining hall and one Chingachgook staff for 8 – 15 girls, depending on the badge.

We welcome two troop leaders per troop at no charge and additional adults at $10 each.

For badges including a session on the climbing tower, sailing, canoeing, or kayaking, please add $5 per person per activity.

For badges including the high-ropes course, please add $10 per person.

Additional fees for the bed-and-breakfast option (see further explanation below).

For custom-tailored badges, extended programs, or trips for cadettes and seniors, please contact the program director at 518-656-9462, ext 6642.

Registration

Please use the registration form to register your troop for each visit. The link for forms and registrations is on the side bar of each page.

Registration is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis.

A nonrefundable deposit of $10 per girl or extra adult is required to register; the balance is due upon arrival.

Please make checks payable to YMCA.

Please keep a copy of the registration for your records.

Please select a badge your troop would like to work on from the list of badge offerings. Badges are on a first-come, first-served basis as well, so please choose two.

Bed and Breakfast

Please call ahead for availability of cabins and facilities for your own evening programs. Heated cabins are available.

Small troops may be combined with another troop in a cabin.

Junior- and higher-level badges may require an overnight.

Friday night is $15 per person and includes lodging in cabins and a Saturday continental breakfast. Please arrive 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Saturday night is $25 per person and includes Saturday dinner, lodging in cabins, a Sunday continental breakfast, and departure after breakfast.

Troop leaders and chaperones conduct and supervise evening programs.

Chingachgook provides outdoor campfire areas and a bundle of firewood.

Leader Checklist

[  ] Register your troop, submit all information and the deposit.
[  ] Distribute, collect, and bring with you to Chingachgook the completed and signed Chingachgook forms for all girls and adults:
  • Health History & Emergency Treatment Authorization form
  • Acknowledgement of Risks and Release of Liability form
[  ] Arrange transportation to and from Camp Chingachgook **.
[  ] Collect payments and pay the balance due to Chingachgook upon arrival.
[  ] Provide a morning and afternoon snack.
[  ] Buy badges and present them at your usual ceremony.
[  ] Provide a roster with the names of all girls and adults.

* (we will send you a customized schedule before you arrive)
** Directions to Chingachgook

Badge Offerings











Badges require:
* Kayaking, canoeing, or sailing. Please add $5/person/activity

** Climbing tower, please add $5/person

*** High ropes, please add $10/person


Call the adventure program director at 518-656-9462, ext 6642 for the following special arrangements:

  • Cadette or senior backpacking interest project

  • Cadette or senior camping interest project

  • Junior hiker badge

  • Specific activities for other or partial badges


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