LINCOLN – Girls Scouts from Daisy Troop 22, of Cumberland, got a closer look at celestial wonders with a hands-on lesson about the universe during a trip to Chase Farm.
During the recent Starry, Starry Nite, put on by Friends of Hearthside and held at the Chase Farm Visitors Center off Great Road, participants young and old first participated in a presentation from Lincoln resident and astronomer Francine Jackson, then went up the hill where volunteer members of the Skyscrapers group helped them focus through telescopes on the moon and planets, including the rings of Saturn. Jackson shared about the ever-expanding knowledge of the universe, highlighting recent discoveries and describing some of the phenomena we don’t know much about yet.
Sara Boyington, of Girl Scout Daisy Troop 22, said the scouts made the visit to earn their Daisy Space Science Explorer Badge, all part of this first level of scouting.
Boyington said they’re always trying to the girls every opportunity to learn from women who are experts in their fields, including those such as Jackson in STEM jobs.
Similarly Shanna Clow, an officer with the Cumberland Police Department, shared about her job with the girls, Boyington said, going way above and beyond in taking questions and hanging out with them long beyond what would have been expected.
