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>> What I love about my
patch is that it sort
of embodies my entire
Girl Scout history.
At the heart of my patch, you'll
see an atom, and the nucleus
of that atom is the
Girl Scout symbol.
And that, to me, is you know
it's the heart of the patch
and it's my heart as well.
But it also has an image of
Jupiter and part of that is
because I became a
rocket scientist.
I became a rocket scientist
to work on the Voyager fly-by
of Jupiter and its
moons Io and Europa
because I was a Girl Scout,
because I earned
my science badge.
As a young child, my troop
leader saw me looking
at the stars and she
helped me understand
that there were constellations,
there were systems
up in the stars at night.
Instead of just being bright
lights kind of on black velvet,
it was actually, there was
this system to the stars
and there were planets.
And I was really
enchanted by that.
So when I had a chance
to earn my science badge,
she encouraged me to do
something around space.
And so I began to make rockets
and got a rocket
and put it together.
And after many tries, I finally
had success in my rocket.
It went up into the
bright blue New Mexico sky.
And so you see on my
patch, a rocket ship.
So there are 3 symbols there,
1 of them is Pi, and I really
like Pi and it is
meaningful for me
because when I was
earning my sewing badge,
I wanted to make a gym bag.
And my mom, when I told her I
wanted to earn a sewing badge,
I think she had visions of
maybe a dress or something else.
And she wanted to go get
a pattern we could buy.
But I said, "No, I
wanted to make a gym bag."
And she was like,
"Well, I don't know
if there's any patterns
for gym bags."
I said, "That's okay Mom.
I've already kind
of done the math.
I know how to do this."
And she said, "Well, how do you
know what the measurements are?"
And I said, "Mom, that's okay.
You know [inaudible].
I know that it's just
a circumference 2 pi r.
And she said, "Two
pi r, what's pi?"
And I said, "Oh, it's
a mathematical symbol."
And she looked at me and she
said, "Well, I'm glad you
like math [inaudible]."
You know and she
was like, "Okay."
But she helped me
earn that badge,
she helped me sew
it all together,
and to this day I still
have that gym bag.
The symbol for summation, which
is the sigma on the bottom,
I was always liked math and
in my head when I see a row
of numbers, I'm constantly just
adding them up to its sigma,
the summation of things,
so I thought that was nice.
And at the top, kind of
for potential, is infinity,
you know infinity and beyond.
And what Girl Scouts
taught me is you know
that it's boundless
opportunities.
And so the opportunities
in life are infinite.
And that's why this symbol
for infinity is there.
When I give out each of my
patches, I look at a girl
and I say, "This isn't just
my patch, this symbolizes
that your dreams can come true
because my dreams came true.
This is a seed, this is what
can happen in your life.
I know that this Girl
Scouting can change your life
for the better.
It can help you reach your
dreams, dreams and goals
that today seem kind
of insurmountable
or impossible to achieve.
You can do that.
Girl Scouts gives you those
tools and that confidence.
So when you get that
patch and you look at it,
that is dreams can come true.
And I'm a living
testament that that's true."
