Girl Scout Interest Project Patches, Interest Project Awards, Focus Patches, Charms and a Pin - 1997
Cadette and Senior
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Launched in 1997 with 80 Interest Project Patches.
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Some designs/names from the Worlds To Explore program remained and were produced with the new, uniformed blue border as needed.
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Some new designs were on different colored twill background fabric, blue and teal, as well as white.
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In 1999 the name was changed from Interest Project Patches to Interest Project Awards.
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2002 brought a new award, American Patriotism.
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In 2002 GSUSA dropped the requirement that only troop leaders could purchase try-its/badges/awards.
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In 2004 GSUSA experimented with dropping the Cadette and Senior titles to older girls, simply referring to them as Girls 11-17.
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2006 brought 10 new multicolored Interest Project Awards, with 2 matching charms and 1 pin. The requirements for these awards were only available online.
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2008 brought back the Cadette (grades 6-8) and Senior (grades 9-10) levels, and added the new Ambassador (grade 11-12) level, who could also earn.
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2009, as Studio 2B charms were being phased out, 12 new multicolored "Focus Patches" were launched, to replace the charms.
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This era was phased out in 2011. It ended with 103 patches.
Left - Old Worlds to Explore Blue Border - Leadership
Right - New blue border for 1997 - Leadership
Interest Project Awards added in 2006:
Requirements only available online
Charms and Pin 2006-2008
Focus Patches added 2009
