IPPs, IPAs, Focus Patches, Charms & Pin

Girl Scout Interest Project Patches, Interest Project Awards, Focus Patches, Charms and a Pin - 1997

Launched in 1997 with 80 Interest Project Patches.
Some designs/names from the Worlds To Explore program remained and were produced with the new, uniformed blue border as needed.
Some new designs were on different colored twill background fabric, blue and teal, as well as white.
In 1999 the name was changed from Interest Project Patches to Interest Project Awards.
2002 brought a new award, American Patriotism.
In 2002 GSUSA dropped the requirement that only troop leaders could purchase try-its/badges/awards.
In 2004 GSUSA experimented with dropping the Cadette and Senior titles to older girls, simply referring to them as Girls 11-17.
2006 brought 10 new multicolored Interest Project Awards, with 2 matching charms and 1 pin. The requirements for these awards were only available online.
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.
2009, as Studio 2B charms were being phased out, 12 new multicolored "Focus Patches" were launched, to replace the charms.
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