This Maine Girl Scouts Gold Award project,
Living Night
Youth & Dark Skies
implements a Youth Toolkit to
play and learn
5 Principles of Responsible Outdoor Lighting
Maine animals from your backyard will explain
what, why, how, and where
to enjoy
Maine’s exceptional dark sky spaces.
Thank you to my advisor photographer and explorer Babak Tafreshi who taught me the pillars of storytelling. Experience and stories bring awareness and motivate people to act together for community.
Thank you to Dark Sky Maine.
Their founders,
Nancy Hathaway and John T. Meader,
guided my community outreach and taught me
community engagement is essential to education on
responsible lighting and enjoying darkness.
Thank you to
AMC Maine Woods Initiative educator, naturalist, and
Girl Scout Genevieve Trafelet.
Genevieve’s example of doing and showing causes children to bloom as observers and develops their empathy for nature.
Thank you to
Shaw Public Library and Kathy Bishop
who taught me resilience and pivoting.
Taking my project to community partners
connected the local to state and international partnerships.
Together we are stronger.