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1 Fo Gil Scout Cadettes, Senios and Ambassados Discove Nothwest Indiana Nothwest Indiana is a community located in ou council. Ty this badge to discove the aea s ich histoy, cultue, natual esouces, spots, entetainment and educational oppotunities! Steps: 1. Healthy Living 2. Ats 3. Outdoo Education 4. Histoy and Cultue 5. STEM Pupose: When I ve eaned this badge, I ll know moe about Nothwest Indiana and what it has to offe. I m coming home, it s plain to see. Goin Back I still got Indiana soul in me. tofom Indiana by The Jackson 5 f o o l d e g i l s

2 1 Healthy Living Healthy living is a good combination of physical activity and eating nutitious foods. Thee ae many ways to be healthy in Nothwest Indiana. Let s exploe! Lean about healthy food movements in Nothwest Indiana. Find out about how chefs, gadenes, local fames and families ae making a commitment to healthy eating by investigating the slow food movement, community gadening and uban agicultue effots in the egion. gownwi.com and slowfoodsouthshoe.og ae a couple places to stat (ask an adult fo help). Attend a local team s spoting event. Thee ae multiple colleges and univesities in Nothwest Indiana find a women s team and go to a game! Paticipate in a physical activity at Jak s Waehouse in Scheeville. Bust out the lases with you fiends and play tag o find you way though the lase maze. 2 Ats The ats ae alive in Indiana! Whethe you enjoy pefoming ats, visual ats o making an at poject, thee ae many oppotunities to be ceative in this community. Attend a pefomance. Nothwest Indiana boasts multiple ats venues find one neaby and go see a play o ballet! The Indiana Ballet Theate has geat shows thoughout the yea. Peuse the Baue Museum at Valpaaiso Univesity. Call ahead and equest a tou of the museum. Find two pieces of atwok in the museum that wee ceated by Nothwest Indiana atists. Compae and contast thei wok. Make at! Reseach facts about Nothwest Indiana, then ceate a wok of at that epesents what the egion means to you. Maybe it s the histoy of the aea o a paticula city. Anothe geat idea is to memoialize the expeiences you ve had in Nothwest Indiana so fa by eviewing othe equiements fo the Discove Nothwest Indiana badge pogam.

3 3 Outdoo Education Nothwest Indiana is famous fo the Lake Michigan shoeline and the Indiana Dunes. Foests, famlands, mashes, paiies and olling plains define the geogaphy of the aea. Go on a hike o walk. Exploe a foest peseve o natual aea to obseve animals, plants and the teain. Take pictues of tees and plants while you e walking. When you get home, identify the names of the things you saw using a tee identification guide o sufing the web (ask you paents fist!). Ae these unique to Nothwest Indiana? Visit the Indiana Dunes. You ll find the dunes along the shoe of Lake Michigan. How did they get thee? How wee they fomed? Find out the answes to these questions, and then exploe all that the Dunes has to offe! Lean moe about natue. Attend an outdoo educational pogam at Dunes Leaning Cente, located in the spectaculaly biodivese Indiana Dunes National Lakeshoe. Spend time exploing the geat outdoos at a special event o summe camp. Thei 63ace classoom featues beaches, paiies, dunes and woodlands of the egion. 4 Histoy & Cultue Evey state has a cultue all its own, including histoical sites, festivals and taditions. Discove Nothwest Indiana s ich histoy and cultue. Tavel back in time. Visit a local histoy museum; you can find them in many diffeent communities, including the Pote County Museum of Histoy, Westcheste Township Histoy Museum and Lake County Histoical Museum. While at one of these museums, wite down 10 facts that you didn t know befoehand about the specific community. Ty to stump you fiends using this newfound tivia. Take a tip to a histoical home o building. Histoy is bountiful thoughout Nothwest Indiana; lean about the past by visiting a piece of histoy. Eat you way though a local festival. Hee a few to whet you appetite: Popcon Festival in Valpaaiso, Kouts Pok Fest in Kouts, Pieogi Fest located in Whiting o an Indiana county fai. Be a sleuth why was the festival stated? Once you know the answe, go eat some yummy food!

4 5 STEM STEM stands fo science, technology, engineeing and mathematics. Lean moe about the Hoosie state by discoveing STEM in the aea. Get hands-on at the Challenge Laning Cente in Hammond. Check out the South Shoe Skies pesentation in the planetaium, which focuses on stas, constellations and othe objects visible fom Nothwest Indiana. While thee, don t foget to ask about Colonel Jey Ross, a etied astonaut fom Nothwest Indiana! (BONUS: Ean you Night Owl badge at the cente.) Lean about Nothwest Indiana s ecology and envionment. Reseach the weathe, plants, natual esouces, wildlife and climate; compae this infomation to anothe egion of the U.S. Find out moe about technology and engineeing in Nothwest Indiana. Investigate the technology used in manufactuing plants. What poducts ae being manufactued? Ae thee any new innovations used hee? What did I lean? Discove Nothwest Indiana badges may be puchsed in ou Gil Scout shops o online at shopgilscouts.com.

5 Special Thanks to Ou Sponsos BRAUER MUSEUM OF ART Valpaaiso Univesity The Baue Museum of At has a pemanent collection of ove 3500 pieces of Ameican at and intenational eligious at. The Baue Museum featues a full schedule of exhibitions and events. Please see ou web page. To schedule a tou please call W W W W W W W W W W W W THE BEST PLACE F STEM IN CHICAGOLAND Bownie, Junio and Cadette badge-eaning science wokshops Simulated space missions Science Labs LASER shows Summe camps Family Science Nights Planetaium shows Located on the Pudue Cal campus in Hammond (219) scouts@clcnwi.com Ou Classoom Lean moe at