Future Girl Scouts Earn Brownie Badges

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TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI)– Some future girl scouts got a chance to learn how tough it is to compete with a handicap.

Some area Brownies visited Health Works to earn their Fair Play badge. Kim Burleson told them about professional athletes who have succeeded despite handicaps including a wheel chair tennis player.

She then gave them the opportunity to try various activities like shooting baskets with one eye, playing tennis with one foot and soccer with their hands behind their back.

“They are going to be learning about different rules of different games,, ” she explains. “How to work together as a team, how to have fun and include everyone even maybe students or peers who have disabilities who have a little bit harder time playing certain sports or games,”Burleson concludes.

Burleson says Brownies are mostly second grade girls who will eventually become Girl Scouts. She says they also helped older Girl Scouts earn goal setting merit badges.