Brownie Girl Scouts can earn the Budding Entrepreneur badge today! This is a digital course that contains fun videos and activities that meet all badge criteria. All VicTreeFi courses are created by financial professionals (and Girl Scouts alums)! When your Brownie completes this course, she will receive a virtual certificate as proof of completion.
Description:
VicTreeFi is a female-founded company, dedicated to promoting financial education. The company’s co-founder was a Girl Scout. VicTreeFi provides on-demand courses for students that are self-paced and mobile-friendly. Courses are built around national standards for financial literacy and all required Girl Scout badge steps.
Website:
https://app.victreefi.com/#/girlscouts/central-illinois
In Person or Virtual:
Virtual
or
Badge in a Box (Includes: ‘How to Become an Entrepreneur’ guide, Online Workshop, Two soap dispensing bottles, Four castille hypoallergenic soap packets, Four labels for designing your brand, and Box for marketing your new soap business)
Cost:
Virtual $2 per girl
Badge in a Box $26 per girl
To Schedule:
To purchase courses as an individual, please login or create a free account to access your Girl Scout dashboard. Girl Scouts may enroll at any time by purchasing badge courses. As Girl Scouts advance through their badgework, progress is saved and shared with the council. Once all required badgework is completed, a Certificate of Completion will appear under the My Certificates tab.
If you are a troop leader and would like to bulk enroll your entire troop, download the Troop Enrollment Form on the website and email the completed form to contact@victreefi.com. Payment can be made by credit card online. We recommend that Girl Scouts complete badgework prior to planned troop meetings, with discussion of key takeaways occurring at the next troop meeting. Email contact@victreefi.com for more information about discussion guides.
Award Earned:
Budding Entrepreneur
Budding Entrepreneur
Become an entrepreneur by making something, testing it out, and improving your idea to make it the best it can be!
1. Come up with an idea that makes life better
2. Share your idea with others to get feedback
3. Improve your idea
4. Share how your idea works
5. Pitch your idea to an audience
When you’ve earned this badge, you will have come up with an idea for something that solves a problem, gotten feedback on it, and pitched it to others—all things that entrepreneurs do!