GIRL Guides in South Gloucestershire are among the first in the region to take on fun electricity challenges to earn a brand new series of badges.
Guides from the area are tackling a range of activities around the themes of electrical safety, energy efficiency, low carbon networks and how people with extra needs and vulnerabilities can be supported in a power cut.
The Girl Power Challenge has been brought to the region by National Grid Electricity Distribution (NGED) and Girlguiding Bristol and South Gloucestershire, and will be available to 3,000 girls and young women.
Among the 30 challenges are: making lightning; electricity-free cooking; building an electric car; using potatoes as batteries, and calculating carbon footprints and ways to reduce them.
Ellie Patey, NGED’s community engagement manager, said: "The Girl Power Challenge offers not only fun activities to engage Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers, but we hope it will also spark interest in science, technology, engineering and maths and potential careers in the electricity industry."
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