You won’t want to miss out on this great STEM event!
Love architecture or building things? Interested in engineering?
Cookie Construction 2023 teams Girl Scouts with women architects and engineers in a design contest to turn empty Girl Scout Cookie boxes into giant free-standing structures.
- Structure designs will be based on 2023’s theme “Girl Scouts Dream Big.”
- Teams* will be judged on originality, creativity, technical difficulty, teamwork, and an advance meeting with their mentor.
- Once registered Team Advisors will receive an email with further instructions, competition rules, building guidelines, and deadlines along with information about their mentor.
- Time commitment will include a few design meetings prior to event on March 9.
Teams will build structures Thursday, March 9, from 4:00p.m.-8:00 p.m. at the Tulsa Home & Garden Show! Their structures will then be on display throughout the weekend.
To Apply: Team Advisors will register themselves and their team members.
- Teams must be 5-10 Girl Scouts
- Girl Scouts must be 6th grade and older
- Up to two adults can help the team with their construction in an advisor role, however, Girl Scouts will be primary builders.
*Teams can be a troop, group of individual registered Girl Scouts, or Girl Scouts from various troops.
Questions? Council Contact – Roberta Allen, rallen@gseok.org , 918-745-5242
January 31: Team Registration Deadline
February 1: Building guidelines, etc emailed to Team Advisors.
February 9: Construction concept and design due to rallen@gseok.org
February 10: Notification of team’s mentor to coordinate a couple design meetings shared
March 9: Build Day at the Tulsa Expo Center
Participating teams will also have the opportunity to sign up to work a shift at our cookie booth during the Home and Garden Show at the Tulsa Expo. (Options for available shifts will be from Friday, March 10 - Sunday, March 12 and confirmed after registration).
