Involving Girl Scouts in Your Events

The "AVA Participation Patch for Girl Scout Walks" is designed each year in a contest run by a specific AVA club and its partnering Girl Scout council. The AVA Youth Committee awards the contest to clubs that have established plans for long term volkssport programs with their partner Girl Scout council.

The council runs the contest and submits designs from individual Girl Scouts or troop/groups to the club who forwards their top 3 or 4 designs to the AVA Youth Committee. The Girl Scout or troop/group with the winning design is presented with a certificate with the patch made of their design.


2018 - 2019 designed by Marina Venture from the Brooklyn, NY Chapter 102 Navigators USA.	2017 - 2018 designed by Arerli Gonzales of Troop #30536, California’s Central Coast Council.	2016 - 2017 designed by a GS from the Girl Scouts Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas.

2015 - 2016 designed by a GS in Troop #363, GS of River City Ramblers	2014 - 2015 designed by a GS of Ohio's Heartland.	2013 - 2014 designed by a GS in Troop #813, GS of Southern Illinois Council

2012 - 2013 designed by a GS in Troop #42383, GS of Oregon and SW Washington	2011 - 2012 designed by a GS in Troop #20031, GS Heart of Pennsylvania Council	2010 - 2011 designed by a GS in Arizona

2009 - 2010 designed by a GS in Oregon	2008 - 2009 designed by a GS in Virginia	2007 - 2008 designed by a GS in Iowa

2006 - 2007 designed by a GS in Alaska	2005 - 2006 designed by a GS in North Carolina	2004 - 2005 designed by a GS in Minnesota

2003 - 2004 designed by a GS in Massachusetts	2002 - 2003 designed by a GS in Washington DC	2001 - 2002 designed by a GS in Washington state

2000 - 2001 designed by a GS in Pennsylvania	1999 - 2000 AVA-GSUSA Participation Patch for GS Volkssports. It was designed for AVA clubs to use for their members who participate in GS Walk-Togethers. Many GS Councils use the patch as their award also.