Smiling from sticky note to students: new campaign encourages CHS students
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Pictured above are (left to right) Samantha Martin, Ashlyn Davis, Jessalyn Morrow, Arianna Line, and Rita Veneziale sitting below their budding project.
Carlisle High School is always full of new, engaging activities and campaigns including the new Stick on a Smile campaign.
Stick on a Smile was created to spread some kindness among the student body with sticky notes carrying inspiring messages.
The sticky notes can be seen hung outside the Swartz cafeteria and students are encouraged to come write their own inspiring message or take one if they are having a bad day.
However, the project was started and designed by five Carlisle High School students including sophomore Arianna Line and freshmen Jessalyn Morrow, Ashlyn Davis, Rita Veneziale, and Samantha Martin.
Together the five of them help form a local Girl Scout troop and are working on this project “to help earn our Girltopia award, so we can help the school, and work towards the ultimate goal of getting our Gold Award,” explained Line.
The Girltopia award is one of the many Girl Scout journey’s the girl’s have to complete and is described by the official Girl Scout Online Store as follows: “Girl Scout Seniors know the world is not ideal. This journey for ninth-and-tenth graders is their chance to imagine a perfect world-for girls. They’re invited to create their vision as an art project-in any medium of their choice.”
As a way of making “a perfect world for girls,” the five of them came up with the idea to create the Stick on a Smile campaign.
“This project is a take action project,” described Veneziale. “We did a journey on woman empowerment, so our take action project is supposed to pass on the positive message to other people. We chose to put inspiration quotes onto sticky notes that people can then read it on the wall and take off if needed.”
With the sticky notes, the girls hoped “to make people feel good or give them some inspiration for the day,” said Davis.
Girltopia is just the first step in a long journey to earn the Girl Scout Gold Award.
“The Girl Scout Gold Award represents the highest achievement in Girl Scouting. Open only to girls in high school, this prestigious award challenges you to change the world—or at least your corner of it” according to the official Girl Scout site.
In the process of changing the world, each girl must put 80 hours of community service into the project.
Morrow left with one last thought on the project.
“With a lot of negative things going on in the world, we decided it would be a good idea to spread some more kindness.”
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Brooklyn Norrell is currently a senior at Carlisle Area High School and this is her third year in Periscope. Brooklyn is the student life section editor...
Sarah Thompson • Dec 9, 2016 at 8:27 am
This is such a cool project! I love the fact that students are trying to spread positivity!:)
Abby Russell • Dec 9, 2016 at 8:07 am
I love this project! It is so good to see that our school is being proactive in doing things to inspire students and making them feel better about themselves on a daily basis.
Jacquie • Dec 7, 2016 at 11:25 am
Great young adults, great project, great article!