Go Red Girl Scout Patch Program
To help girls learn to make healthier choices and empower the women they love to do the same, the Girl Scouts, American Heart Association, and UI Heart and Vascular Center have teamed up to offer a Go Red Girl Scout patch.
Some of the activities required to earn the patch are offered below. For complete Go Red Patch requirements visit the Girl Scout Go Red patch web page.
For All Levels
Contact Volunteer Services at UI Hospitals and Clinics to find out how you can help local heart patients. Possibilities include craft projects, making hand-made cards or letters, book and movie drives, and collecting dress up clothes for young heart patients at UI Children’s Hospital.
Girl Scouts age 14 or older may be able to visit patients. Go to Volunteer Services and visit the "Special Projects" page under "Becoming a Volunteer." You can also contact Volunteer Services by e-mail. If you live a long way from Iowa City, consider volunteering through your local hospital.
For Daisy/Brownies and Juniors
Complete a heart healthy puzzle
- Fruit and Veggie Quiz
- Answers to the Fruit and Veggie Quiz
- Smoking Message Puzzle
- Don’t Smoke Word Search
- Healthy Message Puzzle
For Junior Level and Above
Learn about kids who were helped at The University of Iowa Children’s Hospital and UI Heart and Vascular Center.
- Using sophisticated technology, two physicians partnered to help a young boy with a rare heart condition and wrote an article for a national journal to help other physicians learn as well.
- With a heart three times its normal size, this teen needed a heart transplant.
- After a complex six hour procedure, this newborn's heart valve was fixed.
- UI physicians help to pioneer a procedure that freezes heart rhythm problems in its tracks and helped save a young girl's life.
For Cadette and Above
- Test your knowledge about heart health by taking this heart health quiz.
- Choose a heart topic and talk to your troop or family about what you learned.
- Learn about advances in heart care and talk to your troop or family about what you have learned.
- Learn how you can become a heart doctor.
- Attend the Women in Science Girl Scout program
Find out about the UI partnership with the American Heart Association
The patch program was developed by the University of Wisconsin Health Heart and Vascular Care and has been adapted with permission.