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Local Girl Scouts Promote #WaterOakPride
Two Watertown Girl Scouts create a special video, "Water Oak Pride," to showcase pride in their hometown for their Silver Award project.
WATERTOWN – Two local Girl Scouts have created a video about Watertown to foster pride in their hometown.
Called “Water-Oak Pride,” the two-minute clip shares special aspects about the town, set to video of the town’s beauty that the girls filmed this summer. The video, created by Cailin McGuire and Courtney Candee-Zubik, both of Troop 64209, is part of the two Scouts’ Silver Award project, which is the highest award a Cadette Scout may earn.
The girls began work on their project this past spring. Originally, the pair had planned to create a booklet about Watertown and Oakville for local youth. However, realizing that their generation is geared to visual images as they grow up in a digital age, they switched their plan of a print publication and instead created a video which can be shared on social media.
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“Kids watch so many videos on YouTube, we figured this was a better to reach them instead of a booklet that would be harder to access,” Cailin McGuire said.
“We also thought that it could be shared on social media and that way more people would see it,” Courtney Candee-Zubik said.
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The two Cadettes, who have grown up in Watertown, are promoting their video project via social media sites as well as flyers and the media. The girls also share additional information, as well as a link to the video on YouTube, via a special blog, WaterOakPride.blogspot.com. The pair also have a Facebook page, Water-Oak Pride.
Both hope that anyone who views it may learn something new about their hometown, and that everyone young and old will realize how special Watertown is. The video features information on the start of the town, items made here, famous people who grew up here, and other facts.
Cailin McGuire and Courtney Candee-Zubik are both currently freshman at Watertown High School. Both girls have been Girl Scouts since kindergarten, and are bridging from Cadettes to Senior Girl Scouts this October.
To see the video, search “Water Oak Pride” on YouTube.com, or visit wateroakpride.blogspot.com for more information.
