Clark, Garwood Girl Scouts Compete In Annual Powder Puff Derby

CLARK, NJ — Clark, Garwood, and Winfield Girl Scouts held their Annual Powder Puff Derby in the Clark Recreation Center.

More than 50 girls, from various troops and from different levels of scouts, came ready to race their cars that they built and designed from scratch.

All of the girls created cars that were powered by gravity. Each car raced down the track six times. The girls were grouped by scout level: Daisies, Brownies, Juniors, and Cadettes. There was even a Family Race.

Every girl who entered received a patch for the hard work and participation. First, second and third place winners from each level of scouts received a trophy.

The event was run by Cadette Troop 40791, led by Girl Scout Leader Alicia Scipioni and her husband Valentino Scipioni.

The Overall Winners were as follows:

• 1st Place Allison Normann (Junior) with her car named, The Creepster.
• 2nd Place Taylor Normann (Cadette) with her car, The Dark Knight.
• 3rd Place Isabella Papa (Cadette) with her car, Showtime.

Family Race Winners:

• 1st Place Melissa Papa with her car, Big Blue.
• 2nd Place Matt Normann with his car, Nitro.
• 3rd Place Shane Morrison with his car, Vision.

Winners for Special Categories were:

• Most Colorful-Faith Texeira with her car named Rainbow Racer
• Most Scout Made-Gabriella DeSanto with her car named Unikitty.
• Car with the Most Sparkle-Alyssa Miller with her car named Princess Twilight.
• Sporty Car-Makhaela Gonzalez with her car named Cheer-mobile.
• Most Unique-Juliette Raab with her car named Pink Fireball.
• Fastest Looking Car-Taylor Normann with her car named The Dark Knight..
• Funniest Car-Lucia Junkroft with her car named Sushi Speeder.
• Most Bling-Jemma Galczynski with her car named The Pearly Jem.
• Most Cartoonish-Gianna Fogu with her car named Spongebob Mobile.
• Best Named Car-Catherine Hudak with her car named “Something fast this way comes.”
• Prettiest Car-Mia Arvelo with her car named Sugar Queen.
• Most Girl Scout Themed- had two winners:
• Kayla Roselli with her car named Tagalong Daisy
• Kiersten Mathison with her car named Cookie Cruiser
• Best Paint Job-Livia Cantor with her car named I ain’t scared
• Most Amazing Design-Lauren Gluck with her car Skee Ball Power
• Most Animal Friendly-Emily Griffin with her car Emily’s Zoo
• Pretty in Pink-Lilijana Jadro with her car Pink Poodle
• Flat Tire (lowest car)-Gianna Shatkin with her car Rainbow Horn.

Girl Scouts thanked parents and scouts who helped set-up and run the track, especially Matt Normann; volunteers who worked the kitchen during the races, which will help fund future Girl Scout activities; and lastly Kings located in Garwood, Manager Domenic Romeo at the Clark ShopRite and Kervin Almonte from BJs in Linden for all of their donations.

— Submitted by Alicia Scipioni

(Images via Alicia Scipioni)

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