Olympia Badge 2008

We are delighted to launch the new version of the Olympia Badge for this Olympic year, 2008. The aim of the badge is promote the WAGGGS message to ’discover your potential’ in many different ways, including sport.

To celebrate the fact that the Games of the XXIX Olympiad will be held in Beijing in 2008, Hong Kong Girl Guides Association has been working with WAGGGS to bring you the new Olympia Badge with a Chinese flavour.

The Olympia Badge was originally designed by Soma Hellinikou Odigismou (The Greek Girl Guides Association) to remind people of the original purpose of the Olympic Games and to mark its return home to Athens in 2004.

It was launched in conjunction with the Triennial Theme ‘Our Rights, Our Responsibilities’ and over 25,000 badges were distributed to successful participants.

We hope that the badge will encourage girls and young women to improve their knowledge of sports, support the ideal of women as peacemakers and promote intercultural understanding.

In response to requests from our members, we have now added a special appendix of activities suitable for Rainbows (age 5-7years). You can find this document in the Related Documents section on this page.

Badges now available for purchase!

Badges are available for purchase from Our Shop here. There is also a certificate that you can download in lieu of a badge at the bottom of this page.

Tell us how you did with the Olympia Badge

Please help us by returning the report form which you can download below. Which were your favourite activities? Leave your comments at the bottom of this page!

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BROWNIE TROOP 542 Venice, Florida USA 13 July 2008 - 11.18PM (GMT)

We had a really fun time today when our troop had an all day Olympic event! We used the low Balance Beam, played an Olympic Ring game and learnt lots of facts about the Olympics and China! We earned our Gold Olympia Badge and certificates plus medals!

S MacRonald 20 June 2008 - 7.15PM (GMT)

1st Corpusty & Saxthorpe Brownies had fun learning about China and the Olympics. We all went for silver since we had to buy the badges in batches of 10. It would have been nice to be able to award different awards.

rachel 19 June 2008 - 7.25PM (GMT)

hi my name is rachel im 13 and i go to 6th kidderminster guides and for my bp badge i have to find out about waggggs and you guys are really good and i really like to know more thanks

Elaine Attard 19 June 2008 - 11.15AM (GMT)

We started working on the Olympia Gold Level badge a few weeks ago during guide meetings and the girls are quite enthusiastic about it!! last week we worked on the tangrams. The girls stuck the shapes on colourful cardboard and then coloured in the shapes to give it more life! We had some interesting results...

Elaine Attard
31st Mosta Girl Guides - Malta

Lesley Eaton 17 June 2008 - 8.12PM (GMT)

The badge has been a great success. The girls enjoyed writing in Chinese.
It is a shame that I could only buy badges in packs of 10. There are only 9 in my unit. 6 acheived gold and 3 acheived bronze.

Katherine Hancock 17 June 2008 - 12.28PM (GMT)

16th Rugby Brownies

The Brownies have had a lot of fun working towards this badge. The 3 levels have really inserted some competetion into the girls with some acheiving the Bronze but all aiming for the Gold. They have really enjoyed learning about the olympics and trying new sports / activities out. A great badge syllabus - thanks.

Kathy 15 June 2008 - 3.18AM (GMT)

The girls had a great time at our "Go for the Gold" Olympic-themed camping trip. The girls learned a lot about the Olympics and China by completing the requirements for the Olympia Badge.

Troop 609, Mercer Area Girl Scouts

christine lynch 13 June 2008 - 3.52PM (GMT)

9th Aberdeen Brownies
over the past 8 weeks we have all been working very hard on completing our bronze olympia badge ---chinese food tasting night --making medal / stamp and curency for 2056---and completing our agilty badge as well. we also made some great collages of the olympic rings and what they stand for --over all a great badge and great theme for as all to use over the weeks --ended our sesion with a mimi olympics and sausage sizzle -with a prensentation of the badge to all 28 of our excited brownies
thank you

Debbie Bennett 9 June 2008 - 10.38AM (GMT)

We have a great time this weekend on our olympic themed camp.

Thanks

11th Birmingham Brownies

jane brooke 8 June 2008 - 6.25PM (GMT)

1st curry rivel and drayton guides are close to finishing this set of badges. it has been a challenging project and we have all learnt a lot. it brought together information from several sources. we had a fun wide game and this week hold our own olympic games. many thanks to the compilers.

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