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really a major commitment. the first step is deciding what your silver award project will be. it should be something that fulfills a need in your community and is important to you. they could be working in a senior citizen center and doing something creative for the senior citizens. it could be creating a literacy program for kids in elementary school, helping kids with math. girl scouts can work on their project individually or two or three can work together. leadership is important. scouts going for silver need to put together a project team. this could consist of friends, family, and even members of the community. most projects will need some funding. raising that money is each scout s responsibility. so today we re doing a bake sale to raise money to provide families of nonverbal special needs children with identification bracelets in case they get separated from their guardians or aides. and we re trying to raise the money so it costs them nothing. you re ....
and if you start during your 11th grade year, it s definitely hectic. - probably like when you first get to high school. - well i think once you start high school you should start preparing for college because you have your grades will count and the colleges will look at your grades from ninth grade all the way to senior year. - you might be surprised to learn that many experts recommend starting far earlier. for more on this, we turn to jason ma. families hire him as a college prep coach, and he s also the ceo of the company threeeq. hi! - hi, thanks for inviting me. - you like to quote a saying by ucla coach john wooden that failure to prepare is preparing to fail. - well, i think when you look at successful people the first thing that i would try to figure out is how did they prepare in order to become successful? really most of the work is really in the preparation. - speaking of preparation, at what age should kids start preparing for college? - i had a conversatio ....
sharmi das, consumer education expert at the food and drug administration. welcome. hello. so, before we get into the specifics, how is the new nutrition label different from the old one? the new nutrition label that we re proposing will align the information with the latest scientific information. and the other thing that we want to do is give it a fresh look by emphasizing some of the key points in the nutrition-facts label, such as serving size and calories. okay. so, there s a lot of information. can you break down what we should be looking for? let s start with why serving size is important. serving size is actually very important in the nutrition-facts label. and as we already know, one packet or one box is not always one serving. so it might contain multiple servings, and it s very important for us to know how many servings are in each box or in a packet of food. how about calories? what s important about the number of calories? calories are very im ....
and that s important in places where people don t have any electricity. so you boil a pot of soup. i made mine this morning on a gas stove, but in the developing world, you do that over a campfire, really. that s how people cook. and then once it s to a boil, you tuck it right in this bag, very tight, and then you pull the string, and then you leave it for several hours. and just like a crock pot, the soup will cook. so we re gonna see if it worked. first, i just loosen up this, and then i take this top off. and then you see a pot of soup. and it s still really, really hot. i m gonna put this down. it saves a lot of fuel. and also, when you re not cooking over a fire, the food doesn t burn, and that makes it much easier to clean up afterwards. cause as you can imagine, if you don t have running water, it s really a pain to clean your dishes. so here s what the soup looks like. and i can tell you that it smells really great, and it is steaming, even though it s been in ....
along with her friend skyler troast. hi. - hi. - hello. - olivia, even before you went into the hospital, you were already involved with an international organization that provides medical care. - yes. that organization is operation smile, and operation smile is an international children s medical charity that repairs cleft lips and cleft palates in developing nations. often, these children with their facial deformities will suffer from a variety of physical and emotional effects, but operation smile steps in to help heal their smiles across the world. - specifically, what is a cleft lip or a cleft palate? - so a cleft lip or a cleft palate is simply a unilateral or a bilateral gap in their mouth, that causes them to have malnutrition, to be shunned by their community, and sometimes not even be able to go to school, so it s really important that operation smile provides them access to proper medical care so that they can live a normal life. - and skyler, how did you get ....