{"id":18299,"date":"2014-04-17T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=18299"},"modified":"2025-01-29T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T19:29:14","slug":"our-safety-town-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/04\/our-safety-town-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Safety Town for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Dianne Houtz, Co-Service Unit Manager, Stamford Girl Scouts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/cti2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18360 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/cti2.jpg\" alt=\"cti2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><\/a>On Sunday, March 23, Stamford Girl Scouts held its annual Family Partnership Fundraiser, and back by popular demand, we hosted our Powder Puff Derby at the Italian Center. \u00a0Friends and families cheered the Girl Scouts as they entered home-made pine derby cars in competitions of speed and design. \u00a0New this year &#8211; a shiny new aluminum track and a special race category for parents were added!!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the car racing, Stamford Girl Scouts had car related activities to complete such as identifying road signs or car indicator lights. \u00a0The Connecticut Transportation Institute loaned their Safety Town Kit, allowing younger girl scouts and family members to practice, hands on, pedestrian safety skills such as crossing at a crosswalk instead of between cars, looking &#8216;left-right-left&#8217; before crossing, and walking against traffic if there are no sidewalks. \u00a0In addition, the CTI donated bicycle helmets which were raffled off to younger participants.<\/p>\n<p>Stamford Girl Scouts had over 100 cars racing, from scouts ranging from kindergarten to high school and over 300 spectators, making this\u00a0one of the most attended events for Girl Scouts of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>View the gallery here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnengineering\/sets\/72157643703111414\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/uconnengineering\/sets\/72157643703111414\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, March 23, Stamford Girl Scouts held its annual Family Partnership Fundraiser, and back by popular demand, we hosted our Powder Puff Derby at the Italian Center. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[63],"class_list":["post-18299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 11:55:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224469,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18299\/revisions\/224469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18299"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=18299"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}