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!

Your comments

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angela 5 November 2008 - 1.22AM (GMT)

I just thing that it is a great idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lyn Cook 20 September 2008 - 9.12AM (GMT)

During the summer term 3rd. Haywards Heath Brownies really enjoyed Chinese and Olympic themed activities. We learnt about the willow pattern and painted our own plates in blue designs, we made chinese dragons, fortune cookies and tangram pictures. Our own Olympic games started with a parade and saying the olympic oath. We then had events such as paper plate discus, cardboard tube javelin and beanbag shotput, to name but a few, ending in a grand medal and badge ceremony. Brilliant fun for all.

mommabee 6 August 2008 - 6.48PM (GMT)

our first brownie/daisy meeting is the week after school starts on aug 18th we are very excited to start our year off by first watching the olympics then doing the great activities for this patch- we have several olympic participants from our area and hope to get one of them to visit our troop after the olympics- thanks for your hard work what a great program we will let you know how our quest for the gold turns out knoxville,tn gs

Asparagus 1 August 2008 - 8.36AM (GMT)

3rd Blacktown Guides held a mini-Olympics in order to fulfil some of the challenges. The patrols competed in several challenges including swimming and javellin...all in our own hall!!!

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.

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