Tagalong with GetGo to Celebrate Teachers This Week
GetGo has partnered with The Education Partnership to distribute 5,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to local teachers.
May 5, 2021
PHOTO COURTESY GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, GetGo Cafe and Market has bought $25,000 worth of Girl Scout cookies to distribute to local educators.
GetGo has also partnered with The Education Partnership, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit, to organize these 5,000 boxes so that schools are easily able to pick them up and get them into the hands of teachers.
“We are thrilled to again be able to support the Girl Scouts of Western Pennsylvania and celebrate our local teachers,” said GetGo Café Market Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Marketing Rug Phatak in a release. “These teachers are truly extraordinary people in our communities – from juggling multiple education models to figuring out how to safely welcome students back to the classroom, their ha
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Girl Scouts of Virginia Skyline Council CEO Nikki Williams said there have been challenges to selling cookies in traditional ways and the partnership with Wing has helped local troops in getting cookies delivered. While the girls don t fly the drones themselves, they help prepare the orders and learn about the technology. We re seeing a nice response as people are learning about it,” Williams said, adding that following national sale trends, Thin Mints are the most popular drone cookie order followed by Samoas, also known as Caramel deLites in some parts of the country.
Virginia Girl Scouts weren’t the only troops handling cookie sales differently. Some girls did contactless delivery for their neighbors, dropping off boxes on doorsteps.
Girl Scout cookies delivered by drone? A Virginia troop teamed up with Google Wing amid COVID-19 Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY
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In Christiansburg, Virginia, Girl Scout cookies are falling from the heavens.
Well, not exactly. They are being delivered not by young girls in uniform but by Google-developed Wing drones, a futuristic twist on how to get your fill of Thin Mints.
Wing, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc., reached out to the Girl Scouts of Virginia Skyline about making cookie drops to help boost cookie sales, which are still being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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