Please note that the Girl Scout Shop will reopen at 8:30 a.m., Monday,
July 30.

The grand prize for the 2012 summer Team Up Challenge, funded by Silver & Black Give Back, is $10,000 -- help GSSWT have the chance of winning it by visiting and voting for GSSWT at www.teamupchallenge.com between Monday, July 30 and Monday, August 13. You can vote as many times as you want!

GSSWT's Team Up project empowered middle and high school girls with the opportunity to serve as mentors for younger girls by facilitating service projects to benefit the community and local organizations. Throughout the summer, middle and high school Girl Scouts led program with younger Girl Scouts (grades K-5th) during Camp Metro sessions. Girls created art projects to benefit Meals on Wheels, led a beautification at The Neighborhood Place and created a community garden at the new West Side Girl Scout Leadership Center.   

If won, the grand prize will be used to provide twenty Take Action mini-grants for Gamma Sigma Girls and Gamma Sigma Pearls chapters to complete the service projects of their choice during the 2012-2013 school year. These projects are girl-led and benefit a wide variety of organizations across our community. 

Are you interested in telling others in your community how great Girl Scouts is?

Girls ages 5-17 with bright personalities are needed to help represent our organization throughout its 21-county jurisdiction as part of the council's Public Relations (PR) Team. Applications for the 2012-2013 PR Team will be accepted through August 15.

Applicants for the PR Team should be articulate, outgoing, willing to be called with very short notice, and have access to transportation to and from events. Girls with musical talent (singing, piano, etc.) are also encouraged to apply.

To apply, a parent/guardian must complete the 2012-2013 PR Team Application, available online through August 15. You will be contacted after that date about the next steps in the process.

Applications will be accepted through August 15 ONLY. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered until the next membership year.

Apply now!

GSSWT offices will be closed Thursday, August 2 for a staff development meeting. Thank you for your understanding.

See future closed dates here.

Girl Scout Brownies and 4th-5th grade Girl Scout Juniors wanted for a dazzling good time! Learn how to be your own fashionista! Create your own accessories!

Join the fun from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Friday, August 10 at the Sally Cheever Girl Scout Leadership Center. Cost is just $14 and includes a patch. Contact Lynn Jefferson, Retention Specialist (210-349-2404/1-800-580-7247 ext. 242) for more information and to register. 

August 13-17, Northwest Vista College 

Girls ages 14-18 are invited to register for the free Robotics Camp to be held daily from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. August 13-17 at Northwest Vista College (3535 N. Ellison Drive, San Antonio, 78251).

Robotics summer camp is a fun-filled, interactive, hands-on experience giving girls an opportunity to design and build robots. Learn valuable life skills as you discover how to build and program robots.  Get the registration form here. 

 ... opting out, and playing small. She lacks role models and mentors, especially in the high-paying science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. She's confronted by unhealthy images of female beauty. And the mean-girl culture of her peers holds her back. Girls start opting out of leadership around 5th grade. If this goes unchecked, millions of girls will never realize their full potential.

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Keep an eye out for heavy equipment transportation in our area as construction on the Wurzbach Parkway extension continues to progress.

Please drive slowly when entering the grounds near the Sally Cheever Girl Scout Leadership Center, as trucks will be coming and going quite often through the lot.

Blanco Road at Wurzbach Parkway

Varying lane closures involving alternating lanes will be closed at the intersection of Blanco Road and Wurzbach Parkway while electricians finish setting up new traffic signals and concrete crews build curbs and sidewalks.

Girl Scout Troop 590 to hold free No-Sew Blanket Workshop 

Please note that the Girl Scout Shop will reopen at 8:30 a.m., Monday,
July 30.