Girl Scout Week 2015
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Girl Scout Week is a time to celebrate our incredible organization with your GS sisters, families, alumnae and the community! Embrace your spiritual connections, wear your Girl Scout pride, show the communities across our 47 counties what a force we are and share with others. 

 

We have a few suggestions on how to celebrate each day, but we want to see your creativity! 

 


Share your great photos and stories throughout the week via our Facebook page, by emailing us at [email protected] or sharing via Instagram and Twitter with #beGSgreen.

 Cookie Program Updates
Troop Leaders & Cookie Managers

There are only two more weekends of the Cookie Program! For girls who are looking forward to a Royals game by selling 300 packages or by making the Goal Getter level of 125 for a chance to win Taylor Swift tickets, you're in the home stretch! Keep reaching for those goals, enjoy the great forecast for this weekend and make sure you have Thin Mints at those booth sales! 

 

Troop Cookie Managers (TCMs): next week is the last week to pick up cookies at a cupboard. Please make sure you have your orders in by 11:59 PM on March 8. Most SU cupboards are closed after this week but regional cupboards will still have hours the week of March 9th so if you need cookies we have them for you!


 

We're so excited to be supporting the USO as our Cookie Share partner. As a reminder, Cookie Share is virtual sale which means the girl collects $4 and turns the money in. Troops do not turn in cookies. Cookies will be gathered and delivered to the USO at Ft. Riley to be used at bases across our area. Girls selling 10 or more packages for Cookie Share for the USO will earn a patch. In order for the girl to get her patch, TCMs must enter the Cookie Share order into SNAP. This is done by going to the Cookies icon and entering the sale under 'reorder.' See the Cookiegram that shows you exactly how to do all transfers, including giving girls credit for Cookie Share.

 

 Cookie Construction
All Levels  

Presenting Sponsor: Time Warner Cable


What do you get when you combine creative Girl Scouts, 1,000 GS cookie boxes and awesome mentors a part of AIA KC and WID KC? It's Girl Scout Cookie Construction! 
Five teams have been working since last Fall to plan, design and create their cookie box structures. It all comes together on March 7 at Crown Center! Make plans to join us for the presentation and awards ceremony at 2 p.m. on March 7!

 NWMSU Science Day 
All Levels  

Girls Scouts of all Grade Levels will have plenty to do this Saturday, March 7 at Science Day on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. Students and faculty from a wide range of disciplines will do exciting hands-on activities in all the areas of the Natural Sciences. This popular Science Saturday only happens once a year, Don't miss your opportunity to participate! They will accept walk in Troops!   

 Chip's Chocolate Factory
All Levels  

 

Come spend 45 minutes with a professional confectioner and learn in detail the origin, history and uses of chocolate at Chip's Chocolate Factory. Learn how sugar crystalizes and why Chip's process produces a rich, creamy, confection without the use of heavy creams or butter. All participants will sample chocolate confections, a goodie bag and 10% off all purchases. Great for all ages. Cost per girl is only $5!

 LEGOLAND
All Levels  

Located at Crown Center in Kansas City, LEGOLAND has multiple activities for Girl Scouts of all levels! All programs include a fun patch and entrance into LEGOLAND. Girl Scouts of all levels can put their detective hats on for a scavenger hunt, Daisies can learn the science behind spinning tops, Brownies experiment with gears and Juniors and Cadettes can build a LEGO merry-go-round using their math and engineering skills! 
 

 
Honors Award Ceremony
All Levels 

The 2015 Honors Ceremony recognizing Girl Scouts who have earned their Gold Award will take place on March 28, 2015 at Grace United Methodist Church in Olathe, Kansas. 


 
There will be interactive activities for younger Girl Scouts to engage with our Gold Award Recipients and see whats involved with earning the highest award in Girl Scouts! There will also be a fun patch for all Girl Scouts in attendance!

 

Find out more about the Honors Award Ceremony and RSVP your troop today! 

 

Did your troop earn their Bronze Award? Do you have a group of Girl Scouts who earned their Silver Award? We're looking for a few outstanding Bronze and Silver Award projects to showcase at the Honors Ceremony! Please complete this form and let us know about their work by February 20!

 Global Youth Service Day
Senior - Ambassador 

Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) celebrates and mobilizes the millions of young people who improve their communities each day of the year through service. Established in 1988, Global Youth Service Day is the largest service event in the world, and the only day of service dedicated to children and youth.

We have partnered with Harvesters in Kansas City and Topeka to provide service opportunities for our Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors on April 18 to participate in this exciting event! Find out more about this opportunity and reserve your spot - space is limited!  


Leading Girls of all Abilities Workshop

Volunteers 

On April 18, 2015 there will be a training for troop leaders on how to lead girls of all ability levels. This interactive training includes:

  • Activities that will help to educate the entire troop on disabilities
  • Structuring a Girl Scout meeting or activity to meet the needs of all girls
  • Overview of disabilities - i.e., Autism Spectrum, ODD, ADD, ADHD, Cerebral Palsy, etc.
  • Disability Etiquette
  • De-mystifying how to interact with people who have disabilities of all types
  • Removing the fear of interacting with people who have disabilities of all types
  • Leader responsibilities and considerations for leading girls with disabilities
  • Information on the Disability Awareness Patch 

Space is limited, register today

 
Adventure Program 
All Levels 

Registration is open for spring Adventure Program dates at Camp Prairie Schooner and Camp Winding River! Zipline, archery, climbing wall, rappelling and team building are all activities that troops or individual Girl Scouts can participate in!  Registration opens 90 days prior to the date of the activity. 

 

Find an adventure that works for you!

 
Carolyn Hodges "Great Save" Fund
All Levels 

Learning CPR and first aid has long been a part of Girl Scouting from girls working toward their First Aid Badge to troop leaders or other adult volunteers becoming first aid/CPR certified so their troop can participate in various activities or programs. 


Now, any registered Girl Scout age 12 years and older (girls and adult volunteers), may apply for a mini-grant to help underwrite the cost of first aid/CPR certification. Both troops and individuals may apply.

The Carolyn Hodges "Great Save" Fund will pay 50% of the cost of certification (up to $55 per person). Costs will be reimbursed after the participant completes the class and questionnaire. Apply for a mini-grant today!


Scholarship

Seniors - Ambassadors 

Did your Silver or Gold Award project have an environmental impact? As part of Earth Day, Union Pacific is offering four scholarships worth $500 each to support conservation projects that high school students complete in their communities. Conservation initiatives can include (but aren't limited to) projects such as building bird houses or bat houses to improving an arboretum or a trail. Deadline to apply is April 13, 2015!

 Girl Scout Shop
All Levels 

Girl Scout Shop Hours:

Monday - Thursday: 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Friday: 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Select Saturdays: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

(March 14, April 4, May 2, May 16)

 

The Girl Scout Shop is located at 8383 Blue Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64133 or shop online at your convenience!

 
Community Partner Programs - Upcoming Events
All Levels
Girl Scout Night with the Topeka Road Runners
All Grade Levels
March, 21 from 1:30 - 10 p.m.
Kansas Expocentre

St. Joseph Public Library
Brownie Journey
March 7th 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
St. Joseph, MO

Johnson County Library
Multiple offerings
Programming in March and April
Johnson County, KS

Wolf Creek Art Studio
Daisy-Junior
You Schedule It!
Bucyrus, KS


Visit our website for a complete list of the 100+ Community Partners and find an event perfect for your troop!  Community Partners are being added every week, check back often! 

 
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