Inside this issue: Cookies Now! All-direct sale coming soon page 2 Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting New guide helps you connect with girls page 3 Girls Rule! Program gives girls confidence page 6
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LEADER Published for the volunteers of Girl Scouts Of Colorado
Countdown to 100 Girl Scouting gets ready to enter its second century. 2012 is going to be a big year for Girl Scouting and, here at Girl Scouts of Colorado, we’re ramping up for the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouting with special programs and celebrations. To start, 100 girls were selected through a nomination process as Generation Wow! Girl Scouts, a new generation of female leaders who are already making their mark on their communities. These girls are being honored at ceremonies around the state including Women of Distinction events in Colorado Springs and Denver. In August, many of the girls participated together with Women of Distinction in a composting service project to help the earth and feed the hungry. Follow their lead and help us celebrate the first 100 years as we move into the next century! There are local and national events you can get involved with, or you and your girls can design your own way to honor the occasion. Read more about 100th Anniversary plans and Gen Wow!, pages 4-5
COUNCIL NEWS Fall Sale a great way to kick start the year It’s not too late to participate in the annual Fall Sale of nuts and magazines. Girls can take orders from friends and family through October 2. Visit girlscoutsofcolorado.org to get started and earn some start-up money for your Girl Scout year.
Open houses planned at Service Centers Customers want their Cookies Now! And we’ll have them Customers want their cookies now, so Girl Scouts of Colorado is introducing our first direct sale! What does this mean for you? • I nstead of girls taking orders in neighborhoods and from friends and family, girls will sell cookies to these customers with cookies in hand. •C ookies Now! starts with girls selling door-to-door and adds booth sales to the second part of the sale. •T he sale will be more focused and consolidated, enabling a later start and an earlier end. •V olunteers will place their starting inventory cookie order by Dec. 9, based on 80 percent of last year’s final sales. •S tarting inventory delivery for the Cookies Now! sale will be picked up Jan. 17–22. •B ooth sales will happen as they always have between Feb. 10 and March 4.
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Troops can accept plastic at booth sales this year! See the website for details about our move forward with credit card transactions.
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The Girl Scouts of Colorado Service Centers are hosting open houses this fall to give volunteers a chance to meet the staff, learn about available resources and services, and enjoy gathering with a group of Girl Scout supporters. Open houses schedule: Durango: 4 – 6 p.m., September 23 includes a garden party Grand Junction: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., October 1 includes a grand opening celebration of the newly remodeled shop Pueblo: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., October 28 Denver: 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., October 29 Fort Collins: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., October 29 Colorado Springs: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., October 31
Special license plate to celebrate 100th Anniversary History was made on June 3 at the State Capitol as Governor Hickenlooper signed SB 197, officially creating a commemorative Girl Scouts 100th Anniversary license plate. Local Girl Scouts, volunteers instrumental in making this idea a reality and bill sponsors, Senator Betty Boyd and Representative Cindy Acree, joined the Governor for the bill signing. The Girl Scout Colorado license plate will be available for purchase without any special qualifications or donations starting in January 2012 through Colorado’s Division of Motor Vehicles. Those interested in the Girl Scout license plate pay a one-time, $50 fee, just like other state specialty license plates, and the cost is added to that of licensing a vehicle.
GSCO to launch new, improved website By the end of October, when you visit girlscoutsofcolorado.org you’ll notice a fresh look and fun features to make your online Girl Scouting experience easy. The new website, which will be hosted on a solar-powered server, will have a robust activity finder tool, For Volunteers—the hub of everything you need as a Girl Scout volunteer—and many interactive opportunities for you to contribute your girls’ stories. The website is actually a collection of related sites that center around the main GSCO hub. The GSCO blog is the place for the latest and greatest Girl Scout news and includes a section where you can contribute your own news and thoughts, as well as comment on other posts. The GSCO classifieds is a cool new tool where you can place “ads” for volunteer opportunities, materials wanted, materials available etc. The blog and classifieds are up and running now so go online and check them out. (Read more about Girl Scouts of Colorado social media and how you can be a part of the conversation on page 8.)
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Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting helps you connect with girls Recently, I had the chance to preview the new Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting. They are very well done and I’m so excited for the new program. The guides will give each girl a very special “scrapbook” to remember their year by while keeping track of their accomplishments and learning very valuable life lessons. It’s also going to make being a leader so much easier. The lessons and activities are right in the book and when a leader can’t be present, the co-leader or volunteer can run the meeting without missing a beat. Earning the new badges isn’t that much different than the Try Its and badges; it’s just more organized and there’s a few more steps. The “cute factor” of the badges will make the girls want to earn them. You don’t have to follow the book verbatim, but trust me, there’s a ton of really good stuff in there. I say “kudos” to the Girl Scouts for coming up with such a wonderful and fun program.
A girl’s view of the Girl’s Guide • Like the handbook and badges all in one really nice folder. • Love the letter you write to yourself. • Like the explanation of set-up. • Love the “Beginning of Girl Scouts.” • Like each folder for each badge. • New badges are just OK. Kelsey, Troop 10149, Senior Girl Scout on the Western Slope
Donna Voss, leader Girl Scout Troop 4043 , Colorado Springs
Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting key features: • The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting is available in every program level, Daisies through Ambassadors. • It’s packaged as a binder for convenience and so you can add more information as new badges are released. • The My Girl Scouts section will serve as a fun scrapbook of a girl’s Girl Scout year. • The guide comes with the Handbook, Legacy Badges, Financial Literacy Badges, Cookie Business Badges and My Girl Scouts Section.
• Skill-building badge sets can be added. (The first three are tied to Journeys.) • The guide also features additional information on Girl Scout history and traditions; awards log; diagram of sash/ vest badge placement; bridging award requirements; Bronze, Silver and Gold requirements; Journey map and additional program information. • Preorders for the Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting placed before Sept. 14 will be ready for pick up or shipped by Oct. 15. Due to an overwhelmingly high preorder
demand, preorders placed after Sept. 14 will be filled in the order in which they are received. Some orders may not be able to be filled until early December. The Girl’s Guide are in higher demand than anticipated nationwide, and Girl Scouts of Colorado is doing all that we can to meet our customers’ demands. We appreciate your patience as we all await arrival of these great new program materials from GSUSA.
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Honoring 100 girls as we celebrate 100 years
These girls are truly a Wow! generation Starting this fall, Girl Scouts of Colorado will kick-off our 100th Anniversary by honoring 100 girls statewide, as the leaders of tomorrow — the Generation Wow! These are outstanding girls whose achievements in the community set them apart as leaders. They put the Girl Scout Promise and Law into action every day. Keep an eye on these girls and just imagine what the next century can be like! Bailey Andersen, 13, Morrison Jordan Arnell, 13, Centennial Jessie Asay, 11, Arvada Geneva Ascher, 11, Breckenridge Linda Baker, 15, Fort Collins Reese Barry, 8, Grand Junction Cecily Begano, 14, Trinidad Kaycee Bischoff, 13, Aurora Rebecca Bock, 18, Boulder Eliza Bocksch, 11, Breckenridge Teagan Boda, 15, Pueblo West Megan Buehler, 18, Golden Brianna Bullock, 13, Denver Leah Carney, 11, Breckenridge Cassidy Cheesman, 9, Lafayette Nicole Choma, 11, Breckenridge Annastasia Clifford, 17, Parker Emma Coffey, 15, Thornton Kathryn Conrad, 11, Castle Pines Tara Corcilius, 16, Arvada KC Cruz, 12, Florissant Natalie Danielson, 15, Silt Chiara Degenhardt, 13, Ouray Ashley DeLarm, 11, Woodland Park Rebecca Derryberry, 17, Colorado Springs Daisy Diaz, 11, Austin Isabelle DiRanna, 11, Parker Natasha DiRanna, 11, Parker Caralyn Fitzpatrick, 12, Mead Niki Fochtman, 16, Arvada Mariah Foley, 17, Centennial Heather Fritts, 15, Littleton Calli Jo Garcia, 9, Colorado Springs Nicole Gardner, 16, Westminster 4
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Nicole Graham, 11, Breckenridge Littlepage Green, 11, Breckenridge Amy Griffin, 14, Littleton Kaci Gulick, 11, Cedaredge Savannah Halvorson, 11, Breckenridge Claire Hankla, 11, Lafayette Kaleigh Hanrahan, 16, Arvada Madison Hawkinson, 16, Arvada Zoe Hayward, 9, Colorado Springs Jaylee Hepner, 8, Colorado Springs Kimberly Hoilman, 17, Highlands Ranch Jessica Hull, 17, Montrose Julia Jackson, 10, Eckert Marcia Jolly, 17, Longmont Nicole Justice, 19, Aurora Kelsey Knight, 15, Palisade Emily Lundquist, 13, Colorado Springs Hannah Lundquist, 11, Colorado Springs Megan Lundquist, 15, Colorado Springs Kalina Macias, 11, Breckenridge Blayn Masoner, 11, Castle Rock Alexandria Massey, 16, Parker Sophie Matthews, 11, Lakewood Justine May, 15, Centennial Aspen Medberry, 8, Castle Rock Estee Medberry, 12, Castle Rock Riley Miller, 16, Parker Breanna Moak, 16, Lakewood Aida Morgan-Russell, 13, Denver Angela Natrasevschi, 17, Fort Collins Josephine Natrasevschi, 14, Fort Collins Rebecca Nelson, 18, Colorado Springs Rachel Nelson, 16, Colorado Springs Natalia Niemkiewicz, 11, Breckenridge
Abigail Orton, 10, Littleton Riley Owen, 11, Austin Kelly Parrish, 12, Berthoud Hanna Penny, 17, Burlington Karli Rich, 16, Arvada Sarah Richards, 15, Parker Marisa Roggensack, 18, Aurora Devyn Sanchez, 11, Colorado Springs Ashlynn Secor, 9, Westminster Bianca Seivley, 18, Westminster Alessandra Smith, 13, Colorado Springs Alora Stroh, 8, Calhan Kat Sullivan, 14, Durango Shelby Thomas, 17, Parker Lillian Tobias, 11, Breckenridge Katherine Toldy, 16, Colorado Springs Alicia Topolnycky, 13, Centennial Elizabeth Torrez, 18, Pueblo Cristina Trimpe, 13, Centennial Emily Tullis, 10, Cedaredge Adelyn Ulehla, 11, Golden Eliana Wackerman, 15, Colorado Springs Alyssa Wagner, 17, Thornton Sydney Wegner, 16, Colorado Springs Falynne Weinke, 11, Grand Junction Amy West, 18, Westcliffe Emily Wickenheisser, 11, Castle Rock Allyson Willey, 9, Erie Emily Winn, 9, Denver Katie Wood, 11, Arvada Ellie Wroble, 17, Denver Becki Yukman, 17, Colorado Springs
Girl Scouting prepares to enter its second century From March 12, 1912, when Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low assembled 18 girls from Savannah, Ga. for a local Girl Scout meeting, to today, when more than 3.2 million girls and adults are involved across the nation, plenty has changed. Yet throughout all those days, decades and generations, Girl Scouts not only thrived but also remained on the cutting edge of providing opportunities for girls.
As we get ready to celebrate all that Girl Scouting is and all that it may become over the next 100 years, we renew our promise for future generations of Girl Scouts. Download the 100th Anniversary Activity Guide from our website for ways to get involved in local and national events. Or work with your girls to plan their own special way to commemorate this anniversary. Be sure to share your girls’ story on our new website!
State and National Events •R enewing the Promise — Girl Scouts in a New Century is the theme for the new triennium. Kicks off at the Girl Scouts’ National Convention, Houston, Texas, November 10–13, 2011. •T he Greater Los Angeles council is sponsoring a Girl Scout float in the Tournament of Roses Parade. Pasadena, California, January 2, 2012. For more information, visit girlscoutsla.org. •C olorado is sponsoring a trip for girls to Rock the Mall, a nationwide sing-along. Washington, D. C., June 9, 2012. Contact cathy.millon@gscolorado.org. •T he B.I.G. (Believe in Girls) Celebration — A day-long, once-in-a-lifetime experience with more than 20,000 Girl Scouts, more than 50 unforgettable activities, an evening concert including a variety of talented artists and a fireworks spectacular all to celebrate 100 Years of HERstory! Liberty State Park, N.J., June 23, 2012. For more information, visit girlscouts100nj.org. •G irl Scouts of Historic Georgia is sponsoring Centennial Camporee. This multi-day event will include skill-building activities for girls with a focus on STEM and team building exercises. Georgia Garrison Training Center, Fort Stewart, Georgia, June 24–29, 2012. For more info email: gshg@gshg.org. •T he World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts presents Girls World Forum. Chicago, Illinois, July 12–15, 2012. Contact: cathy.millon@gscolorado.org. •W atch for information on the Colorado State Fair, Pueblo, Colorado, August 2012. •T he Great State Fair of Texas Spectacular Girl Scout Centennial Celebration. Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana Girl Scout troops will lead the state fair parade every evening. On the last day of the fair, Girl Scouts will host a jubilant pageant of music, culture, live performances and fireworks at the Cotton Bowl for up to 90,000 leaders, alumnae and supporters from across the country. Dallas, Texas, September 28–October 21, 2012.
Local Events Troops, service units and towns are planning celebration parties on or near March 12, 2012. What are you doing? Let us know by posting on our Facebook pages or the GSCO Blog. •G irls are taking the lead for a better tomorrow by doing Take Action projects to make a difference in their communities. Get details about the projects going on around the state and share your project at gstakeaction.org. • Museums around the state will be exhibiting Girl Scout materials in 2012. • “ It’s a Girl” is a national promotion for baby girls born on March 12, 2012. Colorado Girl Scout troops can work with a nearby hospital to honor baby girls born on our birthday. •M arch 12, 2012 is also Girl Scout Blogger Day — reach out on your social media channels to tell your friends about the impact Girl Scouts has made on you!
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COMMUNITY SERVICE
GirlTopia journey guides girls to envision world where Girls Rule By Ellie Wroble
When working on the GirlTopia journey this past year, our Senior Girl Scout troop decided to think slightly outside of the box. Because GirlTopia works on envisioning the world as a better place, we really had to find something that would not just affect us on our journey toward the Gold Award, but also the lives of other girls. We spent months learning about women who had created projects that helped girls and changed lives. When we finally thought about a Take Action Project that we wanted to do for GirlTopia, we thought of bullying. On April 8, Troop 448 put on a two-and-a-half hour workshop for 25 girls. We called our project Girls Rule. We wanted to teach the girls ways to deal with bullying while boosting their self-esteem. Our night started out with a fun photo shoot and dance party. Then the girls rotated around four stations, talking about not only bullying and how they could combat it, but also how media portrayals of women can be drastically different than the real truth. At the media station, the girls were shown the highly acclaimed Dove video. The video showed how an average girl could be transformed into looking like a model that you see on TV or in magazines with the use of makeup and computers.
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When the girls realized that what they see isn’t always what is real, they opened up and started talking about personal experiences where they had felt bad about themselves because they didn’t view themselves as the prettiest. The next morning we received an email from one of the parents of the girls who attended. It said: “I just wanted to take a brief moment to let you know what a great time my daughter had last night at the Girls Rule Workshop. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her so animated after an event like that before. She couldn’t stop jumping up and down while talking about all the things they did at that workshop. It took her a good 15 minutes to relay all the fun things they did and lessons they learned. What a wonderful event for our girls!” Our troop has participated in some great events but nothing topped the look of pure joy that all the girls had throughout the workshop. We hope the girls take the tools that they learned, such as journaling, to help themselves fight bullying. Ellie Wroble is a member of Senior Troop 448 of Denver and is a Gen Wow! honoree.
GIRL SCOUTS IN ACTION Western Slope Girl Scout troop honored by Red Cross
Colorado Springs troop celebrates birthdays with service
On April 29, the American Red Cross Western Colorado Chapter honored an area Girl Scout troop with one of the organization’s top honors—the Real Heroes Award.
Troop 40844 from Colorado Springs got together on June 17 to celebrate everyone’s birthdays in our troop. Before the party, we performed community service by cleaning up the park. The girls are left to right: Destiny U., Samantha M., Serena D., Alexis T., Alexzandria D. and Tatayana A.
During the spring of 2010, Girl Scout Troop 411 of Cedaredge joined Girl Scouts across Colorado as well as the nation in organizing a community action Girl Scouts Forever Green project in their community to benefit the environment. For their project, the girls held a Lights Out contest at their school to see which class could keep their lights off the longest during one day, thus saving the most money. Seventeen out of eighteen classes at the school participated in this project. The only class who didn’t participate did so because the class had no other light source. The school saved approximately 142 kilowatt hours in just the one day.
Colorado Springs troop sells 25K packages of cookies, donates 140 cases of Girl Scout Cookies to local military This year Girl Scout Troop 931 from Colorado Springs sold an amazing 25,144 packages of Girl Scout Cookies! Girl Scout Troop 931 loves Girl Scout Cookie time, and with 12 of their parents actively serving, the girls also hold a special place in their hearts for our United States military.
Arvada Girl Scouts bridge to Ambassadors in California The girls of Arvada’s Ambassador Troop 299 have been together for over a decade. Alyssa, Nicole G., Tara, Abby, Kaleigh, Karli and Nicole B. spent nine wonderful days in sunny California and bridged to Ambassadors aboard the Catalina Flyer. Two years of planning went into this trip, including earning money and doing prep-work on multiple Council’s Own Interest Project Awards. Some of the IPA’s earned on this trip were Lighthouses, Quake Safe, Ocean Discovery, Marine Life, Surfing and Smooth Sailing. Being prepared made the hands-on experiences richer and more meaningful.
The Girl Scout Cadettes from Troop 931 took a trip to Peterson Air Force Base, armed with 140 cases of Girl Scout Cookies. The girls were given a tour of the base from officers bound for deployment early the next morning. The girls were even allowed to board a C130 and learn some of the inner workings of the airplanes and highlights of navigation before shaking hands and thanking the soldiers for their service. The cases of Girl Scout Cookies were off the next morning, alongside the officers, bound for Afghanistan.
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Talk to us on our Social Media channels! The Girl Scouts of Colorado presence on social media favorites has just gotten a whole lot bigger and better. We’re everywhere you are and engaging in fun and fantastic conversations every day. We now have a team of people across the organization working together to ensure we’re reaching out to members and potential members through Facebook and Twitter. We have new Facebook pages—one for each region of the state—the place for your local Girl Scout news. Find out about events in your area, what girls in your region are up to, and volunteer opportunities and connect with other Girl Scout supporters. Also each resident camp property has its own Facebook page where the summer fun of girls experiencing Girl Scout camp is documented daily. Girl Scout Alumnae also should check out the new GSUSA alumnae website at alumnae.girlscouts.org where you can keep up with council happenings, reconnect with old friends and share your Girl Scout memories. Sign on today. Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Participate in the conversation and share your Girl Scout moments.
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