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Art opportunity in Evergreen

Submitted by Stephanie O’Malley

Metro Denver

Evergreen

I work for Center for the Arts Evergreen. Right now, we are hosting the Tour of the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Show, a national tour, in our gallery. We are inviting Girl Scout Daisy and Brownie troops to come and have a tour and participate in an art activity at NO COST!

To schedule your tour and activity, call (303) 674 – 0056  or email: education@evergreenarts.org. 

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Gold Award training webinar

Attention all 8th grade Cadettes, Seniors, Ambassadors, troop leaders, and parents across Colorado! If you (or your girl) is thinking about going for her Gold Award, don’t miss out on the upcoming training webinar on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 from 6 – 9 p.m.

This is a free training. The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest achievement in Girl Scouts. In this training, girls will learn the requirements, council procedures, and tips for making her Gold Award experience successful and rewarding.

Gold Award training is mandatory for any girl interested in pursuing her Gold Award. Troop leaders, co-leaders, and parents are encouraged to attend.

To register please visit the event page on our website: https://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/en/events-repository/2018/gold_award_training__1219329774.html

If you have any questions, contact GSCO’s highest awards manager Kaitie LoDolce at highestawards@gscolorado.org.

Around the World in Two Days: Traveling adventure camp

Submitted by Carolyn Decker

Northern & Northeastern CO

Longmont

Girl Scout Brownies and Juniors are invited join us for Around the World in Two Days, a traveling adventure camp! The Ambassadors of Troop 78527 have planned lots of fun activities for you to explore different places around the world. Break away from the winter doldrums and enjoy three-days and two-nights camping in comfy heated cabins at Tomahawk Ranch Girl Scout Camp near Bailey.

This fun-filled camp will start the evening of Friday, Jan. 25, 2019 and end after breakfast on Sunday, Jan. 27. Our troop has traveled internationally to Belize and wants to inspire your girls to go on an adventure where ever that may be, so pack your bags and join us!

Price is $100 per girl and $55 per adult. Girls will get a fun patch.

Registration deadline is Jan 7.

Troops must meet safety-wise ratios. Adults over safety-wise ratios must pay girl rate.

Please contact Maria Cross at cross.maria.e@gmail.com with any questions.

Register by printing the registration form below and sending the
completed form to Troop 78527 (address is included in the form). Or, you can email cross.maria.e@gmail.com and request an electronic registration form.

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Girl Scout Night with CMU Women’s Volleyball

Girl Scout Night with the Colorado Mesa University women’s volleyball team is October 13, 2018! Cheer on the Mavericks as they take on Westminster College. Children under 18 are always free for CMU athletic events. This special offer allows each Girl Scout to bring two adults for free. All Girl Scouts, friends, and family are invited!

Register now: https://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/content/girlscoutsofcolorado/en/events-repository/2018/girl_scout_night_wit_1429459136.html

Save the Date: 2018 Packing for Impact with Project C.U.R.E.

Project C.U.R.E.’s Packing for Impact is back for fall 2018! Save the date for Saturday, December 1 for this year’s event at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver.

Troops are asked to collect medical supplies to donate to Project C.U.R.E. in the weeks leading up to the event and come pack their kits and participate in fun activities on the day of the event. Participating Girl Scouts will receive a patch at the event.

This year, we are also looking for five Girl Scout Senior or Ambassador troops or groups to lead activity stations. Girls are welcome to design their own activities or lead activities designed by Girl Scouts of Colorado. This is a wonderful opportunity for community service, Program Aide internships, and/or to earn the Service to Girl Scouting Bar.

Registration information is coming soon! If you would like to be added to an interest list to be notified when registration is live OR if your troop/group would like to lead an activity station, please email Girl Scouts of Colorado’s community partnerships manager, Aimee Artzer, at aimee.artzer@gscolorado.org.

Girl Scout Day at Dinosaur Ridge

Girl Scout Day at Dinosaur Ridge is Saturday, October 13, 2018! All Girl Scouts, friends, and family are invited. Girl Scouts and other youth must attend with a troop leader, parent, or guardian. Children are not permitted to attend without supervision. Children three-years-old and under are free.

Representatives from local STEM-focused organizations will lead hands-on activities for Girl Scouts and work toward earning badges! During this event, we’re recognizing National Fossil Day is also October 17, so come learn about fossils and celebrate in honor of this special day. A National Fossil Day patch is included in the price for Girl Scouts and patches will be given out at check in on the day of the event.

Register here: https://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/content/girlscoutsofcolorado/en/events-repository/2018/save_the_date_girl_s.html

Time: 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. (Allow at least two hours to complete activities and arrive no later than 1 p.m.)

Location:

Dinosaur Ridge, Morrison
16831 W. Alameda Pkwy
Morrison, CO 80465

Registration End Date: Wednesday, October 10 at 11:59 p.m.

Program Levels: Daisy, Brownie, Junior, Cadette, Senior, Ambassador, and Adults

Pricing:
• Advance registration before October 10: $9/Girl Scout, $5/adults and other youth
• Walk-Up registration on October 13 (walk up registration closes at 1 p.m.): $10/Girl Scout, $6/adults and other youth

Save on your ticket and time in line through registering NOW!

Things to bring:
• Water, jacket, hat, sunscreen, and snacks.
• Good walking shoes. Your friends or family.
• Wear your vest or sash to show off your Girl Scout pride!
• A camera to document the day and share photos on social media using #GSColo or @GSColo
•The desire to learn about the creatures that walked the earth millions of years ago.

Earn your “Horsemanship” badge with Colorado Reining Heroes

Submitted by Gabriella Grieve

Metro Denver

Parker

While fall classes are currently full,  Reining Heroes invites you to join them for their spring workshops! Learn about horses and complete requirements for your “Horsemanship” badge. The class will cover grooming, handling, learning the body language of a horse, riding, and more!

Dates:

February 10, 23, 2019

March 2, 23, 30

April 6, 20, 27

May 4, 11, 18

Time: 1-3 p.m.

Cost: $40/Girl Scout

Class is limited to 10 girls. Please email Paula Quillen at Colorado Reigning Heroes at reigningheroes@yahoo.com to register and for payment instructions. Registration will include permission, liability, and photo release forms that will need to be completed before the event.

Registration Deadline: February 2

Classes may be held outdoors or inside an arena depending on weather. Girls need to wear appropriate clothing including long pants and closed toe shoes. Helmets will be available for riders.

For more information about Colorado Reigning Heroes visit http://www.coloradoreiningheroes.com/.

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ChickTech is now accepting nominations

Do you know a 9th -12th grade Girl Scout who is interested in technology? Would she be excited to learn about robotics, 3-D printing, mobile app development, and more? Nominate her for ChickTech!

What is ChickTech?

ChickTech revolves around creating events that will get high schoolers interested and excited about technology. These events pose some interesting challenges, as we expect that most of our participants have never had a chance to do anything like what we are offering. Our goal is to reach the girls who would make great engineers, but because of stereotypes and a lack of opportunity, may not realize it until they are already doing something else, if at all. We also strive to show the relevance of each workshop to their lives–and help them to understand that they have the ability use tech to transform their world!

Why Nominate?

  • It’s free
  • Includes: food at events, transportation and childcare, if needed.

Learning:

  • Kick-off event to be held late fall, 2018 with a choice of seven hands-on workshops!
  • Includes a take home technology item
  • Confirmed workshops include: web development, robotics, build a computer, soft circuits, and game development
  • Five additional tech workshops (one per month)
  • End of school year celebration and BBQ

Benefits:

  • Exposure to tech through hands-on activities
  •  The ability to meet and make friends from other schools

Participants are girls who:

  • (40%+) are eligible for free or reduced lunch
  • Have an above-average aptitude for math or science, along with creativity and willingness to learn new things
  • Would probably not consider a tech career without extra encouragement
  •  (70%+) have not created technology before (who are not already on a robotics team, etc.)

Please nominate up to 15 girls from your school or program who fall under these qualifications.

Nomination Link: https://airtable.com/shrNTKLcGALIRxX9c

Please feel free to review our FAQ (http://denver.chicktech.org/chicktech-high-school-faq/) or email me at melissa.schwass@chicktech.org if you have any questions.

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Service Unit 747’s first group hike

Submitted by Ariella Wells

Northern & Northeastern CO

Fort Collins

Service Unit 747 held their first group hike at Devil’s Backbone in Loveland. Four Girls Scouts, two leaders, one parent, and five dogs joined the fun! It was a great day with great weather for a hike!

Our next group hike is October 7, 2018 at 9 a.m. at Hewlett Gulch. Please RSVP to ariellanetanya@gmail.com if you, your troop, or families would like to participate!

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When things go wrong, but it’s actually a good thing…

Submitted by Kate Goodman

Metro Denver

Centennial

Sometimes, when I’m in the throes of planning meetings and activities, I wonder, “What are we really doing? Is all my work as a troop leader or volunteer worth it?”

This past weekend, I got an answer. I want to share a story about a recent service unit campout, and my A-ha! moment with my troop of 8th grade Cadettes.

It was a hectic week to begin with – a few weeks into the school year. Another leader was planning to take our four Girl Scouts up to Tomahawk Ranch for the service unit campout on Friday night, because I was coming home from a work trip late Friday. I would come up Saturday morning with the materials our troop was using to do a craft with the younger girls: a quick flashlight using copper tape, craft sticks, and those little lightbulbs- LEDs.

On Tuesday, my co-leader reported her car was out of commission, so we scrambled and found another parent who could shuttle the five of them to Tomahawk Ranch on Friday. With that settled on late Tuesday, I got up early on Wednesday and assembled the health and permission forms. I worked, then hurried home and caught my flight to a conference. I arrived home late Friday to learn everyone had gotten off safely to the campout. Relieved, I fell into bed, planning to quickly pack first thing in the morning.

I woke and began assembling my sleeping bag and day pack. A quick search of the craft materials sent my heart into adrenaline-fueled thumping – I couldn’t find two of the essential items – the copper tape and the bag of LEDs. I’d had to special order these – I wasn’t going to breeze through the craft store and get more on my way out of town. After a staticky call to my service unit leader up at camp to verify my daughter hadn’t packed these things, I resigned myself to needing to brainstorm a NEW hour-long activity for the younger girls, and began my hour-plus long drive to reach Tomahawk. In the meantime, my co-leader shared the trouble with the Cadettes, and the girls began brainstorming.

An hour later, I arrived at camp, found the location of our station, and started talking to my co-leader and girls and a bonus Cadette from another troop.

They didn’t need my ideas. They had come up with a name-learning game, appropriate song, and activity around fire pit safety and how to start a fire, complete with hands-on gathering of ‘dead and down’ tinder, kindling, and fuel. The younger Girl Scouts had a great time at our station. They asked good questions. They joined in on the song. And they set up mock camp fires, using the “log cabin” structure – wait no, my troop taught them it was the “hashtag.” (Aaaand now I feel old.)

Five rotations later (with a lunch break in the middle) my troop had educated more than 100 other girls on these concepts. Mostly, I had stood back and watched. I occasionally pointed out the time to help them stay on schedule. I didn’t need to design the craft for them. I didn’t need to tell them how to simplify certain concepts or to make it fun. I didn’t have to tell them to split up the leading time and make sure they included our bonus Cadette. They just did it.

That was my answer. I needed to say less, suggest less, and listen more. It took a panicked-filled hour-long drive from home to camp to come to terms with it, but there it was. Girl Scouting was working exactly as designed, and my troop was living proof.

That evening, when my daughter set up and lit the campfire for the entire service unit, nearly single-handedly*, the younger girls called out encouragement and concern (she had to sit inside the extra-large stone ring to set up and start the fire). Here, I realized, was the whole Girl Scouting mission in one day: older Girl Scouts drawing upon their knowledge and skills to teach the younger girls, and then showing them that they, not the adults had the ability to do things for themselves. It didn’t hurt that it all ended with roasting marshmallows for s’mores!

* This is a whole other story!

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