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Announcing the 2016 Top Seller Events

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As the 2016 Cookie Sale draws to a close, now is the time for troops and girls to make reward choices.  Information regarding each of the Top Seller events being offered this year as well as the Top 16 of 16 event and Troop Cookie Camps is below. Once the sale concludes, all girls/troops eligible for the below rewards will receive an email with further information and instructions on how to confirm attendance, purchase additional tickets, etc.

750+ TOP SELLER EVENTS

All girls who attend one of the below events will also receive a Top Seller Medallion. If a girl chooses to not to attend any of the below, she will be mailed a Top Seller Medallion and a $50 Cookie Credit card.

  • Saturday, June 11th – Broadmoor Seven Falls and Medallion
    Each girl who chooses this Top Seller event will receive admission and lunch for herself and an adult guardian. Additional child and adult tickets with lunch can be purchased thru GSCO; amounts are limited.
  • Saturday, June 18th – Renaissance Faire and Medallion
    Each girl who chooses this Top Seller event will receive admission and lunch for herself and an adult guardian. Additional child and adult tickets with lunch can be purchased thru GSCO; amounts are limited. 
  • Saturday, June 25th – Glenwood Caverns and Medallion
    Each girl who chooses this Top Seller event will receive a Day Pass (including rides and cave tours) and lunch for herself and an adult guardian. Additional child and adult passes with lunch can be purchased thru GSCO; amounts are limited.
  • Saturday, June 25th – Denver Dinner and Medallion
    Each girl who chooses this Top Seller event will receive an invitation for her and an adult guardian to the Denver Top Seller dinner being held at Marriott Denver Tech Center hotel. Additional tickets can be purchased thru GSCO; amounts are limited. 

TOP 16 OF 16 DINNER

Saturday, July 23rd
The Top 16 selling girls in the state will receive an invite to lunch with Stephanie Foote, the CEO of Girl Scouts of Colorado. Only Daisy and Brownies will be allowed to bring an adult guardian with them, should they choose to do so.

TROOP COOKIE CAMPS

Troop Cookie Camps are being offered as a reward to troops with a selling girl average of 550+. Each troop will have the opportunity to attend one of the below Cookie Camps. The exact details of the below schedules are subject to change.

Friday, August 5th – Saturday, August 6th at Sky High Ranch
All the camp locations at Sky High will be cabins; some with heat and electricity and others without.

  •  3-3:30pm – Park in Parking Lot, check-in is up the hill at the Dining Hall/Office
  • 3:30-4:00pm – Move in
  • 4:30-5:15pm – Craft
  • 5:30pm – Dinner
  • 6:30pm – Flag
  • 6:45pm – Campfire and S’mores
  • 9:00pm – Star gazing/Cat Eye Hike (Troop Choice)
  •  7:45am – Flag
  • 8:00am – Breakfast
  • 8:45am-12:30pm – Activities (45 min sessions)
  • Session 1- Archery
  • Session 2 – Orienteering
  • Session 3 –Shelter Building/Survival Skills
  • Session 4 –Scavenger Hunt
  • 12:30pm – Lunch
  • 1:15pm – Dance Party
  • 2:00pm – Pack up and go home!

Friday, August 26th – Saturday, August 27th at Sky High Ranch
All the camp locations at Sky High will be cabins; some with heat and electricity and others without.

  • 3:00pm-3:30pm – Park in Parking Lot, check-in is up the hill at the Dining Hall/Office
  • 3:30pm-4:00pm – Move in
  • 4:30pm-5:15pm – Craft
  • 5:30pm – Dinner
  • 6:30pm – Flag
  • 6:45pm – Campfire and S’mores
  • 9:00pm – Star gazing/Cat Eye Hike (Troop’s Choice)
  • 7:45am – Flag
  • 8:00am – Breakfast
  • 8:45-12:30 Activities (45 min sessions)
  • Session 1- Archery
  • Session 2 – Orienteering
  • Session 3 –Shelter Building/Survival Skills
  • Session 4 –Scavenger Hunt
  • 12:30pm – Lunch
  • 1:15pm – Dance Party
  • 2:00pm – Pack up and go home

Friday, August 5th – Sunday, August 7th at Colorado National Monument
All locations will be tent camping.

  • 6:00pm on 8/5 – Arrival
  • 11:30am on 8/7 – Departure

Activities include:

  • Hiking with the Ranger and other hikes
  • Preparing a meal with a chef (every troop will have a chance to cook with the chef)
  • Compass course
  • Night hike
  • Flag Ceremonies
  • Visitor Center
  • Astronomy
  • Working on badge requirements
  • Campfire (with or without a real fire)
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Daisy melts a heart with kindness

Submitted by Cricket Hawkins

Avon

Mountain Communities

Lily and her mom went to supper after her cookie booth this weekend.  She and her mom decided to buy a box of cookies for their waitress.  Lily wrote a note to give with the box which read: “You are the best you. Love, A Girl Scout Lily.”  The waitress was pretty touched…You are the best Lily!

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Hard work helped Rylee surpass her Cookie Goal

Submitted by Rylee Kardoes

Arvada

Denver Metro

My daughter Rylee sold cookies for the first time last year. She sold 460 boxes so she set a goal this year of 500 because she figured a little extra work could get her to her goal. She worked so hard even after not being able sell the first week because of two sick brothers and then getting sick herself. She thought she wouldn’t reach her goal because she started later than most girls! She ended up reaching over 800 boxes! She was surprised and so was I! We are so proud of her and the hard work she had to put in just to get there!

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Encouraged by another troop

Submitted by Maggie Donohue

Aurora

Denver Metro

My name is Maggie and I am a Junior.  I was doing door-to-door sales with my parents.  We had walked 12 blocks.  I was close to finishing the route and my sales were not as great as I hoped.  1 in every 10 houses would buy cookies.  I wanted to sell at least 10 more boxes but had only two houses left.  I was a little sad.  I rang the last doorbell and met another troop mom.   She had a garage full of cookies but bought one box of do-si-dos.  Then she smiled and gave me an “encouragement gift”!  A small painted milk jug to drink from when I had cookies at my house!  This cheered me up so much!  On the bottom of my jug it says Laura and Kelly!  Thank you Laura and Kelly and your troop mom for helping my heart feel better!

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Tessa’s Cookie Story

Tessacookie

Submitted by Tessa Baker

Lone Tree

Denver Metro

Hi. My name is Tessa from Junior Troop 59 in Lone Tree and this is my Cookie Story.

Our troop cookie goals are tent camping and canoeing at Horsetooth Reservoir, as well as hotel camping this year.

Our Hometown Hero Cookies are being donated to Ronald McDonald House near Childrens Hospital. We will be cooking and serving breakfast when delivering our cookie donations.

I am becoming more comfortable about talking to customers. My math with counting money and counting back change to customers has improved.

I have enjoyed practicing speed cup stacking and performing this at our cookie booths this year in front of customers.

Thank you for reading my Cookie Story!

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Diana’s Cookie Story

Dianacookie

Submitted by Diana Baker

Lone Tree

Denver Metro

Hi. My name is Diana and I am from Brownie Troop 61226 in Lone Tree.

Our Troop goal is earning money for tent camping and hotel camping this year. I need to sell 170 boxes to help reach this goal.

Our Home Town Hero Cookies are being donated to Animal Shelter Volunteers.

I have learned that when you sing songs, have decorated signs and wear cookie costumes, you get more customers. Customers like energy!

My new skill is how to count back change to customers.

Thank you for reading my Cookie Story!

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Why our dad is the best Cookie Dad ever!

 

Submitted by Claudine Shank

Colorado Springs

Pikes Peak

We have the best cookie dad ever! Why? First of all, Martin Reichwein is in his second year as our troop’s Cookie Dad. He took initiative to take that role as a Cookie Dad. He’s a Pro! He took the time to talk to the parents about cookie sales, as well as educating the troop about cookie sales and safety. There was never any pressure on the number of boxes to sell, yet he gave us guidance and helped each girl achieve their personal goal and beyond. He also goes out of his way to cookie cupboards out of our county, just to help us in a timely manner. He is very easy to get a hold of and is practically at our back and call for cookies. On top of being the best cookie dad, he is very much involved with our Brownie Troop as a whole. He’s at meetings, ceremonies, outings, carpool, etc. Our troop is very lucky to have such an involved dad!

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Denver Metro troop travels to boost sales

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Troop 60280 is having a great season. We are on track to meet our goals and still have a few booth sales left. Wanted to share our fun way of increasing our sales. We noticed that some of the rural towns had a lot of booth sale openings, so we booked several, loaded up the minivan and sold cookies all weekend in a small town that has very few Girl Scouts. Fun to get away and we sold 500 packages in 7 hours!

The poster in the background shows their goal is a combined 2,000 packages – when the photo was taken they were at 1,200.  They are at 1,949 as of last night’s sale – so close!

The girls in our troop are studying American history in 5th grade this year.  Their goal is to sell enough cookies to pay for a visit to the historical sites in Virginia during spring break 2017.