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Calendar and Program Essentials
Take a look at our online Calendar of Events!
View the 2011-12 Program Essentials Resource Guide filled with great ideas for activities and events throughout the year. You can also view/download these individual sections of the Program Essentials Guide. Choose from the following:
- Girls’ Pages for Program Essentials
- Registration Form for Individual Girls
- Registration Form for Groups
- Health History Form
- Sponsors
Note: These are high resolution PDF files, which means they may take a moment to open. Thank you in advance for your patience.
Once you've found the events you'd like to do, simply write down the code number and work with your parents/guardians or troop leaders to register online.
Be sure to check out our council's newest experiential learning center, Journey World!
Explore the Journey Maps for ideas
Journey maps ignite the imagination and provide inspiration for ways that girls and adults can work together to set an exciting path for their Girl Scout experience. The maps are interactive, age-appropriate, colorful visuals that help girls understand that Girl Scouting is a journey with many fun and exciting options.
Each girl can customize her own experience in Girl Scouting by expanding her options and getting involved. She can participate in a troop, sign up for individual or family events, earn awards, complete badges and other skill-building activities, participate in the Girl Scout Cookie Program to learn important life skills, take field trips, and much more.
Featured program Highlights
Check this section regularly to find up-to-date information about upcoming events and activities. Registering for our programs is simple! Use our online registration system to search and register; just use the codes that have been provided.
The American Cancer Society's FREE Key of Life program (grades 6-12) teaches girls about breast cancer prevention, and gives them a chance to participate in a service project to promote breast cancer awareness in their communities. The American Cancer Society's FREE Live Tobacco Free program (grades 2-5) teaches girls about the dangers of tobacco use.
Girls’ World Forum Teen Girl Representative Opportunity
Are you interested in world affairs? Do you like meeting girls from other countries? Would you like to combine your voice with other teen Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from around the world? If so, then the Girls’ World Forum might be of interest to you.
The Girls’ World Forum (GWF) is the third and final event in a series of forums that are part of the World Association of Girl Guide and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) global centenary celebrations. The World Forums, hosted by Girl Guiding UK in 2010 and the World Centers in 2011, have already engaged more than 250 young women in discussions of the WAGGGS Global Action Theme, girls worldwide say “Together We Can Change Our World,” which address the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
2012 Forum to be held in Chicago!
The final event will be hosted by Girl Scouts of the USA in partnership with WAGGGS. From July 12 – 17, 2012, the Girls’ World Forum will be held in Chicago in collaboration with our council. Each Girl Scouts of the USA council, Girl Scouts Overseas (USAGSO all locations combined) and each of the WAGGGS 145 Member Organizations are invited to send two girl representatives ~ resulting in more than 600 attendees.
Activities will include:
- Education sessions based on three of the Millennium Development Goals with the goal to identify solutions to:
MDG 1 – to end poverty and hunger
MDG 3 – to promote gender equality and empower women
MDG 7 – to achieve environmental sustainability - Workshops to develop advocacy, leadership and communication skills
- Interactions with external partners concentrating on the MDGs
- Participation in local action projects
- Review and incorporation of the 2010 and 2011 Forums action plans
- Centenary celebrations
For more information, please access the Girls’ World Forum Information Sheet. If you are interested in applying for consideration, please complete the Girls’ World Forum Teen Girl Representative Application. Additionally, please ask your reference to complete the Girls’ World Forum Teen Girl Representative Reference Form.
Submission deadline is February 13, 2012.
Girls’ World Forum Chaperone Opportunity
Are you interested in world affairs? Do you enjoy guiding teen girls as they develop plans to impact their community and beyond? Do you like meeting people from other countries? Are you between the ages of 20 – 30? If so, then being a chaperone for our two teen girl representatives to the Girls’ World Forum might be of interest to you.
For more information, please access the Girls’ World Forum Chaperone information sheet. If you are interested in applying for consideration, please complete the Girls’ World Forum Chaperone Application. Additionally, please ask your reference to complete the Girls’ World Forum Chaperone Reference Form.
Submission deadline is February 13, 2012.
Join us on a virtual walk to Savannah, Georgia!
A great program for troops and Service Units. Materials will be available in February, but groups can register now.
Girl Scout Brownies and up will track walking mileage along a route from where they live to the birth place of Juliette Gordon Low, earn patches and their Presidential Active Lifestyle Awards, learn to properly use a pedometer, discover the health benefits of walking and learn how to fuel their bodies with healthy snacks through 4-6 activity sessions. Groups will receive Girl Scouts water bottles and pedometer, daily step tracking logs and journals, group tracking poster, leader materials, Savannah Shuffle patches.
$20/girl or adult
Registration code: 47037
Girl Scouts Forever Green
In 2012, Girl Scouts will celebrate its 100th anniversary. To mark this milestone and to honor founder Juliette Gordon Lowe, who loved nature and the outdoors, Girl Scouts of all ages, volunteers, and alumnae are engaging in Girl Scouts Forever Green. This nationwide, take-action project offers a meaningful leadership experience that makes a huge positive impact on the environment and increases the visibility of Girl Scouts in every community.
Girl Scouts have always been green; it’s now time to show the world just how green we are! Troops/girls will develop a community action project for their schools, homes, or community buildings which focuses on reducing energy consumption by installing energy qualified light bulbs and/or participating in Earth Hour and by promoting the Girl Scouts Forever Green Pledge. The environmental impact of the projects will be measured on the website, www.girlscouts.org/forevergreen. All of the Girl Scouts in a school may want to focus on this project to make as big of an impact as possible.
To register and receive further details and instructions, use code 76003.
