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the girl scout leadership experience
The Girl Scout Leadership Experience engages girls in discovering self, connecting with others, and taking action to make the world a better place. Discover, Connect, and Take Action are the three keys to leadership.
This page has been created to keep you updated on the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. Visit often as this page will be your resource for news, information, and other things you’ll need to know to help you utilize this programming.
NEW! Girl Scout program resources related to badges and Journeys
Girl Scouts of the USA is on track to bring you new program resources in time for the 2011 membership year. Below are some FAQs regarding these resources:
- What will happen to the current resources, such as the Junior Badge book or the Cadette Handbook? GSUSA is currently working on a new “Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting” for each program level. It will provide updated badge activities and handbook information for girls and will be available in September 2011, when girls can begin enjoying the new badges in the guide.
- What do we do between now and September 2011? Leaders/advisors can help girls choose a Journey and continue enjoying the current badge activities. Check out the online “Journey Maps” for examples of using journeys and badges together for a great Girl Scout experience. Click here for the maps.
- Will we still be able to purchase older resources and insignia? As part of the roll-out of the Journeys and the new guide, the GS Shop will begin to streamline existing inventory by retiring certain merchandise this summer. This will affect the availability of certain patches, books, and other merchandise. To check on item availability, please contact the shop at 314.592.2378.
See the “Great News” attachment for a little more information. We encourage you to share this information with other Girl Scout members. Additional information will be announced as it is released.
Current GSUSA resources on the Journey program:
Journey 2 is here! Materials for Journey 2, "It's Your Planet - Love It" are now available at GSEM's Girl Scout Shops:
- Girl Scout Daisies - Between Earth and Sky --
On this journey, flower friends take to the road, living the Girl Scout Law with new friends and old. Join them for sunshine, fresh air, and colors and shapes, too—and big Daisy lessons.
- Girl Scout Brownies - WOW Wonders of Water -- Girl Scout Brownies find plenty of ways to WOW! themselves and everyone else on this journey. You’ll find everything you need to guide the girls to LOVE water, SAVE water, and SHARE what they know.
- Girl Scout Juniors - Get Moving! -- This journey offers endless energy in all its forms and functions, plus ways big and small to Energize, Investigate, and Innovate. So get set to guide Girl Scout Juniors to see that energy is what leaders are all about.
- Girl Scout Cadettes - Breathe -- On this journey called BREATHE, there’s plenty of space for Girl Scout Cadettes to focus all their senses on air. And all along the way, you’ll be guiding the girls to their very best flair!
- Girl Scout Seniors - Sow What? -- When it comes to food, what’s really best for people and the planet? Girl Scout Seniors will figure that out (with you!) as they dig into far-reaching food networks on this Sow What? journey.
- Girl Scout Ambassadors - Justice -- On this journey to JUSTICE, Girl Scout Ambassadors create a brand-new equation for something Earth and all its inhabitants need. Do you yearn for it, too?