Submitted by Samantha Lujan Pikes Peak Colorado Springs Girl Scout Troop 45246 visited their local El Paso County Humane Society and brought donations of toys, food, and blankets for the shelter pets. They also got to tour the facility and meet some really neat pets! This story was submitted using the Share Your Stories form. You can share your Girl Scout moments too. #ColoradoSprings #ElPasoCounty #HumaneSociety #PikesPeak

Aurora Cooks is excited to present their first Brownie Girl Scout cooking class to fulfill all the requirements of the “Legacy Cook: Snacks” badge! Aurora Cooks is a recreational program through the City of Aurora. They have a beautiful professional teaching kitchen and create fun, healthy, and engaging cooking classes for all ages. They offer many practical classes in a warm and welcoming environment. In the summer and fall they have an on-site culinary garden where they harvest herbs, vegetables, and a few fruits for use in their classes. In the Brownie Snack Badge workday, girls will discuss packaged food labels and make several sweet and savory snacks. Come play in the kitchen! Stay tuned for more cooking classes for other levels of Girl Scouts. Check out all of their youth, family, and adult cooking classes at www.auroragov.org/cooking. Here’s info on the Brownie Snack Badge workday: Mon., Jan. 23rd, 2017 5:30-7:30 p.m. $22.50 per Girl Scout Expo Recreation Center: 10955 E. Exposition Ave. Aurora, CO 80012 Call (303) 326-8656 or email expokitchen@auroragov.org for more info or to register. Spots are limited, so register soon to reserve your Brownie’s spot. #AuroraCooks #Brownie #Aurora #snackbadge #badge #MetroDenver

Submitted by Ariella Wells Northern & Northeastern CO Fort Collins Troop 70720 spent more than two hours at their local homeless shelter to help with holiday baking and decorating. The minimum age for most of their volunteer opportunities is usually 16 and we were very excited when we saw this opportunity appear for younger girls! This story was submitted using the Share Your Stories form. You can share your Girl Scout moments too. #NorthernampNortheasternCO #communityservice #GirlScoutsGiveBack #FortCollins #homelessshelter

Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador Girl Scouts are invited to join GSCO’s Rocket Team! Girl Scouts have an opportunity to design and build a payload for United Launch Alliance’s Summer Intern Launch in July 2017. The team will meet January-July to design a payload and submit a proposal for a chance to launch their payload in a ULA rocket in July 2017. The launch is typically held the third weekend of July and was held at Fort Carson last year. We’re looking for 3-10 Cadettes, Seniors, or Ambassadors to form the team. This is a first come, first served opportunity and the team will fill quickly. The team will meet in Colorado Springs/Pike’s Peak region. We expect the time commitment to be about 3-4 hours a week and the team will work with adult volunteers to determine a convenient schedule. Dr. Warren Layfield from the Colorado Springs Rocket Society will lead the team. Dr. Layfield is a NASA Rocket Scientist who has mentored numerous youth in rocketry and Aerospace sciences. Interested in volunteering to assist? We’ll need adults to help with the team, too! To sign-up for the team or to volunteer, please email lori.thompson@gscolorado.org. Thanks! #STEM #ColoradoSprings #oldergirls #UnitedLaunchAlliance #Communitypartnerships #MetroDenver #PikesPeak

Join us for Girl Scout Day with the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017! All Girl Scouts, friends, and family are invited. Cheer on the Avalanche as they take on the Nashville Predators. We have three great new additions to this year’s event. We’ll start with a pre-game cookie rally to get our Girl Scouts get excited for this year’s cookie sale. Also, each person who purchases a ticket will get an exclusive co-branded GSCO/Colorado Avalanche hat. This hat has been specially designed for this game only and will not be offered anywhere else, so the only way to get it is to purchase your ticket and come. Participants will also have the chance to win a penalty box game experience. Tickets are $33/person and include game and cookie rally entry, penalty box experience drawing, and of course, the awesome GSCO/Colorado Avalanche hat. To purchase tickets, go to www.avstix.com/girlscouts17. The Colorado Avalanche will generously donate $5 for each ticket sold back to GSCO. The game starts at 1 p.m., but come early to enjoy the pre-game cookie rally, pick up your hat, and get your entry into the penalty box experience drawing. Hope to see you there cheering on the Avs! Questions? Please contact Kiley Long at Kiley.Long@TeamKSE.com or 303-405-7625. #ColoradoAvalanche #Communitypartnerships #Denver #MetroDenver #hockey

Submitted by Adrienne Thomas Northern & Northeastern CO Longmont Recently, the Cadettes of mega Troop 70274 went on a trip to Flatirons Reservoir for the day. The troop planned a hike to the dam at the front of the reservoir. The man-made body of water was being drained for routine maintenance. While walking across the muddy banks, the troop discovered many animal tracks, including sea birds, mule deer, and a bear! A ranger took the Girl Scouts back to the tracks with a book and lots of information to share about wildlife movements in the area. It was a fantastic experience! It was even a quip on 9News.com (http://www.9news.com/features/girl-scouts-find-impressive-bear-tracks-at-flatiron-reservoir/349356630). Oh, where Girl Scout adventures take us! This story was submitted using the Share Your Stories form. You can share your Girl Scout moments too. #bear #NorthernampNortheasternCO #Longmont #9NEWS #somemediacoverageofGSCO

Submitted by Tracy Mentasti Metro Denver Denver Junior Troop 1001 and Daisy Troop 5685 contributed their own money from home by doing chores or good deeds and met at Stapleton’s Target to buy gifts for two families in need. We sponsored two families in our school and shopped for them with their holiday wish list. Girls paired up into two or three and had an item to find to help make two families’ holiday a little brighter. It was such a joy to see the girls shopping for someone else with their own hard earned money. Very proud of them! -Troop co-leaders, Tracy, Rebecca, and Stephanie This story was submitted using the Share Your Stories form. You can share your Girl Scout moments too. #DaisyGirlScouts #Denver #JuniorGirlScouts #MetroDenver

Sarah Greichen, 2016 Gold Award recipient from Centennial and Girl Scouts of the USA National Young Woman of Distinction, was recently interviewed by the New York Times for a feature article about Girl Scouts of the USA’s new brand platform, G.I.R.L. The goal of this initiative is to highlight how Girl Scouts prepares girls  to take the lead to improve their world and the world around them. Sarah, a senior at Front Range Christian School, was also awarded the Stephanie A. Foote Leadership Prize for Gold Award Excellence. Inspired by her twin brother who has an autism spectrum disorder, Sarah started a non-profit organization, Score A Friend, to promote and support youth to lead school-based unified clubs for students of all abilities. Today, there are Score A Friend clubs in schools and universities across the country. To read a copy of the article, use this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/11/business/media/girl-scouts-marketing-campaign.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share #GirlScoutsoftheUSA #GoldAward #NationalYoungWomanofDistinction #Centennial #MetroDenver #NewYorkTimes #nationalyoungwomenofdistinction

Submitted by Angela Caudill Metro Denver Denver Join us at the Children’s Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus to ring in the “Noon” Year! We ring in the “Noon” year with ball drops, confetti, and a sea of bubble wrap “fireworks.” Volunteers greet guests, count down to the ball drops, facilitate crafts, and much more! Shifts are December 31, 2016 from 8:30 a.m. -1 p.m or    12:30 – 5 p.m. Interested? Email Angela at angelac@cmdenver.org. This story was submitted using the Share Your Stories form. You can share your Girl Scout moments too. #NoonYearsEve #Denver #volunteeropportunity #MetroDenver #ChildrensMuseum

Submitted by Marie Williams Metro Denver Golden Our new Daisy troop is just beginning to learn the Girl Scout Law. At our last meeting, we met Lupe the Lupine and learned about what it means to be honest and fair. Then, we practiced being fair by sharing the special pink star beads when making friendship bracelets! It just takes simple lessons to teach our Daisies how to put the Girl Scout Law into practice. This story was submitted using the Share Your Stories form. You can share your Girl Scout moments too. #Golden #Daisy #Daisies #MetroDenver #GirlScoutLaw

Thanks to donors from across Colorado who supported us on Colorado Gives Day and helped us raise more than $25,000!  Missed it?  You can still make a gift here. #ColoradoGivesDay #funddevelopment

Join us for winter break fun on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, at Boondocks in Northglenn. All Girl Scouts, friends, and family members are invited! Boondocks is offering a specially priced wristband that gives participants three hours of unlimited bowling with shoes included, miniature golf, 2-story laser tag, and $5 arcade play. Wristbands are $17.95 and good between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the 19th. Boondocks is generously donating back $3 from each wristband sold to GSCO. Participants can also purchase an optional pizza buffet deal of $3.95, which includes a drink and 2 slices of either pepperoni or cheese pizza. The buffet is from 12:30-1:30 p.m. only, so please plan to attend during that time if you purchase the buffet deal. Event RSPV Deadline is December 14, 2016. Please RSVP at this link https://goo.gl/5u2sVU and plan to pay at the door the day of the event. Questions? Please contact Lori Thompson at lori.thompson@gscolorado.org. #Boondocks #Communitypartnerships #MetroDenver #Northglenn