Girl Scouts of all ages are invited to a special webinar to meet MaryThorn Greene, an Outdoor Materials Developer for The North Face,  on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 2 p.m. Register now: https://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/en/events-repository/2020/meet_an_expert_outdo.html Registration closes June 22. MaryThorn will take girls through the process of outdoor material development and commercialization. This includes working with designers and material suppliers, developing to cost, analyzing end-use testing, and quality assurance. She will also lead girls through an activity matching materials to outdoor activities. There will also be time for a Q&A. This is an awesome opportunity for girls to learn from an expert at one of the top outdoor retailers in the world! We will use Zoom to host this webinar. All information on how to join online or via phone will be emailed out to registrants the day before the webinar. Capacity is limited; each individual participant should be registered so we can track capacity. Please do not share the information on how to join with others who have not registered. Questions? Email aimee.artzer@gscolorado.org or have trouble completing registration, please contact inquiry@gscolorado.org or 877-404-5708. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #GirlScoutingatHome #Communitypartnerships #GirlScoutsatHome #Meetanexpert #communitypartners #MeetanexpertWebinarSeries #TheNorthFace

Girl Scouts of Colorado thanks Lindsey Nelson for co-hosting our “Meet an Expert – The Business Side of Fashion with a North Face Buyer.” More than 150 Girl Scouts from across the country participated in this webinar on June 9, 2020. Missed it? Listen to the recording now. Lindsay is a buyer for The North Face, based in Denver. She taught girls about the process of designing clothes, studying customer trends, and picking the best styles for shoppers in The North Face stores and on the website. She also walked the girls through an activity about how to pick the best clothes that you think will be the top sellers to hit your sales goal and connected it back to the Girl Scout Cookie Program. Lindsay also answered great questions from the girls and we learned that her favorite Girl Scout cookie is a Tagalong (she’s a sucker for peanut butter!). This “Meet an Expert” session falls under the entrepreneurship pillar of Girl Scouts. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #GirlScoutingatHome #GirlScoutsatHome #Meetanexpert #entrepreneurship #MeetanexpertWebinarSeries

Girl Scouts of Colorado thanks Megan Stackhouse for co-hosting our “Meet an Expert – National Weather Service Meteorologist” webinar! More than 20 Girl Scouts from across Colorado participated in this webinar on June 4, 2020. Missed it? Listen to the recording now. Megan is a Meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Grand Junction, Colorado. She taught girls about the different tools she uses to predict the weather, her education and background, and walked everyone through a “cloud in a jar” experiment. Megan also showed a video of her team launching a weather balloon and taught us about the lifecycle of a weather balloon. We learned that Megan’s favorite weather experiment is a flash flood display in her office in Grand Junction and her favorite Girl Scout cookie is a Thin Mint! This “Meet an Expert” session falls under the STEM pillar of Girl Scouts. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #STEM #GrandJunction #NationalWeatherService #Meetanexpert #Meteorologist #WesternColorado #MeetanexpertWebinarSeries

The Girl Scout Movement has been about social justice, equity, and inclusivity from its very beginning. It’s written into the guiding principles of our Promise and Law. From the first call to offer something to all the girls, at a time when women didn’t even have the right to vote, to the first racially integrated troops long before schools and businesses were mandated to integrate, Girl Scouts has been at the forefront. Girl Scouts look around their communities, see what needs fixing, and create sustainable solutions. Right now, communities are hurting, especially Black communities, and we – as an organization that has always strived for racial equity  – stand with our Black Girl Scouts and all families of color as we push toward a future where no one has to face the fear and trauma seen by this and previous generations. As our Girl Scouts of the USA CEO Sylvia Acevedo said: “The problem of racism can feel enormous, but our individual responses don’t have to be.” Our answer is greater civic engagement —  an area we know well. Girl Scout programming has long had a focus on civic engagement. There are civic badges for all program levels, in addition the Junior level Agent of Change Journey and the Ambassador level Justice Journey both focus on sparking change. Additionally, identifying a societal problem and creating a sustainable solution is at the core of our Highest Awards program. But these are not enough. The conversations of the past few weeks have motivated us to do more. We are: Launching a new patch program this month to start the conversation of race and racism by learning to appreciate diversity and to honor and celebrate our differences in our local communities and around the world. Reaching out to partner organizations with experts to guide conversations relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion for adults and children. Creating safe spaces for Girl Scouts to have conversations on topics relating to diversity, inclusion, and equity. Developing resources and using our platforms to share resources for families and troops to engage and reflect on matters relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Continuing to create programming to educate and engage our girls and community in civic action and conversations around systemic racism. Making the world a better place is our mission and we will continue to give girls the tools they need to do it. Watch the GSCO Blog for more details and how you can join us soon. #andInclusion #CouncilNews #Diversity #Equity

Tomahawk Ranch Camp Director Obi Joe will show you how to make your own facial masks! Watch the video here. Download a transcript of the video here. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #GirlScoutingatHome #DIYFacialMasks #GirlScoutsatHome #GirlScoutCamp #TomahawkRanch #camp #FacialMasks #TomahawkRanchGirlScoutCamp

Watch this video to learn how to make nail art with Starlight from Tomahawk Ranch! Download a transcript of the video here. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #GirlScoutingatHome #NailArt #GirlScoutCamp #TomahawkRanch #campcraft #camp #TomahawkRanchGirlScoutCamp

Want to get some hands-on experience with the Girl Scout badge earning curriculum? Check out the Explore More Club starting in July 2020! Girl Scouts of Colorado will offer monthly topics with virtual peer meet-ups, activities, and reflection pieces to engage in. What is the Explore More Club? The Explore More Club is a virtual program for our adult volunteers to have a hands-on badge earning experience, as if they are earning the badges themselves. It is implemented through gsLearn, a private Facebook group, and Zoom. Explore More Club is not is a training. The Explore More Club does not explicitly set out to teach you how to teach the badge earning curriculum. However, there are times for discussion where we can talk about what that would look like. There is no training curriculum in the Explore More Club. Are past topics available to new volunteers who sign up for the club? Currently, no. However, we are looking in making this happen very soon. Can my girl register for this program? This program is for adult volunteers only. However, your girl can participate in a similar program for girls, our monthly Badge Series! If this is something your girl is interested in, check out the informational blog post here! If I’m not a troop leader but still a volunteer, can I still do this? Absolutely! This program is for all Girl Scouts of Colorado volunteers who want to learn Girl Scout badge curriculum in a hands-on way and have fun while doing it! What are the monthly topics? Monthly topics are listed below: July 20: Space and the Universe August 20: Ecology and the Outdoors September 20: Self-Care October 20: Take Action November 20: Hobbies January 21: Business Ethics February 21: Cookie Support March 21: Women in STEM April 21: Events May 21: Humanitarianism If I register for one month, do I have to participate in all the months? No, you do not. The Explore More Club is designed so you can participate in as many or as few monthly topics as you want. It does grant you access to the Facebook page for all months. Questions? Email Kendy Doolen at Kendy.Doolen@gscolorado.org. #ExploreMoreClub #ExploreMoreClub2020 #GirlScoutingatHome #GirlScoutsatHome

Submitted by Maggie Donohue Metro Denver Aurora In Troop 64473, we had three different Silver Award projects. One was called Back the Blue K-9 Unit where the girls supported the Arapahoe Sheriff Department’s K-9 Unit. The second Silver Award project was called Building a Book House for the Homeless. This group collected books to fill the book house. They spent many weekends building the bookcase. Once they finished, they took the books and the bookcase to the Comitis Crisis Center. The third Silver Award project was called Sensory Carts. The girls in this group made two sensory carts for the students at Pine Lane Elementary School. On the carts were an assortment of sensory things the children could touch and play with. On the inside of the carts their were two different weighted blankets, fidget toys, weighted stiff animals, and games. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #SilverAward #SilverAwardGirlScout #Aurora #GirlScoutSilverAward #SilverAwardGirlScouts #MetroDenver

Submitted by Aydin Hoo Pikes Peak Colorado Springs Girl Scout Troop 43893 is a multi-level troop of Juniors and Cadettes in Colorado Springs. They chose The Salvation Army – Colorado Springs Corp as their Hometown Heroes for this year’s cookie season. The Salvation Army provides church ministry, food programs, youth programs, housing, and more for Colorado Springs. During cookie sales, Troop 43893 received donations to support the food pantry at the Yuma St. location. COVID-19 restrictions kept us from presenting our donations as a troop, but members Marissa (Cadette) and Sabrina (Junior) were able to deliver this week! This troop of innovators always tries to choose a different HTH each year to support the community. This year, they had a slow start with donations during cookie sales, but did not let that keep them down. They rallied their efforts and these go-getters received about 175 packages to deliver to their HTH. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #ColoradoSprings #TheSalvationArmy #2020GirlScoutCookieProgram #cookies #HometownHeroesGiftofCaring #GirlScoutCookieProgram #HometownHeroes #PikesPeak

Watch online! A transcript is at the bottom of this post. Girl Scouts of Colorado’s Global Action Team is excited to launch their new “Intro to Global Girl Scouts” video! Interest in the world has been an integral part of the Girl Scout movement and program since the very beginning. As Juliette Gordon Lowe, founder of Girl Scouts in the USA stated, “Girl Guiding and Girl Scouts is the magic thread which links the youth of the world together.” This new video from the Global Action Team is the perfect way to start learning about the global aspects of Girl Scouts. This new resource touches upon the following topics: The definition of global The reasons why global Girl Scouting is included in the movement’s program A large selection on the actual elements of the global program Opportunities for international travel Beneficial results of participating in the global aspect of the Girl Scout program Girl Scouts of the USA research findings when they surveyed the membership on their knowledge of the global program for both adults and girls Opportunities for global impact and Resources, both local and national Questions? Email aimee.artzer@gscolorado.org OR contact the Global Action Team directly at gscoglobal@gmail.com. GSCO Global Buy In Audio Transcript #GlobalGirlScouts

Girl Scouts of all ages are invited to a special webinar on Friday, June 19, 2020 at 4 p.m. to learn more about the business side of an outdoors brand with Reese Sun, a North Face Strategist. Register now: https://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/en/events-repository/2020/meet_an_expert_busin.html Registration closes June 18 OR when capacity is met. Reese will teach girls about the importance of purpose, innovation, and planning to succeed. She will also lead girls through an activity about how to make a new ideas come to life through business planning – one step at a time. After her presentation and activity, there will be time for a live Q & A session. This is an awesome opportunity for girls to learn from an expert at one of the top outdoor retailers in the world! We will use Zoom to host this webinar. All information on how to join online or via phone will be emailed out to registrants the day before the webinar. Capacity is limited; each individual participant should be registered, so we can track capacity. Please do not share the information on how to join with others who have not registered. Questions? Email aimee.artzer@gscolorado.org or have trouble completing registration, please contact inquiry@gscolorado.org or (877) 404-5708. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #GirlScoutingatHome #Communitypartnerships #GirlScoutsatHome #Meetanexpert #webinar #communitypartners #MeetanexpertWebinarSeries #TheNorthFace

Submitted by Nick Schwartz, U.S. Census Bureau Tell the U.S. Census Bureau what Flag Day (Sunday, June 14, 2020) means to you! We’re looking for Girl Scouts statewide to submit a short video (30 seconds or less) telling us why they love the American flag. Girls should use only their first name and their city. It would be nice if they wear their uniforms, but it’s not required. Videos can be emailed to nicholas.p.schwartz@2020census.gov. Please submit by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday June 9, 2020. We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She can send in her story here. #FlagDay #2020Census #Communitypartnerships #census #communitypartners #FlagDay2020 #USCensusBureau