top of page
Girl Scout Stories
Girl Scouts across Colorado are doing amazing things. From going on adventures, trying new things, and making the world a better place, you'll read all about it here. You can share your story too!
Gold Award Girl Scouts Change the World: Introducing the Class of 2024-2025 Gold Award Girl Scouts
Gold Award Girl Scouts are rock stars, role models, and real-life heroes. How do they do it? By using everything they’ve learned as a...
GSCO blog
3 days ago
6
Gain a lifetime of outdoor skills!
Stokes poses with her troop’s Eagle Award in 2017. My name is Bailey Stokes and I am a lifetime Girl Scout. I started my Girl Scout...
Bailey Stokes
3 days ago
25
Creating Sacred Spaces: A Silver Award Project Honoring Flag Traditions
This fall, a meaningful Silver Award project is taking root across several Girl Scouts of Colorado camp properties. Dedicated Cadettes...
GSCO blog
5 days ago
27
A Whirl Wind! - Heather P.'s story
Why Girl Scouts? Why not? Girl Scouts has given so much to me and my family over the years it amazes me. From my own years as a girl...
Heather Platunov
5 days ago
8
Green Hat Society seeking new members
“Always a Girl Scout!” Colorado’s Plains to Peaks Chapter #22 of the Green Hat Society (GHS), actively involved in the national...
GSCO blog
6 days ago
68
What Girl Scouts means to me - Ashley R.'s story
One thing I love about Girl Scouts is that it is always where you are. I was an Army brat growing up, going from place to place, school...
Ashley Ramstead
Apr 8
69
Girl Scout members team together to learn Program Aide Basics!
The Fort Collins and Loveland Day camp team put on an overnight Program Aid basic training for 23 Cadettes this past March 28 - 29 in...
Carley Ross
Apr 1
24
Older Girl Advisory Board makes selfie wall
With this girl-led project, we were able to bring our unique perspectives to reflect both OGAB and Girl Scouts as a whole.
34
Blast off to another year of Girl Scout adventure!
For so many girls, Girl Scouts is a place to proudly be their authentic selves.
GSCO blog
Mar 17
229
Refugee girls find community through Girl Scout Cookies
Though their circumstances are different from many Girl Scouts, Troop 64959 still sold cookies this year.
GSCO blog
Mar 14
52
It's a jungle out there at MMR Core Camp!
Registration is open now for troops looking to experience all the adventures Meadow Mountain Ranch offers
GSCO blog
Mar 12
17
Troop 35143: Fun adventures and exciting learning experiences
Troop 35143 has been having an amazing time exploring new experiences and learning along the way! Recently, the girls visited the local...
Lisa Sanchez
Mar 11
12
A Sweet Tradition: Sweet Cow & Colorado Girl Scouts!
For nine amazing years, Sweet Cow and the Colorado Girl Scouts have teamed up to celebrate Girl Scout Cookie season in the most delicious...
Sweet Cow
Feb 10
30
Outdoor Skills Days registration now open for Brownies and Juniors
Troop 7 hosts an Outdoor Skills Day every year (for over a decade). This year's Outdoor Skills days will be April 5 and April 12, 2025....
Marcy Kendall
Feb 4
35
Share what a cookie can do and win prizes this Cookie Season!
NEW THIS YEAR! In addition to the Creative Cookie Video and Bling Your Booth contests this cookie season, there will be bonus prize...
GSCO blog
Jan 7
310
Discover Global Girl Scouting with the Hong Kong Girl Guides Association and Mei Lan the Panda
Has your Troop met the new 2025 Girl Scout Cookie mascot, Mei Lan? Mei Lan, a giant panda, is named after the phrase "Beautiful Orchid...
Tiffany Baker
Jan 2
88
Join the GSUSA National Advisory Board
GSUSA is seeking up to 11 new members to join the National Girl Scout Advisory Board to GSUSA for a two-year term. Applications are due...
GSCO blog
Dec 10, 2024
81
Denver Girl Scouts meet Colorado congresswoman
Troop 68352 are hosting their meetings a little differently this year. Instead of holding meetings in a classroom or library, they are...
GSCO blog
Oct 30, 2024
37
Try new things with Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts aged 5-7 can enter to win a Mutton Bustin' adventure!
GSCO blog
Oct 29, 2024
416
Northern Colorado Me and My Guy Dance
The Northern Colorado Me and My Guy Dance will be held on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, from 6 - 9 p.m. in Loveland. This year's theme is...
Emily Sage
Oct 25, 2024
9
Circle of Compliments
Sisterhood is… "Sisterhood is closeness." - Zani "Sisterhood is loving." -Raven "Sisterhood is making me feel better." -Rebekah Some...
Jessica Spangler
Oct 15, 2024
19
Troop 67697 earns Respect Authority petal
Daisy Girl Scout Troop 67697 met with Northglenn Police Department’s Lieutenant Shelley and Detective Spresser to earn their Respect...
Jessica Grant
Oct 15, 2024
9
Gold Award Girl Scout honored at White House
Gold Award Girl Scout honored at The White House
GSCO blog
Oct 14, 2024
23
Girl Scouts Travel to Italy
Our troop has been saving money we earned through Cookie sales and Fall Sale for a long time. We were finally able to travel as a troop...
Emma Bangerter
Oct 3, 2024
49
Walking in the Loveland Corn Roast Festival parade
Hello and welcome to this blog! In this blog, I will be talking about the exciting parade that Sariyah, Aleksis, Anna, and I walked in....
Sariyah and Emma
Oct 3, 2024
24
Having a Blast at the History Center
As we walked into the museum for the first time, we knew that we were going to have a blast!
Sariyah and Emma
Oct 3, 2024
21
Silver Award project: Busy-board sand kitchen
Vivienne and Samantha from Troop 65686 in Littleton built a sand kitchen for the toddler playground at Abiding Hope’s Nature School to...
Erika Letourneau
Oct 3, 2024
39
Earn your Junior Space Science Investigator Badge
Juniors can earn their Space Science Investigator badge on Oct. 20 at the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder. They will join other Girl Scouts...
Marcy Kendall
Sep 20, 2024
13
Silver Award: Boost the Power of a non-profit
Raven was considering what they might want to do for their Silver Award project, looking out the car window, when they became distressed...
Jessica Spangler
Sep 10, 2024
16
False Beauty Promises
Three Cadettes worked on the MEdia Journey at Meadow Mountain Ranch this summer. They got together and created a survey about media use,...
Jessica Spangler
Sep 4, 2024
16
Troop 65659 completes their Junior outdoor Journey
Summer and Ellie, Juniors from multi-level Troop 65659, went to Meadow Mountain Ranch to complete their outdoor Journey. They did most of...
Jessica Spangler
Sep 4, 2024
17
Troop 65659 Daisies Release Ladybugs
Three Daisies from Troop 65659 completed the Welcome to the Flower Garden Journey over the summer. They learned about the Girl Scout...
Jessica Spangler
Aug 24, 2024
11
Women's Week at Meadow Mountain Ranch
This summer, forty women from across the country gathered at Meadow Mountain Ranch to play games, make great food, sing and generally...
Penny Roberts
Aug 19, 2024
62
Silver Award Project: "Build-A-Patch"
Hello! Our names are Addison and Ivana , and we are Girl Scouts Cadettes from Troop 66802. We are currently working on our Silver Award,...
Ivana Estrada
Aug 14, 2024
57
Unlock the magic of outdoor off-season adventures!
As we work our way out of the summer season and into the school season, Girl Scouts can still enjoy the outdoors with our outdoor day...
GSCO blog
Aug 14, 2024
25
8 days in San Francisco with Troop 72886
Troop 72886 voted and in June we traveled to San Francisco, California. We are a troop of fourteen rising 7th through 10th graders. We...
Mallory Delany
Jul 18, 2024
23
Troop 77914 explores the Blackhills
Troop 77914 used part of our cookie proceeds this year to take a five day trip exploring the Blackhills of South Dakota and Wyoming. We...
Melissa Rish
Jul 18, 2024
5
Troop 43810 in Puerto Rico!
Eight Girl Scouts and four adults had the opportunity to visit Puerto Rico with EF Tours. We were paired up with a great group of new...
Jody Clair
Jul 11, 2024
15
New accessible zipline at Meadow Mountain Ranch
After more than 10 years and tens of thousands of dollars raised, MMR's new accessible zipline is opening!
GSCO blog
Jun 27, 2024
104
Girl Scouts honored as Women Business Leaders
Gold Award Girl Scout Morgaine Wilkins-Dean and Girl Scouts of Colorado CEO Leanna Clark to be honored as Women Business Leaders
GSCO blog
Jun 26, 2024
137
Deloitte volunteers give back to GSCO
Every year, Deloitte hosts Impact Day, a day where employees across the country take time from their busy schedules to volunteer at local...
GSCO blog
Jun 7, 2024
31
STACK and IPI Women’s Leadership Summit experience by Alison Estrada
My name is Alison Estrada, and I am currently a Girl Scout Senior (soon to be Girl Scout Ambassador!) in Troop 62816. Recently, I was...
Alison Estrada
Jun 3, 2024
58
Loveland troop supports therapy dogs with their Bronze Award
Last fall, Troop 77850 was challenged to find a Bronze Award project that would be helpful to sick patients and work with animals. We...
Carley Ross
May 31, 2024
11
Start locally, connect globally with the Global Action Team
In Estes Park, I watched a Girl Scout sit in the saddle, holding the reins, with a smile that stretched from ear to ear. Before that...
Jennifer Redmond
Apr 24, 2024
42
Self-Defense Day for girls
Senior Girl Scout Evvie, in Boulder, is doing a Self Defense Day for a Take Action Project for her Girl Topia Journey. It will be...
GSCO blog
Apr 22, 2024
19
Giving back to Denver Zoo with cookies
Multi-Level Troop 65659 of Denver happily delivered 246 packages of Girl Scout cookies to the staff and volunteers of the Denver Zoo on...
GSCO blog
Apr 22, 2024
34
Camp Code for Girls
There's code behind all the technology we rely on and girls can get hands-on experience learning to code at a five-day camp through Girl...
GSCO blog
Mar 26, 2024
153
Girl Scouts fuel joy through Hometown Hero program
Each year, the girls in Girl Scout Troop 65750 choose a Hometown Hero to receive the boxes of cookies customers donate during the Girl...
Amanda Johnson
Mar 26, 2024
52
5 art tips from professionals
Are you an aspiring artist looking to grow your skills and show off your work? GSCO is hosting a contest for Girl Scouts across the state...
GSCO blog
Mar 15, 2024
53
A Girl Scout's Tale - Poetry
Sierra Redman Troop 57220 Walden, Colo In the mountains of Colorado, a tale unfolds, Of a 13-year-old Girl Scout, brave and bold. With...
Sierra Redman
Mar 13, 2024
94
bottom of page