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GSUSA

Girl Scout Leadership Experience

Frequently Asked Questions

August 2008

Highlights from the NEW Girl Scout "Change Your World" Leadership Journeys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This piece was put together based on questions asked by volunteers. The answers are based on the information that we currently have from GSUSA. This will be a working document which will be updated as we receive additional information. More information will be published in  future issues of the Notes to Leaders (NTL).

New Grade Levels: Implemented in fall 2008

Girl Scout Daisy Kindergarten - 1st 2 year program
Girl Scout Brownie 2nd - 3rd 2 year program
Girl Scout Junior 4th - 5th 2 year program
Girl Scout Cadette 6th - 8th 3 year program
Girl Scout Senior 9th - 10th 2 year program
Girl Scout Ambassador 11th - 12th 2 year program

“The Change Your World Series” Journeys

 

GS Daisy:                    Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden

GS Brownie:                The Brownie Quest

GS Junior:                   Agent of Change

GS Cadette:                aMaze

GS Senior:                  GIRLtopia

GS Ambassador:        Your Voice, Your World, The Power of Advocacy

Camp – Girls participate in a day or resident camps with a focus on the out of doors and/or environmental education

Events – Girls participate in events (e.g. career day)

Special Interest - Girls participate in a series of programs with the same group of girls relating to a specific theme or purpose (e.g. high adventure teen group, completion of the “Change Your World” journey over a six-week period.)

Travel - Girls plan, earn money, prepare, and participate in regional, national, and international trips

Troops - Girls participate in a series of programs with the same group of girls over the course of an academic year

Virtual - Girls participate in interactive, high-quality program activities in a safe, secure, online environment supplemented by live events


It's Your World—Change It!
Highlights Introducing the First Series of Journeys
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Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden
http://www.girlscouts.org/program/journeys/your_world/daisy.asp##

In this journey for kindergarteners and first-graders, a favorite pastime—gardening—meets the Girl Scout Law. The result is a storybook world of flowers and little girls who, together, do great things. Girl Scout Daisies will especially enjoy meeting the colorful, global characters who teach them to live the Girl Scout Law. The adult "how-to" guide offers Garden Story Time tips, key ideas for garden projects, and all the Girl Scout history and traditions needed for an adventure starring Amazing Daisy, a new flower friend for Girl Scout Daisies.

 

Girl Scout Brownie – Brownie Quest Journey

http://www.girlscouts.org/program/journeys/your_world/brownie.asp

The Quest consists of 2 trails: The Trail of the ELF Adventure • The Trail of the 3 keys

 

The Trail of the ELF Adventure girls will meet Campbell, Jamila and Alejandra. A new elf story for Girl Scout Brownies will be introduced. ELF: Explore, Link Arms and Fly into action.

 

In The Trail of the 3 keys, Brownie Teams will follow a quest in unlocking the 3 keys of leadership through Discover, Connect and Take Action activities.

 

Awards– Discovery Key, Connect Key and Take Action Key. The final award is to put all three keys together to crack the leadership code and earn their Leadership Quest Award.

 

Girl Scout Cadettes will have an opportunity to work with Girl Scout Brownies and earn their Quest Assistant Key as they support Brownies on their Quest.

 

 

Girl Scout Junior – Agent of Change Journey

http://www.girlscouts.org/program/journeys/your_world/junior.asp

Meet - Dez I Ner the bossy, controlling spider with trendy clothes and an obsession with power

 

Awards – The Power of One, The Power of Team, The Power of Community

 

The Power of One/The Power of Story – through tales, girls understand the power of a story and its role in a community. (Discover)

 

The Power of Team- this is the team building part of the Journey. Girl will decide on a Take Action project and establish goals (Connect)

 

The Power of Community - the girls will implement their plan and get the community involved. (Take Action)

 

 

 

Girl Scout Cadette - aMAZE Journey

http://www.girlscouts.org/program/journeys/your_world/cadette.asp

Through the aMAZE journey girls will learn tips and strategies for developing healthy relationships.

 

Awards – Interact Award, Diplomat Award, Peacemaker Award Interact Award- signifies that girls can advance peace in the world around them one interaction at a time. Girls will use an Interact Challenge Chart.

 

Diplomat Award- girls will choose and plan a project using the 7 steps towards Taking Action

 

Peacemaker Award- girls are asked to collect "tools" they can use and pass on to others.

 

Sessions include:

First Impressions in the Maze, Navigating with Friends, Twists & Turns: Cliques and Conflicts, Caution Bullies Straight Ahead, Relating Like Leaders, Improving Relationships in the World, Toward Peace: Take Action!, Pass it Forward

 

 

GS Senior- GIRLtopia-It’s Your World-Change it!

http://www.girlscouts.org/program/journeys/your_world/senior.asp

This Journey invites girls to create a vision of the perfect, girl-focused world through are: poetry, painting, sculpture and video- whatever the girls wants. An ideal community where girls’ values, needs and interests are respected and celebrated always.

 

GS Senior Visionary Award – Create it, Guide It, Change It

 

 

GS Ambassador –Your Voice, Your World:

The Power of Advocacy

http://www.girlscouts.org/program/journeys/your_world/ambassador.asp

How often have you seen something that really needed to be changed and wondered "Why isn’t someone doing something about that?" This journey gives GS Ambassadors a way to be that someone - an advocate with the power to start the first flutter of real and lasting change. While creating their own "butterfly effect" they’ll gain an array of skills such as networking, planning and learning to speak up for what they believe that will benefit them as they prepare for life beyond high school!

 

A:  What begins with A? Advocacy – speaks up for change, Aspirations-encourage

girls to dream, Assemble - which they’ll do, Agreement-make a decision as a team, Assess - viewpoints,

actions and where to go from there, Affirm-the progress they’ve made as they create positive change in

their world. They are Astute - have the brains to get to the root of their issues. They will Ask questions and

have those A-ha moments, they will Analyze their work, but they are still Adolescents!

 

B:  B is for Bravo! A chance to celebrate the journey’s end! This journey has one award at the end, but adults could use the completion of each step as an opportunity to celebrate their success. B is for Better - the world is a better place because of advocates B is for By the Way - this was some journey, wasn’t it?

 

C:  C is for Celebrate

 

The Advocacy Award has 8 steps that will guide them through the process to make change happen. This is a change that will have a lasting effect or permanent place in their community because it will impact the community!


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