You could design the next Girl Scout Encampment Shirt!

At our last meeting we talked about any girl interested in creating a theme and art work for this year's Encampment T-shirt.

Last year's T-shirt is the yellow one with a girl riding horse back jumping a fence. The theme was "Sporty Girls Love Horses". This was the winner after girls voted.

All troops are eligible to submit entries from all girl members and will be posted on the site below after all submissions are in.
A few themes have been suggested but you may create your own.
Below is a link to the Rainbow Service Unit's web site.

http://rainbow.yaacotu.com/wprain/

Brownie/ Junior Encampment will be April 15-17 at Camp Dorothy Thomas.
GOOD LUCK!
And if you have any questions contact Ms. Andrea.

January 11th Meeting & World Thinking Day

Yesterday was the first meeting of the New Year and we discussed Girl Scouts World Thinking Day.

For those of you who don't know what World Thinking Day is here is a little info.

Each year on February 22, World Thinking Day, girls participate in activities, games, and projects with global themes to honor their sister Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in other countries. World Thinking Day is part of the WAGGGS Global Action Theme (GAT) based on the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which aim to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. The theme for World Thinking Day 2011 is girls worldwide say "empowering girls will change our world."

This year our Service Unit will hold our World Thinking Day activities on Saturday February 26 from 10am until noon. It is a chance for troops to share information on different countries, exchange SWAPS, and of course everyones favorite... food!

This is our 3rd year participating in the event and this year we are representing Iraq and we want to have a particular focus on Babylonia.

All the girls have been assigned a task or topic to research.

Melissa and Emma will be working together to write a script for a skit we will preform.
Patricia will be researching what family life is like.
Hanna will be looking into the industry and exports.
Paige will be finding information on religion and cultural beliefs.
Aubrey volunteered to research and report on clothing and cultural attire.
Emily will be reporting on the geographic location and climate.
Gretchen requested to research the flag and make a model for us to display.
Lauren will be finding information on fortune telling and looking for ideas to make that into a SWAP.
Brianna choose to research food and drink for the country.
Haily, Issabella, Madelyn and any girl who has not already been assigned a task will be finding at least 5 interesting facts about Babalonian Iraq.

All girls are encouraged to not only research and bring in written information on their assignments but to also provide pictures and craft samples. Be creative. What the girls bring in to report will be incorporated into the skit that we will preform.

At our next meeting we will be sharing what we have found and also finalizing the script and assigning tasks for World Thinking Day.

Because each girl will be assigned a role any girl who can not attend should let us know at the next meeting.

All girls who attend World Thinking Day will receive a patch!

More details on the actual event will be given a little later.

Cookie Season is underway!!!

And last night each girl was giving her cookie sales information. Cookie sales generates a lot of money for our troop so please be sure to sell, sell, sell. This is how we pay for our activities throughout the year.

If you have any questions you can contact Pam. Her information is listed on the cookie form and I will post more info on the sale shortly but in the mean time... sell those cookies!

And there will be no meeting on January 17th as it is Martin Luther King Jr Day.
Our next meeting will be on February 7th.