I volunteered to take on this after a previous service manager had to step down, I was already attending all the meetings. Also in the process of gaining my communications degree which helps lead meetings. As well as managing the monthly service unit meetings we have a ton of different events we plan for the year.
Girl Scout Events
- Homecoming Parade 10/6/18
- JGL Brunch Around 10/31
- Sew-In Nov 9-10
- Pies 4 Fireman - Nov 21
- Christmas tree decorating in December
- Cookie Rally, Jan last weekend in January
- World Thinking Day - 2/22
- Pine wood derby
- River Clean-Up - 4/20/19
- Day Camp – Usually 2nd week in July
To top off all these events there is Council events we include in these! Girl Scouts are very busy and very active in our community.
My other hat I wear is troop leader of 3552, this is a small troop at Russell School that consists of 8 active girls! This is a great group of girls, we just introduce the tradition of patrol leaders to teach girls more leadership skills as well as learning how to mange conflict when this arises.
In order to do all of this I have 2 emails, a personal email, and a Girl Scout email. Constantly checking my emails, and text messages from parents or others. Along with all of this I use punch bowl to make events, survey monkey to gain some input from people, and our troop has a Facebook group which I am constantly updating with information and adding events for our troop. Always checking the different Girl Scout pages as well.
I follow many Facebook pages they include
Missoula Girl Scouts https://www.facebook.com/MissoulaGirlScouts/
Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming https://www.facebook.com/GSMWcouncil
Girl scouts of Southwest Montana Region https://www.facebook.com/girlscoutssouthwestmontanaregion/
Girl Scouts (GSUSA) https://www.facebook.com/GirlScoutsUSA/
For my meetings, I look up the badges on the GSMW.orgs website, log in to the toolkit and see what is necessary for the badge. Then I scour pinterest for ideas. Once I am done I gather all items needed for my lesson plan and put them in my 31bag.
When we plan events out side of regular meetings I look for inspiration on multiple badge websites. Lie we have a really cool surprise event for our girls on December 22nd. I wont go into details right now because I would hate to have any of the details get out!
We just finish fall product sales, and now we are moving into cookies which EVERYONE love cookies and is very popular. This is also a huge undertaking we clean out our outside storage unit and rent a uhaul for this pick up of the cases of cookies. Because we are the one troop the sells the most cookies each year.
So I ask you all if you see a girl scout leader say thank you to them because they do some much. Maybe not as much as this but a lot. I appreciate all the leaders in Girl Scouts they are AMAZING!
Keep it up!!
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