A Go-Getter is bold, honest, and
determined to succeed. Goal-oriented and ambitious, she’s also a life-long
learner who believes no challenge is too difficult.
Girl
Scout Week Activity
Set a goal to
achieve a big objective. Is it a Journey
Summit Award, straight A’s, mastering a new routine, or scoring a goal? Create
a plan to work hard to make it happen.
Learn a new
skill. Celebrate your love of learning. Practice
a skill that will help you explore something you’ve always wanted to try.
Create a
motivational mantra. Go-Getters get back up and try again when
they fall down. Create a mantra or saying to encourage yourself and others to
be determined to succeed.
Girl Scouting Year-Round – Virtual Join
Event
Tune-in to a Facebook Live throughout the
day or evening and check-in for exciting giveaways around how Girl Scouts offer
a year-round experience for girls from Camping and Outdoors, STEM, to Life
Skills, and Entrepreneurship.
Facebook Live – Members of Recruitment will
speak to the breadth of Girl Scouts’ programs and services for girls
year-round.
Daily Incentives: Engagement and
Membership on Facebook and Instagram
Girl Scout Week – Sunday, March 10 to Saturday, March 16 – is a time to celebrate Girl Scouts as groundbreakers, big thinkers, and role models. This year in conjunction with Girl Scout Week, we’re holding TheGirl Scouting Year-Round – Virtual Join Event from Monday, March, 11 to Friday, March 15. Join us as we celebrate for your chance to win daily and one-time incentives during the week – view a listing of the incentives below.
This guide offers many ideas for girls to choose their own way to be aG.I.R.L. (Go-Getter, Innovator, Risk-Taker, Leader)™ during Girl Scout Week. #GirlScoutingYearRound
Daily Incentives
Engagement Incentive: WIN 2 PACKAGES OF GIRL SCOUT COOKIES via Facebook or Instagram! Winners will be selected randomly the day after the
question has been posted to social media. Winners will receive a DM or private
message asking which 2 flavors they would like and which GSWNY service center
location they would like to pick up their prize. (Gluten-free cookies are not
available as prizes.) Winners must be currently registered adult or girl
members of Girl Scouts of Western New York. New members may participate same
day as completing their GSWNY registration. 3/11/19-3/15/19
Join Incentives: Existing Volunteers, register a
new girl or volunteer, add a new girl to your troop, and be entered for a
chance to win two daily gift cards of $25 to Target or Walmart when you email
your full name and the full name of the person you registered to communications@gswny.org
3/11/19-3/15/19. Register more people and increase your chances to win. Winners
will be emailed with the notification of when and where to pick up their gift
card.
One-time Incentives:
All new girls who register are entered into a
drawing for a Girl Scout starter kit 3/11/19-3/15/19. Winners will be emailed
with the notification of when and where to pick up their gift card.
Everyone who registers as a new member or registers
a new member will be entered for a chance to win a free week at camp valued at
$195 to be used at GSWNY Day, Resident or Troop Camp. Existing Volunteers who
register a new girl or volunteer, or add a new girl to your troop must also
email your full name and the full name of the person you registered to communications@gswny.org
3/11/19-3/15/19.
March 12 –
Tuesday: Girl Scout Birthday and the Importance of Volunteering
March 13 –
Wednesday: (Innovator) Cookie Power
March 14 –
Thursday: (Risk-Taker) Girl Scout High Awards and Community Service
March
15 – Friday: (Leader) Camp
and Outdoor
March
16 – Saturday: G.I.R.L. Agenda and Girl Scout Sabbath
March 10 – Sunday Theme: Girl Scout Sunday
Girl
Scout Week Activity
Wear your Girl
Scout uniform to worship. Talk with your
Girl Scout sisters and family to connect with a local place of worship and
learn about how Girl Scouts can be represented on Girl Scout Sunday.
Host a Girl
Scout Cookies and milk party after worship. Bring
Girl Scout cookies (and possibly sell some too), share what goals you achieved
with your cookie sale, and talk about the skills you have learned from the Girl
Scout Cookie program.
Earn your My Promise, My Faith Award. Work with your family and faith leaders to earn the pin to
celebrate the connection between the Girl Scout Promise and Law and your faith.
A Go-Getter is bold, honest, and
determined to succeed. Goal-oriented and ambitious, she’s also a life-long
learner who believes no challenge is too difficult.
Girl
Scout Week Activity
Set a goal to
achieve a big objective. Is it a Journey
Summit Award, straight A’s, mastering a new routine, or scoring a goal? Create
a plan to work hard to make it happen.
Learn a new
skill. Celebrate your love of learning. Practice
a skill that will help you explore something you’ve always wanted to try.
Create a
motivational mantra. Go-Getters get back up and try again when
they fall down. Create a mantra or saying to encourage yourself and others to
be determined to succeed.
Girl Scouting Year-Round – Virtual Join
Event
Tune-in to a Facebook Live throughout the
day or evening and check-in for exciting giveaways around how Girl Scouts offer
a year-round experience for girls from Camping and Outdoors, STEM, to Life
Skills, and Entrepreneurship.
Facebook Live – Members of Recruitment will
speak to the breadth of Girl Scouts’ programs and services for girls
year-round.
Daily Incentives: Engagement and
Membership on Facebook and Instagram
March 12 – Tuesday Theme: Girl Scout
Birthday and the Importance of Volunteering
March 12 is the Girl Scout Birthday! On
this day in 1912, Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low assembled a group of
eighteen girls from Savannah, Georgia for the first ever Girl Scout meeting.
Girl
Scout Week Activity
Wear your Girl
Scout uniform to school to celebrate your Girl Scout sisterhood. Today, over 3.2 million girls and adults are active Girl Scout
members, and over 50 million women are Girl Scout alumnae. In honor of the Girl
Scout Birthday, take a moment to recognize and celebrate all that Girl Scouts
of the USA has done for local communities across the country!
Learn more about
Juliette Gordon Low. Visit the Juliette
Gordon Low Birthplace website. Every
year many troops visit the birthplace as an extended trip. Interested in
learning more? Check out our Traveling with Girl
Scouts packet.
Throw a birthday
party for Girl Scouts! Celebrate with
birthday cake, party games, and more. Invite your sister Girl Scouts and
friends who are not yet Girl Scouts. Ask all of your guests to bring a birthday
gift to donate to a local charity.
Girl Scouting Year-Round – Virtual Join
Event
Tune-in to a Facebook Live throughout the
day or evening and check-in for exciting giveaways around how Girl Scouts offer
year-round experiences for girls in the areas of exciting programs and
travel.
Facebook Live – Member of Volunteer
Experience will speak to the breadth of Girl Scouts’ volunteer opportunities
and how they impact girls year-round.
Daily Incentives: Engagement and
Membership on Facebook and Instagram.
March 13 – Wednesday Theme: (Innovator) Cookie
Power
Thinking outside the box is an Innovator’s
specialty, so she’s always looking for a creative way to take action. She
definitely knows how to get things done.
Girl
Scout Week Activity
Solve a problem
in a creative way. Whether it is a broken shoelace or a
polluted beach, Girl Scouts innovate to find unique solutions. Find an
imaginative solution to an everyday or community problem.
Invent something
new. Think outside the box and find a new way
to do something. Share your idea with other Girl Scout sisters or your family.
Create a work of
art. Choose your favorite type of art and make
a masterpiece that’s cookie-related that looks like something that no one has
ever seen before.
Girl Scouting Year-Round – Virtual Join
Event
Tune-in to a Facebook Live throughout the
day or evening and check-in for exciting giveaways around how Girl Scouts offer
year-round experiences for girls in the area of Entrepreneurship with the
largest girl-run business in the world – the Girl Scout cookie program and
learn what the Digital Cookie Drawing and Cookie Drive-thru is all about. GSWNY
Thunderclap Social Media posting where everyone in GSWNY posts the
same message to social media on the same day.
Facebook Live – Member of Product Program and
a girl will speak to the breadth of Girl Scouts’ Cookie Program and how it
impacts girls year-round.
Daily Incentives: Engagement and
Membership on Facebook and Instagram
March 14 – Thursday Theme: (Risk-Taker) Programs – Girl Scout
High Awards and Community Service
Courageous and strong, a Risk-Taker’s keen
to try new things and to embrace the unfamiliar. She’s ready to step up and
break the mold if that’s what it takes.
Girl
Scout Week Activity
Do something
new. Girl Scouts explore the world around them.
Do something that you’ve never done before.
Eliminate
“can’t” from your vocabulary. Think
about the times you’ve said “I can’t (do something).” Try something that you
thought you couldn’t do.
Break the mold. Be the first person you know to try something. Share with your
friends and family about your experience.
Girl Scouting Year-Round – Virtual Join
Event
Tune-in to a Facebook Live throughout the
day or evening and check-in for exciting giveaways around how Girl Scouts offer
year-round experiences for girls in the areas of the Girl Scout High Awards –
Gold, Silver, and Bronze and Community Service.
Facebook Live – Member of Girl Experience will
speak to the breadth of Girl Scouts’ Programs and how they impact girls
year-round and a Girl Scout Gold Awardee and Alum will speak about her
experience.
Daily Incentives: Engagement and
Membership on Facebook and Instagram
March 15 – Friday Theme: (Leader) Camp and Outdoor
A Leader is confident,
responsible, and committed to changing the world for the better—and she’s
happiest when others join her in taking the lead!
Girl
Scout Week Activity
Be a
role model. Lead younger girls in
celebrating Girl Scout Week activities and being G.I.R.L.s!
Lead
a Take Action project. Make
the world a better place when you Take Action to solve issues in your community
in a sustainable way.
Invite
the community. Welcome your community to your
Girl Scout Week celebrations or Take Action projects.
Girl Scouting Year-Round – Virtual Join
Event
Tune-in to a Facebook Live throughout the
day or evening and check-in for exciting giveaways around how Girl Scouts offer
year-round experiences for girls in the areas of Camp and Outdoor.
Facebook Live – Member of Camp/Outdoor
Program will speak to the breadth of Girl Scouts’ Camp/Outdoor Program and how
it impacts girls year-round.
Daily Incentives: Engagement and Membership
on Facebook and Instagram
One-time Incentive: Starter Kit and 1 Week
of Camp
March 16 – Saturday Theme: G.I.R.L. Agenda and Girl Scout Sabbath
Be a catalyst for change in
your community—and the world. Champion your views, influence leadership, and
advance the G.I.R.L. Agenda to make the world a
better place. Every girl has a voice. Every girl’s voice is important.
Girl Scout Week Activity
Get
inspired. Find a problem big or small
in your community. Think of a way you and others can solve it and let your
voice be heard.
Get
prepared. Take a stand and be an
advocate for an issue that is important to you. Share with others why you are
so passionate about this cause.
Get
mobilized. Unleash your inner leader
and make the world a better place.
Special Alert:
Stop in our GSWNY Shops and celebrate Girl Scout Week with us and have a cupcake! By participating in our Balloon Pop Challenge each customer has a chance to save 10%-40% off on their purchase. The challenge runs March 11-15. Come visit us in the shop and POP a balloon to receive a discount on a same day purchase. Each shop is open their normal hours of business for the week. Cannot be combined with any other coupon or discount.
GSWNY Thunderclap Social Media Postings March 13, March 20, and March 27
Girl Scout Cookie Drive-Thru March 16 and 17
Girl Scout Cookie Walk-About Weekend March 23 & 24
GSWNY
Staff will Celebrate Girl Scout Week by Discovering, Connecting, &
Take Action with the following:
To Discover,
a Girl Scout Birthday sign will be emailed on Monday that says “Happy Birthday
Girl Scouts! My birthday wish for you is . . .” Staff can print,
complete a sign, take their photo and send to Communications, who will share
via interoffice email and via social media.
To Connect,
on Wednesday, staff will share a brief overview of the 5 World Centers via
email and interoffice email. Using SurveyMonkey, staff will be able to vote on which
center they would most like to visit, and results will be shared at the end of
the week.
To Take Action,
staff are encouraged to donate birthday party items, such as cake mix,
frosting, candles, balloons, etc., to be donated to local food pantries. These items are often scarce and welcomed by families. They will be collected all week.