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Junior Detective Badge DATE: 3/1/20 TIME: 10:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. REGISTER BY: 2/14/20 LEVEL: J COST: $20 Girl/$2 Adult REGION: II BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Cicero Service Center

Solving mysteries can be hard! It takes lots of imagination, focus and teamwork. Juniors are invited to learn about the power of observation as they earn the Detective badge. Girls will challenge themselves as they learn what it takes to be a detective. During the day, girls will learn about a wide variety of things including fingerprints and how to create their own secret code! Toward the end of the program, they will have chance to test their new found abilities at a murder mystery dinner. Junior Detective badge included.

Engineering Mystery Challenge DATE: 3/7/20 TIME: 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 3/1/20 LEVEL: J, C, S, A, Adults COST: $12 Girl/Free Adult REGION: III BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Cornerstone Community Church, 500 Plant St., Utica, NY 13502

Girls will work in teams to complete a set of engineering challenges. When each challenge is completed, they will receive a clue that will help them to solve a mystery. Challenges may range from building with food, designing tools or creating chain reactions. All materials provided. Girls should bring a lunch, drinks provided.

Get Moving Journey Jump Start DATE: 4/4/20 TIME: 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 3/26/20 LEVEL: J COST: $25 Girl/Free Adult REGION: II BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Cicero Service Center

Ready to get to work on your Bronze Award? Get started on your Get Moving Journey! Explore different kinds of energy and how to use energy efficiently, focusing on the line “using resources wisely” from the Girl Scout Law. Participants will complete the majority of their Journey work and plan their Take Action Project. A few activities (totaling no more than 1.5 hours) will need to be completed before or after the program, along with completing the Take Action Project before the Journey is fully complete.

Cadette Breathe Journey Jump Start DATE: 4/18/20 TIME: 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/3/20 LEVEL: C COST: $25 Girl/Free Adult REGION: II BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Hoover Adventure Center

Girls will spend time exploring an awareness of the air around them through activities such as yoga and deep breathing, cooking with air, air and STEM, and exploring various career opportunities related to air. Girls will

also learn about air issues and decide on a plan to educate others about their selected issue. Participants will complete the majority of their Journey work and plan their Take Action Project. A few activities (totaling no more than 1.5 hours) will need to be completed before or after the program, along with completing the Take Action Project before the Journey is fully complete.

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Astronomy Club Overnight at Cherry Springs State Park DATE: 4/18/20-4/19/20 TIME: 4:00 p.m.-12:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 3/30/20 LEVEL: C, S, A, Adults COST: $30 Girl/$20 Adult REGION: III, IV BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Cherry Springs State Park, 4639 Cherry Springs Rd., Coudersport, PA 16965

Are you ready for this sky-themed camping adventure? Explore the night sky with GEMINI Astronomy Club and visit one of the best dark sky parks in the U.S. Vans depart from Johnson City Service Center. Dinner and snacks provided Saturday night. Enjoy a light breakfast Sunday and short hike before we pack up and head home.

Think Like an Engineer Journey in a Weekend DATE: 4/25/20-4/26/20 TIME: 10:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. REGISTER BY: 4/17/20 LEVEL: C, S, A, Adults COST: $45 Girl/$25 Adult REGION: II BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Hoover Adventure Center

Join us for a weekend of scientific exploration! Girls will learn about different aspects of engineering as the work their way through three different engineering challenges. Girls will leave with a plan for a Take Action Project to implement in their community. Saturday lunch and dinner and Sunday breakfast provided. Girls must attend with their own adult ratio. This program works towards the Think Like an Engineer Journey.

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Girl Scout Week is a time to celebrate Girl Scouts as groundbreakers, big thinkers and role models. Here are some ways you can get involved!

Sunday, March 8 – International Women’s Day Visit internationalwomensday.com/SelfieCards to download and print out #EachforEqual Selfie Cards to promote action via social media. Show your commitment to help build a more gender-equal world and encourage others to help forge equality by taking a photo with the selfie card and posting it using the hashtags #EachforEqual and #IWD. Encourage girls to post their selfies on our council social media channels—we’re @gsnypenn on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Monday, March 9 – Go-Getter 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. What you can do: set a goal to achieve something that matters to you! Learn a new skill to celebrate your love of learning. Create a motivational mantra that can help you get back up when you’re feeling low.

Tuesday, March 10 – Innovator In our world, innovator can mean so many things. What you can do: comment in the thread of our council social media posts on this day and tell us (or show us!) what being an innovator means to you!

Wednesday, March 12 – Risk-Taker Courageous and strong, a risk-taker loves to try new things and embrace the unfamiliar. She’s ready to step up and break the mold if that’s what it takes. What you can do: try something you’ve never done before but have always been interested in. Eliminate “can’t” from your vocabulary because you CAN do anything!

Thursday, March 12 – Girl Scouts’ Birthday Celebrate Girl Scouts’ 108th birthday at our Cicero, New Hartford and Seneca Falls Service Centers! Enjoy activities from the Heritage Patch Program and a Girl Scout-related snack. Keep your eyes open for special shopping opportunities at our stores today!

Friday, March 13 – Girl Scouts Take Albany! Hop inside a G.I.R.L. van with council staff and take a trip to the New York State Capitol! Visit the New York State Museum to learn about all the amazing things in New York that we often take for granted. Take a tour of the Capitol building to see the incredible architecture—you’ll get to step inside spaces where all the legislative magic happens!

Saturday, March 14 – Leader A leader is confident, responsible and committed to changing the world for the better—she’s happiest when others join in! What you can do: lead a Take Action project to solve issues in your community in a sustainable way. Be a role model to younger girls by involving them in your activities and explaining to them why it’s important.

Starry STEM (D/B) DATE: 4/25/20 TIME: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/17/20 LEVEL: D, B COST: $12 Girl/Free Adult REGION: II BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Seneca Falls Service Center

Enjoy a STEM Saturday! Young scientists will learn about the stars and our solar system. Hands on activities will teach about astronomy basics. Snack provided. Please dress for the weather and bring a water bottle. Space Science badges included.

Starry STEM (J/C) DATE: 4/25/20 TIME: 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/17/20 LEVEL: J, C COST: $12 Girl/Free Adult REGION: II BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Seneca Falls Service Center

Enjoy a STEM Saturday! Young scientists will learn about the stars and our solar system. Hands on activities will teach about astronomy basics. Snack provided. Please dress for the weather and bring a water bottle. Space Science badges included.

Questions about a program? 1.855.213.8555 or program@gsnypenn.org 27 Junior Balloon Car Design Challenge DATE: 4/25/20 TIME: 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/10/20 LEVEL: J, Adults COST: $12 Girl/Free Adult REGION: I BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Port Leyden Fire Hall, 3387 Douglas St., Port Leyden, NY 13433 Be an engineer for the afternoon and learn about air power and create an alternative fuel car! We’ll be designing, building and testing your own balloon powered car. Use your car to take part in the Great Balloon Car Race. Daisy/Brownie Badge Blitz DATE: 4/25/20 TIME: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/10/20 LEVEL: D, B, Adults COST: $12 Girl/Free Adult REGION: I BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Port Leyden Fire Hall, 3387 Douglas St., Port Leyden, NY 13433 Design your own car and earn a badge! We’ll work to design, build and then test your car on a track also designed by you. You’ll learn about force and friction, drag and lift and more about engineering. Daisy Model Car Design Challenge and Brownie Race Car Design Challenge badges included. Explore the Art and History of Cooperstown DATE: 4/25/20 TIME: 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/6/20 LEVEL: B, J, C COST: $25 Girl/$10 Adult REGION: III BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Farmers Museum, 5775 New York 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326 Explore a different art form as you participate in a quilling workshop and create a piece to take home! We will also tour the Farmers’ Museum, a historic village that is an excellent example of a mid-19th-century farming community in Central New York State, complete with an authentic Blacksmith Shop, Pharmacy, Printing Shop, Lawyers Office, Farm, Tavern, General Store and more! Bring your best walking shoes and a lunch. Fun patch provided. *Council staff will be running this event; girls can be dropped off and picked up. Scout Badge Experiences: Designing Robots Brownie Badge DATE: 4/25/20 TIME: 9:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/22/20 LEVEL: B, Adults COST: $25 Girl/Free Adult REGION: II BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: The MOST (The Milton J Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology), 500 S. Franklin St., Syracuse, NY 13202 While earning your badge, learn about biomimicry and then draw your own robot inspired by a bee. Learn about the parts of robots while looking at a VEX robot and make a simple machine arm using the knowledge you learned to plan and prototype your own robot. Plus, see a planetarium show and spend time in the Science Playhouse. Girl Scout Badge Day DATE: 5/2/20 TIME: 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/18/20 LEVEL: J, S, Adults COST: $20 Girl/$9 Adult REGION: III BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Binghamton Zoo at Ross Park Education Center, 60 Morgan Rd., Binghamton, NY 13903 Visit the Binghamton Zoo to work toward earning your Animal Habitats (Juniors) and Eco Explorer (Seniors) badges. Day includes a classroom component, activities and focused tour of the zoo with knowledgeable staff to discuss habitats, endangered species and so much more! Girl Scouts completing activities will receive their badge at the zoo. Morning topic (10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) is Animal Habitats for Juniors. Afternoon topic (1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.) is Eco Explorer for Seniors. Pricing is for individual sessions. Flower Fun & Bee Friendly DATE: 5/2/20 TIME: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/24/20 LEVEL: B, J, C, Adults COST: $12 Girl/Free Adult REGION: II BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: No LOCATION: Huckleberry Swamp, 9190 Catchpole Rd., North Rose, NY 14516 Join staff at Huckleberry Swamp for a morning filled with flowers and pollinators. Start the morning making seed bombs and then take a hike along the boardwalk trail learning about a few plants along the way. After the walk, engage in a discussion about pollinators, play a pollinator game and end the morning making your very own bee hotel. Playing in the Past: Revolution Style! DATE: 5/3/20 TIME: 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/4/20 LEVEL: J, Adults COST: $5 Girl/$5 Adult REGION: III BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes

Operation Escape Stanwix DATE: 5/16/20 TIME: 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/11/20 LEVEL: C, S, A, Adults COST: $5 Girl/Free Adult REGION: III BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: Fort Stanwix National Monument, 100 S. James St., Rome, NY 13440

SAGE Scholars Rewards

Did you know Girl Scouts can earn points for college? Girl Scouts have the opportunity to receive up to 2,500 Tuition Reward Points each year when they renew their Girl Scout membership. Troop leaders and co-leaders can earn up to 3,500 points each year when they renew. The program begins with Early Bird Renewal starting April 1 and ends June 30.

Tuition Rewards points are similar to frequent flyer points. Earned points are equivalent to dollars in guaranteed tuition/scholarships at participating colleges and universities. Points can be used at approximately 400 affiliated private colleges and universities across the U.S. There are 24 in New York—including St. Bonaventure, Clarkson, RPI, RIT, St. Lawrence, Elmira and Hartwick.

For more information and FAQs about this program, visit tuitionrewards.com.

It’s simple…there’s no survey! Renew your membership by contacting GSNYPENN Customer Care at 1.855.213.8555 and press option 2. Make sure you have already created an account with the Tuition Rewards Program. It’s that easy!

Get ready, Early Bird Renewal will be “springing up” before you know it!

LOCATION: Fort Stanwix National Monument, 100 S. James St., Rome, NY 13440

Come join a park ranger for a special afternoon exploring 18th century New York! Learn what happened to families of Continental soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Join the Fort Schuyler community to learn about medicine and spend some time playing as an 18th century kid.

Innovator Badge Night DATE: 5/7/20 TIME: 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 4/20/20 LEVEL: D, B, J, Adults COST: $15 Girl/Free Adult REGION: III BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: Yes LOCATION: St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 551 Sayles St., Oneida, NY 13421

Challenge your inner inventor and get to work learning about inventions and creating some of your own! Daisies will create their own roller coasters. Brownies will build some awesome inventions,. Juniors will become product designers as they improve old designs and create new ones. Daisies will earn the Roller Coaster Design Challenge badge, Brownies the Inventor badge and Juniors the Product Designer badge. Includes snack and earned badge. Can you escape? Travel back in time with “Operation Sabotage Stanwix,” a teambased live-action puzzle game. Take the opportunity to enlist as a British spy trying to undermine operations at Fort Stanwix! Although the puzzles are based in history, no special skill or knowledge is required. The game takes place in one single (and accessible) room of the fort and is not physically strenuous. The event will take place rain or shine. Once you’ve escaped the fort, spend time learning how a cypher wheel works. Junior Ranger books and scavenger hunts will be made available to further explore area history on your own after you’re done. Time spent exploring the park counts towards your Girl Scout Ranger patch or certificate.

Girl Scout Fairy Day at Huckleberry Swamp DATE: 9/26/20 TIME: 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. REGISTER BY: 9/18/20 LEVEL: D, B, J, Adults COST: $12 Girl/Free Adult REGION: II BADGE/PATCH/JOURNEY: No LOCATION: Huckleberry Swamp, 9190 Catchpole Rd., North Rose, NY 14516

Join staff for the annual Girl Scout Fairy Event. Start the morning painting fairy doors and making a clothespin fairy and fairy container garden. After these enchanting crafts, listen to a reading of the book “Fairy Houses” by Tracy Kane. Then we’re off for a walk along the boardwalk with a few activities along the way. End the walk at the Fairy Trail and let your imagination go wild as we build our own nature fairy house along the trail.