2024-08 New Leader Monthly Virtual Meeting Slide Deck - August 2024
Training Room at JoAnn Fogg Service Center
• Know how many volunteers you need.
• Which leadership roles need to be filled
• Family Involvement = Troop Success
The family meeting is where you discuss meeting logistics, troop dues, uniforms, and collect or distribute the health history and annual permission forms. This is also a great opportunity to find other volunteers for the troop. If your troop is entering its second year, you will also share the financial status of the troop.
Find this in your New Leader Kit. See comments for links to digital copies of this and the forms noted above.
Girl Scout Troop Year Planner 2023 - 2024
August September October
• Work with your Membership Manager to grow your troop
• Register/Renew troop members
• GS Night at the Mesquite Rodeo
• Parent Meeting
• Investiture /Rededication Ceremony
• Ripley’s Believe it or Not Sleepover
• Fall Product Program
• Outdoor Art Creator
• Hispanic Heritage Patch
• Solar Car Family Event
• Community Service: Tackle Hunger patch
November December January
• Family Cookie Meeting
• Pumpkin Chunkin’ Camping Weekend
• Native American Heritage Celebration
• Brownie Workshop: Insect Investigation
• Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin Award
• Community Service: Feed the Homeless w/SU
• Polar Bear Swim
• My Cookie Customers
• Guest speaker: Chinese New Year
• Community Service: Pajamas for Seniors
Girl Scout Troop Year Planner 2023 - 2024
February March April
• Snacks Badge at What’s Cooking Kids?
• Black History Month Patch
• SU World Thinking Day Event: International Scout Day
May
• Okay to Say Patch Program
• Troop Bridging Event
• SU Event: Cinco de Mayo Parade
• SU Campout
• Girl Scout Way
• Community Service: Girl Scout Birthday Bash in the Park
• Troop Camping
• Bugs Badge: Dallas Zoo Buggin’ Out Program
• SU Event: Earth Day Celebration
June
Summer Break
Girl Scouts Love the Outdoors Challenge
SU Event: Juneteenth Parade
Summer Break
July
An investiture ceremony – where you officially welcome new members to the troop - might look something like this:
• Start in the Friendship Circle and sing a song, like the Brownie Smile song, and recite the Girl Scout Promise and Law together.
• While in the circle, take turns introducing yourselves and one thing that they love about Girl Scouts.
• The leader pins the new girl with a World Trefoil Pin and/or Girl Scout Membership Pin and shakes her hand using the Girl Scout handshake, welcoming her into the world of Girl Scouts.
• Close the ceremony with the Friendship Circle Squeeze.
