Calling every G.I.R.L. (go-getter, innovator, risk-taker, and leader) to join us for our BIG event on Saturday, October 21, at the University of New Orleans! You’ll enjoy a day of hands-on activities and demonstrations on Life Skills, Entrepreneurship, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), the Arts and the Outdoors! Girls will meet role models, explore career options, and have fun. The event is open to all girls, grades K – 12, registered by October 1 for the 2018 membership year. It’s $4 per girl, and fee includes patch. Adults are free. Event registration is easy at www.gsle.org/ebiz. This year’s BIG event service project is a donation drive for our local women and children shelters. Fall Product Sale is Sept. 22 – Oct. 22, 2017 G.I.R.L. CONNECTION FALL 2017 Raising money for your Girl Scout troop has never been easier! By participating in this Friends and Family Sale, troops earn start-up funds to support their activities by participating in the council’s fall fundraiser of nuts, chocolates, and magazines. All orders are pre-paid and there are no booth sales. The troop earns $1 for every food item sold, and 10 percent of the price of each magazine sold (15% for online sales). Food products range from $5 to $10 and with the items being delivered in mid-November, they make great holiday gifts for teachers, friends, and family! In addition to troop proceeds, individual girl sellers receive incentives ranging from patches, plush animals, and much more. View the website at www.gsle.org/fallproduct to view recognitions, products, and for additional information. There I s Power I n every G. I. R. L. Unleash it at GSLE’s Believe in G.I.R.L. (BIG) event! Unleash Your Hero! More STEM and Outdoor Journeys and badges are here! Girl Scouts is all about being girl-led, and developing new programs is no exception. That’s why GSUSA surveyed girls to find out which science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics they most want to explore. The results weren’t surprising—computer science, engineering, and outdoor STEM landed in the top three! Louisiana Girl Scouts can now earn 23 new badges, focusing on STEM and the outdoors! With the introduction of these new badges, which marks the largest programming rollout in almost a decade, girls can design robots and racecars, go on environmentally conscious camping trips, write code, collect data in the great outdoors, try their hand at engineering, and so much more!
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Calling every G.I.R.L. (go-getter, innovator, risk-taker, and leader) to join us for our BIG event on Saturday, October 21, at the University of New Orleans! You’ll enjoy a day of hands-on activities and demonstrations on Life Skills, Entrepreneurship, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), the Arts and the Outdoors!
Girls will meet role models, explore career options, and have fun. The event is open to all girls, grades K – 12, registered by October 1 for the 2018 membership year. It’s $4 per girl, and fee includes patch. Adults are free. Event registration is easy at www.gsle.org/ebiz.
This year’s BIG event service project is a donation drive for our local women and children shelters.
Fall Product Sale is
Sept. 22 – Oct. 22, 2017
G.I.R.L.connection
Fall 2017
Raising money for your Girl Scout troop has never been easier! By participating in this Friends and Family Sale, troops earn start-up funds to support their activities by participating in the council’s fall fundraiser of nuts, chocolates, and magazines.
All orders are pre-paid and there are no booth sales. The troop earns $1 for every food item sold, and 10 percent of the price of each magazine sold (15% for online sales). Food products range from $5 to $10 and with the items being delivered in mid-November, they make great holiday gifts for teachers, friends, and family! In addition to troop proceeds, individual girl sellers receive incentives ranging from patches, plush animals, and much more. View the website at www.gsle.org/fallproduct to view recognitions, products,
and for additional information.
There Is Power In every G.I.R.L.Unleash it at GSLE’s Believe in G.I.R.L. (BIG) event!
Unleash Your Hero!
More STEM and Outdoor Journeys and badges are here!Girl Scouts is all about being girl-led, and developing new programs is no exception. That’s why GSUSA
surveyed girls to find out which science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics they most want to explore. The results weren’t surprising—computer science, engineering, and outdoor STEM
landed in the top three!
Louisiana Girl Scouts can now earn 23 new badges, focusing on STEM and the outdoors! With the introduction of these new badges,
which marks the largest programming rollout in almost a decade, girls can design robots and racecars, go on environmentally
conscious camping trips, write code, collect data in the great outdoors,
try their hand at engineering, and so
much more!
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Hrilina is a member of the 2017 Louisiana
Legislative Youth Advisory Council. She’s working with some of our state’s outstanding students in an effort to influence the legislative process and make the state a better place for
young people.
So what did you do
this summer? These
Go-getters learned
how to give an oral
presentation at our
public speaking
workshop being held
at Delgado Community
College! A big thank you
to instructor Nell Toomer!
One year after the historic floods that
devastated our communities, Aubrey of Walker repaid the
kindness by holding a school supply drive for
families affected by flooding in Pearl City, Illinois. The families
received the supplies before school started!
With plans to one day become a marine
biologist, Caitlin traveled to World Center, Nuestra
Cabana, in Mexico where she learned about
the different types of native sea turtles, even helping to release the
baby turtles back into the Pacific Ocean!
G.I.R.L. — What Kind are You?
Go-GEttEr She’s bold, honest, and determined to
succeed. Goal oriented and ambitious,
she’s also a life-long learner who believes
no challenge is too difficult!
Innovator Thinking outside the box is her specialty,
so she’s always looking for a creative
way to take action. She definitely knows
how to get things done.
LEadEr She’s confident, responsible, and
committed to changing the world for the better—and she’s happiest when others join her in taking the
lead!
rISk-takEr
Courageous and strong, she’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.
Are you a Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader? Find out now! Take the online quiz at bit.ly/GIrLquiz2017! After you take the quiz, share it with your troop and other Girl Scouts!
Once you find out what you are, here is an explanation of your results:
Sponsorships and player packages are still available for our FOREVER Green Golf Classic being held on Friday, October 6, at City Park’s new Bayou Oaks Golf Course, a championship level golf course, designed to accommodate players of all skill levels. A big thank you to sponsors Louisiana Lottery, WWno and Carrabba’s Italian Grill.
Activities include an 11 a.m. lunch and pre-event golf show, prior to the 1 p.m. shotgun start, scramble format, with an awards reception and dinner at 6 p.m. Sponsorship packages, ranging from $500 to $25,000 are available and include custom signage on course, printed and online collateral, and other benefits.
A foursome is $1,000 with single player fee of $250, and all player packages include range balls, lunch, dinner, and unlimited beverages. Player gift items will include items such as: polo shirt, golf balls, cap, golf tees and more. Players and interested sponsors may register online at www.forevergreengolfclassic.com.
“In Girl Scouts we know that when you invest in girls, they have the power to create meaningful change in the world,” said board member Dr. Erica Murray, who is chairing the golf classic. “We need the community’s support as we develop leaders who never give up, who try new things, and who make their ideas a reality.”
FOREvER GREEn
20172017 FOREver Green Golf Classic – October 6
How you can invest in Girl ScoutsSupporting Girl Scouts is an investment in your community, your future leaders, and tomorrow’s volunteers. We need partners like you – who recognize that if we want stronger leaders, we need more GIRL SCOUTS. We’re not stopping until every girl is prepared to empower herself for a lifetime of leadership, adventure, and success.
This year’s J.Low Fall Festival and Duck Derby
is Saturday, October 28 at Camp Whispering Pines! Visit www.gsle.org/duckderby
for more info and to register!
Girl Scout alumna, volunteers, and friends of Girl Scouting are invited to attend Girl Scout Louisiana East’s very first Juliette Low Leadership Luncheon on Tuesday, October 31, at the Audubon Tea Room in New Orleans. A champagne reception will begin at 11 a.m. with lunch from 12 to 1 p.m. Tickets for the awards luncheon are $75 per person or $60 if purchased by October 15, and may be purchased online at www.gsle.org/leadershipluncheon. Buy One-Get One free tickets are available to members of the FOREVER Girl Scouts alumnae club and/or Man Enough To Be A Girl Scout club. Sponsorship opportunities are also available.
Honorees are: Dr. Cynthia Thomas, President of Dominican High School, Outstanding Woman; Billy Nungesser, Lt. Governor of Louisiana, Outstanding Man; Albemarle Foundation, Outstanding Business/Foundation; GIST - Girls In STEM at Tulane; Outstanding Business/Educators; and Margie Loud Zeno, who will receive the Minnie Finley Award which is awarded to a GSLE volunteer who also impacts the greater community.
Contact Jill Pollard at 504-355-5871 or [email protected] for more information.
Juliette Low Leadership Luncheon — October 31
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2017 Women of Distinction
The council honored some amazing community leaders at its 2017 Women of Distinction Luncheon last May in Baton Rouge. The next WOD luncheon will be April 5, 2018.
FUN FACT:Girl Scout Founder Juliette Gordon Low was born on Halloween, 1860.
Girl Scouts go for the Gold!Someone once described the Girl Scout Gold Award as being “what you really want to be remembered for” in Girl Scouting. For many, the leadership skills, organizational skills, and sense of community and commitment that come from “Going for the Gold” set the foundation for a lifetime of active achievement.
Congratulations goes to seven of our Girl Scouts who were recognized at the Governor’s Mansion recently for earning this prestigious award!
They are Lacey, Prairieville; rose, Metairie; alexa, Covington; aishwarya, Metairie; Heather, Mandeville; Jazmine, Slidell; and abigail, Denham Springs.
Chronic health issues such as obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression and heart disease affect a significant portion of the U.S. population. Lacey held an event to demonstrate to youth and adults that exercising can be fun and exciting but challenging. The event included physically strenuous practice activities and competitive challenges that any fitness level can perform. She also distributed informational sheets covering nutrition and activities and Presidential Youth Fitness Program pamphlets.
Wanting to help young people in her community overcome fears of public speaking, rose developed a workshop in a comfortable and nonjudgmental environment based on the principles
of constructive criticism and self-improvement. The workshop was held monthly for three consecutive months at the East Bank Regional Library. Participants were able to practice public speaking in front of other participants, receive feedback, and analyze and improve each time, while learning to practice
constructive criticism to help improve others’ skills. Among the participants were two Honduran students who were excited to take the lessons and activities they learned back to their country when they return.
alexa recognized that for many children, regular visits to the local library are not always feasible, so she decided to build a lending library on her school’s property. By removing a librarian from the equation, her library required that
children at the school assume full responsibility for their own use of the library. Children have been using the lending library regularly.
aishwarya decided to focus her project on creating awareness about juvenile diabetes. She went around her school and local elementary schools, accompanied by Haynes Academy registered nurse Erica Genovese, giving presentations on diabetes and the severity of the disease. Her goal was to make sure the students understood the disease and were supportive of their fellow classmates who had been diagnosed with diabetes.
After her sister died of brain cancer, Heather and her parents started a nonprofit to raise money for brain cancer research. She also wanted to help and support one of her sister’s passions: Girl Scouts. Recognizing that many people do not know what the Girl Scout Gold Award is, she started a scholarship for one outstanding Louisiana Girl Scout Gold Award recipient each year. Her hope is that the scholarship will help make the Gold Award a widely recognized and a sought-after achievement.
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Jazzmine’s Gold Award project was to raise awareness on the importance of spaying or neutering pets and to influence adoptions with time-restricted shelters. She chose this topic because her own dog was mistakenly euthanized at a shelter. To honor his memory, she held an adoption day at her local shelter. Girl Scouts would pay a small fee or donate items to participate in the program, earn a patch and learn about animal shelter conditions, all while having fun.
As a nature lover, abigail noticed a decline in the Monarch butterfly population due to urbanization. Having worked at Bluebonnet Swamp, she was able to secure a space to create a butterfly garden that would provide a lasting habitat. She hopes the swamp will use the habitat as an education piece for camps and inspiration for visitors to create their own sustainable butterfly garden.
To earn the Girl Scout Gold Award, a young woman must
troop 40787Zia B.Isabella B.Kelsey K.Riley P.Ellen R.Sophia W.
Individually registeredKennedi W.
demonstrate ability and skill in goal-setting, planning, putting values into action, and relating to the community, which includes planning and executing a community service project with a minimum 80 hours of work, that reaches beyond the Girl Scout organization and provides a sustainable, lasting benefit to the girl’s larger community.
2017 Girl Scout Bronze & Silver Awards
Congratulations go to the following Girl Scout Juniors and Cadettes for earning the Girl Scout
Bronze and Silver Awards!
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Man Enough to be a Girl ScoutIn June a “Man Enough to be a Girl Scout” Day was held at Fontainebleau State Park, featuring nature walks, a knot-tying challenge and other outdoor activities that offered opportunities for girls to bond with their male role models. Guest speaker for the day was Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser.
Men are encouraged to support their Girl Scouts and become involved in the Girl Scout Leadership Experience by participating in “Man Enough” events. Fee to join Man Enough To Be A Girl Scout is a $45 donation (individual membership) or $75 corporate donation, and includes 2017-2018 GSUSA Membership (if not already a member); Man Enough T-Shirt for him, patch for her; and discounted admission to special Man Enough events. Join online at www.gsle.org/manenough. Future Man Enough events are September 16 (Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center), April 21 (Camp Whispering Pines), and a Fishing event with Lt. Governor Nungesser (date TBD).
Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser and Board Member
Julie LeBlanc.
Eddie and daughter, Corinne of New Orleans.
Camps get ACA AccreditationGirl Scout Camps Marydale, Covington, and Whispering Pines have once again received American Camp Association (ACA) accreditation, good for three years, for its resident camp programs! ACA accreditation means that each camp undergoes a thorough review process by outside camping professionals in the areas of personnel, program, site administration and health care.
The American Camp Association is a community of camp professionals who, for over 100 years, have joined together to share its knowledge and experience and to ensure the quality of camp programs.
“The camp sites were in great shape, well kept,” read the ACA email. “I have been a camp visitor since 1986 and camps Whispering Pines, Covington and Marydale were among three off the best visits I have made.”
Kudos to Lauren Vance, Rebecca Wagner, Jason Brown, Mike Heyd, and Jeff Craighead on the successful ACA site visit and approval ratings.
6Gonzales Troop 10449 at Camp Marydale.
Gretna Troop 40401 at CWP.
Cookie Entrepreneurs receive Cookies to College ScholarshipsGirl Scout Ambassadors olivia of Slidell and rebecca of Hammond are recipients of Girl Scouts Louisiana East’s 2017 Cookies to College Scholarship. The $1,000 scholarships are awarded annually, following an application process, to outstanding college-bound Girl Scouts whose dedication and involvement in Girl Scouts as well as the Girl Scout Cookie Program have led them to succeed. Both girls have been active in many other extra-
curricular organizations, in addition to their Girl Scouting experience.
Olivia says participating in the Cookie program helped her learn to set reasonable goals, make good decisions, in addition to funding her troop’s travel opportunities. She credits her Girl Scout troop leaders for inspiring her.
“I have learned so much from my leaders and I want to be able to do that in the future by being a teacher to younger children,” she said.
Rebecca says that the skills learned in the Cookie program have helped her in many ways, but most importantly in people skills. “You have to be able to talk to the customer and persuade them to buy cookies in a short amount of time,” she said. Rebecca, who has autism, says cookie-selling made her learn to talk to people she didn’t know and speak clearly and quickly.
Louisiana Girl Scouts show their SmartsThe Girl Scout Cookie Program is such an important (and exciting!) part of the overall Girl Scout experience—tons of learning for her and delicious cookies for our awesome cookie customers! It’s a win-win.
Last year’s Cookie Season was no exception – with southeast Louisiana Girl Scouts selling over 1 million boxes of cookies, with the girls averaging 172 boxes each. The girls went after their goals, tried new selling tactics, took risks by broadening their customer base, and led their troop and council to victory with a 4.5% increase over 2016.
A total of 312 girls entered Girl Scouts Louisiana East’s Cookie Hall of Fame for selling 500+ boxes of cookies, including 45 girls who sold over 1,000 boxes, and one “Cookie Mogul” – Girl Scout Cadette Madelyn of Denham Springs who sold 1,751 boxes, becoming this year’s top seller!
Every year Girl Scouts all over the country use their cookie earnings to do amazing things in their communities and beyond. From helping animal shelters and feeding the homeless to raising awareness about bullying, making public areas more accessible to people with disabilities, and tons more, Girl Scouts can and will do anything they put their hearts and minds to.
As cookie entrepreneurs, girls gain essential life skills and work as a team to accomplish common goals and solve problems, while building the confidence they need to shine as girls, as young women, and as future leaders. And did we mention fun? They have lots of that along the way, too.
M Sing, dance and wear costumes!
M We gave our customers cookie recipes. We make a different dessert each year for each cookie.
M We have thank you cards
and bags for the cookies. I encourage them to give them
as a gift!
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Our Cookie Troop 100 winner is Troop 30209 of Ponchatoula! Their Take Action projects include providing pet beds, toys, and other items for two local animal shelters!
GSLE's Alisha Moore with Olivia
Rebecca
Cookie Mogul Madelyn!
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By eNTeriNg The CoNTesT, girls geT A ChANCe To:
Let’s Show the World her Cookie-Selling Savvy!
Unlock this awesome, limited-editionCookie Pro 2018 patch
Travel to NYC for an all-expenses-paid Girl Scout Cookie Entrepreneur Experience, where girls will talk business with GSUSA leaders and be recognized as a Top Cookie Pro 2018
Be featured on our iconicGirl Scout Cookie box
FUN FACT:200 million Girl Scout Cookie boxes are distributed each year to more than 50 million cookie buyers!
COOKIEPRO
Girl Scouts of the USA
2018
Stand Up. Stand Out! ThE 2018 COOkIE PrOGrAMJanuary 12 – March 11 cookie sale dates
www.girlscouts.org/cookiepro
eNTries will be accepted online January 2, 2018 through April 30, 2018. Her cookie pro submission should include things like:
Cookie badges she’s earned and skills she’s learned
What she’s done or plans to do with her cookie earnings
Best selling tips for crushing cookie sale goals like a PRO!
This cookie season, six girls nationwide, one per Girl Scout grade level, will be named GSUSA’s Top Cookie Pro 2018 and get the EPIC chance to be featured on the Girl Scout Cookie box!
