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So your camper isn’t quite ready for Resident Camp? Try Day Camp!

Oh how we love camp! It’s the perfect place for girls to challenge themselves, make new friends, and build their self-confidence. Seriously, what’s not to love?

But we know every girl isn’t ready to tackle resident camp the minute she joins Girl Scouts. And that’s okay! We’ve got some great options for beginner campers to build them up to extended camp experiences. It’s all part of what we in Girl Scouts call progression!

What’s progression?

Progression is giving girls increasingly challenging experiences that help them grow and build their skills as they become courageous, confident women.

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How to Create a Strong Budget for Your Troop

At Girl Scouts, we want every troop to be able to accomplish all of the awesome things Girl Scouts dream up! But, as usual, most of those things cost money. So, how can we ensure that your troop is able to do all of these amazing things without breaking the bank? With a strong troop budget!

To help you plan out your troop’s finances, we’ve got two great resources for you.

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Connecting Girl Scouts and Your Faith

“On my honor, I will try: to serve God and my country, to help people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law.”

This simple statement, called the Girl Scout Promise, outlines our core values and is our promise to all of our members and to our communities to uphold those values.

And while the wording of the promise may have changed over the years, our values today reflect the same core values our founder Juliette Gordon Low intended 102 years ago. And ...
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How to Raise Limitless Girls

Our brains begin to make connections and place things in categories at a very early age. These categories are stereotypes (or “cognitive shortcuts“) that allow us to make quick decisions based on the information we have. And that’s not always a bad thing! Finding commonalities and building categories helps us make sense of the world around us.

So what’s the problem?It’s when we ...
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How to Teach Girls Financial Literacy (Outside of Girl Scouts!)

Negotiating pay, budgeting, saving for retirement — these are all things your girl will have to do in her lifetime. But just because she doesn’t deal with these things right now doesn’t mean she can’t improve her financial literacy in the mean time!

At Girl Scouts, we help girls become entrepreneurs and run their own business during the Girl Scout Cookie Program. They’re learning five essential skills: goal setting, decision making, money ...
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Western Ohio G.I.R.L. Superstars

Are you a G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™? Of course you are! Girl Scouts empowers girls to be courageous, try new things, take charge, AND change the world. And here in western Ohio we’re highlighting some of our very own G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™ superstars as we countdown to G.I.R.L. 2017 next fall in Columbus, OH!

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How to Show Your Appreciation of Girl Scout Volunteers

Every day, Girl Scout volunteers make fun, friendship, and awesome new experiences possible for girls across western Ohio. And every single one of them deserves a sincere “thank you” for how they’re changing girl’s lives (and our communities!).

That’s why we’re spending the month of April (which is National Volunteer Month!) appreciating all of our volunteers here at Girl Scouts of Western Ohio.

If you want to join in on the love this ...
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Girl Scouts Go Tech!

We live in a world where technology is a driving force for innovation. New uses of technology, new gadgets, and inventions are changing the way we interact with each other, our environment, and even our world. It’s an amazing time to be alive!

Here at Girl Scouts, we want to inspire the next generation of awesome women to become tech innovators who work hard to make the world a better place. How are we doing that? With Tech Club!

What is Tech Club?

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Fundraise for GSWO while you shop–for free!

For more than 100 years, Girl Scouts has proudly encouraged girls to do anything they set their sights on. From travelling to foreign countries to explore their passions, to investing money from cookie sales right back into her community, Girl Scouts are tomorrow’s leaders. With your help, together, we can make the world a better place.

But what if you could support Girl Scouts of Western Ohio without impacting your budget? Turns out, it’s really easy!

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Busy hands mean busy minds!

Girl Scouts is a major fan of experiential learning, also known as learning by doing. We believe it’s the best way for girls (and adults!) to try new things and build skills. But what does it mean, exactly?

What is learning by doing?

According to the American Psychological Association, learning by doing means “learning from experiences resulting directly from one’s own actions, as contrasted with ...
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