Catalog Canceling Challenge
Want to save trees, water, energy, and our
climate? GSUSA invites Girl Scouts to take
action with
The Catalog Canceling Challenge and
cancel as many unwanted catalogs as they can
in thirty days.
The Damage: Each year 19 billion catalogs
are mailed to American consumers. 95% of
them are unwanted, 53 million trees (enough
to forest 2,000 Central Parks) are used
making these catalogs. The 7.2 billion
pounds of paper requires 38 trillion BTUs to
produce (enough energy to power 1.2 million
homes a year). Catalog production uses 53
billion gallons of water (81,000 Olympic
sized swimming pools) and creates 10.4
billion pounds of carbon dioxide (equivalent
to the emissions of 2 million cars),
contributing to global warming and climate
change.
Stopping the Damage: The Catalog Canceling
Challenge was developed by a 4th grade class
at The Park School in Brookline, MA. Now
students all around the country are
canceling as many unwanted catalog mailings
as they can. Girls from Troop 315 (Iron
River, MI) have also joint the Challenge and
saved one and half trees by canceling 150
catalogs in two hours.
Girl Scouts can help the environment and
work towards earning awards. Click here for
a full list of existing program links
related to the
Environment, Outdoors and Science,
Technology, Engineering and Math.
For more information on how to get started,
visit
www.TedWells.org.
More about Girl Scouts and The Catalog
Cancelling Challenge
Girl
Scouts of the USA's
51st National Council Session/Convention
Interested in attending
the October 2008 National Council meeting in
Indianapolis? Adults and girls age 14 and
above may attend as visitors.
Any interested parties are invited to attend
an informational meeting at the Girl Scout
Center in Elgin on June 19, 2008, at 7 p.m.
For more information or to make your
reservation for the informational meeting,
contact us at
info@gs-sybaquay.org.
Girl Scouts on New Season of Run's House:
Vanessa and Angela Simmons Become Girl Scout Role Models
Press Release from GSUSA dated November 26, 2007
Read
about Vanessa and Angela Simmons as the newest
members of the Girl Scout family!
Click Here
Opportunities:
2008 National Young Women of
Distinction: Call for Applications
10 young
women of distinction will be honored
during a presentation at the
National Council Session in
Indianapolis, In this October 2008.
For more information on this award
and how to apply
click here.
Young Wanted: Stories of Advocacy from Girls
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GSUSA wants to hear girls’ stories
about how they have been advocates—in
any way. We are collecting experiences
for a program on girl advocacy for the
brand-new Girl Scout Ambassador grade
level (grades 11-12).
An advocate is someone who speaks out
on behalf of a particular issue, idea,
or person. For example:
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a 6th-grader in Minnesota started
a petition in her school to ask for
a more effective recycling program
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a high school student in New
Jersey polled her classmates because
she wanted to find out if her
concern about toxins in the local
river were shared by anyone else so
she could join forces for a stronger
argument
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a Girl Scout whose troop was
collecting toiletries for a women’
shelter took things a step further
and met with her state legislator
and a corporate executive to ask for
funding for domestic violence
education
We would love to hear all your girls'
stories of being an advocate, whether
great or small. Please pass along the
following questions to girls in your
area to guide them as they write their
stories:
1. Have you ever been an advocate?
2. What made you act on
someone’s/something’s behalf?
3. What did you learn from being an
advocate?
4. Are you more likely to advocate in
the future based on your experience?
Girls can send in their stories
directly to GSUSA. They must be
accompanied by the attached photo
release form, filled out by the girl and
a parent/guardian.
Please make sure all photo release
forms/permission slips include the
following info:
- Full name
- Age
- Address
- Phone
- E-mail address
- Photograph info
- Parental signature/approval
Please ask girls to e-mail their
story and photo to
lbirnbaum@girlscouts.org. Or send
the story and photo (we may request a
digital one at a later date) to:
Laura Birnbaum, Program Coordinator
GSUSA
420 Fifth Ave.
15th Floor
New York, NY 10018
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SchillerMath Rising Star Scholarships for Girl
Scouts
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ShillerMath and the Girl Scouts share
a common agenda: for girls to learn and
love math. Together we are working to
acknowledge outstanding performance and
potential in math and the sciences by
Girl Scouts, by awarding four
scholarships and six runner-up prizes
each year for the next five years (2005
through 2009).
To be eligible for the ShillerMath
Rising Star Scholarship, you must:
- Be a registered Girl Scout
- Plan to graduate high school two
years from now
- Plan to study college-level
mathematics after high school
graduation
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The top four applicants will receive
$2,500 per year up to a maximum of
$10,000 total towards tuition. The top
four applicants and the six runners up
will be matched with a mentor from the
MIT Sloan School to help them be the
best possible math scholars, leaders,
and role models for girls.
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Your application must be received by
March 31. Applications received after
that date will be returned unopened.
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For more information and to receive
an application, please go to
http://www.shillermath.com/girlscouts/home.php
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GSUSA in the News:
18 Girl Scouts Win Global Citizen Essay Contest,
Leading to Travel Opportunity
Link to GSUSA Press Release
K-12 Alliance Launched to
Reverse Declining Participation of Girls in Computing
Careers
Link to GSUSA Press Release
Girl Scouts of the USA Wins 2 Awards
from Association of Educational Publishers
Link to GSUSA Press Release
Girl Scout Cookies in Bulk: Annual Rite Becomes a Tool to Teach
Entrepreneurial Skills
Reprinted from The New York
Times, Business Day, Thursday, March 1, 2007.
View the article.