April 1 Leader Meeting

If you missed the April 1st SMSU Leader Meeting, here's what you missed:

1. The Leader Connection has several new girl activities and information on adult training and recognition programs.

2. GSNCA is forming a WAGGGS Interest Group to develop Council programs to educate our membership on WAGGGS. Adults & high school girls who’re interested can contact Rhonda Lambert, rlambert@girlscoutsnca.org.

3. April 1 is the first day of the Family Giving Campaign. Service Units that have 100% Troop participation are entered into a drawing for a free 2-day stay at camp for their entire service unit

4. April 22 & 24th are Leader/Volunteer Appreciation Days at the council shop. You get a 15% discount.

5. April 1 – May 31 is Early Bird Registration. Contact Trista Cooper (tcooper@girlscoutsnca.org) for registration paperwork.

6. The Program Calendar for 2010-2011 year will be available on the GSNCA web site in May.

7. May 15th is the 1st meeting of GSNCA Girl Congress. All girls in grades 9-12 are welcome. For more information and to RSVP, email Rhonda Lambert (rlambert@girlscoutsnca.org) by May 10th.

8. The Council is forming older girl email/texting data base. Send contact info to Debbie Lebron at dlebron@girlscoutsnca.org

9. June 15th – Troop Financial Reports due to Trista.

10. Rocky Mountain Day Camp -- registration opens in a couple weeks. They're still looking for volunteer leaders. Contact Joan Page at jjpage@bellsouth.net

11. Service Unit Weekend is next week. Got questions about activities? facilities? Contact Carolyn Porter at portneme@bellsouth.net.

12. We're starting a "Resource Box" where you can donate things you don't need/use. This could be arts & craft supplies, badge and leader books that your troop has outgrown, extra patches/badges/membership stars/uniform components that you don't need. Feel free to donate and take from the box at each meeting.

13. Court of Awards -- we're planning a service unit wide Court of Awards for May (date TBD). This catered event will give troops a chance to award daisy petals, brownie tryits, junior badges, etc and younger girls can see older girls receive their bronze, silver and gold awards. Details coming soon.

14. Peter Pan Project -- in June we're bringing a theatre group to St. Marks UMC to perform for the SMSU girl scouts. The play is written by a young woman from Birmingham (a recent ASFA graduate) and the actors are also young women from Birmingham. After the performance we'll have a Q&A session during which girl scouts can ask the actors and writer/director about performing in theatre and what it takes to plan and execute a project like this.