2014-2015 Schedule

Troop 8035/8036 2014-2015 Schedule

Key:
(J) = For Junior Scouts (4-5 Grade)
(B) = For Brownies (2-3 Grade)
(All) = Any scouts welcome

 Notes:
I tried to set it up so there was at least one Brownie, and one Junior Event, or one (All) event each month in addition to the meeting.  Some months that don’t have an (All) event may get one added down the road, so our Juniors can keep helping and being leaders to our Brownies.

Meetings will be help in Room 103 (Mrs Bushman’s room) at Highland View from after school until 5:00.


October

5 Cider Sunday (All) Noon-2:30 (Or until 5:00 if you want to stick around!)
Todd Wehr Nature Center
 $3.00
Enjoy the brilliant fall colors during this afternoon of cider, food, live music, and family fun.  Make cider with a hand-crank cider press.  See apple butter being made over an open fire.  Taste 10 delicious varieties of apples. Savor apple desserts, from delicate apple crepes to apple slices covered with rich, gooey caramel. (Small fee.)   Enjoy live music.  Let your kids create apple crafts to make-and-take.

11 UWM Soccer Game (All) 4:00-5:30
UWM Englemann Field
Watch the UWM Panther Girls Soccer Team play at Englemann Field at UWM.  Special Girl Scout ticket package:  $3.00 for ticket, patch, and hot dog and soda.  Depending on our own teams’ tournament schedules though, Aleks may not be able to go.  As soon as I get a tournament schedule for our girls’ team I’ll let you all know. You’re free to go on your own though—let me know and I’ll get your tickets, patches, and lunch vouchers held at will-call!

15 Meeting Choice #1
16 Meeting Choice #2

18  Old World Wisconsin Legends and Lore (All) 5-8:30 (Plus transportation time.)
Old World Wisconsin, Eagle, WI
Adults $10, children 5-17 $7, children 4 and under free (best enjoyed by children 8 and older). Admission Special: Visit any WaterStone Bank branch to get a $2 off per admission coupon.

Join us for an always spooky, sometimes scary, rain-or-shine event as we celebrate the immigrant legends we brought with us and the folklore we created here at home. Halloween Legends and Lore features the folk and fairytales of the Old World as well as Wisconsin ghost stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

18 Brownie Teambuilding (B) 9:30-Noon
$10/scout
Alice Chester Center East Troy, WI
Grades 2-3
Challenge activities are fun and highly effective in teaching life skills to girls of every age. Girls learn about listening, cooperating, and working together as a team while having fabulous fun with hands-on, indoor adventure activities.

18 Junior Teambuilding (J) 1:00-4:00PM
$12/scout
Alice Chester Center East Troy, WI
Grades 4-5
Hands-on activities and interactive games give girls a fun experience in making decisions and problem solving with a group. Experience how great teamwork can be.
Focus: Healthy Living & Relationships



November
7 STEMFest (All) 5:00-8:00PM
Discovery World Museum
Many STEM related activities, including make-your-own-chapstick, and make a hand clutch bag, while learning about invertebrate anatomy.  (As well as many other topics from the environment, to water science, to robotics, and beyond!)
MUST Register for Chapstick (7:00 PM) and Purse Making  (5:30 PM) Labs ($5)

18 Flowers (J) 6:00-8:00
Discovery World Museum
$10/ Girl Scout
Become a botanist as you dissect a flower and learn which flowers can be made into medicines to help with common illnesses. Design a flower bouquet out of non-traditional materials and find out what happens when you mix the natural world with the man-made world as you vacuum form flowers in the Kohl’s Design It! Lab.

18 Computer Expert (B) 6:00-8:00
$10/Girl Scout
Discovery World Museum
It’s time for Girl Scouts to go digital! Girl Scouts will learn about internet safety as they use the internet to go on a virtual road trip and send virtual letters to friends and family.

Girls Scouts will use robots called EggBots® to create artwork on Ping-Pong balls and
even create their own digital stationery.

19 Meeting Choice #1
20 Meeting Choice #2

22 Girl Scouts Giving Back (B) 12:30-3:30PM
$12.00/scout
Chinook Program Center Waukesha, WI
Grades 2-3
Be a philanthropist and change the world. Meet rescue animals and take action by making toys and treats to donate to our animal friends.
Earned Award: Philanthropist Badge


December
12-13 Cookie CEO Overnight (All)
6:00 PM 12/12- 3:00 PM 12/13 2014
$10/adult $15/scout
Camp Pottawatomie Hills
East Troy, WI
Grades 2-5
Pitch your idea for the largest girl-led business in the world to GSWISE CEO Christy Brown. Train for the cookie season by creating a new cookie, design and shoot a commercial and shape up your sales pitch through theater games and activities. Overnight option includes a self-guided cookie contraption challenge. Includes breakfast.
Focus: Financial Literacy

17 Meeting Choice #1
18 Meeting Choice #2

January

14 Digital Photography (J) 5:00-8:00
CANCELED BY DISCOVERY WORLD  SEE RESCHEDULE IN MARCH
$15/Girl Scout
Discovery World Museum
Learn the ins and outs of digital photography from experts as you go on a photo shoot all over Discovery World. Beauty is in the eye of the editor! Digitally edit your photos and create a digital photo album using Mac® computers in the Print and Publishing Lab!

Girls can bring their own cameras but are not required to.

21 Cookie Kick Off Party 6:00-8:00PM (A)
Highland View Gym
Kick off cookie season with a big party at Highland View!

21 Meeting Choice #1
22 Meeting Choice #2

February
6 Jewelry (J) 5:00-8:00
$15/Girl Scout
Discovery World Museum
In the Kohl’s Design It! Lab, Girl Scouts will create their own jewelry out of metal using tools such as pliers and wire cutters. Girls will also learn to upcycle by repurposing everyday objects and use recycled materials to create jewelry. You’ll never look at a vinyl record the same!
Discovery World

11 Meeting Choice #1
12 Meeting Choice #2

14 Free Ice Fishing Weekend (All) (Pick a Time)
Scout Lake Park
Free
Every year the local Walleyes Unlimited group hosts a free ice fishing clinic for kids on the Free Fishing Weekend in Wisconsin.  All the equipment is provided, and the girls usually catch something.  It's generally a lot of fun, and we always head someplace to get a nice hot chocolate afterwards.  

POSSIBLY  20-21 Spa Chemistry Sleepover (All)
Discovery World Museum
$35/Girl Scout and $10/Chaperone
7pm • FRI • Feb 20 – 7am • SAT • Feb 21
Discover the science and art of perfumes, soaps, and lotions. Concoct your own unique spa recipes and take  home your own signature fragrance. Explore Discovery World’s interactive exhibits into the wee hours of the night. Pet a shark in the Reiman Aquarium, lie on the Bed of Nails, and wake up to a sunrise over Lake Michigan.


21 Senses@Lighthouse (B)
North Point Lighthouse
$8/scout, $4/adult (2 adults free)
Explore our five senses and discover new ways to interact with the world.  Held at the historic North Point Lighthouse, so we’ll even get a chance to climb to the top and take in the view.  Earn our "Senses" badge!

27 World Thinking Day Event  (All)
Whitnall Middle School 6-8PM
Every Year Girl Scouts at Whitnall Middle and High Schools put on an event sharing games and activities and cultures from girls around the world.  In addition to learning, the girls will earn their World Thinking Day Badge

March

12 Meeting Choice #2 (Thursday) NOTE THE CHANGE!
18 Meeting Choice #1 (Wednesday)

20-21 Spa Chemistry Sleepover (All)
Discovery World Museum
$35/Girl Scout and $10/Chaperone
7pm • FRI • Mar 20 – 7am • SAT • Mar 21
Discover the science and art of perfumes, soaps, and lotions. Concoct your own unique spa recipes and take  home your own signature fragrance. Explore Discovery World’s interactive exhibits into the wee hours of the night. Pet a shark in the Reiman Aquarium, lie on the Bed of Nails, and wake up to a sunrise over Lake Michigan.

Cost includes admission to Discovery World; all program supplies and lab activities; fun patch; a snack on FRI, and breakfast on SAT.

21 FIRST Team Robotics Competition (All) (Anytime)
US Cellular Arena
Free
Watch robots built by Wisconsin students compete in a new and crazy game.  Go behind the scenes and talk to the robot inventors and teams to learn about engineering and robotics and being awesome.

27 Digital Photography (J) 5:00-8:00  
UNAVAILABLE (PER DISCOVERY WORLD)

28 or 29 Maple Sugar Days (All) Noon-4:00PM
$6.00 per attendee
Todd Wehr Nature Center
Get the spring juices flowing at Maple Sugar Days! Your whole family will hike with a naturalist guide to the sugarbush to see tapped sugar maples and taste fresh sap as it drips from the trees. Next, you'll visit an old-time sugarin' camp and hear stories of how the old-timers produced maple syrup and sugar – but you may be distracted from the stories by the oh-so-sweet aroma of clear maple sap boiling down to rich, dark maple syrup!

April
18  Letterboxing@Lighthouse (B)
$8/scout, $4/adult (2 adults free)
North Point Lighthouse
Learn about letterboxing, and go exploring to see if we can find any.  Held at the historic North Point Lighthouse, so we’ll even get a chance to climb to the top and take in the view.Earn our "Letterboxing" badge!

25 Green Living Festival (All) 9:00AM-3:00PM
$7.00/adult, $5/00/Ages 6-17
Milwaukee Domes at Mitchell Park
Enjoy environmentally friendly demonstrations, crafts, shows and exhibits.

15 Meeting Choice #1
16 Meeting Choice #2

May
NOTE THE CHANGE IN MEETING DATE CHOICES!  DUE TO OPEN HOUSE AT HIGHLAND VIEW WE MOVED THEM FROM 5/20-21 TO 5/27-28.

2 Home Scientist (B) 10:00-12:00AM
$10/Girl Scout
Discovery World Museum
Have you ever wondered how crystals are formed? Girls Scouts will learn how to create non-Newtonian matter, explore the difference between a solid, liquid, and gas, and study chemical reactions.

Girl Scouts will be introduced to the science behind static electricity and more as they discover the science that takes place right in their homes.

20 Detective (J) 6:00-8:00
$10/Girl Scout
Discovery World Museum
A crime has been committed at Discovery World and we need your help to figure out who did it! Become a detective as you learn how to decode messages, identify fingerprints, and use microscopes to analyze hair samples left at the scene. Gather evidence from the crime scene and see if you can solve the mystery!

27 Meeting Choice #1
28 Meeting Choice #2

June
10 Bridging Ceremony (A)
Highland View Gym
Celebrate moving on to the next level of Girl Scouting, or completing your first year at a particular level.

10 Meeting Choice #1
11 Meeting Choice #2


LONGER DESCRIPTIONS AND DETAILS: 

At North Point Lighthouse

Brownie Badge Workshop:  Senses
Feb 21
$8/scout, $4/adult (2 adults free)
Explore our five senses and discover new ways to interact with the world.  Held at the historic North Point Lighthouse, so we’ll even get a chance to climb to the top and take in the view.

Brownie Badge Workshop:  Letterboxing
April 18
$8/scout, $4/adult (2 adults free)
Learn about letterboxing, and go exploring to see if we can find any.  Held at the historic North Point Lighthouse, so we’ll even get a chance to climb to the top and take in the view.

At Old World Wisconsin

10/18
Halloween Legends and Lore
Saturday, October 18, 2014
5-8:30 PM

Adults $10, children 5-17 $7, children 4 and under free (best enjoyed by children 8 and older). Admission Special: Visit any WaterStone Bank branch to get a $2 off per admission coupon.

Join us for an always spooky, sometimes scary, rain-or-shine event as we celebrate the immigrant legends we brought with us and the folklore we created here at home. Halloween Legends and Lore features the folk and fairytales of the Old World as well as Wisconsin ghost stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Explore fantastic mazes, both whimsical and eerie. Burn off energy while fleeing ghosts or dancing in the enchanted fairy circle. Solve strange riddles and puzzles, create and take home macabre artifacts, and encounter cackling witches, gloomy grave diggers, strange beasts, freaky fortune tellers and bizarre entities. Learn the terrifying origins of the Ridgeway Ghost, and witness ghostly tales come to life. Enjoy tasty and disturbing treats and drinks, available for purchase. The evening culminates with a wild bonfire finale.

At Discovery World

Brownie Girl Scout
HOME SCIENTIST BADGE
$10/Girl Scout
5/2  6:00-8:00

Have you ever wondered how crystals are formed? Girls Scouts will learn how to create non-Newtonian matter, explore the difference between a solid, liquid, and gas, and study chemical reactions.

Girl Scouts will be introduced to the science behind static electricity and more as they discover the science that takes place right in their homes.

Brownie Girl Scout
COMPUTER EXPERT BADGE
$10/Girl Scout
1/14  5:00-8:00

It’s time for Girl Scouts to go digital! Girl Scouts will learn about internet safety as they use the internet to go on a virtual road trip and send virtual letters to friends and family.

Girls Scouts will use robots called EggBots® to create artwork on Ping-Pong balls and
even create their own digital stationery.

Junior Girl Scout
DETECTIVE BADGE
$10/Girl Scout
5/20 6:00-8:00

A crime has been committed at Discovery World and we need your help to figure out who did it! Become a detective as you learn how to decode messages, identify fingerprints, and use microscopes to analyze hair samples left at the scene. Gather evidence from the crime scene and see if you can solve the mystery!

Junior Girl Scout
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHER BADGE
$15/Girl Scout
1/14  5:00-8:00

Learn the ins and outs of digital photography from experts as you go on a photo shoot all over Discovery World. Beauty is in the eye of the editor! Digitally edit your photos and create a digital photo album using Mac® computers in the Print and Publishing Lab!

Girls can bring their own cameras but are not required to.

Junior Girl Scout
FLOWERS BADGE
$10/ Girl Scout
11/18  6:00-8:00

Become a botanist as you dissect a flower and learn which flowers can be made into medicines to help with common illnesses. Design a flower bouquet out of non-traditional materials and find out what happens when you mix the natural world with the man-made world as you vacuum form flowers in the Kohl’s Design It! Lab.

Junior Girl Scout
JEWELER BADGE
$15/Girl Scout
2/6  5:00-8:00

In the Kohl’s Design It! Lab, Girl Scouts will create their own jewelry out of metal using tools such as pliers and wire cutters. Girls will also learn to upcycle by repurposing everyday objects and use recycled materials to create jewelry. You’ll never look at a vinyl record the same!
Discovery World

Girl Scout Spa Chemistry Sleepovers
Grades 2nd - 5th
$35/Girl Scout and $10/Chaperone
7pm • FRI • Mar 20 – 7am • SAT • Mar 21
Discover the science and art of perfumes, soaps, and lotions. Concoct your own unique spa recipes and take  home your own signature fragrance. Explore Discovery World’s interactive exhibits into the wee hours of the night. Pet a shark in the Reiman Aquarium, lie on the Bed of Nails, and wake up to a sunrise over Lake Michigan.

Cost includes admission to Discovery World; all program supplies and lab activities; fun patch; a snack on FRI, and breakfast on SAT.

STEMFEST  11/7 (Friday)
Many STEM related activities, including make-your-own-chapstick, and make a hand clutch bag, while learning about invertebrate anatomy.  (As well as many other topics from the environment, to water science, to robotics, and beyond!)
MUST Register for Chapstick (7:00 PM) and Purse Making  (5:30 PM) Labs ($5)

At the Wehr Center

Maple Sugar Days  (In March, date TBA)
Noon-4:00
$5.00 per attendee
Get the spring juices flowing at Maple Sugar Days! Your whole family will hike with a naturalist guide to the sugarbush to see tapped sugar maples and taste fresh sap as it drips from the trees. Next, you'll visit an old-time sugarin' camp and hear stories of how the old-timers produced maple syrup and sugar – but you may be distracted from the stories by the oh-so-sweet aroma of clear maple sap boiling down to rich, dark maple syrup!

To get a real feel for the "maple-sugarin' game," use a hand drill on a log, try Native-American methods of boiling sap without the benefit of metal pans, and make a craft. For a sweet reward, sample real maple syrup on a pancake at this first ritual of spring.

If you're inspired to try tapping your own maple trees, instruction sheets will be available, and Wehr's Nature Store will have sugaring equipment and maple-candy treats for sale.

Concessions will be available for sale-- including made-on-site, maple cotton-candy!

Cider Sunday
Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014
Noon–5:00 PM
$3.00/scout

Enjoy the brilliant fall colors during this afternoon of cider, food, live music, and family fun.

Make cider with a hand-crank cider press.  See apple butter being made over an open fire.  Taste 10 delicious varieties of apples. (Small fee.)  Savor apple desserts, from delicate apple crepes to apple slices covered with rich, gooey caramel. (Small fee.)   Enjoy live music. 
Let your kids create apple crafts to make-and-take. (Small fee).

Go on an energizing fall hike led by a volunteer naturalist. Guided hikes are on the hour, beginning at noon with the last hike at 4 PM

At the Milwaukee Domes

Green Living Festival
4/25 9:00-3:00
Mitchell Park Domes
$7.00/adult, $5/00/Ages 6-17

Enjoy environmentally friendly demonstrations, crafts, shows and exhibits. 

At Girl Scout Program Centers

Brownie Teambuilding Adventure
Grades 2-3
October 18, 2014 09:30 AM-12:00
$10/scout
Alice Chester Center East Troy, WI
Challenge activities are fun and highly effective in teaching life skills to girls of every age. Girls learn about listening, cooperating, and working together as a team while having fabulous fun with hands-on, indoor adventure activities.

Junior Teambuilding Adventure
October 18, 2014 01:00 PM-04:00
$12/scout
Alice Chester Center East Troy, WI
Grades 4-5
Hands-on activities and interactive games give girls a fun experience in making decisions and problem solving with a group. Experience how great teamwork can be.
Focus: Healthy Living & Relationships

Girl Scouts Giving Back
11/22 at 9:00 or 12:30
$12.00/scout
Chinook Program Center Waukesha, WI
Grades 2-3
Be a philanthropist and change the world. Meet rescue animals and take action by making toys and treats to donate to our animal friends.
Earned Award: Philanthropist Badge

Hurrah for my Hometown 
November 15, 2014 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
$12.00/Scout
Civil War Museum, Kenosha
Grades 2-3
Celebrate our Wisconsin community! Learn about Wisconsin's state symbols and landmarks from the Civil War. Explore the symbolism in our national flag and look for historic flags in the museum.
Earned Award: Celebrating Community Badge

Cookie CEO Bootcamp \
6:00 PM 12/12- 3:00 PM 12/13 2014
$10/adult $15/scout
Camp Pottawatomie Hills
East Troy, WI
Grades 2-5
Pitch your idea for the largest girl-led business in the world to GSWISE CEO Christy Brown. Train for the cookie season by creating a new cookie, design and shoot a commercial and shape up your sales pitch through theater games and activities. Overnight option includes a self-guided cookie contraption challenge. Includes breakfast.
Focus: Financial Literacy

PLEASE NOTE: Since bed space is limited we ask that troops only register the required number of adults to meet Safety-Wise ratios. If more adults want to attend, please contact the council two weeks before the event to see if space is available. Individually registered girls are required to be accompanied by an adult.

UWM

October 11th 4:00-5:30
Watch the UWM Panther Girls Soccer Team play at Englemann Field at UWM.  Special Girl Scout ticket package:  $3.00 for ticket, patch, and hot dog and soda.



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