Girl Scouts: One big week over, another one just starting!

Hello scout families (and teachers!)

What a great week last week!  

First, between our troop and the younger girls, almost 30 girls represented Girl Scouts at the first Girl Scouts vs. Boy Scouts Raingutter Regatta.  We have some ideas to make it a little bit more fun and more involving for girls next year--how does a "Best Decorated" award sound?  Or letting each scout get 2-3 races in more of a round-robin style with more gutters available instead of elimination brackets?  If you have other ideas, let me know too, and we'll see how to implement them!

Second, the Cookie CEO Bootcamp went great.  The girls definitely learned more about some basic business principles (target markets, product promotion, and goal setting) and had a great time making a commercial, a Rube Goldberg style cookie delivery machine, and pitching their cookie business to the top Girl Scout Executives just like entrepreneurs do on TV shows like "Shark Tank."  If your girl went, we'll have the videos of their business pitch and their commercial to send to you pretty soon!

On to this week:

First, if you haven't picked a meeting date yet, please do.  The signup page is here, and IF YOU HAVE A HIGHLAND VIEW STUDENT MAKE SURE TO ALSO WRITE THEIR MEETING CHOICE IN THEIR AGENDA.  On Wednesday we'll start with some scout games, do some winter crafts, and move on to work on our plan to help make it easier for kids to eat healthy at our schools.  We may even be able to have the Food Services Consultant for Greendale School District teleconference in on Skype so we can talk with her about what is being done, and what can be done.  On Thursday we'll have members of Teens Against Tobacco Use from Greendale High School come in to help us work up our plan to help kids at Highland View not start smoking.

I see the Thursday meeting is pretty crowded--if you can spend some time at the meeting helping the scouts, it really makes a difference.  Please take a moment and sign up here.

Second, there are three spots available for scouts for the nursing home visit on Thursday at 6:00 at the Elizabeth Residence.  The sign up page for that (and more information) is here.

That's about all, (I think--you know I'm not shy about sending another email if I forgot something though!)

See you soon,

Aleks Skibicki