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october 2018 heartstrings GET YOUR TROOP STARTED TODAY heartstrings There is still lots of time left in the Fall Product Program for your girls to earn troop proceeds and awesome rewards! With the convenience of online shopping, payment and delivery, the Fall Product Program is a quick and easy money-earning activity for your troop. Check out the Troop Fall Product Guide and email us, or give us a call at 800.624.4185 to get started today! GIRL BENEFITS OF THE FALL PRODUCT PROGRAM This program focuses on leadership, collaboration and exploring personal values through discovering, connecting and taking action to help girls explore their future potential The Fall Product Sale is a council-sponsored program that combines educational activities with money earning Girls learn 5 skills through the program: opportunities for the troops. • Goal Setting The Fall Product Program gives troops a chance to earn • Decision Making startup money without having to wait until cookie sale time • Money Management in the winter. They can use the funds they earn to enjoy new • People Skills and exciting opportunities right away. Stock up on magazines, • Business Ethics nuts, chocolate, candies and more this fall to hold you over until Cookie Season begins in January. P.S. Fall Product makes perfect holiday gifts! The Fall Sale is directed toward family and friends- those closest to Girl Scouting and enables troops to earn start up money by selling magazine subscriptions as well as nuts and candy. Thank you for your support of the girls, troops and the council by purchasing or participating in the Fall Product Sale! September 7 Troop forms due to Council (Agreements, Policies & ACH Forms) Check out the awesome DAR September 15 Girls begin taking orders in person & online 2018 Fall Product N October 19 Girls submit Nut/Candy orders to Troop Rewards Line-Up and start E L Girls continue selling magazines and nuts/ setting your goals today! candy online October 22 Troop submits Nut/Candy order online T CA T November 15-17 Service Unit Nut/Candy Delivery C December 5 Final day for QSP Online Program December 5 Girls submit money to Troop December 6 Troops submit reward orders online RODU December 10 Troop ACH Shortage information P deadline to council LL December 13 ACH payment from Troop bank accounts FA www.girlscoutshs.org1 800.624.4185 PPORTU E O NIT L IE IP S LT T U O M earn badges SAT U R DAY OCTOBER 13 9 A.M. - 1 P.M. HUTCHISON SCHOOL 1740 Ridgeway Rd, Memphis, TN 38119 BADGES LIVE MUSIC SPORTS CLINICS DANCE PERFORMANCES OUTDOOR SKILLS FARM TO TABLE CAMP CONGRESS ROBOTICS FISHING RODEO HANDS-ON STEM FINE ARTS THEATRE MUSIC RSVP WWW.STRONGGIRLFEST.ORG PPORTU E O NIT L IE IP S LT T U O COUNCIL SELECTED TO BUILD NEST M AT NEW RIVERSIDE PARK Join GSHS and Memphis River Parks Partnership to be a part NEST PROTOTYPE WORKSHOP of the riverfront’s newest park! The new park will feature Join us for our nest prototyping workshop. At the workshop, native meadow paintings, a civic lawn, a dining and events you’ll let your imagination run wild and prototype some pavilion, a playful treehouse, and giant ‘nests.’ The ‘nests’ are cool nest designs. Girls will get to work with designers and spaces in the park for visitors architects to prepare to gather, play and relax and we their prototype for want you to help us design and presentation to build them! the Memphis River Parks Partnership. Memphis River Parks We’ll provide all the Partnership will evaluate the materials you need designs from groups across to build out some the city and select up to three scale models. of them to be built in the new park. If selected, you’ll be invited to the community build day on November 3. GSHS Prototyping Workshop Tuesday, October 16, 6 – 8 p.m. The new park will open with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on The Imagine Center Friday, November 9 where all builders will be recognized for 717. S. White Station Rd., Memphis, TN 38117 their contribution to the park. The designers and builders of each nest will have the chance to leave their mark on the Can’t attend the workshop but still want to submit a structure and know that they have helped to construct the prototype? Contact Aranda Hanks Gehringer at aranda.hanks- future of the riverfront. [email protected] for more information! Girl Scout Destinations are the ultimate adventure STEPS TO GET STARTED: for individual girls ages 11 and older! With different 1. Review all the Destinations online. trips every year, there’s something amazing for everyone. Girls will pack their bags full of life- 2. Contact the Destination host with specific changing experiences and make friends from all Girl Scout Destinations are the ultimate questions about trips, or contact us for adventure for girls ages 11 and older! over the country as they travel with Girl Scouts So Many Choices questions about Destinations in general. With a ton of different trips to apply for every year, from surfing camp on the east coast and breathtaking hikes out west, to the crazy-cool wonder of new cultures from different states. abroad, there’s something amazing for everyone to experience. Dreaming of kayaking to an island campsite? Let’s do it! Want to explore the cobblestone alleys of Europe? We’re totally there! Passionate about protecting wildlife 3. Apply! You may choose to apply to up to four habitats? Yes, yes, yes! On a Girl Scout Destination trip Is she ready to go on an adventure? Check out the you can do all that and so much more. Destinations. Friends, Fun, and Incredible Memories Make friends from all over the country as you travel with Girl Scouts from different states, see and learn new things, and 2019 National Destinations from GSUSA! pack your bags full of inspiring, life-changing experiences and memories. Destinations bring together Cadette, Senior, and Ambassa- dor Girl Scouts from all over the country for amazing summer and winter adventures filled with nature, culture, service, art, science, and tons more! Any girl in grade 6–12 can apply. >>>Download Destinations flyer 3 The 5th annual national Stand Beside Her Week is coming up fast! STanD BeSiDe Her Week 2018 iS OcTOBer 28-nOveMBer 3! It’s not too late to start planning your Stand Beside Her event! Use our 6-Week PLanninG GUiDe to help plan your event. Troops across the GSHS SBH In the News: area are encouraged to create videos of themselves • At the September 24 Town of Collierville, TN Board of Mayor working on their SBH and Aldermen meeting, Mayor Joyner presented Cathy Harper Patch Program activity and and Madison Harper with a proclamation proclaiming October challenge other troops to do 28 – November 3, 2018, as “Stand Beside Her” week in the the same! Town of Collierville. Cathy and Madison represented GSHS’ Collierville Service Unit along with Girl Scouts from a variety of Just like the highly successful troop challenge video from Troop Collierville-area troops. This exciting event is pictured below. 13351 in 2017 (click the thumbnail above to watch it!), videos 90 • Have YOUR town declare October 28 - November 3, 2018 seconds or shorter will be featured in newsletters, emails, on both the GSHS and SBH Facebook pages and uploaded to the as “Stand Beside Her Week,” too! Download the editable GSHS nationalYouTube channel to encourage troops stand around the country besideproclamation HERE herand ask your representativesweek to Stand to participate! Last year over 3,000 girls from Hawaii to New York Beside Her! saw the video and took the challenge! Let YOUR troop be their • If your troop has a Stand Beside Her event planned, please inspiration this year! Troops completing a 2018 SBH Patch OCTOBER 28 - NOVEMBERsend event information to Molly Delaney 3, to be2018 featured in our Program Activity AND submitting a video will receive a FREE SBH Patch. And from October 22 to November 3 only, all troops monthly newsletter. can earn a free Stand Beside Her patch by completing one of the suggested activities in the SBH Patch Program or by doing an activity that supports girls and women. The FIRST GSHS troop to complete their 2018 SBH Patch Program activity and send in a challenge video will win a FREE NIGHT at the Possibility Place* at the Memphis Leadership Center! (*To be scheduled based upon availability.) A Gift for You! • Stand Beside Her recently partnered with Girl-a-Tude, a monthly subscription box that includes an amazing girl power t-shirt, a special and fun age appropriate gift and a special note from G-Girl about the empowering monthly theme. Girl-a-Tude is giving Stand Beside Her partners 15% off their first box! Type the code “BESIDEHER” at checkout Registration will open soon for the 3rd Annual to receive the special discount! (Offer ends December 15.) Stand Beside Her Celebration with FedEx on Please share this code with the girls in your troop. Sunday, October 28! Check your email for more • Stand Beside Her and Girl-a-Tude will also pick one lucky information coming soon! girl to receive a 3 month subscription to Girl-a-Tude! All girls need to do to enter the raffle is earn their Stand Beside Her patch. Upcoming Initiatives • Stand Beside Her is excited to launch the new Shine ON! project that challenges girls to decorate their school bathrooms with encouraging messages! Materials and more information will be available on the “Resources for Girls” page of the newly refreshed Stand Beside Her website (www.standbesideher.org) starting October 4! Be sure to post pictures of your girls participating in the Shine ON! project and use the hashtag #standbesideher to share your efforts! • The Stand Beside Her Ambassador Program is looking for more girls! We are looking for creative leaders who are interested in refining our Stand Beside Her patch program.