At Girl Scouts, your girl will prepare for a lifetime of leadership,
success, and adventure in a safe, no-limits place designed for and by girls!
How? Through the Girl Scout Leadership Experience—a
collection of engaging, challenging, and fun activities like earning
badges, going on awesome trips, selling cookies, exploring science,
getting outdoors, and doing community service projects.
At Girl Scouts, she’ll get to lead her own adventure (it’s her
world!) and team up with other girls in an all-girl environment to
choose the exciting, hands-on activities that interest her most. Along
the way, she’ll gain important skills in four areas that form the
foundation of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience:
In fact, being a Girl Scout helps girls thrive in five key ways. As
a Girl Scout, she:
• Develops a strong sense of self • Displays
positive values • Seeks challenges and learns
from setbacks • Forms and maintains healthy
relationships • Learns to identify and solve
problems in her community
Delivering Fun with Purpose
To bring the Girl Scout Leadership Experience to life, activities
are led by girls themselves, feature cooperative learning, and
highlight learning by doing. Girls come up with their own ideas, build
teams, and experience the joy of making a positive impact. At Girl
Scouts, she will:
Discover Find out who she is, what she cares about, and
what her talents are.
Connect. Collaborate with other people, both locally and
globally, to learn from others and expand her horizons.
Take Action. Do something to make the world a better place.
Community Partners
Partner With Us!
GSCTX loves to partner with the amazing businesses and organizations
in our community. If your company or organization is interested in
partnering with us please check out the Community Partner Information Packet.
Displayed below are the partner events (Please note: as these are
not programs offered by GSCTX, scholarships are not available):
A+ Federal Credit Union
Patch Program: It is never too early
to start thinking about your future and A+FCU’s Patch Program is the
perfect way to connect the things you enjoy with possible career
choices. For this patch, you will explore interests, education as
well as career pathways by evaluating what is important to you and
matching it with your skill set. You will also examine how careers,
college and finance are tied together.
Branch Tours and Workshop: If your troop is interested in
connecting with an A+FCU branch for a tour or attending one of their
workshops, click here - use this link: https://aplusfcu.org/blog/girl-scouts.
The Austin Humane Society offers troop tours,
badge workshops, community service opportunities, rescue reading
opportunities and is a Bronze, Silver and Gold Award community
partner. To schedule a troop or individual visit contact Anna Reed at
areed@austinhumanesociety.org or call 512-685-0128.
Austin Spurs
Annual Girl Scout Night: Check the events
calendar for exact dates and times
Baylor Athletics
Annual Baylor Women’s Sports Day: See this year’s flyer for more details.
Bull Creek Foundation
The Bull Creek Foundation (BCF) is a non-profit
organization dedicated to promoting a harmonious balance between
nature, recreation, and sustainable economic development within the
32 square mile Bull Creek watershed. The watershed includes high
quality ecological areas with limestone seeps, springs, and
waterways; scenic cliffs and waterfalls; unique archeological and
cultural features; and rare plant and animal life. The watershed's
boundaries can roughly be defined as the area inside highways 620
and 183, Mesa Drive, and just south of FM 2222. Bull Creek
Foundation, an all-volunteer affiliate of the Austin Parks
Foundation, has ongoing volunteer projects at Bull Creek District
Park, the Greenbelt Trail and the forthcoming Bull Creek Water
Quality Protection Lands trail. They also offer a variety of badge
workshops. Check the events calendar for current dates or contact
Gabby Marye to inquire about private troop workshops.
Capital Metro
Patch Program: With a service area of
535 sq. miles, you can travel all around Central Texas on the Capital
Metro system. Discover the variety of transportation options
available, learn how to navigate public transit and stay safe while
exploring all that the Austin area has to offer! You can learn more
about Capital Metro at capmetro.org. Ride the bus today!
Girls Lead: The Girls Lead program extends the documented
benefits of Girl Scouting to girls from low-income backgrounds, with
the goal of helping girls reach their fullest potential by enhancing
their self-esteem, leadership, and life skills in a caring, supportive
in-school environment.
Dairy Queen
Dare to Dairy Queen Program: Earn your customer service badge
while you work at Dairy Queen and learn about having a job and how to
run a business. You can work the drive thru, manage the register, and
learn how to make the perfect cone. Smith Dairy Queen loves working
with our girls to teach business ethics, customer service and money
management. What are you waiting for! Get your fill of knowledge and
ice cream as you Dare to Dairy Queen! Check the events calendar for upcoming program dates.
H-E-B’s generous support of Girl Scouts of Central Texas (GSCTX)
allows GSCTX to offer programs that focus on health and wellness
awareness and education opportunities to nearly 17,000 G.I.R.L.s annually since 2016. These programs empowering Girl Scouts
to take their health, happiness, and life skills into their own hands.
The Sasquatch Outdoor Race and Expo
presented by HEB: This 3-day outdoor event, situated
at GSCTX Camp Kachina on Lake Belton is filled with exploration of
fun outdoor activities that promote Health & Wellness
awareness, skill building, and leadership. This amazing outdoor
weekend will include:
Adventure Race – Not just a race for the physically
fit, but for our nimble minded as well. The variety of
adventures in this race will ensure that any team has a chance
at winning!
Outdoor Activities Expo – All Girls will lead the
effort to display their own outdoor activity skill for all to
learn and become inspired from. There will also be guest
booths demonstrating activities.
Dutch Oven Cookoff – Girls will be asked to create
a nutritiously sound, tasty recipe to be cooked in a Dutch
oven for dinner. Judges will be looking for creativity and
innovation among other requirements.
HEB Supports Community Troop Healthy Snack Program: This
partnership allows GSCTX to provide our Community Troops with access
to healthy snack options during their troop meetings.
Annual Summer Overnight at Dell
Diamond: Come enjoy a fun-packed evening at Dell Diamond with
fellow Girl Scouts and their families as they cheer on the Round Rock
Express. After an exciting baseball game, enjoy basketball, rock
climbing, swimming and a movie on the big screen. Pizza and soft
drinks served after the game. Donuts and juice in the morning, and
coffee for parents!
Annual Girl Scout Cookie Kickoff & Sleepover event: See
this year’s flyer for more details.
VentureLab
GSCTX has partnered with VentureLab, a non-profit organization that
is helping develop the next generation of innovators, to bring our
girls a new entrepreneur program that focuses on how to instill that
mindset all year long. VentureLab Founder/CEO, Cristal Glanchai, PHD,
is a scientist, entrepreneur, and mentor who is passionate about
developing the next generation of creative leaders. Find out more
about this partnership today!
Wells Fargo
Girl Scouts has teamed up with Wells Fargo to provide real life
exposure to girls that will help them become money mavens. This
exciting and inspiring FREE PATCH PROGRAM is available to all
grade levels and includes an age-appropriate educational online game
approach for girls to learn about financial literacy while having
fun! These experiences will not only inspire girls to set glamorous
goals, but will also ensure they become savvy money earners and
confident money managers.
A 2013 GSUSA study revealed that 94% of girls would rather make
their own money than rely on their parents and 80% would rather make
their own money than marry someone who would support them
financially. Girls feels strongly that financial responsibilities
should be shared, with 86% saying that both household partners should
make financial decision yet only 12% considering themselves very
confident making financial decisions. We can change that!
GSCTX and Wells Fargo know that every girl is a part of the future
of our economy and we want to ensure they are confident in their
financial decision making. We’re so excited to partner with Wells
Fargo Hands on Banking® to make this possible!
