What do Girl Scouts do? Almost anything they want to do! Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas provides girls in grades K-12 the opportunity to explore exciting programs in various areas of focus.
Leadership and Self-Esteem
Today’s Girl Scouts are tomorrow’s leaders. Each Girl Scout program is designed to build self-confidence, creative decision-making skills, and teamwork. Through participating in Girl Scout programs, girls develop real-world leadership abilities that will last them a lifetime.
Program Example: Camp CEO
This exciting resident camp incorporates activities with power networking! Girl Scouts have the unique opportunity to learn from the area’s brightest women leaders who can encourage, teach, motivate and demonstrate leadership qualities that will serve girls throughout their lives. The "classroom" for this program might be on horseback, around a campfire or at a chalk-talk at the site’s amphitheater.
Health & Wellness
Every girl deserves to live a healthy life-emotionally and physically. Girl Scouts build the skills they need to keep their bodies healthy, their minds engaged, and their spirits alive.
- Program Example: uniquely ME! The Way to Be
Through this national personal health initiative, girls discover the importance of challenging themselves, while completing the uniquely ME! The Way to Be focus book. Participants take part in activities that address recognizing one’s strengths, dealing with peer pressure, healthy eating habits, hygiene, general wellness, and understanding one’s core values and personal interests.
Financial Literacy
The practical skills girls develop in Girl Scouting will serve them for the rest of their lives. Financial literacy can help girls set financial goals and gain the confidence they need to ultimately take control of their own financial future. By developing money management skills early in life, girls learn how to increase their income, become responsible consumers, create a budget, build and manage credit, and save and invest for whatever’s next.
- Program Example: Girl Scout Cookie Program
This is an integral part of Girl Scouts’ Business and Economic Literacy initiative for girls in grades 1 - 12. What started out as a bake sale, has turned into a sophisticated leadership program where girls learn valuable life and business skills such as goal setting, public speaking, teamwork, brand awareness, responsibility, money and time management, financial literacy and grassroots entrepreneurship in its finest form. All of the proceeds from the Girl Scout Cookie Program remain in the area where the Girl Scout Cookies are sold. Girl Scout Troops use their Girl Scout Cookie proceeds to fund service projects, exciting educational field trips, and other leadership activities.
The Girl Scout Cookie Program also promotes community service. Project Troop to Troop is a Girl Scout service initiative that encourages members of the community to buy packages of Girl Scout Cookies to donate to the U.S. Armed Forces. In 2008, Project Troop to Troop generated more than 100,000 packages of Girl Scout Cookies.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
Girls push boundaries, test limits, and look at the world around them with inquisitive eyes. They’re natural scientists! Girl Scouts introduces girls of every age to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) activities that are relevant to everyday life.
- Program Example: Campus Chemistry
Girl Scouts experience the fascination, excitement and complexity of science in meaningful, hands-on activities in the professional atmosphere of a university chemistry lab. Campus Chemistry is a collaboration of Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas and the University of North Texas.
Environmental Awareness
Through Girl Scouting, girls see the earth as their home. Whether they’re learning about endangered wildlife, developing creative recycling projects, or working towards earned age-level awards, girls focus on care, conservation, and responsibility and ensure the safety of our planet for future generations.
- Program Example: American Honda Environmental Learning Center
The American Honda Motor Company has opened its Irving, Texas Environmental Learning Center doors to all Girl Scouts. The center is a unique setting where girls can learn about the environment or nature while on the "Adventure Trail." Girl Scouts explore 1.8 mile trails filled with native and naturalized plants of Texas, species of birds and animals, and much more.
Community Outreach and Education
Girl Scouting builds communities. By giving a voice to the under-represented and reaching out to those in need, girls bridge gaps, heal wounds, and create lasting connections. Girls improve their schools and neighborhoods and develop an understanding of their important place in a complex world. Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas is committed to ensuring that all girls have an opportunity to build extraordinary lives and join with those around them in making the world a better place.
- Program Example: Tejas Action Group
After school programs are a proven and important leadership development strategy and Tejas Action Group brings the benefits of Girl Scouting to more than 50 Dallas County elementary schools, serving 2,000 girls who would not otherwise have the opportunity to participate. Girls develop social competency skills, earn badges and participate in a variety of activities including camping.
Travel
Every girl deserves a chance to see the world. Girl Scouts offers many different travel opportunities so girls can see new places, meet new people, and learn about different cultures and ideas. Whether exploring their own neighborhoods, going on overnight camping trips, participating in community service projects, or flying to one of the four world centers, Girl Scouts are continually expanding their horizons.
- Program Example: Studio 2B destinations
As a Girl Scout activity for girls in grades 6-12, Studio 2B destinations is a girl’s source to travel across her state, country and the world. It goes beyond the troop/group experience representing those special activities that lead to broader perspectives for individual members and the enhanced visibility for Girl Scouting. Girls connect with their peers apart from familiar surroundings and test skills outside of their everyday experiences. Studio 2B destinations is unique and an exceptional part of what makes Girl Scouting valuable for teens.