Event Planning for Girls required for some Gold Award projects

Senior Girl Scouts who want to plan an event for their Gold Award project must attend the Program Department’s Event Planning for Girls training before beginning their project. An “event” is an activity or occasion where people you may not know ahead of time come to do, learn, or enjoy something you have organized. Generally projects that are an “event” typically include some type of registration.
Girls may attend this training 9 to 12 months prior to the start of their projects, but not as first year Seniors.
Girls may take the training before or after they submit their Gold Award application. It is important that girls do not start on their Gold Award project until they have taken the Event Planning for Girls training and sent a copy of the training strip to the Council Gold Award Advisory Committee.

Who: Senior Girl Scout Gold Award candidates,
Council girl planning board members
When: Sunday, March 28; 3:15 - 6:45 p.m. or
Saturday, April 24; 1 - 4:30 p.m.
Girl Scout Center
Cost: $4/girl (no adults)
Event Code: 10-63-06-6243
Min/Max: 10/30
Deadline: One month before event
Bring: Pencil, permission slip, and medical form
Register: Program Registration Form

If a Senior Girl Scout has questions on whether or not her proposed Gold Award project will require this training she should contact Deban Becker at dbecker@sjgs.org.

Attention future Gold Award recipients
Committee okays new
Gold Award guidelines

The following new guidelines to the Gold Award process become effective June 1, 2004. Anyone with questions should contact Deban Becker at 713-292-0203 or dbecker@sjgs.org.

1. Gold Award Orientation (home study available) will be required prior to having the project application approved by the Gold Award Advisory Committee.

2. A prerequisite form signed by your Gold Award area advisor must accompany your project application in order to be considered for review by the Gold Award Committee (in effect since January 1, 2004).

3. Collection/donation drives should always be part of a larger project.

4. The project should benefit the community outside of Girl Scouting. The project should benefit a need in the community with the majority of the project being leadership based.

Applications must be submitted to Council on or before the first of every month for review in that same month. Applications received after the first of every month will not be reviewed until the following month.