Experience life on the Elissa

Girl Scouts can experience “a sailor’s life from the days of old in a special overnight adventure aboard the U.S.S. Elissa. 
After a tour of the Elissa and a video presentation, the overnight Girl Scout crew learns by doing. Girls help set one of Elissa’s huge staysails, and they work with the ship’s volunteer crew to master seagoing knots and rope craft. Overnight participants follow one of the oldest traditions of the sea–keeping watch over the Elissa and the Galveston harbor.
For further information, contact Nicole McInnes at 713-292-0353 or e-mail nmcinnes@sjgs.org

Who: Ages 8 and up
When: September 25, October 17
Check in: 6:30 p.m. Friday or Saturday
Check out: 9 a.m. Saturday or Sunday
Cost: $38 per person; Event Code: 10-56-10-6242
Ratios: 1 adult per 5 girls
Min./Max.: 30/ 40
Food: Eat dinner before arrival; breakfast served aboard ship. Snacks are included.
Deadline: Register and submit payment five weeks prior to event date. Deposits are paid to Texas Seaport Museum; therefore, no refunds can be issued if cancellation occurs minimum 30 days prior to event. Contact Sarah Boyd at 713-292-0269 or Lisa Kasparik at 713-292-0288 to notify of cancellations.
Register: Program Registration Form
Bring: Sleeping bags, pillows (no air mattresses), change of clothes, medical form, and permission slip.
More information will be sent upon registration confirmation.

Rice University Society of Women Engineers invite GSSJC Juniors to campus

Rice Houston Society of Women Engineers invite 100 Junior Girl Scouts and their leaders to spend a day on the Rice University campus, Saturday, October 23 doing activities which fulfill the GSUSA Junior Girl Scout Badge Making It Matter and GSSJC’s Own Council Junior Girl Scout Badge Petrospectives requirements. Girls will interact with Rice engineering students and professional engineers from the Houston Society of Women Engineers, who developed the Petrospectives Badge for the Council. Typical activities include: making several kinds of polymers, building bridges and paper airplanes, electric circuits, and exploring chemical properties. Girls will meet and have plenty of opportunity to informally talk to girls and women (and a few boys and men) who enjoy math and science.

Who: Junior Girl Scouts and leaders (Safety-Wise ratio)
What: Math & Science Junior Girl Scout Badge Day
When: Saturday, October 23; 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Where: Rice University Campus, map sent with confirmation
Bring: Permission slip for every girl, F-204
Medical form for every girl, F-185
Adults should complete F-22
Leader keeps forms and acts as troop first aider for event
Sack lunch and drinks, snacks
Register: Program Registration Form
Cost: $4/per girl participant
Deadline: October 12
Event Code: 10-62-01-6243

Bring your white socks and white chalk
and letters to Girl Scout Day at Six Flags AstroWorld on September 11

GSSJC girls and adult volunteers have been key in the success of the WWW United, Inc. Learning Board™ Project. WWW United, or WorldWide Wisdom United. This project’s objective is to create small chalkboards, white chalk and an eraser (white sock) to donate to children around the world who have no paper or pencils for school.

The first shipment of Learning Boards™ was hand delivered September 2003 by a WWW United, Inc. representative to school children in Kabul, Afghanistan, who continues to ship boards to Afghanistan and Iraq. Founder Josanna Smith thanks all girls in GSSJC for donating white socks and white chalk to go with the boards. Her organization only recently had to purchase the first boxes of chalk to go with the boards – up until then our Girl Scouts had kept up with the demand.

Last year, Girl Scouts who attended the Girl Scout Day at Six Flags AstroWorld on September 27, 2003 donated over 1,500 white men’s crew socks and 6,600 pieces of white chalk. Since then, over 70 troops, groups, and events throughout the Council have participated in painting 3,100 Learning Boards™ and donating hundreds of white socks and white chalk.

This year EVERYONE has an opportunity to donate at the front gate as you arrive to this fun-filled day! Let’s go over the top on donating WHITE chalk and new WHITE men’s crew socks – how about 2,004 boxes of chalk and 2004 socks.
Patch Available

All participants in the project who donated chalk, white socks, or painted learning boards may purchase the new WWW United, Inc. Learning Boards™ Patch. WWW United, Inc. and GSSJC designed the patch using the WWW United logo. See the information on the Council’s Web site - February Council Information Network (www.gssjc.org).

Girls Asked to Write Letters
WWW United, Inc. invites girls to write an upbeat, general short note with creative artwork to be shipped overseas with the boards. Girls just handwrite short, large block print letters to someone in school overseas, filled with our message of worldwide friendship. Please list your first name only. Bring your letters to AstroWorld and drop off with your socks and chalk. Mail letters to Melinda Gaskill, 3110 Southwest Freeway, Houston, TX 77098.