Gold Award Orientation Dates
All girls who plan to earn their Gold Award must attend Gold Award Orientation sometime in the 18 months prior to submitting their Gold Award application. Additional training dates and locations may be added as needed. Upcoming trainings will be held at the Girl Scout Center in Houston on:
* Saturday, June 25, 10 a.m.-noon
* Saturday, September 10, 10 a.m.-noon
* Sunday, October 2, 2-4 p.m.
* Saturday, December 10, 10 a.m.-noon

Upcoming Gold Award Advisory Committee (GAAC)
Meeting Dates
These meetings are held monthly to review initial Gold Award Applications and Final Reports. All meetings will be on Sundays from 2-5 p.m. in RM 210. Girls who want to present their initial or final project reports at the meeting should contact the Gold Award Coordinator prior to the meeting date. (Note: Presenting an application or final report is optional.) Remember that all initial Gold Award Applications and Final Reports are due by the first of each month to ensure review at that month’s GAAC Meeting. Dates are as follows:
June 12, July 10, August 14, September 18, October 16, November 13, December 4

Other Important Gold Award Dates
June 6, 2005 - Statewide Gold Award Ceremony in Austin, Texas, honoring all May 2004-April 2005 Gold Award recipients who have earned their Gold Award
September 30, 2005 - Completion deadline for 2005 high school graduates

NEW! Golden Nugget

Belief 1: Girl Scouts may do a Girl Scout day camp for their Gold Award project.

MYTH! Girl Scout Gold Award projects must benefit the community outside of Girl Scouting. You may not do Girl Scout day camps or service unit weekends as Gold Award Projects. But, you could use your day camp training and hold a day camp for under-privileged children.

Your Gold Award Project may have a “secondary Girl Scout flavor.” For example, you may recruit fellow Girl Scouts to help with your project implementation, and you can certainly use your project as an avenue to educate the community about how Girl Scouting is important. You can also use Girl Scout resources such as badge requirements in developing your community project.

Belief 2: As long as I turn in my Gold Award application before that month’s meeting of the Gold Award Advisory Committee meeting, it will be reviewed that month.

MYTH! All initial applications, final reports, and hour logs are due by the first of each month to ensure that they are reviewed at that month’s Gold Award Advisory Committee meeting. If the first of the month falls on a weekend, then applications are due by the Monday following that weekend.

Event Planning for Girls

Event Planning for Girls is now available to all Girl Scouts as a home study course. In the near future, the Event Planning Home Study will be available to download off of the GSSJC Web site. Until then, please contact Julie Deeter to access the home study at 713-292-0203 or jdeeter@sjgs.org.

Note: If you are a Senior Girl Scout who wants to plan an event for a Gold Award project, contact Cindy Gernand, Gold Award coordinator at 713-664-5703 or cgernand@sbcglobal.net or Julie Deeter at 713-292-0203, jdeeter@sjgs.org for more information.