March 2005 Volume 31 Issue 3  

Girl Scout Silver Award Pizza Party

      Are girls in your troop or group working toward the Girl Scout Silver Award? Looking for tips and resources to help them earn the components? Want access to the required resources in a cost effective way?
      The Program Department will be rolling out a troop “Girl Scout Silver Award Pizza Party” resource kit filled with the following materials:

  • Two Focus Books (required resources for part of the Silver Leadership Award and Silver 4B’s Challenge) and Advisor Tips for helping your girls get the most out of the activities
  • Goal setting activity to give the girls the tools they’ll need for this important piece of the entire Silver Award AND tips for helping an individual girl pick a Girl Scout Silver Award Project that is both appropriate and uniquely “hers”
  • Reproducible Interest Projects (IPs) from councils around the country, with instructions on ordering the respective badges (IPAs) from sister councils (not GSSJC)
  • “Career Scavenger Hunt” (for part of the Silver Career Award)
  • An interactive game for girls to play and learn the difference between leadership and service hours
  • “Pizza Entrepreneur” game (to help meet the requirements for the our Own Business Interest Project portion of the Silver Career Award)
  • Reproducible master copy of the forms associated with the Girl Scout Silver Award

      These materials will be in an easy-to-carry-and-store pizza box (what else?) and will provide hours of fun and learning for your girls! The cost for each “Silver Award Pizza Party” resource kit will be $25.
      Service units:  think about purchasing one for checkout within your service unit, or use the kit to hold a special “Silver Award Lock-in” for Girl Scouts 11-14!
      Troops/groups and individuals have the option to ‘rent’ the materials over a 6-week period for $10 rental fee and a refundable $15 deposit once materials are returned. To reserve a kit, please contact Myrna Monconduit, 713-292-0281, mmoncon@sjgs.org.
     Please contact Melinda Gaskill, 713-292-0232 or mgaskill@sjgs.org for more information or if you have any questions. Let the party begin!

Minute Maid Park has been home to the Houston Astros since the stadium’s completion in 2000. Located in downtown Houston at Union Station, Minute Maid Park has received many local, state and national awards for its design and engineering. Built to reflect Houston’s historical relationship with the railroads, it features a vintage, full size locomotive that runs along 800 feet of track on the left field wall.

Educational tours can include:

  • Time in the Learning Center playing interactive games and researching the history of Major League Baseball in the United States
  • Tour the historic Union Station, broadcasting booths, press boxes or luxury suites.
  • On field tour and visit the Astros or visitors dugout box.
  • Research the history and try on team uniforms and playing equipment.
  • View how professionals manufacture balls and bats.

All tours listed are private to Girl Scout troops and their families. There must be at least one adult for every 10 girls.

The tour will involve walking a distance of one mile and may include stairs and ramps. Tours are wheelchair and stroller accessible. Girl Scouts must bring permission slip and medical form.

Who: All levels and their families, no tagalongs
Where: Union Station, 501 Crawford
When: February 19, March 19,
April 16, May 21, June 18, July 16, August 20, September 17,
October 15, November 19, and December 17
11 a.m., arrive by 10:40 a.m.
Min./Max.: 25/100
Cost: $3 per girl, $7 per adult, $4 per seniors (65+)
Register: Program Registration Form
Event Code: 10-56-08-6245
Deadline: Two weeks prior to tour date.
Contact: Nicole McInnes, 713-292- 0353 or nmcinnes@sjgs.org

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