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The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting! New Badges! New Handbooks!

Posted by Pam Landry on August 06, 2011 (0 Comments)

GSUSA is in the process of introducing new and revised program resources. The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting, the new badge and handbook series, will be available for purchase beginning fall 2011.  The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting—to be developed for each grade level—will include a variety of badge offerings, handbook sections covering traditions and history, Cookie badges, an awards log, and much more. 

All other Girl Scout books and resources will gradually be retired. 

GSUSA will retire some current Try-It's, Junior badges, and interest project patches, and will update others. We highly recommend purchasing your awards early to ensure availability. 

Badges are here to stay. Remember, badges give girls topic- specific skill-building activities. Journey awards give girls opportunities to explore the three keys to leadership!  A line of new badges will be introduced and a selection of out-dated badges will be retired.  The new badges will combine contemporary topics of interest to girls and long-time favorite activities.

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Online Shopping

Posted by Pam Landry on July 01, 2011 (0 Comments)
Thanks to a great team effort here at our council and a lot of help from our friends at Girl Scouts of Central and Western MA and Girl Scouts of Eastern MA, we are excited to finally be able to offer online shopping for Girl Scout merchandise.  We want this to be a great tool for you so PLEASE do not hesitate to make suggestions or ask questions by emailing us at shop@gsri.org. We especially want to know if you need or want a particular item that we currently don’t feature in our on-line shop. We’ll work hard to be as responsive as possible. Remember, the proceeds from every purchase you make from our online shop directly benefit the 11,900 girls in our council – from Rhode Island, southeastern MA and Pawcatuck, CT. So, thank you for your support and have fun shopping!

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