Free Volunteer Training Weekends - Fall 2011
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Vounteers have the opportunity this fall to participate in free Volunteer Training Weekends! Choose from a variety of outdoor themed required trainings and enrichment classes – all of which will help enhance the quality of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience you can offer for girls throughout our council!
Sign up for one class, a full day or the whole weekend at any of the five locations throughout our council. All five weekends will offer the following required trainings: Outdoor Skills, Camping 101 and First Aid & CPR.*
There is no fee* to attend (including meals and overnight lodging). But pre-registration is required and participants must be current GSHPA volunteers.
(*Due to popularity, First Aid & CPR at all five locations does require a $25 deposit that will be returned upon successful completion of the course.)
Space is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. Registration closes a week before each training weekend. Please see specific camp forms for times and dates.
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Camp Louise - September 17-18 (Columbia County)
Click here for detail descriptions of trainings: Outdoor Skills, Camping 101 and First Aid & CPR.
Other enrichment classes being offered include:
- Scrapbooking: Bring some of your favorite Girl Scout pictures and craft with an advanced scrapbooker.
- Games: Gather some easy to facilitate games to play with your troop during down time.
- How to Use Journeys: Learn about how to better utilize the Journeys for your troop.
- Ceremonies: Learn how to facilitate traditional Girl Scout ceremonies.
- Event Planning: Planning an event? Want to plan an event? Discover the basics of event planning from great ideas to budgeting and beyond.
- Kitchen Science 101: Learn how to experiment with everyday kitchen items and bring back great ideas to your troop meetings.
- Communicating with Parents: Create a stronger partnership with your troop parents and learn how to get the help you need as a troop leader.
- Age Level Discussions and Q&A: Bring all your questions about being a troop leader and discuss best practices.
- Duct Tape Designs: Turn a traditional sticky fix it into something fun and useful.
- Movie Time: Just come relax at camp and watch a movie fireside.
- Accessible Activities for After Dark: For the troop leader who is going camping and is worried about down time around bed time.
- Creative Cooking: Prerequisite: Outdoor Skills or Basic Outdoor Skills - Had outdoor skills and ready for more exciting recipes? Come and prepare a mini feast!
- Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards: Come to this workshop with your questions about Girl Scout awards.
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Camp Archbald - September 24-25 (Susquehanna County)
Click here for detail descriptions of trainings: Outdoor Skills, Camping 101 and First Aid & CPR.
Other enrichment classes being offered include:
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Scavenger Hunt: Go on a tour of camp and hunt out important sites.
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ZUMBA: Try out the popular dance exercise craze.
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Pocono Wildlife Rehab Center: Hear about a local resource and interacting with native Pennsylvania wildlife.
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How to Use Journeys: Learn about how to better utilize the Journeys for your troop.
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Ceremonies: Learn how to facilitate traditional Girl Scout ceremonies.
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Games: Gather some easy to facilitate games to play with your troop during down time.
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Age Level Discussions and Q & A: Bring all your questions about being a troop leader and discuss best practices.
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Girl Scout Jeopardy: Think you know all there is to know about Girl Scouts? Come play Girl Scout trivia!
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Creative Cooking: Prerequisite: Outdoor Skills or Basic Outdoor Skills - Had outdoor skills and ready for more exciting recipes? Come and prepare a mini feast!
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Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards: Come to this workshop with your questions about Girl Scout awards.
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Movie Time: Just come relax at camp and watch a movie fireside.
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Camp Small Valley - October 1-2 (Dauphin County)
Click here for detail descriptions of trainings: Outdoor Skills, Camping 101 and First Aid & CPR.
Other enrichment classes being offered include:
- Games: Games can help girls develop small & Large motor skills and how to develop positive values like good sportsmanship and cooperation. Learn some games to take your group beyond "Duck Duck Goose."
- Letterboxing: Discover a fun way to get girls into the out-of-doors. Letterboxing combines outdoor navigation skills and stamping into a great treasure hunt adventure.
- Exploring Volunteer Essentials: Come learn how the new Volunteer Essentialsresource can provide you with lots of valuable information on safety guidelines, program resources, girl development, and council policies and procedures.
- Intro to Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting: Discover how this new resource for girls combines the badgebook and handbook into a bright, girl-friendly format that will encourage girls to build new skills as they explore legacy, financial literacy and cookie business badges, and other new opportunities.
- Community Service & Taking Action: Girl Scouts has a long history of helping others and making the world a better place. Discover some ideas for ways that you can help your girls give back to the community.
- Conflict Resolution: Despite our best efforts, sometimes conflicts arise -- between girls, between parents, and sometimes even between volunteers. Come learn some techniques for working together to find solutions that everyone can agree on.
- SWAPS: "Something Wonderful Affectionately Pinned Somewhere." Just in time for all of those big 100th Anniversary Events! Join us to get some ideas for some SWAPS that your girls will love making and sharing with others!
- Celebrating the 100th Anniversary - Exploring Our Heritage with Girls: Semaphore? Games that don't require electronics? Girl Scout Cookies that you bake yourself? Learn about some of the resources available to help your girls explore some of the things Girl Scouts did in days gone by.
- Supporting the Grieving Child (Caring Place): Losing someone special can be a difficult time for girls. Learn from professionals from the Highmark Caring Place how you, as a trusted adult in a girl's life, can help her through the loss as well as helping other girls in the troop know how to reach out and support their sister Girl Scout.
- Planning Scouts' Owns & Other Ceremonies with Your Girls: Ceremonies can be some of the most memorable parts of girls experience in Girl Scouts & a Scouts Own can be a wonderful way to wrap up an event or a weekend. Join us to discuss ways to make ceremonies girl-led, and help to plan a Scouts Own to close out our weekend.
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Camp Echo Trail - October 15-16 (York County)
Click here for detail descriptions of trainings: Outdoor Skills, Camping 101 and First Aid & CPR.
Other enrichment classes being offered include:
- Camp's Kitchen: Come try your hand at advanced outdoor cooking. Prerequisite: GSHPA (Basic) Outdoor Skills.
- Cooperative Games: Take away fun games that foster cooperation.
- Can You Hear Me Know: Sharpen your communication skills and learn techniques for positively interacting with girls and other volunteers.
- "Me Time" at Camp Echo Trail: You don’t have to sign up for a workshop this session, just enjoy camp. Hike, sit, talk, relax, watch birds, reminisce, journal, draw, nap—it’s up to you! Nature guide books and gear will be available for use.
- Duct Tape Crafts: Think duct tape is only for making repairs? Think again as you use duct tape to make interesting projects that girls and adults will just love!
- Letterboxing: Join us for this unique outdoor treasure hunt activity.
- Take Action at Camp Echo Trail: Learn about the great tradition of Girl Scout’s commitment to service through discussion and a hands-on service project at camp.
- Pathways - A Closer Look at the Series: Just what is a Series? Learn more about this short-term girl participation option and how you and other adults can help plan one in your service unit area.
- S.T.E.M. for Every Girl: Come experience easy and fun STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) activities that you can do with your troop or group.
- Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting: Join us for an informal discussion about this NEW resource.
- Evening Campfire: An evening campfire complete with s’more making and sing-a-long.
- SWAPS and Games: Bring your SWAPS to share; play games with old and new friends.
- Craft Cabin: Bring your crafting projects to work on or make something new.
- Camp Echo Trail History and Tour: Hear the story of Camp Echo Trail, then head out on a guided tour of camp.
- Girl Scout Traditions: Explore 100 years of Girl Scout tradition.
- Girl Scouts Own Ceremony: Plan and carry out this traditional Girl Scout ceremony.
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Camp Golden Pond - October 22-23 (Huntingdon County)
Click here for detail descriptions of trainings: Outdoor Skills, Camping 101 and First Aid & CPR.
Other enrichment classes being offered include:
- Rainy Day Activities: Don’t let the rain spoil your trip or plans – learn what to do if rain threatens to spoil your plans.
- Journey Book Training: This workshop will explain how to use the Journey Books – they really are interactive and fun. Learn some fun activities and get ideas on customizing them to meet your troops’ interests.
- SWAPS: What are SWAPS? How do you make them? What are they for? These questions and more will be answered in this interactive workshop.
- Songs: Want to sing songs with your troop but don’t know where to start or the tunes to use? Learn popular Girl Scout songs you can sing with your troop and some that may be used at the Sing Along in DC to celebrate the 100th Anniversary.
- Volunteer Recognitions Workshop: Do you know a volunteer who goes above and beyond in their Girl Scout duties? Would you like to see them honored for their work? This workshop adult recognitions and how they are awarded.
- Ceremonies: Learn the different types of Girl Scouts Ceremonies and planning basics, including the Scouts Own ceremony.
- Canoe Rides: Enjoy some time out in the canoes. You will not be certified in canoeing.
- Reverse Tie Dye: This fun workshop will show you a variation on tie dye that both you and your girls will enjoy.
- Campfire Training: This workshop will help you plan activities when you are camping. This workshop does not replace the required trainings to take your girls camping – you must still have Camping 101 and/or Outdoor Skills.
- Not Your Ordinary Knot Tying: Learn some basic knots and apply them in a fun way. You will learn the art of making friendship bracelets that will come in handy at the 100th Anniversary Celebrations.
- Leave No Trace: This workshop teaches respect and appreciation of the natural environment. You will become educated in the hows and whys of minimal impact outdoor adventures, and respecting the natural environment.
- Nature Workshop: Enjoy a nature walk and take part in some interactive activities along the way.
- Yoga: Start your day with a relaxing yoga session. Ease your sore muscles and feel rejuvenated for the upcoming week.
- Origami: Learn the art of Chinese paper folding. Learn some basic skills and some fun things to do with your troop or keep the hobby going for your own enjoyment.
- Scrapbooking: Have some fun scrapbooking and learn to make cards. You will also learn some skills to continue the hobby or teach your troop.
- Games - Fast, Easy, Cheap: Just as the name implies, you will learn games to play with your troop that are quick and easy to put together and play, while costing little to nothing.
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