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Spring/Summer 2007 Highlights

This combined Spring/Summer of LEADER (PDF, 6.2MB) is chock-full of interesting information about what Girl Scouts are up to these days.

To begin the 95th anniversary celebrations, Girl Scouts will plant about 30,000 trees. The project launched on March 12, Girl Scout birthday, when CEO Kathy Cloninger and Girl Scouts from New York planted the first saplings…this is the cover story.

Discover some terrific ways to help girls develop healthier lifestyles in "Healthy Me!" a report of GSUSA's Healthy Living Initiative, launched in 2006. The fast pace that entices girls away from a healthy life-style is what GSUSA intends to abate with this initiative. See how.

Then you must read about Challenge and Change. Small towns and rural areas sometimes have issues that seem irreversible. Yet, in this new social entrepreneurship program, Girl Scouts have implemented innovative solutions. Their project matter — because they work.

You'll be surprised and tickled, impressed and intrigued to see what Victoria, Valerie, Creesha, Amanda, Megan, Raivynn and a lot of other very smart girls invented at their Design and Discovery destination, a two-week design and engineering camp designed to encourage girls to become inventors. You'll also find many resources and ideas for implementing similar projects via day camps, resident camps or leadership institutes.

In "Go Global" you'll learn how you can volunteer at one of the World Centers. You'd have the time of your life!

And there's more in this issue — advice from leaders about how to make sure girls learn and grow as well as have fun; up-to-date news and views from the Girl Scout Research Institute on the "supergirl" dilemma; and read a smorgasbord of additional postings from Girl Scouts near and far here in Bulletin Board (PDF, 1MB).

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