Campus Girl Scouts
Are you enrolled in a college, junior college, university, or vocational or technical school? Do you want to meet new people, develop new interests, participate in community service, learn marketable skills, acquire valuable job experience, and serve as a role model for girls in a volunteer setting that lets YOU choose your level of involvement? Consider joining Campus Girl Scouts, an ideal way to learn and grow outside of the classroom.
What Do Campus Girl Scouts Do?
Campus Girl Scouts are allowed to be very creative with activities they offer girls. We only ask that the activities follow the principles of the Girl Scout Promise and Law. Possible ways to volunteer include the following:
Event planning, including service projects- Girl Scout troop/group sponsorship
- Program consulting
- Project management
- Public relations
- Troop/group leadership
- Campus tutoring
- Task group and committee membership
- Recruitment activities
- Fund development
- Clerical work
- Mentoring
Whether you want to coordinate a health and fitness fair, run a science workshop, help publish council or service area newsletters, be a troop/group leader, mentor teens, or contribute in some other way, you can help girls grow strong!
How Much Time Is Involved?
Devote as much time as you want. YOU decide on a level of involvement that works for you. Campus Girl Scouts have many other commitments and their level of involvement may vary from semester to semester and from student to student. Some students may have the time to be troop/group leaders, while others may be able to make valuable short-term commitments, such as helping to plan ceremonies for Girl Scout Gold Award recipients or running a Brownie Girl Scout Try-It Day.
Starting a Campus Girl Scout Group
Starting a Campus Girl Scout group begins with you! Students who want to continue their involvement in Girl Scouting and are willing to recruit other adult volunteers from their campus can follow these steps:
- Check the national Campus Girl Scout Directory to make sure that a group doesn't already exist at the school.
- If the school is not listed, go to the Girl Scout Council Finder to get contact information for the council that covers the area where the school is located.
- Approach the local Girl Scout council to express interest in starting a group.
A school can also contact its local Girl Scout council to form a campus group on behalf of students interested in an organization that provides opportunity to serve and have fun.
Contact Information: If you are attending a school within the Kentuckiana council and are interested in starting a Campus Girl Scouts group, please contact your local service center. If you are attending a school outside of the Kentuckiana council, please contact the national Girl Scout organization at (800) GSUSA 4 U or (212) 852-6536.
Our Alumni are very important!
We would especially like to reconnect with students who are former Girl Scouts themselves, although no experience is required to become a volunteer. If you are a Girl Scout Alumnae and would like to volunteer in the Kentuckiana council, please contact your local service center.