Girls attending any 100th anniversary event will receive a participation patch and matching candle. Collect all six candles for a complete set!

Events continue throughout 2012 in:

• Casper featuring activities from 1932 – 1951 (date TBD)
• Billings will celebrate a century of Girl Scouting during the 2012 Annual Meeting (March 30 – 31)
• Cody featuring activities from 1952 – 1971 (April 21 – 22)
• Missoula featuring activities from 1972 – 1991 (July 13 – 15)
• Cheyenne featuring a sing-a-long at the State Capitol and activities from 1992 – 2012 (dates TBD)

Visit gsmw.org/100th-anniversary/events for the latest event announcements.

The Participation Cake Patch and location-specific candle is available to each registered girl attendee to any of the 100 Year events. Adults have the option of purchasing the patch and candle for $2.00. Additional candles are $.75/each.

The curriculum was developed based on the aMUSE Journey, which combines storytelling with the many roles–both real and creative–that the world offers. In the Journey, girls try on different roles and learn about people and the power of real-life action and leadership.

Camps focused on stereotype-busting projects including creating collages, skits, artwork, and other hands-on projects that incorporated the girls’ artistic talents into the aMUSE Journey.

In Pablo, a puppeteer/storyteller shared her words of wisdom and a puppet show that demonstrated how to perform utilizing vocal tones, expressions, among others. The girls made their own sock puppets, as well as borrowed the storytellers hand puppets to give them a variety of voices and stories.

Girls in Browning also utilized puppetry to discuss different stereotypes and perform skits. Girls creatively inspired each other to consider different career choices, including firefighting.

In Hardin the girls focused on acting and created a play for their families. They had great enthusiasm for acting and taking on the different roles they created.

My Culture, My Story, My Pride: It’s Your Story—Tell It was made possible by Dove with the purpose to provide a fun and age-appropriate leadership experience for girls based on the aMUSE Journey—a leadership curriculum for girls developed by GSUSA and aligned with state and national curriculum standards. Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming was awarded the grant to facilitate day camps focused on storytelling and the importance of heritage for girls residing on three of Montana’s largest Native American reservations.

GSMW plans to host additional aMUSE Day Camps in the future. Watch GSMW’s website for more program opportunities.

A troop of Girl Scouts in Kansas are celebrating her October 31 birthday with a service project that has gone nationwide: “Birthday-In-A-Bag.” Troops in more than 35 states are participating, and the Kansas Girl Scouts that started the movement hope for participation from every state.

A Birthday-in-a-Bag is a self-contained gift bag with everything you need to have a Happy Birthday party. Every person needs some recognition of their birthday. However certain circumstances occur that might not make that possible. A Birthday-in-a-Bag can make a birthday more special.

Each Birthday-in-a-Bag should be delivered to your local food bank or local charity office. The goal is to deliver no later than October 31st, 2011, Juliette Low’s birthday.

Each troop can undertake the Birthday-in-a-Bag as a community service project by putting together one or more Birthday Bags. This project is a way of showing that Girl Scouts care and Girl Scouting is an important part of your community. It is also a wonderful tribute to Juliette Low, founder of Girl Scouting.

Visit the group’s Facebook page for details and to share your participation.

Enjoy free refreshments and learn more about how the Girl Scouts builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place. A ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at 3:30 p.m. For more information, call 800-736-5243.

Lynette Robbins, Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming Program Specialsit, is seen with participants of the 2011 Girls Golf program, held annually in Great Falls. After 28 years of working with youth and the Girl Scouts, Lynette is retiring from the organization in October.

Join Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming in celebration of the 28-year Girl Scout career of Lynette Robbins at an Open House and Retirement Party on Tuesday, September 20.

The public is invited to attend the celebration from noon – 2 p.m. at the Great Falls Service Center, 4930 Ninth Avenue South. Come meet the Great Falls staff, learn more about the new Girl Scout Leadership Experience, and discover the fun, friendship and power of Girl Scouting. Light refreshments will be served.

In her extensive time serving the Girl Scouts, Lynette has helped build countless girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. As a staff member specializing in Girl Scout program, Lynette has overseen many events and collaborations throughout the state of Montana focused on the Girl Scout leadership experience, including implementing the hugely successful Girls Golf program in the Great Falls area for which she received a $25,000 grant from the United States Golf Association.

Of the opportunity to channel her passion for volunteerism, working with youth, and the game of golf, Lynette said, “If you’re fortunate in life, you’ll have the opportunity to work at a job you love, and that will make all the difference in life.”

In addition to her work as a staff member of Girl Scouts, Lynette served as a National Board member of the Association of Girl Scout Executive Staff and has been recognized throughout her career for her dedication to the Girl Scout mission. In 2008, Lynette was presented with the Highest Award in adult Girl Scouts, the Thanks Badge and was inducted into the National Association of Girl Scout Executive Staff Hall of Fame, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, in November 2008.

Lynette has also been selected as the YWCA’s 2011 Volunteer and Community Service Honoree, and will be recognized at the 21st annual YWCA Salute to Women on Saturday, September 17 at the Great Falls Airport Convention Center. Each year, the YWCA recognizes women for the work they do in their communities, and Lynette was one of seven women chosen this year for the honor.

“My younger sister from Vancouver is flying in for the award and will be attending with my husband Rick and his son Ryan. I am so honored to be given this award,” Lynette said,

For more information on the Girl Scout Open House and Retirement Party, call 800-736-5243.

• Girl Scouts Rock the Mall event 100th Anniversary Sing-Along on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
• Alumnae/volunteer trip to Our Cabana, Mexico

Both events have registration dates nearing, so be sure to get your registration in right away if planning to attend.

The dates are as follows (starting at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted):
Montana
8/8/2011 Bozeman
8/9/2011 Butte
8/10/2011 Helena
8/11/2011 Kalispell
8/15/2011 Missoula
8/15/2011 Glendive
8/16/2011 Great Falls
8/16/2011 Glasgow
8/17/2011 Billings

Wyoming
8/8/2011 Casper
8/9/2011 Cheyenne
8/10/2011 Rock Springs
8/11/2011 Thermopolis
8/13/2011 Gillette (10 a.m.)

All attendees must register with the Council to attend. Watch for your invitation in the mail to RSVP.

You’re a girl, a student, and you may also be a singer, writer, athlete, chef, money manager, tech whiz, painter, or fashion stylist. But there’s still so much more to your story! What other roles do you want to try?

This journey called aMUSE is all about stories. It’s all about having fun trying on roles and being a leader who stretches herself to play new parts. You’ll be turning acting into action, too, by inspiring others toward their best roles ever! Inspiring others for the better—that’s the story of Girl Scouts!

So places, everyone! Get ready to take the spotlight in one of the greatest stories of all—the story of you!

My Culture, My Story, My Pride: It’s Your Story—Tell It Day Camp is a free event open to all girls who have completed 3rd, 4th or 5th grades.

Check out camps in the following areas:
June 6 – 10: Browning, Montana
July 18 – 22: Hardin, Montana
July 25 – 29: Pablo, Montana

The following course dates are available, and courses will fill on a first-come, first-serve basis:

• June 26 – July 2
• July 3 – July 9
• July 24 – July 30
• August 7 – August 13

EPI works in partnership with the US Forest Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Nature Conservancy to engage high school students and their teachers in meaningful conservation-related field science programs in and around the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

You can learn more about the courses on the EPI website.

Public events take place at the Museum of the Rockies from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and an evening telescope viewing session is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., weather permitting. All Astronomy Day 2011 activities are free.

Kids’ activities include face painting, sun catchers, star finders, solar system jewelry and more. Telescopes will be set up for solar observing (weather permitting), and exhibits in the main lobby will feature activities, information and give-aways from NASA missions and Montana State University researchers.

Planetarium shows include “Star Signs” and “Here Comes the Sun.”

Astronomy Day is sponsored by the Museum of the Rockies, Montana Space Grant Consortium and its Space Public Outreach Team (SPOT), Project WET Foundation, Southwest Montana Astronomical Society, and MSU’s Astrobiology Biogeocatalysis Research Center, Department of Education, Extended University, Solar Physics Research Group and SPIE.

For more information visit http://eu.montana.edu/AstronomyDay.