Operation Thin Mint Send Off on the USS Midway

USS Midway 910 N Harbor Drive, San Diego
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OTM Sendoff and Family Festival

Friday, April 14, 6-9 p.m.
USS Midway Museum
910 N. Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101
Cost: $5

Everyone (family, friends, troops, and more!) is invited aboard the USS Midway Museum for an exciting evening on the flight deck, featuring music, interactive booths, and a patriotic pep rally honoring the Operation Thin Mint℠ (OTM) Program, our troops, and Elite Cookie Entrepreneurs.

Salute our military as we celebrate shipping packages of Girl Scout Cookies to deployed troops and veterans! Bring a picnic dinner or enjoy food from the concession stand, take photos with costumed cookie characters, shop at the onsite Girl Scout shop, visit community partner booths, and explore the Midway Museum after hours!

Since 2002, Girl Scouts have participated in collecting cookie packages for Operation Thin Mint℠ (OTM), a local Girl Scout service project that originated in San Diego. Our Girl Scout troops and their generous cookie customers have sent over 3.8 million packages of America’s favorite cookies and countless notes of support to deployed troops serving around the world. At the end of each cookie season, Girl Scouts come together to celebrate sending off the cookies to our military service members.

Important information: Registration

A small admission fee to the OTM Sendoff and Family Festival is new this year. The $5 fee per person helps Girl Scouts San Diego produce a fabulous event featuring…

  • Admission to the USS Midway Museum (a $20 value)
  • “Life of a Naval Aviator” tour
  • An OTM Celebration and DJ dance party
  • Fun activities with community partners

The following Girl Scouts will receive complimentary admission for themselves plus two guests:

  • 2023 Elite Entrepreneurs (EE)
  • 2023 Top 10 OTM Entrepreneurs

Our product program team will notify these Girl Scouts after the cookie programs ends. If you already reached EE status, you may hold off on registering for the event until we notify you.

Financial aid is available for Girl Scout members, and anyone under 4 years old is free.

Board & Service Unit/Leader Meeting

All Souls Church 1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego
In-person Service Unit meeting.
Leaders, co-leaders, troop treasurers, and product managers please join us at All Souls Church in the Sherman Room.
6:30 pm board meeting
7:00 pm general meeting. 

Bringing Stories to Life *Brownies- Junior

GS Headquarters 1231 Upas St, San Diego
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Brownies and Juniors are invited to register for this interactive workshop where girls learn how authors write their stories.
Books are a huge part of how we learn about the world around us, yet not all people or stories are represented in the books found in our homes, libraries, and schools. Help us change that! Brought to you by Generation We and Ak Classics.
Girls will have the opportunity to explore what inspires them, share with others, put those ideas into their own book, and even get them published. Each attendee will get to choose a book to take home at the end of the workshop and earn a Fun Patch this Generation We workshop.

* This is NOT a drop-off event *

This event will be located at Girl Scouts Balboa Campus.

For any questions contact Catherine Ruwell at cruwell@sdgirlscouts.org.

Camp Birthday Bash * Camp Whispering Oaks * March 10- 12, 2023 Copy

Come and celebrate GSUSA’s 111th birthday and Camp Whispering Oak’s 30th birthday with your troop!  Activities will include things like a birthday scavenger hunt, making a special birthday treat, creating a festive art piece, playing birthday games, making your mark on Camp Whispering Oaks by participating in a service project, or a trivia competition about the history of CWO and GSUSA.  Get ready to celebrate!  Make a birthday wish on a star for Whispering Oaks and get inspired for the next 111 years of Girl Scouting by visiting Inspiration Point.   Troops will be responsible for providing enough background-checked adults to supervise their campers according to Volunteer Essentials supervision ratios.  Troops will sleep in bunk beds in shared space in modern, heated cabins.

Camp Birthday Bash * Camp Whispering Oaks * March 10- 12, 2023

Come and celebrate GSUSA’s 111th birthday and Camp Whispering Oak’s 30th birthday with your troop!  Activities will include things like a birthday scavenger hunt, making a special birthday treat, creating a festive art piece, playing birthday games, making your mark on Camp Whispering Oaks by participating in a service project, or a trivia competition about the history of CWO and GSUSA.  Get ready to celebrate!  Make a birthday wish on a star for Whispering Oaks and get inspired for the next 111 years of Girl Scouting by visiting Inspiration Point.   Troops will be responsible for providing enough background-checked adults to supervise their campers according to Volunteer Essentials supervision ratios.  Troops will sleep in bunk beds in shared space in modern, heated cabins.

Board & Service Unit/Leader Meeting

All Souls Church 1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego
In-person Service Unit meeting.
Leaders, co-leaders, troop treasurers, and product managers please join us at All Souls Church in the Sherman Room.
6:30 pm board meeting
7:00 pm general meeting. 

World Thinking Day

Children’s Discovery Museum
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Girl Scouts and their families are invited to celebrate an in-person World Thinking Day event with KPBS at the Children’s Discovery Museum in Escondido.  Observed by 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts worldwide, World Thinking Day has a different theme each year. This year, the theme is “Our World, Our Peaceful Future: The environment, peace, and security.” Complimentary Museum admission. Limit 4 youth tickets per order. Order must be placed by an adult 18 and up. For questions, contact Jenelle Dean at jmdean@kpbs.org.

Wilderness Hiking

Santa Ysabel Nature Center (cadette and above)

Girl Scouts Sports Day

GS Headquarters 1231 Upas St, San Diego
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Celebrate International Women and Girls in Sports Day with Girl Scouts San Diego. Juniors and Cadettes are invited to a day of sports Saturday, Feb 11, 9 a.m.-noon! Attendees will be able to choose from a variety of sessions with support from community partners at Girl Scouts Balboa Campus and Roosevelt Middle School. Earn your Sports Day patch and your Athlete badge in your program age level by engaging in sportsmanship, physical activity, and sports skill building. This is NOT a Drop Off Event. Registration closes on Wednesday, Feb 1 or when event reaches capacity. For questions contact Claire Maunsell at cmaunsell@sdgirlscouts.org or 619-610-0813.

Board & Service Unit/Leader Meeting

All Souls Church 1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego
In-person Service Unit meeting.
Leaders, co-leaders, troop treasurers, and product managers please join us at All Souls Church in the Sherman Room.
6:30 pm board meeting
7:00 pm general meeting. 

Carol Dedrich, CEO Girl Scouts San Diego presentation

Our January 12 Meeting will be one New Members and Long-time members will not want to miss. At 5:00 p.m. we will have a Midyear meeting of the Assembly. Learn how we governed in 2022, review the latest financial report, review how monies from the membership and the Legacy fund drives are being used. Be updated on the restoration and maintenance that the building has undergone since July 1, review our rentals, and review our philanthropy to date and lastly, be a part of the plans for the future.

This will be followed by a presentation by Carol Dedrich, CEO Girl Scouts San Diego. Girl Scouts San Diego celebrates over 100 years of empowering girls to become the leaders of tomorrow. With a focus on STEM (science technology engineering math), outdoors, entrepreneurship and life skills, Girl Scouts challenges girls to be Go-getters, Innovators, Risk-takers and Leaders with an eye on community service, social impact and making the world around them better.

Girl Scouts of the United States of America, commonly referred to as simply Girl Scouts was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912.

Doors open at 4:30 p.m.

Board & Service Unit/Leader Meeting

All Souls Church 1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego
In-person Service Unit meeting.
Leaders, co-leaders, troop treasurers, and product managers please join us at All Souls Church in the Sherman Room.
6:30 pm board meeting
7:00 pm general meeting. 

Service Unit Cookie Make, Bake, and Exchange

All Souls Church 1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego

A day of dough. Make, bake and exchange holiday cookies.

Please email RSVP to:

Jeanne Howard <bjhoward@hotmail.com>

Community Service – Toy Drive

All Souls Church 1475 Catalina Blvd, San Diego

Drop off new gifts. The location will be on Catalina Blvd.