Welcome Girl Scouts! This Virtual Troop offers three online journeys or courses, one for Cadettes, one for Seniors and one for Ambassadors. You can do them at your own pace, with or without other girls in your troop. You may do the journey for fun but if you are doing it as a prerequisite to the Silver or Gold Award then you must earn the award that is part of the journey. You must Register in order to get approval to participate. Once you get approval, you’ll Login and then go through each part of the journey by clicking on the title of each post and submitting a comment to fulfill the assignment.
All 3 journeys require the book. I’ve shared links so that you can order one. They might also be available through your local library, local council or service unit. You can buy one book and pass it around. Through the Volunteer Tool Kit, people can create a “Year Plan,” and add (some, maybe not all) Journeys to the year plan. Girls have access through their parent’s account to view and download the lesson plans. Journey Books: Girls can work independently if they have a physical journey book or if you add it to the Year Plan, they will have the virtual access (to at least some of the Journeys). You might try that if you’re excited about starting right away.
About your virtual leader. I’m a long time Girl Scout leader and volunteer with the San Diego Council but this is not a council run website. I made another virtual troop website when my troop girls were sophomores in high school and two of them wanted to work on an additional journey before they did their gold award projects. I saw the need for this back then. They’re all out of college and working but I’ve kept the site going. I piggyback the site on our service unit website so there is no additional cost to have the site so there is no charge to use it. I’ve had people from all over the country use it since it’s been online! If you, your troop leader or your troop parents have questions they are welcome to contact me: Debbie Lechner, lechner@cox.net, your virtual leader.