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About Interest Groups

Interest Groups encourage all girls to participate in a series of programs with the same group of girls relating to a specific theme or purpose (e.g., highadventure and travel groups, robotics teams, and after school programs where girls comple the "Change Your World" or "It's Your Planet" journey over a six-week period). For more information about interest groups or if your interested in starting an interest group please contact program@girlscoutsnorcal.org

B.I.G - Backpacking Interest Group 

BIG is open to all Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador Girl Scouts (middle or high school girls). We welcome both independent scouts or member of a regular troop.

Love hiking and Hiking but want something more challenging? Try backpacking with Girl Scouts. You'll learn new skills, meet girls with interests like yours, and have a great time outdoors. BIG runs overnight trips to local Bay Area destinations throughout the year, culminating in an extended summer trek, usually in the High Sierras. No prior backpacking experience is needed. Our one evening training session will prepare you for your first trip, and all further skills are taught on the outings. Meetings are held in Los Altos.  Check us out at www.girlscoutbackpacking.net

For further information please contact Christine Fawcett at chrisfawcett@sbcglobal.net

H.A.G.S - High Adventure Interest Group

H.A.G.S  is open to all Cadette Girl Scouts (middle school girls). We welcome both independent scouts or member of a regular troop

Girls who are interested in making new friends, learning camping skills, and tackling new adventures. Some H.A.G.S members are active in regular GS troops, others are Juliette scouts without a base troop experience, are welcome in H.A.G.S, so bring a friend! Interested parents are welcome to come as chaperones.  As a group, the girls brainstorm, research and vote on four high adventure trips each year. Trips take place on weekends and include an on overnight campout. Scouts plan the meals, cook them and clean up after them.  They typically do a service project as part of each trip. In the past several years H.A.G.S. has rappelled and spelunked at Moaning Caverns, kayaked in Elkhorn Slough, snow tubed in the Sierras, white water rafted on the American River.

 

We'd love to have you join us for future adventures!

 

For more information please contact Pam Holt, nuts4quilts@gmail.com or Nancy Beth Garrett, Nancybethgarrett@yahoo.com

 

O.G.A.P - Older Girl Adventure Program

O.G.A.P. is open to all Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador Girl Scouts (middle or high school girls). We welcome both independent scouts or member of a regular troop

Are you a Girl Scout and want to participate in some exciting adventures above and beyond your troop meetings?? Then plan on joining us at OGAP (Older Girl Adventure Program). OGAP offers a chance to meet other older Girl Scouts who want to do activities such as horseback riding, skiing, fun in the sun, etc. At our initial planning meeting in September, the girls will finalize the activities and dates for the year and then signups, payment and final details are handled at our subsequent monthly planning meetings.  OGAP tries to offer about five adventures a year plus a few events during the summer. Girls can participate in just one or as many events as they choose.

 

For more information contact OGAP Coordinator - Cheryl Elliot at c.elliot@att.net

Space Cookies - Girl Scout NASA Robotics Team

Space Cookies is open to all Senior, and Ambassador Girl Scouts (high school girls). We welcome both independent scouts or member of a regular troop.

Team 1868 is an all-girl robotics team for high school girls. They compete in the US FIRST Robotics Competitions and are sponsored by both NASA Ames Research Center and the Girl Scouts. They build their robot in the NASA Robotics Lab in Mountain View in January and February and compete against other high school teams at events in March and April. Team positions include designing and building the robot, creating marketing materials and delivering presentations to sponsoring companies and younger girls. No prior technical experience needed. Visit their website at www.spacecookies.org

For more information please contact Ann Wettersten at annwettersten@pacbell.net