Troop Meeting | Planning Tools | Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming

Planning Tools & Training

Help your Girl Scouts complete badge activities, improve their communities, and explore the world around them. Utilize these tools and trainings to help you plan your Troop meetings.

Meeting in a Minute Kits

No time to plan? Worried about creating new activities? These activity boxes are designed for troop meetings.

Experience Boxes (New Troops)

Complimentary experience boxes are for NEW Daisy & Brownie Troops to support every step of the way.

Troop Year Planner

Our age-appropriate troop year plans are the best tool for first year leaders to get started with Girl Scouts.

Volunteer Toolkit (VTK)

A digital resource that supports troop leaders and co-leaders, making the process of running a troop easier.

gsLearn
Trainings

Online training full of essential volunteer courses, like how to lead activities the Girl Scout way, safety, and more.

Meeting Resources

Check out important documents and tip sheets, safety guidelines, conflict management tools, earning awards, and so much more.

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Documents & Forms

Quickly search for other important documents in our Forms & Documents section of the website.

Uniforms & Badges

Visit the Shop section of our website to find ways to order uniforms, badges and much more.

Tip Sheets

Tips for Troop Leaders

No one said this rewarding journey would be easy, but with Tips for Troop Leaders, you'll be ready to meet any challenge that comes your way. GSUSA's Tips for Troop Leaders >

What's New?

Find new and updated fun Girl Scout activities, badges, patches and more in the What's New section of our website!

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Nothing is more important than ensuring the health and safety of girls, whether they’re engaged in a real-world activity or exploring online.

At Girl Scouts, we work hard to build safety consciousness in adults, training staff, volunteers, and girls on all safety protocols so that we can ensure proper supervision, prevent accidents and incidents, and maintain program resources.

GSMW does not allow troop meetings to be held in private homes. If you need assistance finding a meeting location, please contact your regional Member Experience Manager or Customer Care.

When preparing for any activity with girls:

Begin with reviewing the Safety section of Volunteer Essentials,
Review the Safety Activity Checkpoints written for that particular activity
When necessary, have girls and caregivers complete the Internet Safety Pledge Form

When necessary, obtain Additional Activity Insurance*

^{*Additional insurance is no longer required for domestic Girl Scout trips and activities. If your group wants optional sickness insurance, or you are traveling internationally, submit the Additional Insurance Form no later than 14 days before your trip.}

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Traditions give Girl Scouts a sense of history—and inspire them to be the best they can be.

Sharing traditions with millions of Girl Scouts—and the huge network of Girl Scout alumnae who came before them—helps remind girls they belong to a big, powerful sisterhood.

Tip Sheets

Videos

Traditions Coming Soon!
Songs

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Conflict Management Tools

Conflicts and disagreements are part of life, but if handled constructively, they show girls that they can overcome their differences, exercise diplomacy, and improve their communication and relationships.

As a Girl Scout Troop Leader and role model, you are in a great position to help girls learn how to have healthy relationships. This is a good time for Girl Scouts to practice being respectful and kind. Girl Scouts finds its foundation and principles in the Girl Scout Promise and Law to help girls make decisions or relate to one another.

If you need additional support related to bullying and conflict in your troop, please contact your MEM (Membership Experience Manager).

Utilize the following program materials to set expectations within the troop environment.

A Girl Code of Conduct Agreement and No Bullies Troop Pledge are included in these resources. Have girls and caregivers sign and revisit them at the beginning of each Girl Scout membership year.

Once you've completed the No Prob-Llama activities with your troop, come back here to submit your photo(s) to receive your No Drama Llama patches!

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Highest Awards

Are the Girl Scouts in your troop looking to complete the Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards?

Daisies and Brownies learn the basics of what it means to be a good neighbor and how they can help others. This gives them the foundation they'll need to earn the Bronze Award.
Juniors earn the Bronze Award by teaming up with other Girl Scouts to make a difference in their communities.
Cadettes earn the Silver Award by researching an issue, making a plan to address it, and then taking action to improve their communities.
Seniors and Ambassadors earn the Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting, by developing and carrying out lasting solutions to issues in their neighborhoods and beyond.

Highest Award Prerequisites

New Leadership Awards!

Introducing fresh ways for Girl Scouts to lead with confidence, mentor others, work as a team, and take action in their communities.

One award leads to the next, see how in the
Highest Awards Prerequisites overview.

The new Leadership Awards include flexible options that allow girls to explore and shape their own leadership style. The bonus—they’re part of an expanded set of options to fulfill the prerequisite toward earning Girl Scouting’s Highest Awards.

Earned Leadership Awards

Let us know if you have Girl Scouts that have earned Leadership Awards. This helps us keep track of accomplishments made by Girl Scout's. You can also request a certificate and purchase their earned pin!

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See below for a list of free tools that could be useful to you. We encourage troop leaders to look at these and alternative options and discuss with parents and girls to determine what the best solution is for your troop’s needs.

Review Safety Activity Checkpoints for Virtual Troop Meetings >

Free Video and Audio Conferencing Tools

While all of these options have a free version, please note you may be prompted to consider their upgraded versions for a subscription fee.

Zoom
40-minute free meetings
Microsoft Teams Meetings
60-minute free meetings
Webex
40-minute free meetings

Free Chat and Collaboration Tools

While all of these options have a free version, please note you may be prompted to consider their upgraded versions for a subscription fee.

Volunteer Resources in MyGS

Many of your must-have tools, like gsLearn and the Volunteer Toolkit, are accessible when you log in to MyGS —always accessible via the icon on the upper right corner of our website.

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The Volunteer Toolkit (VTK) is a customizable planning tool where you can find suggested meeting plans for most badges, access activity guides and badge requirements, track your Girl Scouts’ achievements, and so much more. It’s the digital planning assistant that will help you power a fun-filled—and organized—Girl Scout year.

You’ll find the Volunteer Toolkit via the left menu bar of MyGS in My Account. It’s accessible on any desktop, tablet, or mobile device.

Have questions about the Volunteer Toolkit?

Check out the Troop VTK User Guide for more information.

Also, be sure to review the Volunteer Toolkit trainings in gsLearn before you start.

Click on My GS Log In link (also located in the upper right-hand corner) to log in and access gsLearn and the Volunteer Toolkit.

Through the VTK, troop leaders can:

Plan the troop’s calendar year.
View the troop roster and email families with one click.
View badges, Journeys and awards for all program levels including prepopulated tracks for younger and older Multi-Level troop groups (K–5 and 6–12).
Explore meeting plans that show a breakdown of every meeting, including a list of materials needed and editable time allotments for each activity within a meeting.
Record girls’ attendance at meetings and their badge and Journey achievements.
Add council or custom troop events to the troop’s calendar.
Enter the troop’s finances (depending on the council’s process).
Easily locate resources both national and local council resources

Troop Leaders...tired of packing around receipts for months?

Check out more information about great tools to help you on our Troop Banking page.

gsLearn

gsLearn is full of essential volunteer trainings and courses, like how to lead activities the Girl Scout way, safety procedures, and advice for guiding Girl Scouts at every grade level.

You’ll find gsLearn via the left menu bar of MyGS in My Account. It’s accessible on any desktop, tablet, or mobile device, and it will be populated with any trainings you should view.

Have questions about how to access gsLearn?

Check out the gsLearn Tip Sheet for more information.

Monthly Newsletter

Did you miss a newsletter? Find the latest and other newsletters from this past year.

Forms & Docs

Important forms and documents for managing your troop, traveling, and more.

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Tip Sheets

Tips for Troop Leaders

No one said this rewarding journey would be easy, but with Tips for Troop Leaders, you'll be ready to meet any challenge that comes your way.

GSUSA's Tips for Troop Leaders >

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Nothing is more important than ensuring the health and safety of girls, whether they’re engaged in a real-world activity or exploring online.

At Girl Scouts, we work hard to build safety consciousness in adults, training staff, volunteers, and girls on all safety protocols so that we can ensure proper supervision, prevent accidents and incidents, and maintain program resources.

GSMW does not allow troop meetings to be held in private homes. If you need assistance finding a meeting location, please contact your regional Member Experience Manager or Customer Care.

When preparing for any activity with girls:

Begin with reviewing the Safety section of Volunteer Essentials,
Review the Safety Activity Checkpoints written for that particular activity
When necessary, obtain Additional Activity Insurance
Additional insurance is no longer required for domestic Girl Scout trips and activities. If your group wants optional sickness insurance, or you are traveling internationally, submit the Additional Insurance Form no later than 14 days before your trip.
When necessary, have girls and caregivers complete the Internet Safety Pledge Form

Please contact us with any questions or assistance!

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Conflict Management Tools

Conflicts and disagreements are part of life, but if handled constructively, they show girls that they can overcome their differences, exercise diplomacy, and improve their communication and relationships.

As a Girl Scout Troop Leader and role model, you are in a great position to help girls learn how to have healthy relationships. This is a good time for Girl Scouts to practice being respectful and kind. Girl Scouts finds its foundation and principles in the Girl Scout Promise and Law to help girls make decisions or relate to one another.

If you need additional support related to bullying and conflict in your troop, please contact your MEM (Membership Experience Manager).

Utilize the following program materials to set expectations within the troop environment.

A Girl Code of Conduct Agreement and No Bullies Troop Pledge are included in these resources. Have girls and caregivers sign and revisit them at the beginning of each Girl Scout membership year.

Meeting Planning Tools & Training

Planning Tools & Training

GSUSA Experience Boxes - New Troops