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Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois

Welcome to the Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois website! Please visit often as we continue to build our web site and make it a useful tool for you to maximize your Girl Scout Experience.


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The Girl Scout Mission

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Our realigned service center network offers more Program options, greater Girl Scout merchandise availability, and online shopping!

Elgin Service Center
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Freeport Service Center
Sugar Grove Service Center

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It's Your Planet—Love It!

Get Moving!

  • Juniors build their skills as leaders who Energize, Investigate, and Innovate.
  • They earn these three prestigious new leadership awards as they explore their own energy, the energy in their places and spaces (buildings), and the energy of getting from here to there (transportation)
  • Juniors have a new comic story, "Vamos Ya!" to inspire their action (walking school bus anyone?)
  • Dez, the fashionista spider, is also back to add some wit to the journey as she tries to figure out life "off the grid." "How does this carbon footprint thing work?" she asks. "Do I get eight?"
  • From their own paper-making experiment to making beads from newspapers and magazines to forming a "perpetual human motion machine," Juniors will find that GET MOVING! is crammed full of energizing stuff to make and do!

Journey Awards

This journey offers Juniors a chance to earn three Girl Scout leadership awards—Energize, Investigate, and Innovate. The girls can choose to earn one, two, or all three. If they earn all three, they'll see how the awards join together to create an energizing effect on their vest or sash.

Brownie Journey Award

To earn the Energize Award, girls:

  • Make an Energy Pledge to reduce their energy use in one or more ways
  • Try at least two other Energize activities suggested along the journey
  • Check out how other people are tackling energy issues

To earn the Investigate Award, girls connect with their Girl Scout crew to:

  • Learn about energy use in their buildings
  • Work with their families to make an energy improvement at home
  • Investigate energy use in a community building and suggest ways to make it more energy-efficient

To earn the Innovate Award, girls:

  • Identify an energy issue in the community, research it, create a plan, and carry it out, all the while reaching out to others to join in, too
  • Share the news, reflect on what they accomplished, and celebrate it
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