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Girl Scout Workshops 2009-2010

Aug 22nd from 10am - 2pm
Training for FIRST LEGO League Coach/Mentors
Workers: Kate, Rachel
Lissa is bringing the NXTs. We are suppling the laptops.

Kickoff Party at Girl Scout office (or Tech?) when the kits come in and
the challenge is released on Sept 3rd. - CANCELLED

Mountain Jubilee - Robots (The Girl Scouts are providing all the materials and supplies)
Directions:
Take I-75 North to Exit 320 (Lafayette/Reseca) and turn Left onto GA-136. Travel 1.5 miles and turn Left onto Hall Memorial Rd. Go about 0.5 miles and turn Right onto Fairview Rd. (it's can be hard to see; but it's directly across from a church). Travel about 2 miles down the road until it it goes over a rail road and merges into Sugar Valley Rd. You'll see a Mohawk Carpet Factory just ahead and the road curves. Immediately after you pass the factory, turn Left onto Pocket Road (there's a gas station on the right just across from it). Keep on Pocket Road/Lake Marvin Rd.

The camp is about 6 miles ahead on the Right, after you pass over Horn Mountain.
You will go up on Sat night and arrive for dinner by 6:30pm. You will build the robots the first Sat night and set-up the room. You will
run 1 hour sessions for Dads and daughters on Sunday after breakfast and before lunch. You will be done after lunch. The Girl
Scouts will feed you dinner Sat, breakfast Sun, and lunch Sunday. You will sleep in bunk beds in a large room. There is a shower, but bring your own towel, shampoo, etc. You will also need a sleeping bag or sheets and blankets. You should also bring a flashlight. It is colder in the mountains so bring a jacket as well.

Event and Date(s)AssistantsDriverMaterialsSurveys Needed# of girls and Dads
Mountain Jubilee 9/19 and 9/20, 2009Kate and Karmelia Lissa CameraNo30
Mountain Jubilee 9/26 and 9/97, 2009Jon and CelinesJonCameraNo42
Mountain Jubilee 10/3 and 10/4, 2009Stevie and Russ StevieCameraNo75
Mountain Jubilee 10/10 and 10/11, 2009Karmelia and RachelVanCameraNo52

Serendipity - PicoCrickets? (The Girl Scouts are providing all the materials and supplies)
Directions:
Take I-85 South to exit 41 (Moreland), turn Left onto US-27 Alt. and pass underneath the highway. Follow US-27 Alt for 7.7 miles until you enter Luthersville. Turn Left at the traffic light onto Luthersville-Rocky Mount Rd. Travel about 1.5 miles down the road and take a Left onto Meadows Boone Rd (this turn is very easy to miss as it's a sharp T intersection, watch carefully on the left). You'll pass 4 houses and the road with turn sharply to the right, the camp's main gate is 0.5 miles around the corner on the Left.

You will go up on Friday night and arrive for dinner by 6:00pm. You will set-up the room Friday night. You will
run 1 hour sessions for Moms and daughters on Saturday after breakfast and before lunch and then again after lunch and before dinner. You will be done after dinner. The Girl Scouts will feed you dinner Friday, breakfast Saturday, lunch Saturday, and dinner on Saturday. You will sleep in bunk beds in
a large room. There is a shower, but bring your own towel, shampoo, etc. You will also need a sleeping
bag or sheets and blankets. You should also bring a flashlight. You may want a jacket.

Event and Date(s)AssistantsDriverMaterialsSurveys Needed# of girls
Serendipity 10/10 and 10/11, 2009None N/ACameraNon/a
Serendipity 10/16 and 10/17, 2009Sarah and KarmeliaKarmelia/VanCameraNo?
Serendipity 10/23 and 10/24, 2009Rachel and Stevie-cancelled due to flat tire Stevie or VanCameraNo?

Events @ Tech - Fall 2009
Event and Date(s)AssistantsDriverMaterialsSurveys NeededLocation # of girls
PicoCricket (Halloween theme)10/31 2009 Sarah and Karmelian/aCrickets, Laptops, CameraYesKlaus, room 145625
Robot Basics 11/14 2009Karmelia, Jeff, and Russn/aNXTs, Laptops, CameraYesKlaus, room 145614
Alice 12/5 2009Sarah, Karmelia, Jon, and Russ n/aLaptops, CameraYesKlaus, room 14569
Scratch 12/12 2009Sarah, Karmelia and Russ n/aLaptops, CameraYesKlaus, room 145670

Events @ Tech - Spring 2010
Jan 16 - Scribbler
Jan 17 - PicoCricket
Jan 30 Hispanic and Outreach - Scratch
Feb 6th - Pleo (limit of 28 girls)
Feb 21 - Robot Basics
March 6 - Alice
April 3 - Robots Extreme


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