Program areas at GSCTX
Membership: gsctx served girls, grades k-12, or through high school graduation, in the Central Texas 46-county jurisdiction. Membership focuses on Girl and volunteer retention and recruitment, volunteer training and support, and troop and service unit support. Troop activities focus on providing the best leadership experience for girls that builds courageous, confident young women with the high character necessary for successful living in the real world.
Outdoor: outdoor programs and camp are a critical part of the Girl leadership experience. Staff and volunteers seek to educate girls in outdoor leadership skills, instill in them a sense of responsibility and environmental stewardship, and reconnect girls with nature. Girls pursue outdoor activities like camping, equestrian, water sports, rock climbing, backpacking, mountain biking, and archery among many others through summer resident camp and year-round camping.
Girl programs and outreach: program activities enable girls to build the necessary confidence, skills, and knowledge required to become community leaders and enter the 21st century workforce. Girls, adult volunteers, and staff work in partnership in the delivery of the Girl scout leadership experience through Girl scout journeys and badges, as well as focus on four national programmatic pillars of stem (science, technology, engineering, and math), entrepreneurship, outdoors, and critical life skills. Gsctx additionally focuses on key programs including financial literacy, career and college readiness, high awards, digital literacy, health & wellness, travel, and special interest troops. Community troops, community specific Girl programs are also delivered to underserved populations through Girl scout programming that includes violence prevention, criminal behavior avoidance, dropout prevention, and anti-bullying.