Junior Skills Volunteers/PAs/Judges

2025 Junior Skills at River Ranch &/or Camp St Albans‎



Show off your Outdoor Skills in this affirming competition!‎

Juniors, 2nd Year Brownies, and 1st Year Cadettes are welcome.‎
Junior Skills Weekend is an opportunity to celebrate your outdoor skills progression with Volunteer Outdoor Experts! After all this time indoors, we are all a little rusty, and look forward to meeting Girl Scouts right where they are in a positive, fun, and experiential learning environment.‎
The competition aspect is mostly Girl Scouts competing against themselves --‎
how can I grow,‎
how can WE grow as a team,‎
how can I grow my leadership‎
-- and celebrating our successes!‎

Awards are given for confidence in skill demonstration in the areas of Knots, Lashing, Outdoor Cooking & Sanitation, Fire Building, First Aid, Leave No Trace, General Camping & Clean Up, and Team Work.‎
Outdoor Skills Handbook of what to practice is provided electronically.‎

Meals Provided: Saturday Breakfast, Saturday Snacks! Saturday Dinner, Sunday Breakfast // For judges, Saturday lunch will be with the troop your supporting.‎

Commemorative Patch, and thank you note.‎

Volunteers: Adults and Program Aid or Caddette and up level scouts with Girl Scout camping expereince and/or past skillettes participation are invited to be Judges for the Saturday competiton. Looking for aprox. 8-12 leads and 24+ team judges which will be broken up into groups of 3-5 to assess competing troops.‎

Volunteers are welcome for Saturday only, or can stay in an open air cabin or enclosed 'troop house style' cabin (suggested cost of $21 to offset costs).‎

2025 Zoom Orientation for each volunteer is suggested:‎
Camp River Ranch: Sunday, April 13th, 7:00 pm HERE
Camp St Albans: Sunday, April 27th, 7:00pm Link