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The requisite disclaimer:
This project is neither sponsored nor endorsed by the Girl Scouts of the USA® or any affiliated councils, troops, or other entities. This is an individual venture. No personal information - including your name - will be used in any way unless you expressly permit my doing so. Any personal information will be changed to aliases if selected for use in this project. You will have full edit and approval rights to your material prior to publication.
On my honor!
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Virtual Interview Questions
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These “interview” questions should serve as a booster to get your mind going for your story. Feel free to answer as many as – or as few as – you want. Imagine I am looking across at you with a pen and paper (or laptop computer) at hand, asking you these questions and taking notes. Print this virtual interview and ask someone to ask you these questions if that helps. Make it a group project and enact a talk show interview to make this more fun. Tape (or digitally) record the interview and transcribe it if that makes writing easier. Again, do what works best for you.
Write your stories in prose, or answer the questions by bullet-points … whatever works for you. Stories will be edited for grammar and spelling.
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- Outline your Girl Scout experience.
- When did you join?
- What positions have you held?
- Where have you been a Girl Scout?
- Do you have experience as a girl in a troop?
- Where?
- When?
- What level(s)?
- Troop #
- Leader(s)’ name(s)?
- Did you wear your uniform?
- How did you feel about it?
- Did you get teased? How did you handle it?
- Give a specific example of an experience where you had leadership responsibilities.
- What leadership skills did you use?
- Learn?
- Who taught / helped you?
- Did you lead your peers (others your same age/level), your elders, or people younger than you?
- What did you like about leading other people?
- What did you not like?
- What mistakes did you make?
- Did you learn from them? What did you learn?
- What tools and resources did you use to help you? How?
- What do you do now (in life)?
- What knowledge and skills do you now use?
- Did you gain these through your Girl Scout experiences? How?
- What leadership skills do you now use?
- Are these directly a result of your Girl Scout experience?
- Do you have a daughter/granddaughter/other girl relative in Girl Scouts?
- Why?
- What have you taught them about leadership?
- What have they learned in spite of your involvement?
- What results have you observed in them?
- What is unique about Girl Scouts?
- Can youth learn the same knowledge and skills from other youth organizations?
- Why? Why not?
- What Girl Scout support structure is in place that makes the organization unique?
- What part of the Girl Scout Promise and Law emphasize leadership, to you?
- How will/do you pass on the lessons and advice you gained in Girl Scouts, to other girls?
- Lessons/advice to adults?
- Give some specific leadership advice as if you are teaching leadership as a topic.
- How do you see Girl Scout lessons in leadership relating to the “real world” – whether business, community, faith, home, politics, or other aspects of the “real world” as you define them?
- Be specific; give examples when you answer the following questions...
- How does being involved in Girl Scouts help you deal with life changes?
- How does being involved in Girl Scouts help you be a better citizen? A better person in general?
- How does being involved in Girl Scouts help you be an effective communicator?
- How does being involved in Girl Scouts help you be a fair problem-solver?
- How does being involved in Girl Scouts help you be compassionate? Ethical?
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The Girl Scout Promise and Law
Girl Scouts is a values-based organization, not a religious one.
The Girl Scout Promise and Law are its guiding principles.
The Girl Scout Promise
On my honor, I will try:
To serve God and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law.
(The word "God" can be interpreted in a number of ways, depending on one's spiritual beliefs. When reciting the Girl Scout Promise, it is okay to replace the word "God" with whatever word your spiritual beliefs dictate.)
The Girl Scout Law
I will do my best to be:
honest and fair,
friendly and helpful,
considerate and caring,
courageous and strong, and
responsible for what I say and do,
and to:
respect myself and others,
respect authority,
use resources wisely,
make the world a better place, and
be a sister to every Girl Scout.
The Girl Scout Motto
Be prepared.
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