So here is how things went today.

The girl scouts and I were able to meet up with Neil Stamps, Nina Dash and Trisha Borgia and walked to a beautiful restaurant for breakfast.  We may not have had a lot of time there, but had some great conversations with the scouts.  Truly wonderful to hear these amazing young women form an opinion on issues that matter to them within our council and have the confidence to talk to our CEO and a member of our Board of Directors.  These scouts have learned their lessons well, even though I have just gotten to know these scouts I was so very proud of each of them.

We hustled over to the convention center—delegates went directly into their session while GSLI hiked to the far reaches of the building again. 

GSLI today was supposed to have a speaker first thing..not sure what happened as the speaker's bio was presented, she was introduced but no speaker appeared. So what do a room full of 600 GSLI scouts and adults do when this happens….we sing of course.  A few songs later and clearly the speaker was a no show.

The scouts broke out into issue sessions based on the topic of their project…chaperones went to learn about how to help scouts achieve their goals.   A bunch of teamwork skill activities, more speakers and breakout discussions later and it was time for lunch.

Our delegates joined us for lunch and we were able to listen to Candice Kislack—the co founder of Tom's shoes.  Very inspirational, lots of ideas of how to incorporate 'social enterprise' 

Our afternoon for chaperones was mini workshops about team building, money matters and measuring impact.  I'll be quite honest by hour 6 of GSLI Sessions just about every chaperone was a bit glassy eyed, and more than a bit brain dead. Just so much to take in.  Dinner brought us together with the GSLI Scouts again with Elizabeth Smart as the guest speaker.  Inspiration on finding the strength from within yourself and the love and support of family.

One  more session at 7:00pm to discuss project management and the new TRELLO app…yup its free for everyone.  Chaperones had time to sit and talk with their Scouts and start creating a formal take action project.

Dashed out around 8pm, quick stop at the hotel to drop our bags, grab our GSSNE jackets and went out…It is a Friday night after all.  We decided to head in the opposite direction and found a really cute gelato shop.  Had a very nice time with our treat and some time to chat, laugh, compare notes.

Got back to the hotel by 9:30 or so…we all decided to get busy with our technology and try to work on our blog/photos.

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Tomorrow night we get to go to the planetarium then back to the convention center for a dance party.