Hear & Now - Girl Scouts Heart Of Central California
Hear & Now - Girl Scouts Heart Of Central California
Hear & Now - Girl Scouts Heart Of Central California
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…<strong>Girl</strong> <strong>Scouts</strong> is on the web!<br />
There’s a special section just for you, called “For <strong>Girl</strong>s.” You can find it on<br />
the home page or go directly to www.girlscoutshcc.org/forgirls.html.<br />
Are you on myspace? Put <strong>Girl</strong> <strong>Scouts</strong> on your friends list! Look us up at<br />
www.myspace.com/girlscoutshcc.<br />
…you can be a spokeswoman for the council!<br />
My journey began last year with a training where we learned the ropes on being an effective spokeswoman.<br />
Later that day, we filmed a video on cookie sales to be distributed throughout council. That was a LOT of fun.<br />
Then, last January, I was given the opportunity to go on Sacramento and Co. to do a cooking segment. I was<br />
so excited! The recipe I decided to demonstrate was: Raspberry Chocolate Cheesecake Cups, using the Little<br />
Brownie <strong>Girl</strong> Scout Cookie!<br />
If you are interested in being a spokeswoman for the council e-mail MarComm@girlscoutshcc.org! They will<br />
contact you and get you ready for your big debut; even if you’ve never done something like this before. There<br />
are so many opportunities and best of all…it is so much fun!<br />
Contributed by Jessica, 15<br />
A few years ago, 16-yearold<br />
Kristyn Heath, a <strong>Girl</strong><br />
Scout since “the middle<br />
of sixth grade,” got an<br />
iPod for her birthday, but<br />
when she and her iPodless<br />
friends hung out,<br />
the iPod was suddenly<br />
not such a blessing. Her friends like to<br />
share their music, and Kristyn couldn’t do it with her iPod: if<br />
you share earbuds, only two people can listen. “I don’t have just<br />
one friend, and I wanted to share music with all my friends,”<br />
she explained. And so began the three-year-long journey to<br />
NoeStringAttached. Kristyn started drawing designs for a device<br />
that would allow her to use radio waves to share music. She<br />
showed the drawings to her dad, who took them to an engineer,<br />
who then referred them to another engineer in China. It “took a lot<br />
to get to the product we have now, and we went through a lot of<br />
prototypes and stages,” says Kristyn. At last, NoeStringAttached<br />
made its debut at Kristyn’s high school, where it made the school<br />
…a Bay Area <strong>Girl</strong> Scout<br />
is quite an entrepreneur!<br />
newspaper. Her dad used a contact at NBC to get a story on<br />
the air, and after that, everything snowballed. Kristyn went to<br />
New York to do a tape for MSNBC. She describes her current<br />
campaign as “viral” and “word of mouth.”<br />
If you want to share your music, you can look NoeStringAttached<br />
up on SnoopTunes.com. And if you don’t have an iPod, don’t<br />
worry: NoeStringAttached will work with any MP3 player or CD<br />
player. Plug the NoeStringAttached in where you normally plug<br />
headphones in, flip the switch to TX, you’re transmitting a radio<br />
signal. Anyone with a NoeStringAttached and headphones can<br />
listen in by switching to RX–receiving–as long as they’re within<br />
15 feet of you. Sound like something you want? You can swing<br />
by the GSHCC Council Shop and pick one up.<br />
Kristyn says that anyone who wants to be a successful<br />
entrepreneur like herself needs perseverance. It took her three<br />
years to get her product to where it is now, and she ran into a lot<br />
of obstacles.“You have to believe in your product and you will<br />
overcome the obstacles you face.” Sage advice from a bright girl.
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