Girls State Training Section 5

Girls State is an invaluable experience! To help you on your way we hope this next section will help you out in the future.

Resume workbook
This is a workbook put together for high school students. I thought it might help you begin your resume for college and scholarships. This is just a starting point. You may find better resources online or from your high school counseling office.

Professional Dress
Here are some tips for dressing for interviews.

Interviewing Skills
In this document there are several tips for doing well in interviews.

Getting Started with College
This website is very informative! Check it out!

Memorial Day and Poppies

We would like to invite you to the
Spanish Fork Cemetery on Thursday, May 26th at 3pm
to place poppies on the white crosses that are placed there in remembrance of our fallen soldiers from the area. This is a great opportunity of service.

We will also be giving you each poppies while you are at the cemetery to distribute the weekend of Memorial Day. We, as a an organization, ask for contributions from those who we distribute poppies to. We do not sell the poppies. Can you buy and sell freedom and the sacrifice of our soldiers? If people ask you how much they are you can ask how much their freedom is worth!

Our poppies are made by our disabled veterans and all contributions go back to them. We need all of you to distribute poppies. Before you get on the bus for Girls State we will need all the money back in.


Please read this short history of the Memorial Poppy

Girls State Training Section 4

Let's get ready for Girls State!

I found Michigan's Girls State manual and thought it would give you a good idea of what is expected of you.

Michigan Girls State Manual
Pages that I thought were most relevant/helpful: 9, 15, 28-33, A-1 through A-5.

Packing List
A packing list for you to use in your preparation for Girls State!

Girls State Orientation & State Blog

Thank you to all that attended the District 4 orientation on Saturday. Here are some links to the paperwork that you got and a link to the Utah Girls State blog.

Utah Girls State blog
--It would be a great idea to keep up to date with this blog! I added a link to the left for it. You may want add it to your list of blogs to follow.

Paper packet you received

Offices you can run for at Girls State

Girls State sweatshirt order form

Transcript Request form

SUU Concurrent Enrollment form

Girls State Packet Section 1 & Section 2

Updated Medical form

Girls State Training Section 3

It may not seem as important to study the history behind the pledge of allegiance and our national anthem. I found these resources and wanted to share them with you. It's important to understand the past to appreciate it and fight for our future.

Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem

As a trained cub scout den leader I say the pledge of allegiance every week with my scouts. I was trained that there is no comma or separation in the phrase "one nation under God." I found this article interesting.

Just a Reminder...

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Look to the left of your screen. You will see "Follow by Email" where you can type in your email address and subscribe! You'll get an email with a link that you will click to activate your subscription. Super easy!! With this you should receive an update with every new post. Remember, the blog is the easiest way for us to keep all of our info and links together. If you have any questions, comments or concerns please let us know!

Here is a reminder of the training posts coming up. Hopefully you haven't lost this sheet, but if you have here it is for you.

Girls State Training Outline

2011 Girls State Girls

Here is a photo of all you beautiful Girls State Girls from our March 25th training meeting.

L-R: Jessica Christley (SFHS), Madison Hall (SFHS), Kira Burton (SFHS), Makayla Michelsen (SFHS), Holly Fullmer (ALA), Bethany Millet (ALA)