INSPIRE Program
INSPIRE Program
Girl Scouts of Orange County's Signature Multimedia Program
INSPIRE™, housed exclusively at the Argyros Girl Scout Leadership Center (GSLC), is Girl Scouts of Orange County’s signature interactive multimedia program. Through INSPIRE, Girl Scouts of all levels have life-changing opportunities to explore exciting careers and learn how to take action on issues they care about, while developing an understanding of the importance and relevance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) in their everyday lives.
INSPIRE™ focuses on two key areas of leadership development that
are cornerstones of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience - Career
Exploration and Take Action. Each 1 ½ hour program introduces
girls to inspirational role models on giant 80” television screens who
share insights about their own career and leadership paths.
INSPIRE is girl-led and participants select the careers or take action theme they want to learn more about. During the experience, Girl Scouts break into small groups, engaging INSPIRE's interactive gameplay to build on the videos they’ve watched and discussions they’ve had with their Girl Scout sisters! INSPIRE’s fun, hands-on group activities get girls playing and working together to design a personalized character, create a digital poster, and record a group video about all they have learned!
Career Exploration 
Take Action
INSPIRE™ Experience
INSPIRE is girl-led and participants select the careers or Take Action theme they want to learn more about.
Whether your Girl Scouts choose Career Exploration or Take Action,
each INSPIRE experience is designed to be 1 ½ hours long, but the
group facilitator (a troop leader or mature Girl Scout) controls the
gameplay to advance at the girls’ pace. The program itself is led by
on-screen Girl Scout INSPIRE Guides, who help participating girls
progress through INSPIRE and explain how to do each activity.
During the experience, Girl Scouts break into small groups and respond on their INSPIRE Pads to videos they’ve watched and discussions they’ve had!
Screenshot of INSPIRE Pad game play.
For the Know Your Role
activity, Girl Scout Daisies and Girl Scout Brownies decide which
skills are most important for their chosen career.
Screenshot of INSPIRE Pad game play.
For the Find Community Resources
activity, Girl Scout Daisies and Girl Scout Brownies work in teams to
identify where in their community they can seek help for their Take
Action project.
Girl Scouts engage in fun, hands-on group activities, such as designing a personalized character, creating a digital poster, and recording a group video about all they have learned!
Troop leaders follow along with the girls’ progress, asking questions and encouraging girls to be inspired!
At the end of your experience, participants log into the INSPIRE website to watch additional inspirational videos about the career women, as well as access and download all activity content they created during their session.
INSPIRE™ Level Progression
Every INSPIRE experience is unique, and all INSPIRE experiences are designed to progress as girls get older. The INSPIRE gameplay is customized to the unique learning needs of each Girl Scout Level. All INSPIRE programs are set up with the same flow of activities, though the experience will never be the same.
Examples of Girl Scout level progression within INSPIRE activities:
Daises and Brownies
Juniors and Cadettes
Seniors and Ambassadors
About the Argyros Girl Scout Leadership Center
The Argyros Girl Scout Leadership Center (GSLC) is Orange County’s new hub for Girl Scout STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programs. Visits to the GSLC provide Orange County Girl Scouts from all cultures and backgrounds extraordinary opportunities to practice leadership the Girl Scout way, like a G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™, as they explore exciting 21st Century careers and learn how they can take action to make the world a better place.
Set on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, the GSLC provides the ideal locale for girls to have life-changing experiences as they embrace the relevance and importance of STEM in their lives. Girl Scouts also have plenty of opportunities to create lifelong memories -- kayaking from the bayfront property, toasting s’mores on the sprawling patio, and participating in water and sand activities.
