Registration for our January 2026 Dreams to Reality event opens this Summer!
Dreams to Reality 2025
Saturday, January 11, 2025
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Chapman University, Orange CA
A Day of Career Inspiration & Championing Girl
Ambition!
Level: 8th Grade Cadette, Senior, Ambassador
Dreams to Reality is GSOC’s premier career exploration conference, for Girl Scouts in grades 8-12, to gain insight and inspiration by learning about different careers, participating in hands-on adulting situational games, getting a glimpse into university life through campus chats with Girl Scout alums currently in college, and more!
Featuring high energy sessions designed to help make dreams a reality, and support mental wellness:
- Get inspired and motivated by keynote speaker Geanna Culbertson.
- Explore potential career paths in the Career Worlds session.
- Learn valuable networking skills to represent your best self.
- Immerse yourself in university life during the Campus Chat session.
- Gain practical “adulting 101” skills in the Reality Town session.
- Reflect on your journey and recharge with mental wellness activities and takeaway tools.
Event cost is low thanks to a generous grant from our friends at Taco Bell, Workforce Development.
Featured Keynote: Geanna Culbertson, award-winning author of
The Crisanta Knight Series.
Geanna Culbertson is the award-winning author of The Crisanta Knight Series, the fantastical guardian angels series Heaven’t You Heard? and the critically-acclaimed Christmas novel The Present. Her work has been featured in Girls’ Life Magazine as recommended reading for preteen and teen girls, and she is an ongoing supporter of nonprofits like Girls on the Run, Read to a Child, and Girl Scouts of the USA.
Geanna is excited about continuing to expand her rich, magical and
morally-driven content with the fantastical worlds she has already
created, and other series and standalone books on the way.
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$10 each OC Girl Scout*; grades 8 - 12 (*$15 for Girl Scouts registered with councils
outside of Orange County). $12 option to purchase lunch.
