OTM Sendoff Family Festival

Save the date: Friday, April 9, 2021

2020 OTM T-Shirt

While we are glad to do our part in keeping our community healthy, we are disappointed that OTM Sendoff was cancelled. If you were waiting to come aboard to buy your OTM T-shirts and patches, there is still a chance to get them! Order them today at 15% off the regular price! (Preorder price: $16.11 + tax; regular retail price: $18.95 + tax). We will have them ready for pick up or delivery as soon as our shops reopen.

This essential and super soft unisex heathered gray shirt fits like a well-loved favorite. With a crew neck and short sleeves, this tee is designed with superior Arilume combed and ring-spun cotton.

OTM Sendoff Patch

Girl Scouts San Diego honors military troops through the Operation Thin Mint program. Show your support with this 3.5" x 2.5" embroidered OTM fun patch for $2 (+ tax)!

Contact store@sdgirlscouts.org for questions.

At Operation Thin Mint^SM Sendoff Family Festival aboard the USS Midway Museum, we celebrate shipping cookies with notes of support to deployed military troops and veterans. Everyone is invited for music, family-friendly activities, photo opportunities, and a patriotic pep rally saluting the military and cookie program participants, including this year’s Elite Cookie Entrepreneurs. Plus, in recognition of Month of the Military Child, dependent children of military members will receive a special patch.

Space is limited. To more accurately plan for the event, please only register for those attending. If your participation numbers change after registering for the event, please notify us at customercare@sdgirlscouts.org.

Girl Scouts San Diego began OTM in 2002 to give deployed U.S. military troops “a taste of home and a note to show we care.” Since then, U.S. Navy, Marine, Army, Air Force, and National Guard troops stationed in Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan, and Korea, and aboard ships around the globe have received over 3 million packages of Girl Scout cookies and countless handwritten notes from San Diegans.

2019 OTM Sendoff Recap

It Rained…We Shined!

Thank you to all who participated in our 18th annual Operation Thin Mint Sendoff Family Festival on May 10 (photos). This was our 15th consecutive year of partnering with USS Midway! A cheering crowd of nearly 2,000 gathered in the historic ship’s hangar bay (moved indoors due to the rain forecast) as Girl Scouts revealed that San Diegans donated over 165,000 boxes of cookies this year for deployed U.S. military troops.

News 8 This Morning’s Jenny Milkowski emceed the event where attendees had the opportunity to personally thank military troops for their service to the U.S. and to write messages of support to accompany the cookies at the “Notes From Home” booth.

Troop 5912 presented the colors, and Dawn Kubik and Girl Scout Ellie O’Connel brought the house down with trumpet and vocals for Taps. Elite entrepreneurs (2019+ packages) were honored, and Superstars (100+ OTM package donations) received a special gift. There was even a surprise visit by Nina De Burgh, the great–great-niece of Girl Scouts’ founder Juliette Gordon Low!

DJ Jeremy kept the party rockin’, Millie the Bear debuted at the OTM mobile store, and community partners offered hands-on activities throughout the event.

Cabrillo National Monument
Center Stage Productions
Code With Her
Flower Girl World
Girl Advisory Board
Great Wolf Lodge
Inspire School of Ballet
Living Coast Discovery Center
Mission Federal Credit Union
National Marine Mammal Foundation
SDG&E
Seven Spears Martial Arts Academy

Thank you for 15 years of support and Midway magic!

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