6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
USS Midway Museum
910 N. Harbor Drive, downtown San Diego
Cost: $5
Operation Thin Mint℠
Operation Thin Mint℠ (OTM) is a local Girl Scout service project that originated in San Diego in 2002 during the Girl Scout Cookie Program. With support from the community, Girl Scouts and their cookie customers send packages of America's favorite cookies and countless notes of support to veterans and deployed troops serving around the world in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, Japan, Korea, and the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean.
The Girl Scout Cookie Program takes place across San Diego and Imperial counties from January to March each year. To learn more about how to participate or support your local cookie entrepreneurs, visit sdgirlscouts.org/cookies.
Celebrating More than 20 Years and 4.3+ Million Packages of Operation Thin Mint℠
OTM Family Festival Returns on Saturday, May 17, 2025!
During the 2025 cookie program, Girl Scouts in San Diego and Imperial counties marketed more than 2 million packages of cookies and secured 130,783 packages of donated cookies for OTM, a service project that originated in San Diego in 2002 that shares Girl Scout Cookies with U.S. military personnel.
We will celebrate those successes with the Operation Thin Mint℠ Family Festival aboard the USS Midway Museum on Saturday, May 17. The event will welcome 1,500+ guests and commemorate 24 years and more than 4.3 million packages of OTM. Attendees can look forward to bustling community partner stations, the GSSD pop-up shop, concessions and picnics on the USS Midway’s flight deck, and an epic dance party to end the night.
Check out photos from last year’s event.
Hope to see you aboard the USS Midway this year!
Registration Information 
Event Logistics
2025 Sendoff Partners
5-Star Partner
4-Star Partner
Community Sponsors
Inquiries:
General event questions? Contact customercare@sdgirlscouts.org.
Interested in OTM Family Festival sponsorships? Contact Betsy Paige.
Help us send 200,000 letters
Print blank OTM notecards, decorate, and return to any Girl Scouts San Diego office or resource center so we can send "notes to show we care" to deployed troops and veterans with shipments of OTM cookies. We collect notes year-round.
"Grown men do cry! The Operation Thin Mint cookies brought back memories of home. With all our hearts, thank you for thinking of us."— Deanna Moore, Supply Officer, USNS PATHFINDER (T-AGS-60)
"Thank you for the cookies. It just feels like a little piece of home was delivered to us!"— LS1(SW/AW) Jennifer Workman, USN, USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)
"Two things Marines overseas look forward to are letters from family and Girl Scout cookies. So believe me when I say we are thankful for your support and thoughtfulness."— SGT J.T. Drake, USMC; U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia
"We have just received a shipment of Girl Scout cookies out here in Djibouti (Horn of Africa). We are very thankful!"— PO3 Tiffany Woodruff, USN; U.S. Central Command
"The Girl Scout Cookies were such a morale booster! Thank you for keeping our soldiers in your thoughts."— First Sergeant Kerry Wood, USA; Camp Humphreys, Korea
