What an exciting time to be a Girl Scout! We are about to kick off our 100th Anniversary year, and it promises to be a big one for our girls.
The National Program Portfolio, and the new 100th Anniversary edition of the handbook: The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting, are the tools for all levels of Girl Scouting.
How far can a Girl Scout go? (video)
The first part of the National Program Portfolio are the Girl Scouts Journeys. Girls at each grade level have three fun, exciting, colorful journeys to choose from. The journeys offer girls all the leadership benefits that we’ve promised them and the badges offer them the chance to build specific skills. When a girl goes on a journey, she gets to explore leadership from all different angles.
Badges help girls develop specific skills in everything from photography to inventing to camping to geocaching – the list goes on and on! When girls build skills, they become more confident and develop a stronger sense of self.
So beginning this fall, girls will have an exciting, new resource: The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting! If girls want to earn badges to supplement their journey — and you know there’s a great chance that most of them do — they will now have new ones to choose. If girls are currently working on badges, they have until September 2012 to complete those. For the 2012 membership year then, girls will finish up their badges already begun and have a whole new set of badges to consider!
