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Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting.
The site has had four names: Camp Edith Macy (C.E.M.) - University In The Woods, Edith Macy Training School, Edith Macy Girl Scout National Center and since 1982, Edith Macy Conference Center. However, it is often simply referred to as Macy. The John J. Creedon Education Center and Camp Andrée Clark are part of the complex. In 1926, Macy ...
Founded in 1912 by the Quebec Council, the 400 hectares (990 acres) Camp Tamaracouta is Canada's oldest Scout camp. It is located near Mille-Isles in the Laurentian Mountains, 60 kilometres (37 mi) northwest of Montreal. [a] Founded in 1933, the Knights of Tamara Society is the camp's honor society.
Camp Fire. Camp Fire, formerly Camp Fire USA and originally Camp Fire Girls of America, is a co-ed youth development organization. [1][2] Camp Fire was the first nonsectarian, multicultural organization for girls in America. [3] It is now gender-inclusive, and its programs emphasize camping and other outdoor activities.
The East Troy Girl Scout camp was founded in 1924. From activities to clothing to food, there have been lots of changes over the past 100 years. Girl Scout Camp Alice Chester in East Troy turns ...
Camp Julia Crowell. Coordinates: 41.250°N 81.663°W. Camp Julia Crowell was a Girl Scout camp in Richfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, opened in 1937. It was named for Julia Cobb Crowell, a Cleveland civic leader who served as the city's first Girl Scout commissioner in the 1920s. The camp closed as a Girl Scout property in 2011.
United Kingdom (origin) Founded. 1909. Founder. Agnes Baden-Powell. Scouting portal. Girl Guides (known as Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) is a worldwide movement, originally and largely still designed for girls and women only. The movement began in 1909, when girls requested to join the then-grassroots Boy Scout ...
Juliette Gordon Low (née Gordon; October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927) was the American founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. Inspired by the work of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scout Movement, she joined the Girl Guide movement in England, forming her own group of Girl Guides there in 1911. In 1912, she returned to the United States, and ...