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The program of the Girl Scouts of the USA is administered through local councils. Each council covers a geographic area of the United States , that may vary in size from a single U.S. county to multiple U.S. states .
Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital; Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians; Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida; Girl Scouts - Arizona Cactus-Pine Council; Girl Scouts - Dakota Horizons; Girl Scouts - Diamonds of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas; Girl Scouts - Fox Valley Council; Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines
Girl Scouts raising the flag at a Municipal Band concert in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 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]
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 Movement .
Ten lines within the logo symbolise the ten Laws shared by Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. The three triangles symbolise the threefold Promise. The M shape symbolises the global challenges facing Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting that can be overcome through unity. The conference's theme was "Join in, reach out, change lives".
The founder of Girl Scouts, Juliette Gordon Low, wrote in November 1923: “The five requirements for winning the Golden Eaglet are character, health, handicraft, happiness and service, and that others will expect to find in our Golden Eaglet a perfect specimen of girlhood: mentally, morally, and physically.” [3]
The Girl Scout Membership Star is worn with blue membership disks [5] and they wear the Girl Scout Daisy Membership Pin. Daisies use the Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting for Daisies [ 6 ] and the National Leadership Journeys [ 7 ] to work on activities, may camp only with a parent present, and have the option to sell Girl Scout cookies .
The Silver Fish Award is the highest adult award in Girlguiding.It is awarded for outstanding service to Girlguiding combined with service to world Guiding.The award has changed greatly since it first appeared in 1911, initially being awarded to girls on completion of a number of badges, then via numerous stages to the highest award in the Guiding movement worldwide, and then on to its ...