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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]
International Girl Scout gatherings named Senior Roundups were held every three years from 1956 until 1965. [2] The last one was held at Farragut Reservation , Idaho , from July 17 to July 26, 1965, with 12,000 girls in attendance.
The Girl Scouts of America was established in Des Moines, Iowa by Clara A. Lisetor-Lane in 1910. [5] In 1911, the GSA and the Girl Guides ( Spokane, Washington ) planned to merge with the Camp Fire Girls to form the Girl Pioneers of America, [ 6 ] but relationships fractured and the merger failed. [ 5 ]
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 .
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts recognizes at most one Guiding organization per country. Some countries have several organizations combined as a federation, with different component groups divided on the basis of religions (France, Denmark), ethnic identification (Israel) or language (Belgium).
1. Raspberry Rally. This little treat occupies a unique spot in Girl Scout cookie history. It arrived in 2023; it was the first cookie available exclusively online, and by 2024, it was gone.
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 .
The Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys announced in July 2012 that they would be selling Girl Scout cookies for $4 per box, the Star Tribune reported. Linda B. Keene, CEO of the ...