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  2. Juliette Gordon Low - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Gitanjali Rao (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Gitanjali Rao is an American inventor, author, social activist, and a STEM student and advocate. Rao won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in 2017 [1][2] and was recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30 for her innovations. [3] Rao was named Time 's top young innovator of 2020 for her innovations and "innovation workshops" she ...

  4. Girl Scouts of the USA - Wikipedia

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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 [3] (formally Boy Scouts).

  5. Girl Guides - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Janese Swanson - Wikipedia

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    Janese Swanson (born 1958) [1] is an American inventor and software developer. Swanson co-developed the first of the Carmen Sandiego educational games, and founded the company Girl Tech, [2] [3] which creates products aimed at making technology more interesting for girls. She has developed award-winning curricula, electronic toys, and books ...

  7. Josephine Groves Holloway - Wikipedia

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    Children. 3. Josephine Amanda Groves Holloway (March 10, 1898 – December 7, 1988) was an American woman who broke the color barrier for African-American girls to become involved in scouting in the state of Tennessee. In 1933 she began organizing unofficial scout groups, which were recognized in 1942, and eventually desegregated.

  8. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb. Recorded 1929. Signature. Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. [1][2][3] He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. [4]

  9. Category:Girl Scouts of the USA logos - Wikipedia

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