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[quote=cburkhardt]Dear Friends,

Regular readers of DCUM know I occasionally post a comment to answer questions about the all-girl program known as “Scouts BSA”.  I’ve been the Scoutmaster of our all-girl Scouts BSA Troop for Girls since it was formed in 2018.  There are no co-ed Troops in the BSA, only all-girl or all-boy Troops.  Our Troop has become a well-known and large (53 girls) organization that meets on Saturday mornings at All Souls Episcopal Church, near the National Zoo.  We have our annual Open House this Saturday posted in the events section of this site, so I will not discuss that.  The purpose of this posting is to answer any questions you have about what is available in Scouts BSA for girls in particular and how it works.  My responses may refer to what our group does, but I will also generalize to what the 85 other Scouts BSA Troops for Girls do in the DMV.

To summarize, our group meets on two Saturday mornings each month and goes on a Friday – Sunday campout every month, except for December.  We go to a week-long summer camp near the Shenandoah Mountains in late June as a group.  Some of our most-experienced girls go backpacking instead, such as the 14 who backpacked 75 miles through the historic Philmont Scout Reservation this just-completed summer.  We have 26 women and men who volunteer to assist this girl-led group and we strictly follow the youth protection regulations of the Episcopal Church and BSA.  Our parents choose not to have their girls engage in product sales, so we are funded entirely on break-even dues and event fees that pay the cost of operations.  We hold a simple coffee reception each year to raise funds to help under-resourced families pay the cost of their participation.

Girls follow the identical iconic BSA advancement system.  After nearly four years of operation, I can share from experience that the program perfectly serves the interests of girls.  Four of our girls have earned the Eagle Scout Rank, and I expect we will have a similar number this academic year.

Girls can join Scouts BSA Troops for Girls from age 11 through 17 (or, they can join at age 10 if they have finished 5th grade).  Our group has an even representation from age 11 through high school, which provides older girl examples to follow.

There are many other organizations and activities serving the interests of girls.  There are also many historic downfalls and mistakes of the BSA and other organizations.  Because those topics have been exhaustively discussed on postings these past several years, I’m asking that this posting focus on what we do and how we do it.  I invite those who want to debate the relative merits of organizations and review the tragedies of the past to start their own postings.

I’ll try to check in on questions a couple of time a day for as long as there is interest.
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