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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a 12 year Girl Scout and now in my 6th year of being a troop leader.  To say Girl Scout fundamentally impacted my life in a dramatic way isn’t an overstatement.
Girl Scouts is supposed to be “girl led” so what each troop will be different - some do a lot of stem/robotics, some do a lot of outdoor adventures, some do a lot of community service. Most do a little of all.

It a place where girls can try out being leaders and doing challenging scary things without fear of failure.  Where they can learn to be supportive and kind to other women.

My understanding is that Boy Scouts is much more regimented and proscribed.  At Girl Scouts she gets to create her own adventures. [/quote]

Scouts BSA does indeed have a structured curriculum that contains some requirements and many choices.  At the Cub Scouts level the Scouts complete "adventures," and for every grade level some of those are required and the rest are electives.  The "required" adventures are how you earn your badge for the year. And if you don't earn it, no harm no foul: you still go to the next level the next year, just without the badge.  There is plenty of flexibility in these younger years.

At the Scouts BSA level (what used to be called Boy Scouts, i.e. about grade 6 on up), there are again required skills and elective choices.  Some of those manifest as merit badges.  The requirements for Eagle include some specific merit badges and others that are free choice.  There is definitely plenty of room for personalization, but it is true that (for example) every Eagle Scout who has done the ordinary curriculum will have done a lot of camping, will be trained in first aid, will have met a certain standard in swimming, will have learned basic cooking skills and a good deal about citizenship, etc.[/quote]

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