Girl Scout Leadership Experience Introduction

What sets the Girl Scout Program apart?

The Girl Scout Leadership Experience is a variety of fun, challenging, and experiential activities that make the Foundational Girl Scout Program. Have you ever wondered how Girl Scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character? The answer is as simple as 1-2-3!

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Know where you're going before you start.

Become familiar with the five outcomes we want girls to achieve through Girl Scouts.

Strong Sense of Self

Girls have confidence in themselves and their abilities, and form positive identities.

Healthy Relationships

Girls develop and maintain healthy relationships by communicating their feelings directly and resolving conflicts constructively.

Positive Values

Girls act ethically, honestly, and responsibly, and show concern for others.

Challenge Seeking

Girls take appropriate risks, try things even if they might fail, and learn from mistakes.

Community Problem Solving

Girls contribute to the world in purposeful and meaningful ways, learn how to identify problems in the community, and create action plans to solve them.

Incorporate these program processes into your activities.

Learning By Doing

Girls learn through hands-on activities, talking about what they did, and reflecting on how they would do it differently next time.

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Girl-Led

Girls work together to brainstorm ideas and problem-solve their way toward a common goal.

Cooperative Learning

Girls shape their experience by asking questions, offering ideas, and using their imaginations.

Offer activities from the four Program Pillars.

Entrepreneurship

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

STEM activities help girls develop problem-solving skills and gain confidence.

Outdoor

Develop outdoor skills over time. Get to know the outdoors and work towards being more adventurous.

Life Skills

Develop key life skills girls can use forever, such as financial literacy, first-aid, and more. Badges are great for this!

Participating in the Girl Scout Cookie and Fall Product Programs builds key entrepreneurial skills girls will use for a lifetime!