Fall 2021 Inspire Discovery

New Badges Embolden Girls to Navigate and Succeed in a Changing World

They’re here: 28 new ways for Girl Scouts of all ages to explore their world, whether online or unplugged! The newest class of badges take on even more topics that Girl Scouts and their families care about, like getting outside, using technology to run girls’ cookie businesses and growing girls’ digital leadership skills to make the world a better place. Earning the badges is also easier than ever: based on feedback from girls, volunteers and families, the new badge booklets now include a volunteer guide and printable activity pages for girls, as well as new badge overviews in the Volunteer Toolkit and fun and fast badge introductions in gsLearn. The new Girl Scout badges include: Math in Nature (grades K–5): Despite increased remote learning, not all learning happens indoors. This badge gets girls outdoors to explore and conserve the natural world as they learn math concepts. Cookie Business (grades K–12): With businesses shifting their models and relying even more on technology, girls learn to think beyond the storefront. The new Cookie Business badges help girls think like entrepreneurs as they run their own cookie businesses and incorporate online sales via the Digital Cookie® platform. Digital Leadership (grades K–12): Digital well-being is here to stay. Girl Scouts explore what a leader is, both online and in their everyday lives. They learn how to be online in a responsible and safe way, and dive into topics like managing your well-being online, how to balance your time on and offline, and how to deal with issues like misinformation, clickbait and biases in advertising.

Learn more on our website at girlscoutsem.org/whatsnew .

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