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Post by hop2 on Mar 9, 2021 0:29:45 GMT
The Girl Scouts do have an equivalent to the Eagle Scout, it is the Girl Scout Gold Award. However people who are okay with joining the boy scouts, knowing what they stand for (and against) would never choose to join the girl scouts. My experience with GSUSA was they had a major focus on inclusivity. There were people from every kind & walk of life and they tried to focus on accessibility for the scouts, made the effort to make things accessible for as many as possible. That attitude came from the top down from outside our council. My experience with Boy Scouts was that we didn’t want to leave our council much at all because our council seemed like an anomaly to the wider organization. |
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Post by Linda on Mar 10, 2021 5:01:16 GMT
Boy Scouts (now Scouts-BSA) and Girl Scouts are two different organisations with different missions and different programming.
Boy Scouts has been around since 1910 in the US and recently went co-ed.
Girl Scouts has been around since 1912 in the US and remains committed to offering programming for girls only.
My son earnt Eagle Scout, I earnt the Gold Award back in 1986. They are two different awards with different approaches. The Eagle requires specific badges to be earnt and ranks to be achieved and the Eagle Project is to be designed by the Scout and he/she is to show leadership of others as it carried out. There is no minimum number of hours required and the Scout reports both the time he/she spent planning it AND the time that the helpers spend executing it under his leadership.
The Gold Award requires two other awards to be earnt previously (under the current program - it's changed quite a bit since I earnt it) - either the Silver Award during middle school plus a Journey with Take Action project in high school OR two journeys with Take Action progects in high school. The Gold Award is designed by and carried out by the girl and the suggestion is that the planning and executing take 80+ hours.
Girl Scout mission is "Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place."
Boy Scout mission is " to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law."
In my limited (based on being involved with both organisations and having friends involved with both) experience - some girls join Scouts BSA instead of Girl Scouts, some girls switch from Girl Scouts to Scouts BSA, and quite a few join/stay in both organisations - some of those earn BOTH Eagle and Gold Award.
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 30, 2021 11:29:28 GMT
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