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Just shy of their 100th birthday, the Girl Scouts are working to shed their cookie and campfire image with new badges that focus on skills like robotics, chemistry and engineering. They’re also reaching out to urban and minority Girl Scouts. Elliot Majerczyk reports.
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Elliot Majerczyk: As the Girl Scouts approach their centenary, no one wants to lose what they’re all about: things like badges for arts and crafts and nature skills.
But the 3.2 million-member organization, has just added new badges in technology, math, and even web design.
Sandra DeLoatch: They learn how to do Algebra, activities with robots: we have a person who helps them
build rockets. They’re learning about science, but its fun.
Elliot Majerczyk: That’s Sandra Deloatch and one of the new badges; the Stem patch has been created in her honor.
Sandra DeLoatch: Stem is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Elliot Majerczyk: Sandra DeLoatch is the Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Norfolk State University and a life long member of the Girl Scouts.
Sandra DeLoatch: Our goal is to make sure that girls recognize that they can achi...
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