Girl development: over 8,000 girls participated in the girl scout leadership experience through a variety of pathways such as troop meetings, weekend camp, one-day events, series, travel, and virtual programming. The council also delivered programming in four focal areas: stem (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), business and entreprenuership, outdoor education and adventure, and leadership. Over 3,500 girl scouts managed their own girl scout cookie businesses, selling over 2.2 million boxes of cookies. We served 3,672 girls in the council's science, technology, engineering, and math (stem) experiences in 2021. This included hour of code, badge days, museum visits, breaking the code camp and virtual cybersecurity academy. We served 187 girls through our 2020-2021 girl scout leadership institute through a hybrid model, starting with in-person meetings and transitioning to virtual programming over the course of the year. Girls in the leadership institute engaged in age-specific academic transition workshops, joined peer-led committees and attended professional development and career readiness workshops. The council delivered in-person environmetal experiences for 1,441 girl scouts prior to the pandemic. During the pandemic our new online programming included a virtual learning model reaching 1,189 particpants. The council created more than 40 online courses and hundreds of lessons for this virtual learning model, and these were speficically created to meet the girls' needs during the pandemic. 91 girls earned the girl scout gold award, 162 girls earned their silver award and 226 girls earned their bronze award during this time. These are the highest recognitions that girls can earn in girl scouting, earned by completing projects that improve their communities in sustainable ways. Additionally, 42 eligible girl scouts at the council received college scholarships. The council continued expansion of the troop 6000 program to provide girl scouting in homeless shelters to over 320 members across 18 shelter sites. They participated in girl scout world thinking day in February, sold cookies, and participated in troop activities where they earned badges through weekly meetings.

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