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Today, The Harvard Post has a wonderful interview with Cyndy Karon – a service unit manager, overseeing the leaders for about ten troops in Harvard – that include girls from kindergarten through high school. Of the Girl Scout experience, Cyndy says:
“It is not just a program to give girls the opportunity to investigate and try new things. And it is not just a program to get them outdoors. It is a leadership program… The girls really need to be making decisions about the troop and its direction very early.”