Girl Scouts of the USA recently partnered with Google to offer coding activities. Girl Scouts got its start when Juliette Gordon Low assembled a group of 18 girls to create a young women’s alternative to the Boy Scouts. The expansion of science and technology-related badges and programs marks “a real transitional moment for the Girl Scouts,” said Kathleen Denny, adjunct professor of sociology at Trinity University, who has researched the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. “A historian writing about the Girl Scouts once said the organization was looking to develop a traditional, up-to-date woman,” Denny said. Girl Scouts of the USA and Palo Alto Networks declined to comment on Palo Alto Networks’ financial contribution to the scouting organization.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 13, 2017 10:03 UTC