Girl Guides of Canada members reach for pieces of cardboard and markers at the Girl Empower Challenge activity during the 100th year celebration of Girl Guides of Canada in Ottawa in 2010. (Pawel Dwulit/CP)
The Girl Scouts of the USA is giving its badges an overhaul and doing away with the badge for "Fashion, Fitness and Makeup," reports The Fashionist.
In its place, the Girl Guides will offer a "Science of Style" badge, which require guides to learn about the chemistry of fabrics and sunscreens. It will also offer badges in web design and financial literacy.
Girl Guides of Canada still offers badges that some may consider old fashioned, such as folklore and needlework. But it also offers more modern-type badges, including outdoors in the city and inventing. (Scouts Canada? It still offers pioneering, but also has badges for powercraft, engineering and family care.)
Did you ever belong to Girl Guides or Scouts, and was it a positive experience? Which Girl Guide or Scouts badge should be retired? Share your comments below.
(This survey is not scientific. Results are based on readers' responses.)
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