Well, today, in the GSUSA blog, there's an article featuring a girl who KNOWS that she is going to continue to have a role in Girl Scouting, after she graduates from high school. "When Anjana Murali graduates from Shorewood in 2014, she will also graduate from the Girl Scouts - Scout activities are designed for girls 18 and under - but she won't be done with the organization she has belonged to for almost a decade. She said she will be a lifelong member, and she plans on continuing to volunteer for the organization and for the chess camp she hopes to sustain as an annual event."
Love it! The Chess Camp is her Gold Award Project, and the article talked about how she already found a group to take over and make it an annual event, after she's done. But she also plans to continue her participation as well.
I wish more of our girls felt that way: that Girl Scouting goes with them after high school! There is sooo much opportunity for girls to participate in Scouts while they're in college, or home from college in the summer, or working in the local area. All us "old" adults love it, when we can get some young adults to come work with our girls. Those young adults are great role models, cool, grown up and can answer questions we older adults obviously can't because, well, we're old, and we can't remember that far back.
I applaud Anajan Murali as well as the great girls, now young adults, in our council who continue to work with our girls to help them achieve their goals. It's never over! The Girl Scout experience can go on forever....and ever.....
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