Sarah Waldman with Girl Scouts Spirit of Nebraska

So let's start with the big picture.

Let's go back 100

years.

What happened 100 years ago?

Well, 100 years ago, Girl Scouts was just getting started here in Nebraska.

Later this year in October, we'll be celebrating our 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting in Nebraska.

And we're super excited for all of the activities and celebrations that we'll be hosting throughout the state.

We've got a great event October 29th here in Lincoln at the Country Club of Lincoln.

We've got Jordan Larson as our keynote speaker.

It will be a really fun event for members of the community to come out and really kick off a year-long celebration.

We have activities for Girl Scouts throughout the year as well, all kinds of fun patch programs, some pen pal programs, some ways to just get the word out that Girl Scouts has been here for 100 years, and we are so excited to be here for the next 100 years.

Now, obviously, 100 years was a long time ago.

How has this program changed and evolved over time? I'm sure what it looks like today is almost nothing like what it looked like in its original institution here in Nebraska.

Right.

One of the things that I love most about the Girl Scouts is we are continuously changing, updating our programming to ensure that we're meeting girls where they are today.

So yes, 100 years ago, Girl Scouts were learning sewing.

cooking and you know what we are still learning some of those things today some of those things are very popular with our girl scouts today but we've also added programming around stem so robotics coding ensuring that we're keeping up to date with today's skills in particular the skills that employers and the workforce is needed into the future So all things technology, in addition to some of those fun kind of nostalgic crafts that girls still love to learn today.

Now, today's focus on cooking might be about how to cook a healthy meal, how to fuel your body with nutrition that helps you stay healthy.

So we have adjusted our programming to keep it current with today's world as well.