Approximately 4% of American men are Eagle Scouts. The overall percentage of the entire American public that are Eagle Scouts would be much lower, considering not all Americans are male and not all American males have been in the Boy Scouts of America.
Girl Guiding in Australia began as early as 1909 as various groups such as the Tasmanian Girl Peace Scouts and the Australian League of Girl Aids. In 1926 a council was formed to link the many state associations together as the Girl Guides of Australia.
Since 1912 in the USA. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts were founded by Lord Robert Baden-Powell and his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell when girls asked to become Boy Scouts. Lord Baden-Powell thought that girls should have their own organization, so, in 1910, Girl Guides were started in the United Kingdom. The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is celebrating the Centenary of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting in the years 2010 to 2012. Girl Scouts of the USA celebrate 100 years in 2012.
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They were actually called Girl Guides first, and established in 1910 in England. Juliette Gordon Low organized the first American Girl Guide troop meeting in the USA on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia. A year later the name was changed to 'Girl Scouts of the United States' (GSUS). In 1915, the organization was incorporated as 'Girl Scouts, Inc.' under the laws of the District of Columbia. In 1950, 'Girl Scouts of the USA' was re-incorporated under a Congressional Charter.
No, but many have been Scouts.
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Eagle scouts can be anything they want to be or can have any talent they want. -- There are a lot of former scouts who are singers, but doesn't look like Eagle Scouts. The links have lists of famous scouts who became singers.
181 NASA astronauts were involved in Scouting, and 39 are Eagle Scouts
The BSA has not released detailed statistics on Eagle Scouts by age, race, ethnicity or religion.
When employers see "Eagle Scout" on a resume, it is an automatic "flag" that this individual is most likely qualified for the position.
The BSA has not released any data on Eagle Scouts by age.
The United States has sent 312 people into space. 39 of them are or were Eagle Scouts. 207 of them had some scouting experience.
About 2% of scouts make Eagle Scout
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About 10.
The BSA states " Not every boy who joins a Boy Scout troop earns the Eagle Scout rank; only about 5 percent of all Boy Scouts do so. " In 2010 there were 898,186 Boy Scouts and 56,176 Eagle Scout awards presented, thus it would appear to be 6.2%. But male Venturers who earned First Class in a troop can continue to work towards Eagle Scout while in a crew. There were a total of 238,846 Venturers, but we don't know how many were eligible, but the percentage goes down. As of 2008 (the last year I have totals), there had been 83,486,083 Scouts since 1911 and 1,880,905 Scouts had earned Eagle Scout, making it 2.2% for the total.