When Girl Scouts first started in 1912, meetings primarily focused on outdoor activities, such as camping, hiking, and nature study, to promote self-reliance and teamwork among girls. They also engaged in crafts, community service projects, and basic skills like cooking and first aid. These activities aimed to build character, leadership, and a sense of community. The organization emphasized teaching girls practical skills while fostering friendship and personal growth.
It depends on who is asking the questions and why they are asking questions. If you are asking about becoming a Girl Scout: What activities do Girl Scouts do? How much does it cost to be a Girl Scout? What badges do Girl Scouts earn? When are the troop meetings? What Girl Scout level would I be? What is the Girl Scout uniform like? If you are going to be asking a Girl Scout questions about Girl Scouting: Who founded Girl Scouts? When did the first girl scout troop form? Why did you want to become a girl scout? Why do Girl Scouts sell cookies? If you are a Girl Scout and will be questioning the children: Who was Juliette Gordon Low? Who started Scouting? What do you want to know about Girl Scouts?
Boy Scouts was started in England, but the first (though temporary) headquarters for the Boy Scout Of America was in a YMCA in New York, New York.
The Boy Scouts were started before the Girls Scouts and most of the "lore" such as signs was already well developed even in the first handbooks so it would have to be that the Boy Scout's sign came before the Girl Scout's.
Meetings undoubtedly started when the first cave dwellers met to make crude hunting plans
Juliette Gordon Low started the first American Girl Guide troop in Savannah, GA in 1912 and is the founder of Girl Scouts of the USA.
Boy Scouts started in 1909 by Lord Baden-Powell the 4 founders of Boy Scouts AMERICA was William D. Boyce, Ernest Thompson Seton, Daniel Carter Beard
For Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), there is no honorary chair. However, the First Lady of the US is the Honorary President of GSUSA, a tradition that started with Lou Henry Hoover.
Boy Scouts were founded first.
The first official record of a Girl Scout troop selling cookies was in December, 1917, when a Girl Scout troop in Muskogee, OK baked cookies and sold them in their high school cafeteria as a service project.
First Meetings has 149 pages.
The first Girl Guide troop in Poland was started in 1910 in Lwów.
The male organization is Scouts (or Boy Scouts), first started by Lord Robert Baden-Powell in 1908 in the United Kingdom. Since girls also wanted to be Scouts, Lord Robert Baden-Powell and his sister, Agnes, founded Girl Guides in 1910.