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Discover, Connect and Take Action

The Girl Scout Leadership Experience engages girls in discovering self, connecting with others, and taking action to make the world a better place.

Discover, Connect, and Take Action are the three keys to Leadership.

Discover: Girls understand themselves and their values and use their knowledge and skills to explore the world. For example, girls in grades 4 and 5 learn to be better able to recognize how situations, attitudes, and the behaviors of others affect their sense of self.

Connect: Girls care about, inspire, and team with others locally and globally. In the Connect leadership key, girls in grades 2 – 3 are better able to show empathy toward others and can apply basic strategies for conflict resolution when conflicts arise.

Take Action: Girls act to make the world a better place. As an example, high-school-age girls can use their advocacy skills and knowledge to be more active on behalf of a cause, issue, or person, locally or globally.

In Girl Scouting, Discover + Connect + Take Action=Leadership. All Girl Scout experiences are intentionally designed to tie to one or more of the 15 national leadership outcomes, or benefits, categorized under the three keys to leadership.