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2017 marks the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts selling cookies, beginning with the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1917 selling cookies in a school cafeteria as a service project.

Girl Scout Cookie Program teaches five essential skills: goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics.

Girl Scouts launched Digital Cookie to teach 21st century business skills including e-marketing, digital money management, online dashboard usage, and e-commerce.

More than 59 million American women are Girl Scout alumnae, with 2.7 million girls and adult volunteers currently active; over 20,000 girls in grades K-12 across Alabama participate in the Girl Scout Leadership Experience.

Alabama House of Representatives applauds the Girl Scout Movement and the two Alabama councils (Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama and Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama) for achieving this milestone and 100 years of financial literacy education through the Girl Scout Cookie Program.