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		2008 Cookie Program Its About the Girls - Not the Cookies The Girl Scout cookie program is the premier business and economic literacy program in the United States. Girls develop skills for their entire lives:
		Leadership development Ethical decision-making Presentation skills Working as part of a team Setting goals	Developing plans Interpersonal communication Customer service Financial literacy Money management

		Girls Try CatchGoal Online! Play games, set your personal goals, make and print your goal chart on this FUN web page.	Volunteers (Coming Soon) CookieWorks Cookie Cupboard Dates Post Your Troop's Booth Sales	Friends (Coming Soon) Find Cookies in your Area LEMONADES Our newest cookie
		Girl Scout Cookie Facts In the 1st Quarter of 2000 Girl Scout Cookies outsold all other retail brands. Despite a limited selling season, the Girl Scout brand is the 3rd largest cookie brand sold in the US. Five of the Top 15 Cookies in the US are Girl Scout Cookies. Almost everybody in the US has eaten at least one Girl Scout Cookie in their lives. Even though they are only available for a few months each year, more Girl Scout Cookies are eaten annually than any other cookie except Oreo and Chips Ahoy. Girl Scout Cookie History Girl Scout Cookies® had their earliest beginnings in the kitchens and ovens of girl members, with mothers volunteering as technical advisers. The earliest written mention of a cookie sale was that of the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, which baked cookies and sold them in its high school cafeteria as a service project in December 1917. The first sale of commercially baked Girl Scout Cookies was in Philadelphia in 1934. In 1936, Girl Scouts of the USA licensed the first commercial baker.