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Originally posted by AGDee
Interesting. We haven't heard anything about this in my daughter's troop. I looked at the GSUSA web site and they do have everything split between 11-14 and 14-17. It seems a little awkward to say "My daughter is an 11-14 Girl Scout". Perhaps I'm just a sucker for tradition though  And, they're still doing a bridging ceremony for the 14 year olds to go up to the 14-17 Girl Scout category. I'll have to ask my daughter's leader about this.
ETA: I'm not crazy about the Studio 2B format because the books are so expensive and you have to buy so many of them. Having everything in one handbook was much easier. I'm trekking to Council constantly now.
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They might eventually come up with another name. We call our youngest girls Sparks (age 5 and 6. Brownies is 7 and 8), but if I recall correctly, they were called "Fives" when their program first started in the late 80s. Back then, Brownies was 6,7,8.
Canadian girls have three programs (all fall under the name Senior Branches) for high school aged girls. They have a choice between Rangers (structured unit with a structured program, like the younger girls...the oldest Senior Branch program), Cadets (leader training) and Junior Leaders (working directly with a unit of younger girls (I worked with Brownies). Going through the Cadet program is not needed to go into Junior Leaders.)