The organization on Tuesday announced it is adding 23 new badges related to science, technology, engineering, math and the outdoors.
Girl Scouts can now earn badges through activities like programming robots, designing model race cars, writing code and going on environmentally conscious camping trips.
The Girl Scouts of the USA, founded in 1912, has created badges with the help of organizations like Code.org, SciStarter, GoldieBlox and the Society of Women Engineers.
The new experiences are meant to address "the lack of exposure many girls have to STEM," Girl Scouts CEO Sylvia Acevedo told CNN Tech in an email.
The new STEM badges come a month after the organization added cybersecurity badges. Those badges will be available to girls in kindergarten through 12th grade over the next two years.
Gee support for young girls to pursue their interests in science and technology without all of that religious baggage that the Boy Scouts are burdened by.
And here we thought they were just a front for a cookie selling operation.
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