One of the things I like about the "new" Girl Scout programming is the natural scaffolding the badge booklets and Journeys have built into them. This is something we naturally do in education and it is a pleasure to see in other disciplines as well and speaks to GSUSA's push for more in depth programming for girls as opposed to the individual skills sets of the "old" badges and patches. I call them the new programing even though the newer programming has been out for 10 year

The Junior robotics badge is similiar to the Brownie level badge. As this year is the first year the badges have been released, using similiar resources for both the Brownies and Juniors is not an issue. Several years from now, when those Brownies become Juniors and want to do the robotic badge as a Junior, that is another story! While using similar resources are fine between the age groups, it is important to scaffold the learning. Girls in grade 5 are vastly different than