Oklahoma Girl Scouts Selling Cookies All Weekend To Help Support STEM Programs

Girl Scout cookie lovers will have a chance to stock up on sweets one final time this year.

The Girls Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma are hoping to sell 15,000 boxes of thin mints, tagalongs, and other cookie favorites, over the next couple of days. Paula Kuykendall says the pandemic along with our frigid winter weather stalled cookie sales, but she says her girls have been resilient throughout it all.

"All the planets were aligning against us," Kuykendall said. "We're girl scouts and so girl scouts do whatever it takes." 

Each box comes with at least 10 cookies inside. They say all the proceeds will go to STEM programming, summer camps, and financial assistance for local girl scouts in need.

Kuykendall says buying one box can go a long way at giving a young girl a great girl scout experience.

"These proceeds allow us to do that so that every girl in Eastern Oklahoma has the opportunity to be a girl scout and to participate in all our Girl Scout programs," Kuykendall said. 

Celeste Franklin, the Director of Product Programs, says tents are set up for cookie sales at two locations: the Scouts Leadership Center off 51st and 129th East Avenue and the Elks Lodge near 51st and Harvard. 

"We are excited for the girls to be able to kind of get back heading into activities again," Franklin said. "We did so many things virtually over the past year and they are ready to be in person.