Speak Out: What's Your Favorite Kind of Girl Scout Cookie?

It’s that time of year again – Girl Scout Cookie time.

Yesterday was National Girl Scout Cookie Day, a celebration of the sweet treats and the organization that their sales support.

Girl Scout Cookies do more than satisfy the nation’s sweet tooth – they teach Girl Scouts valuable lessons they’ll use throughout their lives.

According to GirlScouts.org, the cookie program aims at teaching five essential skills: goal setting, decision making, money management, business ethics, and people skills.

It’s the reason the Girl Scouts don’t sell their cookies online.

The cookie program creates the largest girl-led enterprise in the world.

The girl who sells you Thin Mints today may be running a business, reversing the deficit, and improving your community within a matter of years,” said Girl Scouts of the USA Chief Executive Officer Anna Maria Chavez. ”Just ask our 59 million Girl Scout alumnae, including 70 percent of the women now serving as U.S. senators."

According to a survey from the Girl Scout Research Institute, 85 percent of Girl Scout "cookie entrepreneurs" learn money management by developing budgets, taking cookie orders, and handling customers' money. Eighty-three percent build business ethics; 80 percent learn goal setting; 77 percent improve decision making; and 75 percent develop people skills.

All the revenue from the sales of cookies stay with the local Girl Scout councils, to be used to support local activies.

Each year, the organization changes up the cookies that are available.

What are they offering this year? Visit their Meet the Cookies page.

What’s your favorite kind of cookie? Did you sell Girl Scout cookies where you were younger? Are you involved with a Girl Scout troop now?