You couldn’t find a finer example of a truth seeker than Sydney Ireland, currently a sophomore attending Amherst College. Ireland was in high school when she heard  that her first big dream had come true. Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced it would welcome girls as members in the future. That was 2017.  And then she and a nation full of scouting girls waited and waited some more. After slow-walking young women into scouting, in February of  2019, the BSA finally began admitting  girls. She was committed to seeing girls become fully eligible for the top rank of Eagle Scout. This month, sitting for her final Board  Review, she became the first. Across the country, other Gen Zers have followed her lead...

Ireland said, “This is just the beginning. We’re not going away. I can’t wait to see what comes next for the future of Scouting.” She is not alone. Girls across the nation also want in...