Pack 59 Cubmaster Shawn McGraw led a group of scouts in a short ceremony before burying a time capsule inside Fort Pontiac at Camp Agawam on Aug. 24.

For nearly a year, McGraw collected questionnaires and photos of girls who have joined Cub Scouts. In the questionnaires, the girls wrote why they joined Scouting BSA and what they hope to get out of it.

“There’s a lot of hopes and dreams in here,” McGraw said.

Cub Scouts began allowing girls ages 5-10 to join in June 2018. The Boy Scouts (Scouting BSA) launched a program for girls ages 11-17 to join in February 2019, according to the Boys Scouts of America website, scouting.org.

McGraw began the project as part of her Wood Badge, an advanced, national leadership course open to Scouting volunteers and professionals designed to develop skilled leaders, according to the Boy Scouts website.

Hopefully, someone digs up the time capsule “many years from now” when the current girls in Cub Scouts are adults, McGraw said. – By Jim Newell