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Digital discovery is a series of unit meeting activities (UMAs) topics sitting within the skills for my future theme of the programme. There are activities for each section, giving girls of all ages the opportunity to upskill. Girls can deep-dive into how coding, debugging, chatbots and algorithms work, learn how to be safer online, try out using AI (artificial intelligence) and become detectives to help spot cybersecurity threats!

Look out for exciting news and opportunities to get involved with our Google partnership.

Our activities

Read about our different activities for girls around exploring tech, online ​safety​, AI and cybersecurity.   

Cybersecurity

In our newest set of UMAs, girls can learn about cybersecurity.

• Rainbows will explore how to spot cybersecurity threats and keep their information safe online with something’s phishy.
• Brownies will explore how encryption works, by cracking codes and learning how passwords protect information with story detectives.
• Guides will explore what communication networks are and how to protect against cyber threats, by playing a fun game in whisper sabotage.
• Rangers will become code breakers, exploring how encryption works to protect against cyber threats with code breakers.

The UMAs have been created to be completed offline.

AI (artificial intelligence)

• Rainbows will use AI to build their own adventure and create an interactive story through AI story writers.  
• Brownies will create their own games with the help of AI through AI game masters. 
• Guides will explore how AI learns by playing a fun categorisation game through teach the AI machine.
• Rangers will plan their very own personalised party or event with the help of AI, through accelerate with AI. 

Please note these UMAs work best with wifi. Due to age restrictions for Rainbows, Brownies and Guides, only adults should use AI in the activities. The extended notes to leaders on each UMA will help you access AI.

Want to learn more about AI? Check out this useful video.

Exploring tech  

• Rainbows will explore app design and consider what app users might need from an app, through happy appy.  
• Brownies will explore robots, coding and fixing bugs through Brownie bots. 
• Guides will explore algorithms, flowcharts and design their own chatbots using chattermatter. 
• Rangers will explore phone design, consider trade-offs and design their own phone with build-a-phone. 

Staying safer online 

• Rainbows will explore how some of the things we do to stay safe in person can also keep you safe on the internet, through online explorers. 
• Brownies will explore online kindness, through kingdom of kindness. 
• Guides will explore ways to protect their personal information online, through to share or not to share? 
• Rangers will explore how to be safer when interacting with people online, through connect and respect. 

The UMAs have been created to be completed offline. 

Download our Google activities

Inspired? Get our Google unit meeting activities for free from our online shop.

Fun, fab badges 

What’s more, there are 4 fun badges to celebrate taking part in any of our amazing opportunities or activities with Google. 

These are available from our online shop. 

Our digital design badge for Rangers

Google ​has also helped us develop our digital design interest badge activity for Rangers, aged 14-18. 

Check this out on our badge finder. 

About Google

Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Google Cloud, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

Google and Girlguiding first launched the Google digital adventure for Brownies (PDF, 769KB) and digital design badge for Rangers in 2018. More than 15,000 girls have already taken part. Since then, we’ve expanded the partnership, offering Girlguiding’s 300,000 members to learn about concepts like coding, algorithms, online safety and machine learning, by completing activities co-created by Google’s women engineers. 

Our history working together

Our partnership started back in 2018, and we’ve continued to build on this. Together, we're giving even more girls and young women opportunities to learn digital skills and inspiration for careers in technology.

We’ve reached hundreds of thousands of girls through our ​​partnership with Google:

• Over a quarter of a million girls and young women have been given opportunities to learn digital skills with our co-created activities.
• Over 3,000 Rangers have completed digital design interest badge activities. That’s almost a third of our entire Ranger membership who've learned about app design and user experiences.
• We’re proud to support girls in building their online safety skills, in a safe and non-judgemental girl only space. So far, girls have spent over ​​41,000 hours learning how to stay safer online through our activities.
• Over 600 girls have attended a Google event where they’ve interacted directly with engineers. In 2025, there was a 59% increase in girls reporting they strongly agreed they could think like a programmer after these activities.
• Girlguiding’s creator collective visited Google to showcase a day in the life of Googlers, learning about AI assistive technology, and had a Q&A session to find out about careers with engineers.
• In the first 5 months of launching our co-created artificial intelligence unit meeting activities, we've reached 19,963 girls, helping them to understand how AI-powered tools work safely.