{"id":113825,"date":"2026-02-14T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113825\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T08:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:57:07","slug":"6-year-old-girl-scout-from-pittsburgh-goes-viral-sells-75k-boxes-of-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113825\/","title":{"rendered":"6-year-old Girl Scout from Pittsburgh goes viral, sells 75K boxes of cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A 6-year-old Girl Scout from Pittsburgh has sold a record-setting 75,000 boxes of cookies across all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cBeing able to help and empower her is incredible,\u201d her father, Luke Anorak-Neill, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pim Neill reached the milestone during this year\u2019s cookie season, drawing national attention as videos promoting her sales circulated online, reaching millions of viewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Her family says social media helped turn a traditional fundraiser into a viral movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re building a movement, and it\u2019s so cool. We\u2019re moving girls into 2026,\u201d Anorak-Neill said. \u201cI was like, \u2018Oh, a million people have seen this. This is crazy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Girl Scouts of Western Pennsylvania officials say Pim\u2019s achievement is unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cFor us, this has never happened,\u201d Girl Scouts of Western Pennsylvania\u2019s Mina Beach said. \u201cSo this is very exciting that we get to bring girls into Western Pennsylvania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">After surpassing 75,000 boxes sold, Pim already has her sights set on a new goal: 100,000 boxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Her accomplishment has become a source of pride for both the organization and her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cBeing able to help and empower her is incredible,\u201d a family member said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pim\u2019s digital store can be found<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcookie.girlscouts.org\/scout\/pim391562\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/digitalcookie.girlscouts.org\/scout\/pim391562\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A 6-year-old Girl Scout from Pittsburgh has sold a record-setting 75,000 boxes of cookies across all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[54180,869,22398,54178,54177,139,859,54179,54176,73,75,74,6995,420,37020,1505,860,7898],"class_list":{"0":"post-113825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-allegheny_west","9":"tag-channel_11","10":"tag-channel_eleven","11":"tag-girl_scouts","12":"tag-kim","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ott_news","15":"tag-pim","16":"tag-pim_neil","17":"tag-pittsburgh","18":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","19":"tag-pittsburgh-news","20":"tag-rachel_pierce","21":"tag-video","22":"tag-western_pa","23":"tag-western_pennsylvania","24":"tag-wpxi-news","25":"tag-wpxi-com"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}