--- title: Sixth-Grade Business Maven Sells 18,107 Girl Scout Cookie Boxes description: Katie Francis sold a mere 12,428 boxes last year. Thankfully, she turned things around in 2014 canonical: https://time.com/36832/sixth-grade-business-maven-sells-18107-girl-scout-cookie-boxes/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-25T12:35:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:08.112Z og:title: Sixth grade business maven breaks record by selling 18,107 Girl Scout Cookies og:description: Katie Francis sold a mere 12,428 boxes last year. 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Thankfully, she turned things around in 2014 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte1b2d3c511b20d45/6986871513c79f5ba719137b/girl-scout-cookie-record-katie-francis.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sixth-Grade Business Maven Sells 18,107 Girl Scout Cookie Boxes by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 25, 2014 12:35 PM UTC  Girl Scout Katie Francis pulls her wagon full of boxes of cookies in the snow through a neighborhood in Warr Acres selling cookies in Oklahoma City, Feb. 6, 2014. Girl Scout Katie Francis pulls her wagon full of boxes of cookies in the snow through a neighborhood in Warr Acres selling cookies in Oklahoma City, Feb. 6, 2014.Doug Hoke—AP by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Mar 25, 2014 12:35 PM UTC An Oklahoma City sixth grader crumbled all previously held records by selling a whopping 18,107 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Last year, Katie Francis sold a paltry 12,428 boxes. Thankfully she turned things around this year. In the seven-week sales period, which ended Sunday, Katie took the strategy of [“asking everyone she met to buy,” the AP reports.](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/24/oklahoma-girl-sells-more-than-18000-boxes-girl-scout-cookies-breaking-group/) Come rain or shine or sleet or snow. And according to a [local Oklahoma City television news outlet,](http://www.koco.com/news/oklahoma-city-girl-scout-breaks-national-cookie-record/25128758) she wants to make it to 20,000 by the end of the month. Katie’s lifetime goal is 100,000 boxes of cookies. The last record was set in the 1980s by Elizabeth Brinton, who sold 18,000 boxes of cookies. \[[AP](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/oklahoma-girl-breaks-girl-scout-cookie-sales-mark)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/36832/sixth-grade-business-maven-sells-18107-girl-scout-cookie-boxes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/36832/sixth-grade-business-maven-sells-18107-girl-scout-cookie-boxes/"},"headline":"Sixth-Grade Business Maven Sells 18,107 Girl Scout Cookie Boxes","datePublished":"2014-03-25T12:35:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:08.112Z","description":"Katie Francis sold a mere 12,428 boxes last year. 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