You have the power to improve your community through action
Ready to help your community and earn one of the highest awards in Girl Scouting? Cadettes can team up with a small group of fellow Girl Scouts or work on their own. To earn the Silver Award, you will research an issue you care about, make a plan to address it, and then take action to improve your community.
You can become a Silver Award Girl Scout if you:
- Are in sixth, seventh, or eighth grade
- Are a registered Girl Scout Cadette
- Have completed the Bronze Award, a Cadette Leadership Award, or a Cadette Journey
How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award
Let our council know you want to earn it.
Find an issue you care about.
Build your Girl Scout Silver Award team or decide to go solo.
Explore your community and think of how that issue affects your community.
Choose a Silver Award project that can lead to lasting change.
Develop your project.
Make a plan and put it into motion.
Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.
How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award
Find an issue you care about.
Build your Girl Scout Silver Award team or decide to go solo.
Explore your community and think of how that issue affects your community.
Choose a Silver Award project that can lead to lasting change.
Develop your project.
Make a plan and put it into motion.
Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.
Evaluate your project idea by asking these three questions:
1. Advocacy: “Are you raising awareness of an issue within your community?”
2. Education: “Are you letting others within your community know how they can help combat this issue?”
3. Sustainability: “Is your project legacy continuing after you have completed your project?”
A note:
Please be aware that Girl Scout Bronze, Silver, and Gold Award project reports will only be accepted if they identify a community need and describe how girls addressed the issues causing the need. Reports should reflect how girls connected with their local and global communities. These reports must be typed, and answers to the questions need to be reflective, explanatory, descriptive and detailed. Projects will only be accepted if they indicate a public education component focusing on the issue, as well as an evaluation method or data for measuring advocacy and awareness the project has generated. Highest Awards are bestowed upon Girl Scouts who are intentional in finding a way to truly impact their community and thorough in their documentation of that effort. Remember, as Girl Scouts, you cannot raise funds for other organizations. You are able to donate supplies and funds to an organization, but any funds raised must be raised to support your troop or project.
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