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 a Cadette Journey
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.
How Do We Get Started?
• Troops may attend a Silver Award Think Tank or request an a la carte Silver Award Workshop for five or more Girl Scouts if they have questions about the Silver Award.
Candidates and one adult supervisor are required to complete the Silver Award tutorial prior to proposal submission
Your proposal must be approved prior to project implementation.
Submit your final report by September 30 of the year you complete 8th grade
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