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.
New for MY24
• We now REQUIRE a project proposal. Please submit this document to awards@gshnj.org The project must be approved before the girls begin implementing. Girls who have already started Silver Award projects do not need to get approval, but should submit proposals to make sure that their projects are on target.
• After project completion, girls will collaborate on the Final Report. Some sections are completed as a team and others as individuals. Submit the final report to awards@gshnj.org
How Do We Get Started?
• Leaders and girls are required to view our Silver Award Training (available on gsLearn) before the Girl Scout(s) begin their project. Cadettes 13 and older can request assess to their own gsLearn account HERE. Cadettes younger than 13 can view the tutorial on their adult's account.
• 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.
Materials from the info session held on Oct 26th 2023
• Presentation Slidedeck
• Webinar recording
Helpful Resources 
