Silver Award | Girl Scouts

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 or a Cadette Leadership Award

How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award

Find an issue you care about.
Complete the Silver Award Training on gsLearn (accessible via myGS)
Build your Girl Scout Silver Award team (up to three other Girl Scouts) 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 and develop that project.
Make a plan, decide which team member will be responsible for which part, and submit your Project Proposal.
Put your plan in motion. Complete the project, with each Girl Scout contributing at least 50 hours.
Upon completion of your project, ask your supportive adults to review the Silver Award Checklist and approve your final report.
Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.

Resources

Silver Award Overview & Timeline (PDF) – a quick reference for earning your Silver Award
Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award
Silver Award Training (GSUSA Earning the Silver Award: Your Guide to the Requirements and Process) – complete in gsLearn before starting project. Access gsLearn through your myGS account and search "Silver Award" in the content library.
Take Action to Highest Awards Training (YouTube) – explains the difference between service and Take Action projects
Take Action Quiz - test your understanding of Take Action projects
Survey for projects benefiting a GSU property – council approval is needed for any project on GSU property
Silver Award Project Proposal
Silver Award Final Report
Silver Award Checklist
GSU Silver Award Final Report (online form) - submit your final report to council by September 30 of the year you or your oldest Girl Scout team member finishes 8th grade.

Final reports must first be submitted to and approved by a troop leader or a Juliette’s adult lead before submitting to GSU. Girl Scout teams must work on the final report collaboratively, and each person must contribute their individual reflections for the report to be complete.

Questions? Review our Highest Award FAQ page.

Highest Award Prerequisites & FAQ

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Hey, grownups!

When you support Girl Scouts earning their Silver Award, you’ll help them see their own power and be by their side as they make a lasting change in their community. Download this guide to get started today.