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Girl Awards
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Girl Scout Gold, Silver, Bronze Awards
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The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award that a Senior or Ambassador Girl Scout can earn and is a national award with significant standards that must be met representing a girl’s skills, leadership, creativity, values, and efforts contributed to make the world a better place. All of the requirements for the Girl Scout Gold Award must be met before bridging to Adult Girl Scouts.
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The Girl Scout Silver Award is the highest award a Cadette can earn. It represents a girl's accomplishments in Girl Scouting and her community as she grows and works to improve her life and the lives of others. To earn the Silver Award all of the requirements must be met prior to bridging to the Senior Girl Scout level.
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The Girl Scout Bronze Award, the highest honor a Girl Scout Junior can earn, requires her to learn the leadership and planning skills necessary to follow through on a project that makes a positive impact on her community. To earn the Bronze Award all of the requirements must be met prior to bridging to Girl Scout Cadettes. |
Click here for Girl Awards Introduction & General Guidelines.
Click here for general information on Girl Scouts' Highest Awards.
Award Process Transition
The requirements of Girl Scouts' highest awards -- Bronze, Silver, and Gold -- changed in August 2009. The 2009-2010 membership year served as a transition period between the outgoing and new guidelines. As of September 2010, the Journey guidelines are mandatory for those bridging to a new level in the membership year 2010-2011 and thereafter.
Girls/Troops who have begun the process to earn these awards through the outgoing method (before September 2010) may continue to earn the award under those guidelines or may choose to begin the Journey guidelines. Any troop/girl who, by September 2010, has not initiated work on the prerequisites for the awards must follow the Journey guidelines. Click here for the GSGLA Transition Timeline.
Please Note: The award prerequisites at the Silver Award and the Gold Award levels that are outlined in the Girl Scout Cadette and Senior Handbooks are outdated and not accepted at the council as valid.
Click here for Gold Award Workshop Schedule
Award Processes
Gold Award Process (outgoing guidelines can also be found in “Go For It” Girl Scout Gold Award Insert)
Silver Award Process (outgoing guidelines can also be found in “Go For It” Girl Scout Silver Award Insert, Focus Book)
Bronze Award Process (outgoing guidelines can also be found in the "Junior Girl Scout Handbook")
Girl Scouts National Young Women of Distinction
Girl Scouts of the USA recognizes the extraordinary achievements of Girl Scout Gold Award projects by honoring a select group as the National Young Women of Distinction. Girl Scouts who receive the YWOD honor receive many benefits including a college scholarship, being honored at a Girl Scout national meeting, the opportunity to join the National Girl Consultants and the National Young Women of Distinction Alumnae Association. Visit the GSUSA website for updates and call for applications. Click here for form.