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Bronze Award

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Make your community a better place

It all starts here. Juniors team up with fellow Girl Scouts to explore their community, discover a need or issue they care about, and work together to address it. It’s a chance to create a plan and make an impact on the community they live in.


You can become a Bronze Award Girl Scout if you:

  • Are in fourth or fifth grade
  • Are a registered Girl Scout Junior
  • Have completed  a Junior Leadership Award or Junior Journey

How to earn the Girl Scout Bronze Award

  • Build your Girl Scout Junior team

  • Explore your community

  • Decide on a project to work on

  • Make a plan of action

  • Put your plan in motion

  • Spread the word

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Bronze Award

Get the Junior Workbook below.

How to earn the Girl Scout Bronze Award

  • Attend a Bronze Award training. The training will go over how to complete your proposal, how to make sure you have a plan in place that will set you up for success early on. Go to the events calendar or below for upcoming dates! 
  • Build your Girl Scout Junior team.
  • Explore your community.

  • Decide on a project to work on.

  • Make a plan of action.

  • Put your plan in motion.

  • Spread the word.

  • Complete the Bronze Award Final Report to send in.

 

Highest Award Prerequisites

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Leadership Awards

Celebrate all the ways you lead–yourself, your team, and your community–with new & updated leadership awards.

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Journeys

Journeys encourage Girl Scouts of all ages to think critically, boost their problem-solving skills, and make an impact.

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Highest Awards FAQs

Going for your Bronze, Silver, or Gold Award? Get answers to the most common questions to get started.


Hey, grownups!

When you support Girl Scouts earning their Bronze Awards, you’ll help them see their own power and be by their side as they make a lasting change in their community. Use this guide (available in English and Español) to get started today. 


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