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 (up to four girls) 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. Follow each step listed in the updated Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award!

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, a Cadette Leadership Award, or a Cadette Journey

How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award

Let our council know you want to earn it.

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.
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Submit your Silver Award Project Proposal and wait for approval before beginning your project.

Develop your project.
Make a plan and put it into motion.
Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.

Silver Award

Get the Cadette Workbook below.

How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award

Attend a Silver 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!
Find an issue you care about.
Build your Girl Scout Silver Award team (up to four girls) 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.
Complete the Silver Award Final Report to send in.
Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.

Resources

Highest Award Prerequisites

Leadership Awards

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

Journeys

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

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 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.