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, a Cadette Leadership Award, or 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.

Silver Award

Get the guidelines.

Want support?

Register for a Silver Award Round Table
Register for Silver Award Office Hours
Adult members, take training in gsLearn! Search the content library for the learning path 'GSUSA Earning the Silver Award: Your Guide to the Requirements and Process'
Review the Adult Guide for Earning the Silver Award
Questions? Contact silveraward@gsnetx.org.

Get started with GSNETX Silver Awards.

Download and read through the Cadette workbook.
Let your troop leader know you want to earn it.
Choose a topic/problem you're interested in solving and how.
Determine whether your project will be completed by a group or solo.
Create your proposal. (See "Resources" section below.)
Submit your proposal to your troop leader for approval.
Complete your project.
Each girl will need to submit your final report here. An online form is now available that matches the Silver Award Final Report template. Each girl should complete her own submission. Each girl on the project can upload the same PDF.
Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.

Please note: Silver Awards must be completed by September 30 of the Girl Scout's freshman year in high school. A letter and certificate will be mailed directly to the Girl Scout. Pins can be purchased in the shop once you have received confirmation that your final project has been approved. Once completed you are eligible to start your Gold Award when entering high school.

Resources

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Starting your Silver Award project after October 1, 2023? Use these forms to get approval to begin your project and later conclude it.

Silver Award Proposal to be Approved by Troop Leader (Fillable PDF)
Silver Award Final Report Template

An online form is now available that matches the workbook template. Each girl should complete her own form. If needed, there's also an option to upload a completed paper form. Submit your final report here.

Highest Award Prerequisites

Prerequisite Update

New prerequisite opportunities have been announced. While Journeys will officially be retired on October 1, 2026, in their place, Girl Scouts is launching fresh Leadership Awards for Juniors through Ambassadors. Learn more.

**If you have currently completed or are in the process of a Journey, that Journey will be accepted as a prerequisite for a Highest Award until September 30, 2026.**

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.