Explore the completed projects by our 2025-2026 Gold Award Girl Scouts by downloading the In Your Honor Guide.
Change the world, Girl Scout
Gold Award Girl Scouts are rock stars, role models, and real-life heroes. How do they do it? By using everything they’ve learned as a Girl Scout to solve a problem in their community or make a lasting change in their world.
Seniors and Ambassadors who want to go for the Gold Award build a team of trusted adults, peers, and leaders in their community to guide them through challenges and support their success.
Plus? Nothing beats that feeling of seeing real, lasting, and sustainable change and knowing it was you who made it happen. It changes the way you see your place in the world—and how the world sees you.
You can become a Gold Award Girl Scout if you:
- Are in ninth, tenth, eleventh, or twelfth grade
- Are a registered Girl Scout Senior or Ambassador
- Have completed the Silver Award, a Senior/Ambassador Leadership Award, or a Senior/Ambassador Journey
How to earn the Girl Scout Gold Award
Find an issue in your community or the world that you care about.
Learn everything you can about that issue through research and trusted sources.
Form a team by identifying experts and people in your community who could help you.
Think about the root cause of an issue, then make a plan of how you could tackle it.
Submit your project proposal on GoGold. Upon council review, you will be assigned a liaison as your Gold Award mentor.
Lead your team and carry out your plan.
- Reflect on the change you’ve created in your community and the world, share your story, and inspire others to make a difference, too.
- Questions? Email goldaward@gsnetx.org.
Gold Award Scholarships 
Resources
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.**
Questions? Email goldaward@gsnetx.org.
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Hey, grownups!
When you support Girl Scouts earning their Gold Award, you’ll help them see their own power and be by their side as they make a lasting change in their community. Download a guide to get started today.
To get started, register for your GoGold Online account. This is the first step in creating your Gold Award Project Proposal.
Gold Award Roundtables
The first step towards Gold is submitting your award project proposal. Ask questions, get project feedback and more by attending a Gold Award Roundtable meeting hosted by our volunteer committee.
Gold Award Benefits
GoGold Online
Deadlines
Resources
Forms
Scholarships
Questions? Email goldaward@gsnetx.org.
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