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
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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 
Documents for Earning the Silver Award
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.**
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.
