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Bronze Award
The Girl Scout Bronze Award, the highest honor a Junior Girl Scout, ages 9-11, can earn, requires her to learn the leadership and planning skills necessary to follow through on a project that makes a positive impact on her community. Working towards this award demonstrates her commitment to helping others, improving her community and the world, and becoming the best she can be.
Girls may work on the award individually or in a group. All of the requirements for the Bronze Award must be met before leaving Junior Girl Scouts. However, earning a Bronze Award is not a prerequisite for the Girl Scout Silver Award (for Girl Scouts 11-14) or the Girl Scout Gold Award (for Girl Scouts 14-17). Requiremnets for earning the Bronze Award are in the Junior Girl Scout Handbook, chapter 10, page 202 or Go to the GSUSA Web site for requirements for earning the Bronze Award.
View the Bronze Award report form.
Tell us how you earned your Bronze Award: send stories and photos to Gwen P. We will be updating the projects featured on the web site.
Bronze Award Projects
Troop 2107 help animals at Table Mountain for Bronze
Girls from Troop 2107 helped out the Table Mountain Animal Center as part of their Bronze Award Project. The girls took a tour in preparation for doing some community service for the shelter later this year. Since the girls cannot handle the animals at the shelter due to age we will be helping them do some beautifying projects such as painting the exterior of the building and building some planters. This will be the final step in earning their Bronze award.
The girls held a drive at two local elementary schools and collected 40 pounds of dog food, 24 cans of dog food, 42 cans of cat food, more than blankets, towels and beds for the animals, and various treats and toys. They presented the collected items to the shelter on March 13.The troop made contact with the shelter for our volunteer efforts through the Wags & Menace organization.
Girl Scout earns her Bronze, helps tornado victims
By Karla F., Greeley Troop 611
For her Bronze Award, my daughter, Bethany, had decided to help the Salvation Army by handing out hygiene kits she had made to homeless people that came into their facility. However, with the Windsor tornado being so close to our town and right down the ally from our church, she worked her little tail off and in two days got enough stuff to complete 100 hygiene kits to give to the Salvation Army to distribute to tornado victims! She was going to work on her Bronze Award project in June after school got out, but the tornado really got her motivated. Bethany also gave some kits to our church for them to hand out to those in need. Additionally, we had a large supply of toothbrushes and toothpaste and gave some to the church and some to the Salvation Army. The hygiene kits included a comb, a toothbrush, toothpaste, a washcloth, soap, shampoo, bandaids and a sewing kit.
Our church, Windsor Church of Christ, received a truckload of $100,000 worth of items from the Church of Christ Disaster Relief Fund in Nashville. Bethany jumped right in and helped unload the semi and helped sort, organize and distribute supplies to those in need. Needless to say, she has really put in an effort to help those in need!
My daughter has learned a lot from seeing the devastation in the neighborhoods to helping those with the needs. It is really easy to do community service, but girls learn much more when they really realize and see there is a need for the services they perform. I know that Bethany has already volunteered 28 hours since the tornado, which includes the time she spent picking up donations and putting everything together. I have to say that I am really proud of her!
Troop collects games and swimming gear for kids in need
Junior Girl Scout Troop 1515 out of Colorado Academy organized a game and swim gear drive at their school for a local organization called Horizons for their Bronze Award. Horizons is a national non-profit program that offers student enrichment designed specifically for children from low-income families. The girls collected 145 games, 60 swimsuits, 30 goggles, 20 flip-flops and a dozen towels. The Horizons' students will use the games during their summer program, and at the end of the summer the games will go home with the students. The swim gear is needed for the students as they learn to swim this summer. All the girls in the troop participated in creating the ads for their school newsletters, designing posters and signs for display, putting out collection boxes, collecting the items during the month, checking the games for all the pieces and taking down the signs and boxes when it was all over. The girls will be able to see all their hard work being enjoyed by the Horizons students this summer when the go to the center for an afternoon of game playing with the children. (Sent in by Troop Leader Lori Lynn R.)
Louisville troop help homeless teens
To earn their Bronze Award, Troop 1753 from Louisville helped homeless and street kids at Stand Up For Kids (SUFK). This past fall, the girls met after school on Thursdays to prepare lunches for homeless teens. They shopped for the groceries and made and delivered the lunches along with cards of encouragement to Boulder every Thursday. The SUFK outreach volunteers would then hand out these lunches to the homeless teens they met on the streets. Each of the girls volunteered in excess of 15 hours for this project. "I never knew how many hearts were broken. I hope I have made the crack a little smaller. A card may seem so little to us, but it gives them hope and lets them know someone cares," said Juliana, one of the Girl Scouts.