How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award
Let our council know you want to earn it.
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.
New Resources and Support for Leaders!
Calling all Cadette leaders! There are a ton of new resources for girls and leaders going for their Silver Awards. Check out the Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award and the Adult Guide for Earning the Silver Award to get started!
New GSUSA Silver Award training is now available. Check out
GSUSA’S new Silver Award-specific training on gsLearn. The Highest
Awards basics training is still available on gsLearn for all general
Highest Awards information and troops getting started on Bronze Award
projects.
Completed your Silver Award? Fill out the Silver Award Final Report.
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.
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 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.
Develop your project.
- Submit the Silver Award Proposal
- Receive feedback from Council and get started!
- Finish your project!
- Submit the Silver Award Final Report.
- Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.
Resources 
Highest Award Prerequisites
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.
