The Gold Award
The Gold Award is the highest award a Girl Scout can earn, and is viewed as the equivalent of the Boy Scout Eagle Award.
The Awards
In Girl Scouts there are 3 high awards a girl can earn. The Bronze, Silver, and Gold Awards. Each award is eligible to be earned at certain age levels and each becomes progressively harder to earn.
The Bronze: Junior girls, girls in 4th and 5th grade can earn this award. The Bronze involves a minimum of 20 hours of work to plan and implement your project. The project does not need to be sustainable but must make a difference.
The Silver: Cadette girls, girls in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade can earn this award. The Silver involves a minimum of 50 hours of work. Again, this project does not need to be sustainable but must impact your community.
The Gold: Senior and Ambassador girls, 9-12th grade, can earn this award. The Gold involves a minimum of 80 hours of work to plan and implement your project. This project must be sustainable, meaning it will continue on and is not a one time event, and must make a difference in your community. This is the absolute highest award a girl can earn.
The Gold
The Gold Award is completed by individual girls, meaning a group of girls can not work on the same project for their Gold Award, each girl must do their own.
To earn the Gold a girl must first complete 2 Journeys or 1 Journey and have already earned the Silver Award. A journey is a mini project. You work through a work book and at the end you complete a take action project.
Since this project is sustainable it involves quite a bit more work than any of the other awards. Instead of simply planning a dance to raise money to buy blankets for the homeless now each girl must create a project that won't stop after them.
Before starting a Gold Award project a project proposal must be submitted to the girl's Girl Scout Council for approval. This is to ensure that each project meets all requirements and that every girl has done her pre-work, the Journeys.
After approval each girl begins her project with the help of her Project Advisor, a non-family member non-girl scout who will help her through her project, and support her along with the Girl Scout Council.
More Information
For more information about the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Awards and for examples of past projects please visit
http://www.girlscouts.org/program/highest_awards/
For more information on my Girl Scout past and what I did for my Bronze and Silver Awards please visit the My GS History tab.
The Awards
In Girl Scouts there are 3 high awards a girl can earn. The Bronze, Silver, and Gold Awards. Each award is eligible to be earned at certain age levels and each becomes progressively harder to earn.
The Bronze: Junior girls, girls in 4th and 5th grade can earn this award. The Bronze involves a minimum of 20 hours of work to plan and implement your project. The project does not need to be sustainable but must make a difference.
The Silver: Cadette girls, girls in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade can earn this award. The Silver involves a minimum of 50 hours of work. Again, this project does not need to be sustainable but must impact your community.
The Gold: Senior and Ambassador girls, 9-12th grade, can earn this award. The Gold involves a minimum of 80 hours of work to plan and implement your project. This project must be sustainable, meaning it will continue on and is not a one time event, and must make a difference in your community. This is the absolute highest award a girl can earn.
The Gold
The Gold Award is completed by individual girls, meaning a group of girls can not work on the same project for their Gold Award, each girl must do their own.
To earn the Gold a girl must first complete 2 Journeys or 1 Journey and have already earned the Silver Award. A journey is a mini project. You work through a work book and at the end you complete a take action project.
Since this project is sustainable it involves quite a bit more work than any of the other awards. Instead of simply planning a dance to raise money to buy blankets for the homeless now each girl must create a project that won't stop after them.
Before starting a Gold Award project a project proposal must be submitted to the girl's Girl Scout Council for approval. This is to ensure that each project meets all requirements and that every girl has done her pre-work, the Journeys.
After approval each girl begins her project with the help of her Project Advisor, a non-family member non-girl scout who will help her through her project, and support her along with the Girl Scout Council.
More Information
For more information about the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Awards and for examples of past projects please visit
http://www.girlscouts.org/program/highest_awards/
For more information on my Girl Scout past and what I did for my Bronze and Silver Awards please visit the My GS History tab.