Working
toward the Girl Scout Silver Award—the highest award a Girl Scout Cadette can
earn—gives you the chance to show that you are a leader who is organized,
determined and dedicated to improving your community. Here
are five benefits to earning your Girl Scout Silver Award:
- The
Girl Scout Silver Award is recognized as the second highest award in Girl
Scouting. It is a national award with national standards, awarded by your
council on behalf of Girl Scouts of the USA.
- You
are recognized as a future community leader.
- The
Girl Scout Silver Award develops skills that will prepare you for other
awards/activities in Girl Scouting. In addition, successful completion of the
award can be used as a prerequisite to the Gold Award Project.
- Learning
to work closely with a group to accomplish your goal for the community can be a
lesson in cooperation, leadership, teamwork and compromise.
- Working on the project can be a
lot of fun!
Before
starting on the Silver Award, you must complete a Girl Scout Cadette Leadership Journey. After
you have fulfilled the leadership journey requirement, you will begin steps toward
your Girl Scout Silver Award Take Action Project. This includes identifying an
issue that you truly care about, investigating it thoroughly, getting help and
building a team, creating a plan, presenting your plan, gathering feedback,
taking action and educating and inspiring others. There is a minimum
requirement of 50 hours for these seven steps.
Silver Award Workbook
The guidelines for earning the Silver Award are in the Silver Award Workbook. Girls working on
their Silver Award will submit paperwork to their troop or group
leader/volunteer for approval. Girls need to submit the Silver Award Final Report
and evaluation to council after its completion in order to purchase the pin.
The troop is responsible for purchasing a Silver Award pin for each girl that
earns the Silver Award.
Silver Award Workbook