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.
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.
How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award
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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.
- Make a plan and submit the GSSJC Project Proposal Form.
- After receiving approval, implement the project.
- Finish the project and submit the GSSJC Final Report form.
Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.
Silver Award deadline
Girl Scouts must submit their Silver Award Project Proposal no later than July 1 of the year they graduate eighth grade (i.e. the summer before ninth grade). They must complete their Silver Award projects and submit their Final Report no later than Sept. 30 of that same year (i.e. the fall of their ninth grade year). Forms must be submitted via the Silver Award Project Proposal and Final Report forms on JotForm.
Highest Award Prerequisites
Prerequisite Update
We have new prerequisite opportunities! Journeys will be retired on October 1, 2026. In their place, Girl Scouts is launching new 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.
Silver Award Suite
Preparing for your Silver Award? Here are some resources to help get you going.
The Silver Award Suite is GSUSA’s exciting new collection of resources to help Cadettes be successful in completing their Silver Award. The suite includes new Silver Award forms, guides, training, and meetings on Volunteer Toolkit. Check out GSSJC’s versions of the resources below! Please make sure you are using GSSJC’s Silver Award Suite materials since each council has its own ways of work. You can also find additional GSSJC-specific Silver Award information on the Highest Awards Online Community.
Guides and Trainings:
- See Adult Guide for Earning the Silver Award
- Read Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award
- Silver Award Training for girls and adults on gsLearn
- Silver Award meeting plans on Volunteer Toolkit
All of the Silver Award Suite resources above are intended to work together. If you do not utilize all of the resources in the suite, you may be missing out on key elements of the Silver Award program. You can also check the GSSJC Events page for upcoming live on Zoom training opportunities, including:
- Silver Award Training (adults)
- Highest Awards 101 and Q&A (adults)
- Older Girl Take Action Workshop (girls and their supporting adults)
Silver Award Proposal/Final Report Submissions
