Silver Award
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
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.
Make a plan and put it into motion.
- Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.
Highest Award Prerequisites
Helpful Extras
- Silver Award Training (Video)
- FAQs (PDF)
- Community Mapping Activity (PDF)
- Press Kit for Highest Awards (PDF)
- Project Ideas (PDF)
- Highest Awards Project Partner Directory (PDF)
- Silver Award Announcement Template (PDF)
- Greeting Card (PDF)
- Event Planning Checklist (PDF)
- School Partner Toolkit (PDF)
- Take Action Guide (PDF)
- Guía Medalla de Plata (PDF)
- Guía para voluntarias adultas (PDF)
Silver Award Projects are approved by the adult (troop leader, project advisor, or parent/guardian) working alongside the Girl Scout after making sure the project plan meets all required guidelines. After the adult gives project approval, Girl Scouts should submit their Project Proposal to GSWISE prior to beginning the project, and submit their Final Report to GSWISE upon project completion (but no later than Sept. 30 after 8th grade graduation).
Silver Award Trainings
In-person and virtual trainings are available. View this virtual training or register for in-person trainings in MyGS.
VIEW TRAINING
Expanded Paths to Highest Awards
Bronze leads to Silver, and Silver to Gold! Or complete one Leadership Award or Journey (before Journeys retire in Oct. 2026) to get started.
LEARN MORECelebrate the changemaking Girl Scout in your life!
Send them an e-card with a personalized message congratulating them on their huge accomplishment! Select a card below to get started.
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.
They earned it - so can you!
