Girl Scout Silver Award
Highest Award for Girls 11-14
The Girl Scout Silver Award represents a girl's accomplishments in Girl Scouting and her community as she grows and works to improve her life and the lives of others. The first four requirements of the Girl Scout Silver Award help girls build skills, explore careers, gain leadership skills, and make a commitment to self-improvement. The Girl Scout Silver Award Project can be undertaken when the first four requirements are completed. It can be done as an individual or with a group. If done with a group, a girl must be responsible for a specific part of the project and evaluate her contribution to the project and the group.
For more information contact
Mary Elmore-Rice at (804) 764-3329,
melmore@comgirlscouts.org
Girl Scout Bronze Award
Highest Award for Junior Girl Scouts
The Girl Scout Bronze Award, the highest honor a Junior Girl Scout can earn, requires her to learn the leadership and planning skills necessary to follow through on a project that makes a positive impact on her community. Working towards this award demonstrates her commitment to helping others, improving her community and the world, and becoming the best she can be.
Honoring Excellence in Girl Leadership Awards proudly applauds the leadership, prominence, and achievement of outstanding girls in central Virginia. Through their sustained commitment to community service and helping others grow strong in body, mind and spirit, these young women truly stand as examples for other girls to follow and sustains the council’s goal of building leaders one girl at a time. In addition to providing scholarships for local girls, proceeds from the event provide summer enrichment scholarships for girls living in underserved and underrepresented communities
The following awards are presented at the Honoring Excellence in Girl Leadership Awards program each May:
Girl Scout Gold Award
Highest Award for girl ages 14-17
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Girl Scout Gold Award: The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award in Girl Scouting through leadership development, career exploration, and self improvement and community service.
The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award that a Girl Scout 14-18 may earn. Someone once described the Girl Scout Gold Award as being "what you really want to be remembered for" in Girl Scouting. For many, the leadership skills, organizational skills, and sense of community and commitment that come from "going for the Gold" set the foundation for a lifetime of active citizenship.
For more information contact Mary Elmore-Rice at (804) 764-3329, melmore@comgirlscouts.org
Girl Scout Leadership Scholarship
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Girl Scout Leadership Scholarship: This scholarship provides financial assistance for continuing education to 12th grade girls who have been in Girl Scouting for three connective years. Recipients demonstrate outstanding leadership skills, academic achievement, and service to the community.
Girl Scout Leadership Scholarships are awarded annually to girls who have been in the Girl Scout program for three consecutive years, including the current membership year. The Girl Scout must be a graduating senior and have gained admission to an institute of higher education such as a college, business, trade or technical school. For more information contact Sheila Johnston, at (804) 520-8551, ext. 1 or 1-800-4SCOUT-4.
Teen Girls of Distinction Scholarship
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The Teen Girls of Distinction Scholarship is the only scholarship application that accepts applications from non-Girl Scouts in Richmond, Hopewell, Petersburg, Colonial Heights, and the counties of Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Prince George, and Powhatan who holds a cumulative B average. The categories are: Athletics, Community Service/Advocacy, Humanities/ Communications, Math/Science and Technology, and Performing and Visual Arts. Past honorees are ineligible. In recognition of this honor, each award recipient will receive a $1,000 continuing education scholarship.All girls may be nominated for more than one category using a separate form. Please remember to include all extra curricular activities in the nominating packet.
For more information contact Jenay Jackson at (804) 764-3341, jjackson@comgirlscouts.org
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