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 a Cadette Journey
How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award
- Take a live in-person or virtual training [highly recommended].
- Find an issue you care about.
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Build your Girl Scout Silver Award team or decide to go solo.
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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 by completing your Silver Award Proposal and submit it to Council.
- Make a plan and put it into motion.
- Complete your Silver Award Final Report.
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Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.
Submit your final report:
If you began working on your final report
before Oct 1, 2023, fill out this online
form.
If you began working on your final report under
the new Silver Award Suite Guidelines, on or after Oct 1,
2023, fill out this online
form.
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.
Resources 
Silver Award Training
Highest Award Training Dates
