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 Silver Award team (no more than four Girl Scouts) 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
- Download the Cadette Workbook to learn more about the Silver Award process.
- Find an issue you care about.
- Build your Silver Award team (no more than four Girl Scouts) 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 your project proposal.
- Put you plan into motion.
- Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.
- Share with us! Tell us all about your project by filling out your Final Report.
- Download your Girl Scout Silver Award certificate here!
Resources 
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.
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 the Adult Guide to get started today.
