Learn about the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards, the highest achievements at Senior, Cadette and Junior level! These are “official” earned awards and may be worn on the front of a girl’s vest or sash (see Placement Guide).

Girl Scout Gold Award
The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest achievement in Senior Girl Scouting. It is symbolic of your efforts in a variety of Girl Scout and community experience as well as your commitment to working to better your life and the lives of others. It should build on your personal action for helping others, both in and outside of Girl Scouting.

Earning the Gold Award requires hard work and a willingness to take on significant responsibility. It will involve choices, decision making and the ability to follow a plan you set for yourself. With commitment and guidance of a leader and Gold Award advisor, the Gold Award can be earned.

Download the Gold Award Guide for Girl Scouts (WORD | PDF)
Download the Gold Award Ceremony Packet (WORD | PDF)

Girls earning the Gold Award will receive their awards at the Annual Council Meeting. Our Board of Directors is very excited about the opportunity to congratulate the girls and hear about their wonderful projects. This will also give our delegates the chance to meet the girls and share the girls' accomplishments with their Service Units. Service Units, in conjunction with recipients' families, should also plan to honor girls on the local level. Please look for an invitation in your mail if you are a Girl Scout Gold Award Recipient sometime in late February or early March. The dinner will be held in Dover, DE in April.

Review of Gold Award Project Applications

2007 October 17 November 21 December 19

2008 January 16 February 20 March 19 April 16 May 21 June 18 July 16

Girl Scout Gold Award Project Applications will be reviewed by members of the Gold Award Mentor Committee. Girls can choose to make a presentation to the committee and ask for their comments, suggestions, and advice, or they can opt to have the committee review their applications and respond to them in writing. The approval process is faster for those making a presentation because there is no waiting time to have questions answered or points clarified, but it is up to each individual girl how she wishes to proceed.

Where: Location varies with population of Girl Scout Gold Applications in need of review. Please contact event registrar for more information.
Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm
You MUST submit your proposal 6 weeks prior to start date of project. Proposals are due by the first day of every month.
Reg. Closes: 10 days in advance of Committee Meeting
Register through GSCB Event Registration Form (Download WORD|PDF)

For more information on the Silver Award please contact Renee Naughton at rnaughton@cbgsc.org or (302) 456-7150 ext. 7186.

Girl Scout Silver Award
The Girl Scout Silver Award is the highest achievement in Cadette Girl Scouting. It is symbolic of your efforts in a variety of Girl Scout and community experience as well as your commitment to working to better your life and the lives of others. It should build on your personal action for helping others, both in and outside of Girl Scouting.

Earning the Silver Award requires hard work and a willingness to take on significant responsibility. It will involve choices, decision making and the ability to follow a plan you set for yourself. With commitment and guidance of a leader, the Silver Award can be earned.

Download the Silver Award Guide for Girl Scouts (WORD | PDF)
See also: Gold & Silver Award Training
See also: Placement Guide

For more information on the Silver Award please contact Renee Naughton at rnaughton@cbgsc.org or (302) 456-7150 ext. 7186.


Girl Scout Bronze Award
The Girl Scout Bronze Award is the highest award a Junior Girl Scout can earn. It reflects the promise girls make to help others, improve their communities and world and become the best they can be. The first three requirements help girls build skills by earning Junior Badges, a Junior Sign, and doing leadership activities, in preparation for doing the last requirement, a 15 hour service project. A girl can do the Girl Scout Bronze Award Service Project by herself or with others. The Bronze Award is awarded at special ceremonies at the troop or Service Unit level. Leaders purchase the award at the Bay Shop.

See Junior Handbook for complete details on this prestigious award.
See also: Placement Guide

For more information on the Bronze Award please contact Janet Berry at jberry@cbgsc.org or (302) 456-7150 ext. 7159.

For more information on nation-wide awards, please visit the insignia section of the GSUSA website.