Silver Award Requirements

This is the highest award you can earn as a Cadette Girl Scout. It recognizes your efforts in a range of Girl Scout and community experiences as well as your commitment to working to better your life and the lives of others. The first four requirements of the award ask you to build your skills, explore career possibilities, increase your leadership skills, and make a commitment to improving yourself. You can do them in any order, but they must be completed prior to the fifth requirement, the Girl Scout Silver Award Project. You should work closely with your adult adviser (this may be your leader) in the completion of all the requirements.

REQUIREMENTS
  • Earn three interest project patches related to the project you will do for the Silver Award. It is important that the interest projects you choose correspond to your goals for the Silver Award. It does not matter, however, when you actually completed a particular interest project (provided you were a registered Cadette Girl Scout). You should work closely with your Silver Award adviser (which may be your leader) to determine which interest projects correspond to your Silver Award.
  • Earn the From Dreams to Reality patch*
  • Earn the Cadette Girl Scout Leadership Award*
  • Earn the Cadette Girl Scout Challenge
  • Design and carry out a Girl Scout Silver Award project

*FROM DREAMS TO REALITY PATCH
The first requirement reads:
Read the Career Exploration interest project in Cadette and Senior Girl Scout Interest Projects. Select and complete two of the activities.
(***This interest project is no longer in the new handbook. Instead, to complete this requirement, select and complete any two career activities from the new book***)

*CADETTE GIRL SCOUT LEADERSHIP PIN
The requirements reads:
Complete the leadership inventory activity in the Leadership interest project in Cadette and Senior Girl Scout Interest Projects.
(***This activity is no longer part of the Leadership Interest Project requirements. Instead, to complete this requirement, complete any one activity from the new Leadership Interest Project***)

(It is helpful if every Cadette Girl Scout Troop has at least one copy of the Handbooks so that girls who cannot afford them can read the requirements.)

Your project, including planning and execution, should take a minimum of 30 hours. The actual implementation of the project should take about 10 hours. Obtain a copy of the Cadette Girl Scout Silver Award Report Form from your council office to keep a record of your Silver Award work. Fill it out completely and keep a copy for yourself and your adviser. Review Safety-Wise for do's and don'ts. You should work with your Girl Scout council on any project that will impact Girl Scouting or Girl Scout property As with any other project, you must have approval if you plan to raise funds or solicit donations.

Silver Award Project CompilationWhat other girls have done to earn their Silver Awards.

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