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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 or a Cadette Leadership Award
How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award
Find an issue you care about.
Build your Girl Scout Silver Award team or decide to go solo.
Explore your community and think of how that issue affects your community.
- Submit your Silver Award Intent Form to council for approval BEFORE you start working on your project.
- Once the Intent Form is approved, the Silver Award Girl Guide will be sent for you to develop your project.
- Submit your Project Proposal found in the Silver Award Girl Guide provided by GSDH for approval to move forward on your project. Once the proposal is approved, make a plan and put it in motion.
Make a plan and put it into motion.
Final reports are due each year on February 1 for spring recognition at Honoring Excellence.
Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.
Resources 
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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.
