Silver Award | Girl Scouts

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

Let our council know you want to earn it.

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.

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.

Silver Award

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How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award

Please reach out to the SilverAward@gscwm.org address to submit Proposals, Final Report, and questions

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Learn about previous Silver Awardees

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Attending a Silver Award orientation can be the most beneficial thing you can do before beginning work on the Girl Scout Silver Award. Orientations provide valuable information about the process, the most up-to-date requirements, and timelines. As of October 1, 2022, taking a Strive for Silver Award Orientation is required to be taken by all girls within a year of submitting the Silver Award Proposal.

Strive for Silver Orientation Dates 2026-2027

Wednesday, September 9, 2026, 6:00-7:30 PM, Worcester Leadership Center
Thursday, September 17, 2026, 6:00-7:30 PM, Zoom
Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 6:00-7:30 PM, Zoom
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 6:00-7:30 PM, Holyoke Leadership Center
Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 6:00-7:30 PM, Zoom
Monday, January 11, 2027, 6:00-7:30 PM, Zoom
Wednesday, February 17, 2027, 1:30-3:00 PM, Zoom
Wednesday, February 17, 2027, 10:00-11:30 AM, Zoom
Wednesday, April 24, 2027, 06:00-7:30 PM, Zoom
Wednesday, April 24, 2027, 3:00-4:30 PM, Zoom
Wednesday, May 12, 2027, 6:00-7:30 PM, Zoom
Thursday, May 13, 2027, 6:00-7:30 PM, Zoom

For more information and to register, visit our website.

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Silver Award Patrols: Do you have questions about the Girl Scout Silver Award? Silver Patrols are informal calls where girls and adults can ask questions, get help with a challenge, run your project ideas by the council, do some brainstorming, and get general assistance. Just starting out and need more than that? Be sure to register for a Strive for Silver Orientation where we go over all of the steps in detail. Silver Patrols do not meet the requirement of needing to take a Strive for Silver Orientation.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 5:30 PM
Friday, October 30, 2026, 5:30 PM
Monday, November 30, 2026, 5:30 PM
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