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What can I do for my Girl Scout Gold Award?
Check out some of these real project ideas from past Gold Award Candidates!
- Conduct workshops about art, anti-bullying, etc.
- Create educational games.
- Create a website.
- Write a blog.
- Make a video about self-love, confidence, or interviews with veterans.
- Create a PSA.
- Create a social media campaign.
How many Girl Scouts earn the Gold Award?
one million Girl Scouts
The Gold Award is awarded to fewer than 6% of Girl Scouts annually. Each Gold Award Girl Scout spends 1 – 2 years on her project. Approximately one million Girl Scouts have earned the Gold Award or its equivalent since 1916. In 2016, we are celebrating 100 years of the Girl Scout Gold Award.
How do you complete the Gold Award?
Fulfilling the requirements for the Gold Award starts with completing two Senior or Ambassador Journeys or having earned the Silver Award and completing one Senior or Ambassador Journey. Each Journey you complete gives you the skills you need to plan and implement your Take Action project.
What is the highest level of Girl Scout?
Girl Scout Gold Award
The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest achievement in Girl Scouting, is a top-tier credential for girls as they enter their post-high school lives, enabling them to distinguish themselves in the college admissions process, earn college scholarships, and enter the military one rank higher.
What percentage of Girl Scouts earn the Silver Award?
10 percent
To earn the awards, the scouts have to compete a series of leadership challenges and complete a community service project. Only about 10 percent of Girl Scouts nationwide receive the Silver Award.
Is Girl Scout Gold Award National?
To be recognized as National Gold Award Girl Scouts, the organization’s highest distinction, these girls showed extraordinary leadership and created change with lasting impact on pressing issues Americans face today—including healthcare access and education, food insecurity, campus sexual assault, menstrual equity, and …
What makes a Good Girl Scout Gold Award?
Their projects demonstrated extraordinary leadership, had a measurable and sustainable impact, and addressed a local challenge related to a national and/or global issue. These young leaders took matters into their own hands, generating much-needed change!
How are Girl Scouts making the world a better place?
Gold Award Girl Scouts are making the world a better place. These young women are inspiring leaders whose Gold Award projects are impacting the worlds of STEM, education, agriculture, medicine, and more on a local, national, or global level.
What did I do for Girl Scouts in Colorado?
I created the Very Hungry Caterpillar Garden in my community—to grow healthy fruits and vegetables that would be distributed through the local food pantry. I reached out to my state representative, who agreed to sponsor a bill that would fund menstrual products in Colorado schools.