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Meet the 2022 Gold Award Recipients

As a Gold Award Girl Scout, you’re challenged to change the world—or at least your corner of it. 

The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award a Girl Scout can earn. Once achieved, it shows colleges, employers, and your community that you’re out there changing the world.

You can pursue your Girl Scout Gold Award if:

  • You're in high school (9th - 12th grade, or equivalent)
  • You're registered as a Girl Scout Senior or Girl Scout Ambassador
  • You have completed two Senior or Ambassador Journeys OR earned the Girl Scout Silver Award and completed a Journey

 How to Go Gold

  • Take the Gold Award Workshop (Passcode: GSCM4806). It is recommended that you submit your proposal within twelve (12) months of taking this training.
  • Complete steps 1-5 in the on-line GoGold system before submitting your proposal for approval. Your proposal MUST be submitted via the on-line GoGold system. Proposals in any other format will only be accepted with prior approval from council. To request such approval, please submit your written request to Member Care (membercare@gscm.org) detailing why you are unable to submit your proposal via the GoGold system. 
  • Once your proposal is approved, begin to "take action" while tracking your time in GoGold. Once you complete steps 6-7 via the on-line GoGold system you may submit your final report to Council for review. Your final report MUST be submitted via the on-line GoGold system. Final reports in any other format will only be accepted with prior approval from council. To request such approval, please submit your written request to Member Care (membercare@gscm.org) detailing why you are unable to submit your proposal via the GoGold system. 

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FAQ

What is the scope of a Girl Scout Gold Award project?

The Girl Scout Gold Award projects are meant to be more than a service project. Collecting food for a homeless shelter or cleaning up a park can be a wonderful service project, but the Gold Award must go beyond that. The Girl Scout working toward her Gold Award must choose an issue she cares deeply about and develop a project that will have a positive and lasting, impact on her community.

Is the Girl Scout Gold Award an individual or group project?

The Take Action project is an individual project. Girls are to gather a team of individuals who will help her complete her project. Working on a project team is a life-skill.

What is the role of the Gold Award Committee?

This is a group of volunteers, including past recipients of the Girl Scout Gold Award, dedicated to helping you succeed. The panel will review the size, scope, and cost of a project and make recommendations to ensure that it is an appropriate Gold Award project. Your individual Project Advisor’s job is to support you by answering questions you may have about the requirements and your project.

Important Deadlines

The Girl Scout Gold Award Final Report must be submitted in GoGold September 30th of the year you graduate High School or your 18th birthday, whichever comes later. In order to participate in a year’s Gold Award Gala, your Final Report must be approved in GoGold by March 31st of that year. For example, to attend the 2023 Gold Award Gala, your Final Report must be  APPROVED in GoGold by March 31st, 2023.

 

 

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