• What is the Girl Scout Gold Award	• More Questions?
• Seven Steps to Earning the Gold Award	• Ways to Celebrate
• Gold Award Webinars	• Support the Gold
• Gold Award Resources	• Past Recipients

What is the Girl Scout Gold Award?

Gold Award Recipient The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest and most prestigious award that Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors can earn. Each Gold Award Project addresses a community issue and improves lives. The Gold Award process builds girls’ personal leadership skills. A Gold Award Project inspires others to take action within their communities.

Did You Know?

• Though it has changed names, since 1916 the Girl Scout Gold Award, the organization's highest award, has represented excellence and leadership for girls everywhere!

• The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest leadership award a Girl Scout can earn. Less than 6% of all Girl Scouts earn the Girl Scout Gold Award.

• A Girl Scout who has earned her Gold Award immediately rises one rank in any of the U.S. military branches.

• A growing number of colleges and universities across the country recognize the achievement of the Gold Award through college admission and scholarship.

Seven Steps to Earning the Gold Award

(Once prerequisite Journeys are complete)

1. Choose an issue: Use your values and skills to identify a community issue you care about.

2. Investigate: Research everything you can about the issue.

3. Get help: Invite others to support and take action with you.

4. Create a plan: Create a project plant that achieves sustainable and measurable impact*

5. Present your plan and get feedback: Sum up your project plan for your Girl Scout Council

6. Take action: Take the lead to carry out your plan.

7. Educate and inspire: Share what you have experienced with others.

*Once you have attended the Gold Award Webinar and have a Gold Award Project idea, submit the Gold Award Initial Project Plan paperwork.

Gold Award Webinars

The webinar is free and runs the second Tuesday of every month (and occasionally on a weekend day). It is a mandatory part for a girl who will definitely be working on the Gold. However, it can also act as a great resource to leaders, parents, and girls who want to learn more. Any girl/adult can register and attend the Gold Award webinar to learn more!

To participate, click on the link below to register with GoToWebinar. Log on about 10 minutes beforehand to check your connection and so that we may begin on time.

Viewing for information? Girls and/or adults attending the webinar for information do not need to register individually. As a group, you may watch collectively around one computer.

Viewing for mandatory credit? Girls taking the webinar for mandatory credit must participate individually and register with their own email address. To receive the mandatory credit, the girl must be logged in by start time and all poll questions must be answered. Initial Project Plan paperwork must be submitted within three months of attending the webinar.

Gold Award Resources

You can also find all of these resources in the Resource and Form Library under "Girl Program."

Ways to Celebrate

Locally
Troops or Service Units may hold local pinning ceremonies. Girls and their families are encouraged to invite mentors, volunteers, community partners, local dignitaries and many others to celebrate in the successful completion of their project and the ways in which it helped a community. This can happen anytime after the Girl Scout successfully completes her Gold Award Final Interview

Council-wide
To recognize all the recipients, Girl Scouts of Connecticut hosts a Gold Award Reception the first Sunday in June. For the last two years, the Governor of the State of Connecticut has declared the first Sunday in June Girl Scout Gold Award Day.

To buy Gold Award memorabilia, visit our shop. (The gold pin is given to the girl by the Girl Scouts of Connecticut. You may purchase other mementos or parent pins from the shop.)

Support our Gold Award Candidates

Join the Gold Award Committee to become a volunteer mentor to these girls! Click here for more information, or contact Virginia Wetzel at gold@gsofct.org or (860) 423-5502 ext. 3723.