Girl Scout Highest Awards - Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards
Our Girl Scouts do amazing things! Below are the latest award projects! Get even more details on requirements on Highest Awards at GSNNJ. Click here for GSNNJ Money Earning Award Application for Award Candidates. Click here for Highest Award Basics - FAQ 4-24.
Girl Scout Gold Award
The Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award a Senior or Ambassador Girl Scout can earn, combines leadership development, career exploration, self-improvement and community service. It culminates in a 80-hour leadership project that each Girl Scout individually plans and executes according to her own interests and passions.
To complete the leadership project, each girl must research an issue based on her own values and develop a plan that educates and inspires others, and makes an impact on her community, both locally and globally.
Within Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey, 12 percent of eligible girls earn their Girl Scout Gold Award, compared to the national average of six percent. Plus it looks great on a resume and college applications!
Click here for information on earning your Gold Award.
2022 Gold Awards
2019 Gold Awards
In the photo, Leaders - Carrie Nugent and Kathy Abbott, Gold Award Girl Scouts - Diana Carbone, Selena Bahl, Rhea Agarwal, Manuel Qureshi, Kately Hoffhelder, GSNNJ CEO - Sandra Kenoff and Chatham Borough Mayor - Carolyn Dempsey. 6/11/24
Girl Scout Silver Award
Starting October 1st 2023 anyone starting their Girl Scout Silver Award going forward must follow NEW Silver Award Guidelines.
Most important the new guidelines require each project to submit a Project Proposal for approval BEFORE beginning work on the project. Please send all Silver Award Project Proposals to silverawardschathamgs@gmail.com for Service Unit approval. Please put SILVER AWARD PROPOSAL and YOUR NAME in the subject heading. Please make sure you get a reply back confirming receipt within one week. Silver Award project proposals will be turned around within one week. If you do not hear back please contact Ceal Purschke at danceal9@aol.com.
Also starting October 1st 2023 new forms to be submitted include:
Silver Award Project Proposal - please submit to silverawardschathamgs@gmail.com
Silver Award Final Report - please submit to pchristie@gsnnj.org and cc: silverawardschathamgs@gmail.com so our Service Unit knows how many approved Silver Awards can attend our annual award ceremony.
Click here for Ways Parents/Guardians can support Girl Scouts working on their Silver Award.
The Girl Scout Silver Award is the highest award a Cadette Girl Scout can earn. Completing the award requires Girl Scouts to complete the prerequisite - Journey, identify an issue in their community that they feel deeply about, build a team as individuals or as a small group of no more than 4 Cadettes, explore their community, make a plan and submit a Silver Award Project Proposal for approval. Cadettes spend a recommended 50 hours to earn the award and are required to identify the root cause of an issue, identify their leadership role and how they made a plan to make the project sustainable, with the project documented in the submission of the Silver Award Final Report for council approval by the deadline of September 30 of the year they complete 8th grade.
2021 Silver Awards
Silver Award Girl Scouts - Caitlin Bolten, Skyler Chasalow, Jules McGrath, Julianna Falzarano and Meegan Carey at the award ceremony 6/11/24 at the Stanley Center.
Girl Scout Bronze Award
The Girl Scout Bronze Award is the highest award a Junior Girl Scout can earn in grades four to five. Completed as a troop, girls learn teamwork and confidence as they have the kind of fun working with other Girl Scouts to make a difference. The Girl Scout Bronze Award demonstrates the leadership and planning skills required to follow through with a project that makes a positive difference in the community.
Click here for more information on earning your Bronze Award.
2024 Bronze Award:
