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• Silver Award (SA)

  • • A Take Action project containing 5 elements.

      • 1. The project must address a root cause of an issue.

           • • Root cause = reason the issue happens in the first place

        2. The project has National and/or global link.

           • • National and/or global link = how your issue connects to the wider world

        3. The Girl Scout must demonstrate leadership.

           • • leadership = leading a volunteer team

        4. The project demonstrates a long term impact.

           • • Long term impact=  the work of your project actively continues even after you are no longer involved.

        5. The project has a measurable impact.

           • • Measurable impact = you can specifically observe/track the way(s) you are making a difference.

    • Prerequisites before starting the SA project:

      • 1. Complete a Cadette Journey

        2.  Read thoroughly the Silver Award requirements on this web page: Silver Award | Girl Scouts

        3. Complete SA training on your gsLearn (log into your GS account first).

           • • https://gslearn.litmos.com/home/LearningPath/174615?r=False&ts=638459068694252049

    • Process - council resources

      • 1. Check list

        2. Expected monetary donation form

        3. Photo release form

        4. Proposal: instructions - form

        5. Final report: instructions - form

Troop 60964 Silver Award Recipients

• 2021: YMCA Outdoor Art Studio: Emilie and Katherine

• 2022: Outdoor Reading Library: Hillary, Kathy and Natalie

• 2023: Helping Urban Wildlife: Catherine, Rachael and Tien

Gold Award Preparation

• Complete a SA and a senior/ambassador journey, or completed 2 senior/ambassador journeys.

• Read the Gold Award package: https://www.gsnorcal.org/content/dam/girlscouts-gsnorcal/documents/awards/gold-award-packet.pdf

• Train for the Gold Award via gsLearn or via the Council's Webinars

• Submit this form to the council to indicate you have completed the GA training.

• Additional Gold Award resources

• Find a cause/issue and an advisor (SME, subject matter expert) for your cause

• Prepare a google doc and send to your troop leader, answering the following questions:

  1. 1. My Gold Award aims to address this issue: ...

     2. The reason I selected my issue are: ...

     3. The root cause of my issue is: ...

     4. I will address the root cause by: ...

     5. The target audience(s) for my Gold Award project is/are: ...

     6. The skills, knowledge, and/or attitudes my target audience will gain are: ...

     7. I will know that my audience has gained the desired skills/knowledge because: ...

     8. My Gold Awards's national and/or global link is: ...

     9. Measurement of my project's success: ...

        • What my audience will learn/gain?

        • How I will measure impact?

        • When I will measure impact?

     10. My Gold Award project goals are: ...

     11. My Gold Award will be sustained beyond my involvement by: ...

• Create an account (when you are ready to work on the GA): gogold.girlscouts.org

Please keep the following questions in mind as you fill out the questions in GGO, as they are common questions that Committee Members ask girls about their projects:

1. What is the actual problem that you are solving with your project? (Can be answered in the section "My Gold Award aims to address this issue").

2. What research have you done that demonstrates this project is needed? (Cite in the section "My Gold Award aims to address this issue" and "The root cause of my issue is").

3. What specifically are you planning to do, and how will it directly reduce or eliminate the root cause of the issue? (Can be answered in the section "I will address the root cause by").

4. Who will be part of your volunteer team? You need people you can delegate tasks to and direct the work of in order to demonstrate leadership for the project.

Final Report

• Prepare a google doc and send to your troop leader, answering the following questions:

  1. 1. My Gold Award addressed this issue: ...

     2. Gold Award Experience Log (photos, videos, text posts)

     3. Gold Award Time Log

     4. Gold Award Budget Log (project income, project expenses)

     5. The root cause of the issue my Gold Award addressed was: ...

     6. I addressed the root cause of the issue by: ...

     7. My target audience was: ...

     8. Measurement of my project's success:

     9. My Gold Award project goals were:

     10. Share if/how you reached your goals. My result were:

     11. The skills, knowledge, and/or attitudes my target audience gained were: ...

     12. I know that my audience gained the desired skills/knowledge because: ...

     13. My Gold Award will be sustained beyond my involvement by: ...

     14. My Gold Awards's national and/or global link was: ...

     15. I led my team by: ...

     16. I told others about my Gold Award (the impact of my project, what the Gold Award is, and waht I learned in earning it) by promoting via:

     17. Time to reflect! The obstacles I encountered were: ...

     18. Time to reflect! I overcame them by ...

     19. The strengths, talents and skills I put in action were (bullet listing): ...

     20. The leadership skills I put into practice were: ...

     21. I learned the following about  myself: ...

     22. The most successful part of my project was: ...

     23. I would change the following if I could start over: ...

     24. Through earning my Gold Award, I now demonstrate the following Girl Scout Leadership outcomes (bullet listing):