How to earn the Girl Scout Gold Award
- Complete GSMISTS's self-paced, online Gold Award Training.
*Mandatory for all GSMISTS Girl Scouts who want to earn it!*
- Find an issue in your community or the world that you care about.
Learn everything you can about that issue through research and trusted sources.
- Form a team by identifying experts and people in your community who could help you.
- Think about the root cause of this issue, then make a plan of how you could tackle it.
Submit your Gold Award project proposal to GSMISTS for approval.
*approval process may take 2-4 weeks depending on Gold Award Support Team schdedules and date of submission. Interviews are typically held the third tuesday of the month.
Present your Gold Award project proposal to the GSMISTS Gold Award Support Team.
- Once your Gold Award project proposal is approved by the GSMISTS Gold Award Support Team, you can begin working on your project.
- When your Gold Award Project is complete, submit your Gold Award final report.
- Present your Gold Award final report to the GSMISTS Gold Award Support Team
- When your Gold Award final report is approved by the GSMISTS Gold Award Support Team, you have officially earned the award and are a Gold Award Girl Scout!
