How to earn the Girl Scout Gold Award
- Complete Gold Award Training. Check out our Event Calendar for upcoming training dates.
- 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.
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!
