Girl Scout Bronze Award

The Bronze Award is the highest recognition a Girl Scout Junior can achieve. It helps girls improve the community around them while building leadership skills. To earn this award, a Girl Scout Junior will do a project that shows she understands and lives by the Girl Scout Promise and Law. If a girl decides to earn the Bronze Award, she must complete it before she bridges into Girl Scout Cadettes.

If you are working on an any part of the award requirements under the current guidelines you may complete your project under the current guidelines. If you are starting your pre-requisites between now and October 1, 2010, you can start and finish with either the current or the new guidelines. Anyone begining pre-requisites after October 1, 2010 must follow the new guidelines.

Current Bronze Award Guidelines

GSCTX Bronze Award Pyramid
GSCTX Bronze Award Troop Request - Please submit this form to your MDE or the Program Assistant. When possible this form will be exchanged for the Bronze Award pins. Please note that when pins are not available it may take up to four weeks to receive your pins. We cannot control the stock availability at GSUSA.

New Bronze Award Guidelines

GSCTX Bronze Award Guide for Girls
GSCTX Bronze Award Paperwork - Document your Bronze Award with the Bronze Award paperwork and turn in to your Troop Leader for review.
Bronze Award Adult Guide
Bronze Award Request Form

Sample Bronze Award Projects

	Adopt-a-Nursing-Home For their Bronze Award, Girl Scout Junior Troop 944 adopted a nursing home. They took on many projects including washing residents' cars and planting a garden. The girls also took time to get to know the residents and challenge them in a game of Wii bowling. The girls have formed such good relationships that they continue to visit the residents, even over winter break and other school holidays. With the help of the home coordinator, the girls and their troop leaders are planning more activities for the future.

	Protecting the Kemp When the Sea Turtle Corral on South Padre Island was destroyed in the fall of 2008 by hurricanes Dolly and Ike, Troop 1135 decided to work with the rescue organization to rebuild it. The Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle nests on the island and the corral protects the eggs from predators until the staff at Sea Turtle Inc. ensures their safe journey into the ocean after hatching. In March 2009, the girls traveled to South Padre Island and dug 250 linear feet of shade cloth 4-6 inches into the sand and used 700 zip ties to tack it to the base of the newly installed corral fencing! The girls supplied all materials and paid for the entire trip with earned troop funds.

	Libraries for Love Krithika and Sarah, Girl Scout Juniors, are examples of young people who have caring hearts. Not only do they care, they take action. The girls decided to donate money to help others by making bracelets, earrings, and necklaces to sell. Recently, they presented Mrs. Marshall, their school librarian and Director of Libraries of Love, $86 to help with the creation of our next five libraries in June. They also donated to another charity, and plan to continue their good work.

	From Homeless to Hopeful The girls completed their community service project through 18 months of volunteering at St. Louise House, a housing unit for homeless mothers with children. St. Louise House is a transitional housing community providing housing and support to homeless mothers with children. The girls cleaned and decorated apartments so families could move in, providing childcare for the mothers while they attended monthly meetings, shopping for supplies, preparing meals for the families and hosting special parties for the children. Additionally, the girls earned badges related to this community service such as the childcare badge and consumer power badge. Erin Brown, Assistant Director for Vincare Services, the organization that operates the St Louise House calls the girls "SUPER HEROS...They served as role models not only for the children of St. Louise House, but for other volunteers."

	Guide to Wildflowers Members of Troop 881 from San Marcos recently presented the San Marcos Greenbelt Alliance with their original guidebooks of wildflowers found in local green space areas. The girls identified the flowers, researched scientific names, blooming periods, and interesting facts. They developed a laminated guidebook that will be checked out to green space visitors so they can identify and learn about flowers growing in San Marcos area green spaces. The girls also developed a PowerPoint presentation that can be shared with groups or posted on a web page.