Girl Scout Silver Award

Council Silver AwardeesThe Girl Scout Silver Award is the highest award you can earn as a Girl Scout Cadette. To attain this award, a young woman works to complete a series of leadership challenges and an extensive service project in her community.

Congratulations to our 2010 Gold and Silver Awardees!

Gold & Silver Award Workshop

An overview of the Girl Scout Gold and Silver Award process is covered in Program Level Training for Cadette-Ambassador Advisors. All Teen Advisors are encouraged to take this informative class, especially those working with girls on their Girl Scout Gold and Silver Awards.

Silver Award Deadline

The deadline for 2009-2010 is April 1, 2010. This deadline is for applicants who want to be recognized at a 2010 Council Recognition Event, which will incorporate the Gold and Silver Award Celebration, the Cookie Celebration and Volunteer Recognition. Council Recognition Events will be held May 8 in Brenham, May 15 in Waco, May 22 in San Angelo and June 5 & 6 in Austin.

Go for it!

The following links will help you get started. The information for Girl Scouts of Central Texas has recently changed! Be sure to read over the information in the links below.  The forms are fillable PDFs so you can save them to your computer and type in your work as you complete your award.

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 Silver Award Guidelines
New Silver Award Guidelines

 When you are ready to turn in your project pre-approval or final papers, turn in by the first of the month, 6-8 weeks before your intended start date, to your Service Unit Silver Award Consultant. For a list of Service Unit Silver Award Consultants, please Email contact us.

Sample Silver Award Projects

Troop Camp-out

Laurel S. and Shanti S. of Girl Scout Cadette Troop 679 planned a camp-out for Troop 1500 for their Silver Award. Troop 1500 is a nationally recognized Girl Scout program for girls whose parents are incarcerated. As part of the camp-out, Laurel and Shanti worked with the troop members to plan fun activities. As a result, Troop 1500 learned basic camping skills, explored leadership qualities with activities from It’s Your World—Change it, and examined the qualities that make them unique with curriculum from uniquely ME!.

Troop 1500 is open to girls grades K-12 who reside in the Girl Scouts of Central Texas 46 county jurisdiction and have an incarcerated mother at the Hilltop Prison Unit in Gatesville or a nearby TDCJ unit eligible for transfer are eligible to participate. Troop 1500 is the only comprehensive program serving both inmates and their families during and after incarceration through counseling, case management, job placement, mentorship and data collection.

A Pet's Beginning

Maryann Bishop has a special place in her heart for animals. For her Silver Award, she made it easier for families to adopt a pet from the Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter by providing starter bags of pet supplies and working with the shelter to reduce adoption rates for a month. The shelter's director hopes to harness the momentum created by Maryann's project and eventually find homes for all the shelter's animals.

See Fox 7's coverage of Maryann's Silver Award!

Have a Heart for the Homeless

For their Girl Scout Silver Award, Cassandra Neve, Claire Bontempo and Sarah Beck hosted a overnighter for Brownie Girl Scouts to educate them about the children of homeless families.

Helping the HomelessThe campers arrived with only ten items in their backpacks, a snack to share and a sleeping bag and pillow. The girls built shelters to sleep in out of cardboard boxes and duct tape. Halfway through building they were told to leave the property, so they moved all their stuff to another room. They found it was easy to build a shelter that looks nice, but not so easy to build one that would stay up all night!

They also participated in multiple activities, like discussing ways that nine-year old girls can help homeless families. Finally, they all tried to go to sleep in their boxes without their sleeping bags because the key had "accidentally" been lost. At midnight they were given their sleeping bags and pillows.

The Magdalene Project First-Aid Supply Drive

Samantha Joann Houghton led and organized a first aid drive to serve the homeless in her community through the Magdalene Project. Samantha chose this project because she wants to be a doctor. “Some people don't have the basics to take care of themselves and injuries that are minor can become major through infection. I wanted to help stop that,” Samantha said. Her project impacted the community by providing people with the resources to medicate their injuries. Samantha also educated Cadette and Brownie Girl Scouts about homelessness in their community by teaching them the “Heart for the Homeless” patch.

Handbags of Happiness

Elyse Cunningham's brother was diagnosed with brain cancer about six years ago. When it came time to start her silver project, she already knew what she was going to do-Help children with cancer. Elyse delivered 123 handbags filled with toys and games to the oncology patients at the Children's Hospital of Austin. “I am very glad that I did this project to help the oncology children. I believe that it helped me heal from my experience in the hospital and helped me grow into a more confident and better person,” Elyse said.

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