Silver Award | Girl Scouts

You have the power to improve your community through action

Ready to help your community and earn one of the highest awards in Girl Scouting? Cadettes can team up with a small group of fellow Girl Scouts or work on their own. To earn the Silver Award, you will research an issue you care about, make a plan to address it, and then take action to improve your community.

They did it and so can you!
Celebrating our Silver Award Girl Scouts!

2024

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Gabriella Rockwood, Josephine Alexandra DeMarle

Burnt Hills, NY

At Calvary Episcopal Church in Burnt Hills, Gabriella and Josephine renovated a wheelchair ramp leading to their fellowship hall. They sanded, restored, and painted the ramp with nonslip paint. They replanted the garden surrounding the ramp. This restored ramp will allow people of all abilities to enter and exit the fellowship hall safely to participate in church and community events.

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Layla Sasson

Albany, NY

Layla wanted to help residents and visitors at Daughters of Sarah nursing home interact and form friendships. She created an activity cart full of puzzles, memory games, magic painting books, coloring books, and other craft supplies. The residents have loved the cart and the increase in activities to do!

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Mira Stashower, Sophia Gamil

Niskyuna, NY

Wanting to share their love of Girl Scouts with others, Mira and Sophia created 25 boxes of crafts and activities for new Daisy and Brownie troop leaders. They are hoping this will help more people want to be troop leaders and increase the amount of Girl Scout troops.

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Nevaeh Howe

Warrensburg, NY

Nevaeh designed and built a food pantry for her town. In this pantry, there is food and personal hygiene products. With a 35% increase in the homeless population, Nevaeh wanted to help provide access to basic necessities.

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Caroline Stark, Isabella Okowitz, Shreya Rozario

Latham, NY

This project transformed the unkept garden at Blue Creek Elementary School. They cleaned up the garden, fixed garden beds and replanted with new soil. They planted 40 perennial bee friendly plants. The garden is now a place the school community can enjoy.

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Lilly Brennan, Lucy Gregg, Madison Snow

Niskyuna, NY

While creating awareness for recycling Lilly, Lucy, and Madison collected 10 boxes of bottle caps. They used these bottle caps to create a mural that spreads the message of being supported no matter what you are going through, You’re Not Alone. The colors used to create the mural represents a variety of mental and physical disabilities.

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Kailey Charette

Troy, NY

Kailey wanted to give visitors at Brunswick Beach something to do besides swimming and fishing. She created beach games such as cornhole, tic tac toe, and connect 4. Visitors can borrow these games to play at the beach and meet new friends! Kailey hosted a game library ribbon cutting so everyone could try out the new games!

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Kathryn Powell, Roma Advani

Waterford, NY

Kathryn and Roma wanted to create a fun space for children to read and learn at their own pace. They collected 617 books and built bookshelves for Cheryl’s Lodge, at Captain CHS Community Outreach Center. At an opening ceremony they raised awareness around their project and the importance of books for learning.

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Angelina MacLeod

Troy, NY

Wanting to help local wildlife and her community, Angelina created trail markers for hikers and bikers. These trail markers will clearly show the trail path, helping users to not get lost and easily navigate the trail. This will help protect the wildlife and plants as more people will be staying on the trail and not wandering off trail.

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Lily Heffernan

Clifton Park, NY

Lily hosted an Arbor Day Celebration in her town. The goal of the celebration was to encourage people to have fun with trees, learn about trees, and take-home trees to plant and grow in their homes. Lily hopes when people learn more and enjoy trees, they will help our environment more!

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Julia Mastromarchi, Hannah Reidy, Andrea Sassatelli

Valley Falls, NY

To help their fellow Girl Scouts feel included at events and summer camp- Julia, Hannah, and Andrea recorded videos of themselves singing Girl Scout camp songs to post on Youtube. Now troop leaders and other Girl Scouts can watch the videos to learn the songs before attending summer camp or Girl Scout events.

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Ella Bagchi, Eloise Applebee

Albany, NY

Working with the Wolf Mountain Nature Center, Ella and Eloise learned all about how humans impact wolf populations. They designed and installed a sign at the wolf sanctuary displaying information on wolf habitats, different types of wolves, and negative impacts humans have on wolf packs. They would love to see the wolf reintroduced to New York.

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Sara Lucia Manore

Clifton Park, NY

While researching bullying. Sara found a book series that teaches children how to handle different bullying situations. Only one elementary school out of eight in her district had this series, she took the books and turned them into 22 short videos. This way, all students and staff can access this information, help each other learn, and lead to a decrease in bullying.

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Sara DeLaCruz

Gansevoort, NY

The secret garden is a secluded place at Hudson Crossing Park. To access the garden- visitors, need to go down a steep hill. Sara built stairs down the hill to the garden and rebuilt a rotting bench and retaining wall. Now people with all abilities can visit and enjoy the garden.

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Morgan Lindsey, Isabelle Burnham, Megan Goslow

Albany, NY

Morgan, Isabelle, and Megan wanted to reignite a love for art, history and culture in a fun way for people in New York! They created a scavenger hunt based in the New York State Plaza and concourse. This scavenger hunt takes visitors around the concourse to see the different art installations.

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Jenna Kuhns

Waterford, NY

Jenna wanted to help the decrease the pollinator population due to loss of habitat. She did this by building an 18x32 garden bed at the Halfmoon Waterford Fire Station. The garden is full of pollinator plants, a pollinator identification board, and two bee hotels. At the ribbon cutting ceremony she educated visitors about alternatives to pesticides and handed out wildflower seeds to plant in their own gardens.

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Rachel Carkner, Alice Nickerson, Lillianna Smith, Arianna Smith

Ravena, NY

Troop 1146 wanted to help their community come together and learn together. They created puzzle boxes for their local elementary schools and the Bethlehem Grange. These puzzles help to make learning fun and encourage people to work together and enjoy each other's company.

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Natalie Winner, Mae Budris, Amelia Jordan, Abigail Symonds

Galway, NY

Wanting to help people in their community with sensory processing disorders, Troop 2146 hosted a sensory carnival and created a sensory cart for the elementary school to use during recess. Playtime can often be a challenging time for students with sensory needs and with this cart all students will be able to enjoy recess play. They spread knowledge on this topic by creating an Instagram account

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Teaghan Ogden, Leah Beraldi, Alexa Wood

Troy, NY

Wanting to help the dogs in their community to have a safe place to go, Troop 1615 renovated a dog park. They built and added a ramp, agility poles and tunnels for the dogs to play with. They loved watching the dogs enjoy their new park!

2025

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Lucy Spor

Delanson, NY

The blank walls in her school inspired Lucy to be creative and want other students to be able to express themselves. She designed and painted a mural to celebrate 100 years of Duanesburg Schools. This mural now hangs in Duanesburg High School.

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You can become a Silver Award Girl Scout if you:

Are in sixth, seventh, or eighth grade
Are a registered Girl Scout Cadette
Have completed the Bronze Award, a Cadette Leadership Award, or a Cadette Journey
Must attend a Silver & Gold Award Workshop or Silver Award Workshop. Visit the Event Calendar HERE to choose a workshop to attend.

How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award

Let our council know you want to earn it. Email highestawards@girlscoutsneny.org for help

Find an issue you care about.
Build your Girl Scout Silver Award team or decide to go solo.
Explore your community and think of how that issue affects your community.
Choose a Silver Award project that can lead to lasting change. * Submit a Silver Award Proposal – Intent form for review to highestawards@girlscoutsneny.org
Develop your project.
Make a plan and put it into motion.
Reflect, share your story, and celebrate. * Submit your Silver Award Final Report to highestawards@girlscoutsneny.org

Silver Award Proposal must be submitted by March 30th of 8th grade year for Silver and Gold Award Committee approval. The Silver Award Final report must be submitted by July 31^st of the 8^th grade year for Silver and Gold Committee approval.

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Hey, grownups!

When you support Girl Scouts earning their Silver Award, you’ll help them see their own power and be by their side as they make a lasting change in their community. Download this guide, to get started today. If you have questions email highestawards@girlscoutsneny.org

You have the power to improve your community through action

They did it and so can you! Celebrating our Silver Award Girl Scouts!

You can become a Silver Award Girl Scout if you:

How to earn the Girl Scout Silver Award

Silver Award Proposal must be submitted by March 30th of 8th grade year for Silver and Gold Award Committee approval. The Silver Award Final report must be submitted by July 31st of the 8th grade year for Silver and Gold Committee approval.

Highest Award Prerequisites & FAQ

Hey, grownups!

They did it and so can you!
Celebrating our Silver Award Girl Scouts!

Silver Award Proposal must be submitted by March 30th of 8th grade year for Silver and Gold Award Committee approval. The Silver Award Final report must be submitted by July 31^st of the 8^th grade year for Silver and Gold Committee approval.