The Girl Scout Bronze Award, the highest honor a Junior Girl Scout can earn, requires her to learn the leadership and planning skills necessary to follow through on a project that makes a positive impact on her community. Working towards this award demonstrates her commitment to helping others, improving her community and the world, and becoming the best she can be.

Girls may work on the award individually or in a group. All of the requirements for the Bronze Award must be met before leaving Junior Girl Scouts. However, earning a Bronze Award is not a prerequisite for the Girl Scout Silver Award (for Girl Scouts 11-14) or the Girl Scout Gold Award (for Girl Scouts 14-17).
 

REQUIREMENTS

PLEASE NOTE: the requirements changed in Sept. 2009 to incorporate the new Journey program. Please see the council website for current requirements.  Girls who started the Bronze before this change, can continue with the older requirements.

The Bronze Award has four requirements. To receive the award, a Junior Girl Scout must complete the first three before undertaking the Bronze Award project.

1. Earn two badges related to the Bronze Award project.
2. Complete one of the Girl Scout Signs found in the Junior Girl Scout Handbook.
3. Earn the Junior Aide Award, the Junior Girl Scout Leadership Award, or two of these badges:
   • Girl Scouting in the USA
   • Girl Scouting Around the World
   • Girl Scouting in My Future
   • Lead On
4. Complete a Girl Scout Bronze Award project that demonstrates the leadership skills she has learned as a Junior Girl Scout and a commitment to her community. 

   The project must show she understands and lives by the Girl Scout Promise and Law. 

   The project should:

   • Take about 15 hours to complete (including planning time). Doing the project should take at least seven to eight hours.
   • Follow the Action Plan in the "Adventures in Girl Scouting" chapter of the Junior Girl Scout Handbook (page 39).
   • Provide community service inside or outside Girl Scouting.

For more information, see the Junior Girl Scout Handbook.

TIPS

• Read the Bronze Award project requirements before deciding on a project.
• Work closely with a Girl Scout leader or advisor to complete the requirements.
• Follow all national and council guidelines for fund raising.
• Follow all guidelines in Safety-Wise.
• Document personal work and hours put into the project, if done in a group.
• Recruit an advisor with special skills for the project - a leader or the council can help.
• Choose only a new service project to fulfill requirements. Don't use a project already completed.

COMPLETING THE AWARD

Leaders helping with the Bronze Award will decide if the girls have fulfilled the requirements and chosen an appropriate project. Girls are not required to have projects approved by their Girl Scout council or anyone other than a leader or the person helping with Girl Scout activities. 

If you are currently working on your bronze award and haven't yet met with Mrs. Wood personally - please make an appointment to do so.  

Though these are a scout projects (not parents) - we need to ensure everyone is following the guidelines, have presented their outlines for projects outside of council events, tracking their time, progress properly and are on task.

Remember - you can contact Mrs. Wood at any time and if you'd like to meet in person and review items, we can do that.  We're here to help!

HELPFUL LINKS:

Angela - RAIN Project donations & volunteer work

Caitlin & Rachael - Girl Scout Event - Bridging Ceremony