The Girl Scout Bronze Award is the highest award a Junior Girl Scout can earn. It shows you have made a promise to help others, improve your community and world, and become the best you can be.

The first three requirements of the award help you build skills and will prepare you for the fourth requirement, a Girl Scout Bronze Award Project. Work closely with your Girl Scout leader or GIrl Scout advisor in completing three requirements.

How to earn the award:

1. Decide on your Girl Scout Bronze Award service project. Read the requirements for the project to help you decide.

2. Do the first three requirements in any order, but they must be completed before you start your project. You may not use one activity to apply to more than one requirement.

3. You can work with other girls on the Girl Scout Bronze Award Project. If you and a group of girls decide to do the project together, each girl must be responsible for a part of the project. Each must be able to show exactly what she did and what she accomplished.

Reminder: Your leader or the advisor who is helping you with your Girl Scout Bronze Award is the person who will decide if you have completed the requirements and an appropriate Girl Scout Bronze Award project. Your leader is the one who makes the decision about whether you have earned the award. You are not required to have your project approved by your Girl Scout council or anyone other than your leader or the person helping you with Girl Scout activities. Your leader can purchase the Girl Scout Bronze Award for you and award it to you.

1. Earn two badges that are related to the project you will do for your Bronze Award.

2. Complete one of the Girl Scout Signs found in the Junior Girl Scout Handbook. The Signs are based on the four Girl Scout program goals for girls. You learn skills to become a successful and capable Junior Girl Scout when you complete a Sign.

3. Earn the Junior Aide Patch OR the Junior Girl Scout Leadership Award OR two of the following 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. This project shows the leadership skills you have learned as a Junior Girl Scout, and your commitment to your community and to yourself. To earn this award, you will do a project that shows that you understand and live by the Girl Scout Promise and Law.

The project should:

• Take approximately 15 hours to complete (this includes planning time). Doing the project should take at least 7 to 8 hours.
• Provide community service, but can be done in or outside of Girl Scouting.
• Follow the Action Plan in the "Adventures of Girl Scouting" chapter of the new Junior Girl Scout Handbook (2001). This should be a new service project that you or you and your troop/group have decided to do to earn this award. It should not be something you have already done.
• Follow safety rules. Check with your leader or Girl Scout advisor about which safety rules apply to your project.

Bronze Award Form