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What Is the
Girl Scout Bronze Award?
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 these requirements.
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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.
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Requirements
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 these
badges:
Girl Scouting in the USA
Girl Scouting Around the World
Girl Scouting in My Future Lead
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4. Do 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 seven to eight 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 or 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.
The Girl Scout Bronze Award can be found on pages 202-203 of the new Junior Girl Scout Handbook. The information on the
Bronze Award has been adapted slightly for the Web and appears here with permission of Girl Scouts of the USA. Additional
awards cited can be found in the same book, while badges can be found in the new Junior Girl Scout Badgebook.
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Sample Projects
We have expanded on several projects shown in in the Junior Girl Scout Handbook to demonstrate
the long-range planning that is necessary for your Girl Scout Bronze Award.
A fifth grade Junior Girl Scout wanted
to do a project at her grandmother's nursing home. That fall, she started working with her troop on the Sign of the Rainbow.
She got to know some of the other residents in the nursing home when her troop interviewed residents for the Folklore Badge
as part of the Sign of the Rainbow.
She chose to complete her Outdoor Creativity and Camera Shots badges in preparation
for her award project. She learned about gardening during the summer, and learned to use the family camera. In the fall of
the sixth grade, she started work on her Junior Aide Award. She helped a group of Brownies learn songs to sing at the nursing
home for the holidays as part of that award.
She had called the activity leader at the nursing home and arranged
to help residents plant a garden in the spring of sixth grade. She found out from the residents that they wanted to plant,
helped them plant seeds and seedlings, and came by weekly to help them weed. When the garden was in bloom, she took photos
and mounted a display in the nursing home's cafeteria.
A group of Junior Girl Scouts decided that they should do
something to help improve the meeting center at their camp. As they mapped out their final two years as Junior Girl Scouts,
they felt that this would be a great project to end with. Half of the group was working on their Junior Girl Scout Leadership
Award, while the other half was working on their Junior Aide Award. The troop was also split into groups to complete their
sign awards. Together the group worked on the Ms. Fix It Badge to learn some needed skills, and they divided into interest
groups on the Books and Communications badges.
The project came together with planning and some great donations
from the community recycling project. The troop and their parents worked with the camp caretaker to clean and paint the the
meeting center one weekend. They then returned to put up posters they had created while working on their badges. Some of the
girls had volunteered at the library as part of their sign activity and learned how to repair books, including the well-worn
songbooks. Resources were added to a library area, as was an activity box.
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