Gold Award Info - State College Girl Scouts

On My Honor: Penn State Campus Girl Scouts hosted a Gold Award workshop on February 28, 2016 for Seniors and Ambassadors. OMH members shared examples of their own Gold Award projects and offered the following advice:

Checklist for the Girl Scout Gold Award

prepared by On My Honor: Penn State Campus Girl Scouts

February, 2016

Make sure you are registered as a GS Senior or GS Ambassador
Complete two Senior or Ambassador Journeys, OR have your Silver Award completed and complete just one Journey
Brainstorm and decide on a project idea that will address the root cause of a community issue that you care about.
Before doing your online research, take the Girl Scout Internet Safety Pledge at www.girlscouts.org/internet_safety_pledge.asp
Research everything about your issue that you can. This includes looking into professional organizations and resources online, talking to and interviewing community leaders, and using your local library for resources!
Make a 30-second pitch to sell your project idea to others.
Use this project idea pitch to recruit a project adviser for your project.
Enlist community members and other girl scouts who would be willing to help you with your project, and form your Take Action team.
Create a detailed project plan outline. List out each step needed to achieve your goal.
For each step in your project plan, list the resources and materials you will need, where you can get these resources/materials, and how much they will cost.
Make a fundraising plan to cover all your costs. Donations from parents or using money you already earned is not a good fundraising plan!
Finish your project proposal. It must include the necessary GSHPA proposal forms, your project plan outline, your budget and fundraising plan, the Girl Scout Leadership Outcomes you want to achieve, and the impact you plan to make on yourself and your community. Articulate your issue clearly, and explain why it is important to you.
Before you submit your project proposal, make sure your plan sounds doable! Your proposal must be sustainable, demonstrate your leadership skills, set a project goal, identify what you would like to learn, identify your Take Action team, include a budget and fundraising plans, a project timeline, and must address a need in the local community that can link to problems found around the nation or world. Make sure you have discussed your project with your Take Action team as well.
Submit your project proposal to the GSHPA council for review by the 15th of each month. If not accepted right away, make revisions and try again!
Carry out your project plan.
Reflect on your overall project and what you have learned by developing a Gold Award Final Report. It should summarize the effectiveness of your project and the impact it has had on you and your community.
Share the project with your community and beyond–go for publicity on social media, newspapers, and more.