Girl Scout badges are a great way for a girl to explore her interests and learn new skills—and show the world what she’s accomplished!
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Animal Observer
When scientists observe, they learn about things by using their eyes to watch, ears to listen, nose to smell, and hands to touch. Now you can put your senses to work, too, as you observe and learn about animals. With the Daisy Animal Observer badge, you’ll get a chance to:
1. Be an animal observer
2. Play an animal observation game
3. Focus on one animal
When you’ve earned this badge, you will know more about observing animals.
Art and Design
Art and Design
Paintings! Statues! Posters! Art and design are all around. Find out about the art of making. Use art and design to create new things and solve problems. With the Daisy Art and Design badge, you’ll get a chance to:
1. Discover art and design
2. Experiment with your medium
3. Be inspired by a subject
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how makers create art and designs.
Automotive 1: Design
Automotive 1: Design
Buckle up and explore how automotive designers imagine and make plans for a new vehicle, like a car or truck. Then, design your own!
1. Choose special features for your vehicle
2. Sketch your vehicle
3. Sculpt and share your vehicle
When you’ve earned the Automotive 1: Design badge, you’ll know how people design cars.
Automotive 2: Engineering
Automotive 2: Engineering
Discover how automotive engineers turn ideas into real cars! Then, build, test, and improve a model of a vehicle.
1. Create your automotive engineering plan
2. Build a vehicle prototype
3. Test your vehicle prototype
When you’ve earned the Automotive 2: Engineering badge, you’ll know how automotive engineers work together to build cars and other vehicles.
Automotive 3: Manufacturing
Automotive 3: Manufacturing
Fire your engines and find out how automotive manufacturers build and test vehicles to make sure they’re ready for the road.
1. Explore efficient manufacturing and assembly lines
2. Create an assembly line to manufacture vehicles
3. Examine and test your vehicles for quality
When you’ve earned the Automotive 3: Manufacturing badge, you’ll know how manufacturers assemble high-quality vehicles.
Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout Petal
Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout Petal
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. Violet, called “Vi,” is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
- Talk about “Vi’s Story”
- Create a mural about girls around the world with your Daisy friends
- Practice being a sister to every Girl Scout
When you’ve earned your Vi petal, you’ll know how to be a sister to every Girl Scout, just like Vi the Violet.
Buddy Camper
Buddy Camper
When you earn this badge, you’ll get to see what an adventure camping is! You’ll get to play in nature, eat outside, and sleep under the stars with your family, buddies from your troop, or other friends.
- Help plan a camping trip
- Help pack for your trip
- Go camping
When you’ve earned the Buddy Camper badge, you’ll know how to go camping—at a campsite or in a backyard—with your family or friends.
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Find out how computers can be used to help others.
- Create algorithms for a computer that follow a sequence
- Learn about women in computer science
- Explore sorting algorithms
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics badge, you’ll know how computer scientists code programs for computers to solve problems.
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Explore how video games can make a difference.
- Explore tools used to develop digital games
- Plan a maze game
- Build, test, and improve your maze game
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design badge, you’ll know how video games are designed.
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Find out how programmers tackle big problems and make great apps.
- Decompose your problem into smaller steps
- Design an app that solves the problem
- Share and improve your app
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 3: App Development badge, you’ll know how computer scientists develop apps.
Considerate and Caring Petal
Considerate and Caring Petal
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. The Zinni petal is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
- Talk about “Zinni’s Story”
- Come up with ideas of how to be like Zinni
- Practice being considerate and caring
When you’ve earned your Zinni petal, you’ll know how to be considerate and caring, just like Zinni the Zinnia.
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Have fun with your family as you earn this award while running your Girl Scout Cookie® business.
- Set a goal
- Decide how to reach your goal
- Practice with money
- Learn to talk to customers
- Think like a Girl Scout
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Have fun with your family as you earn this award while running your Girl Scout Cookie® business.
- Set a goal
- Decide how to reach your goal
- Practice with money
- Learn to talk to customers
- Think like a Girl Scout
Cookie Goal Setter
Cookie Goal Setter
Decide how you will use your money, set goals, and share them with real customers.
1. Decide how you will use your money
2. Set a package goal
3. Share your goals with your customers
When you’ve earned the Cookie Goal Setter badge, you will know how to set and share your goals.
Courageous and Strong Petal
Courageous and Strong Petal
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. The Tula petal is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
- Talk about “Tula’s Story”
- Make an art gallery celebrating women who are courageous and strong
- Practice being courageous and strong
When you’ve earned your Tula petal, you’ll know how to be courageous and strong, just like Tula the Tulip.
Craft and Tinker
Craft and Tinker
Do you like making things with clay? Building with wood? Jewelry-making? That means you’re a maker! You can craft to solve problems and tinker with your creations to make them even better. With the Daisy Craft and Tinker badge, you’ll get a chance to:
1. Learn the basics
2. Craft with purpose
3. Tinker with your craft
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to craft and tinker to make useful objects.
Create and Innovate
Create and Innovate
Makers build things to help people, animals, and the planet. They also find new ways to do things. Sometimes they fail, but that’s okay because they can learn something new! With the Daisy Create and Innovate badge, you’ll get a chance to:
1. Make something to solve a problem
2. Make something for someone else
3. Make something even better
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to create and innovate objects that help others.
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Find out about computer parts and how computers are connected, just like you!
- Find out how computers work
- Find out what safety and protection means
- Discover how you’re connected, just like computers are!
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 1: Basics badge, you’ll know how how computers work and how to stay safe online.
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Find out how to stay safe when you go online.
- Discover what makes you different from others
- Find out what information is private
- Discover who is in your trust circle
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards badge, you will know what privacy is and how to protect my identity.
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Find out how computers gather information and solve problems.
- Find out how to search for an answer
- Use clues to figure out who someone is
- Test your powers of observation
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 3: Investigator badge, you’ll know how to use your powers of observation to investigate questions and find solutions.
Democracy for Daisies
Democracy for Daisies
Meet the people who work together in your government!
1. Find out about local government
2. Find out about state government
3. Find out about national government
When you’ve earned the Democracy for Daisies badge, you will have learned about the people who work together in your government.
Digital Leadership
Digital Leadership
Explore digital and real-world communities, learn which personal information is safe to share online, and use technology to support a cause you care about.
1. Discover your communities
2. Explore a world of information
3. Use technology for good
When you’ve earned the Digital Leadership badge, you will know about digital communities, what information is safe to share online, and how technology can make the world a better place.
Eco Learner
Eco Learner
Nature gives us many gifts—now learn some ways to give back by protecting nature.
- Be prepared to protect nature before you go outdoors
- Keep living things safe when you walk in nature
- Learn how to protect nature from trash
When you’ve earned the Eco Learner badge, you’ll have learned three ways to protect the environment when you go outdoors.
Friendly and Helpful Petal
Friendly and Helpful Petal
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. The Sunny petal is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
- Talk about “Sunny’s Story”
- Make a mural based on “Sunny’s Story” with your Daisy friends
- Practice being friendly and helpful
When you’ve earned your Sunny petal, you’ll know how to be friendly and helpful, just like Sunny the Sunflower.
Global Action Award
Global Action Award
The Girl Scout Global Action award calls for girls to address the global goals by discovering, connecting, and taking action in their communities and the world. Every Girl Scout must complete five steps to earn her Global Action award:
1. Explore the Global Goals and Global Action Award.
2. Explore what it means to be a global citizen.
3. Create a global citizen challenge.
4. Explore what responsible consumption means.
5. Create a responsible consumption challenge.
When you’ve earned this award, you’ll understand what it means to be a global citizen.
- Daisies can earn this award up to 2 times (once per year)
Good Neighbor
Good Neighbor
Find out how you can help your communities by being a good neighbor.
- Explore your school
- Discover your city or town
- See what makes your state special
When you’ve earned the Good Neighbor badge, you’ll know more about the communities you belong to—and how the people in your communities work together to be good neighbors to each other.
Honest and Fair Petal
Honest and Fair Petal
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. The Lupe petal is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
- Talk about “Lupe’s Story”
- Act out the story with your Daisy friends—each girl can take a different part
- Practice being honest and fair
When you’ve earned my Lupe petal, you’ll know how to be honest and fair, just like Lupe the Lupine.
Journey: 5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for Animals
Journey: 5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for Animals
In the 5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for Animals Journey, you will:
- Find out what animals need and how to care for them—go on nature walks to observe animals; visit a farm, zoo, or animal shelter; or create an animal sculpture.
- Plan a Take Action project that teaches others how to care for animals.
- Earn 3 leadership awards: Birdbath Award, Red Robin Award, and Tula Award.
Journey: Between Earth and Sky
Journey: Between Earth and Sky
In the Between Earth and Sky Journey, you will:
- Explore nature and learn how to keep the Earth healthy—visit a park or farm, talk to a scientist, or make origami butterflies to celebrate nature.
- Plan a Take Action project, such as planting a tree, creating a garden for a children’s hospital, or putting on a play about protecting the Earth.
- Earn 3 leadership awards: Blue Bucket Award, Firefly Award, and Clover Award.
Journey: Outdoor
Journey: Outdoor
In the Outdoor Journey, you will:
- Explore the wonders of camping and learn how to make art outdoors.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps make your favorite park, beach, or forest a better place for everyone.
- Earn the Buddy Camper badge, the Outdoor Art Maker badge, and a Take Action Award.
Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
In the Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey, you will:
- Find out how scientists use the scientific method to investigate the world and make discoveries.
- Do hands-on activities to learn how to make observations and collect data.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: Think Like a Programmer
Journey: Think Like a Programmer
In the Think Like a Programmer Journey, you will:
- Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems.
- Do 3 computational thinking activities: Building a Foundation, Happy Maps, and Plant a Seed.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: Think Like an Engineer
Journey: Think Like an Engineer
In the Think Like an Engineer Journey, you will:
- Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems.
- Do 3 hands-on design challenges: design and build a fairy house, a car powered by air, and a way to get across a canyon.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden
Journey: Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden
In the Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden Journey, you will:
- Explore the world of gardening—plant a mini-garden, learn about composting, find out how ladybugs help flowers, take a field trip to a public garden, or talk to a beekeeper.
- Plan a Take Action project, such as planting vegetables in a community garden or flowers at a nearby hospital.
- Earn 3 leadership awards: Watering Can Award, Golden Honey Bee Award, and Amazing Daisy Award.
Make the World a Better Place Petal
Make the World a Better Place Petal
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. The Rose petal is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
- Talk about “Rosie’s Story”
- Act out the story with your Daisy friends
- Practice making the world a better place
When you’ve earned your Rosie petal, you’ll know how to make the world a better place, just like Rosie the Rose.
Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature
Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature
Identify shapes and patterns in natural objects, like rainbows, flowers, and leaves.
1. Search for shapes in nature
2. Find and make patterns
3. Create art inspired by nature
When you’ve earned the Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature badge, you will know how to identify shapes and patterns in nature. You’ll also know how to create your own.
Math in Nature 2: Numbers in Nature
Math in Nature 2: Numbers in Nature
Explore how to measure the size and amount of objects in nature. Create your own unit of measure for nature, too!
1. Search for shadows
2. Sort natural objects
3. Make your own unit of measure
When you’ve earned the Math in Nature 2: Numbers in Nature badge, you will know about shadows, measurement, sorting, and estimating.
Math in Nature 3: Design with Nature
Math in Nature 3: Design with Nature
Observe and use what you know about the outdoors to make and do things in nature.
1. Count with birds
2. Identify parts of nature
3. Make a map
When you’ve earned the Math in Nature 3: Design with Nature badge, you will know how to use math to identify and sort things in nature. You’ll also know how to create a map.
Mechanical Engineering: Board Game
Mechanical Engineering: Board Game
Create board games and engineer your own game spinner.
- Come up with an idea for your board game
- Design a spinner for your game
- Test your game and make it better
When you’ve earned the Mechanical Engineering: Board Game badge, you’ll have created your own board game and learned what inventors and engineers do.
Mechanical Engineering: Model Car
Mechanical Engineering: Model Car
Build a model car and test the friction of your car on different surfaces to prepare for a Troop Car Chase!
- Design and build model cars
- Use model cars to test the friction of different surfaces
- Race your cars!
When you’ve earned the Mechanical Engineering: Model Car badge, you’ll have learned about friction by building and testing model cars. You will know how to design and test new things that you invent.
Mechanical Engineering: Roller Coaster
Mechanical Engineering: Roller Coaster
Engineer your own roller coaster and see how its design affects its speed.
- Make a simple roller coaster car
- Build a model of a roller coaster
- Test your roller coaster
When you’ve earned the Mechanical Engineering: Roller Coaster badge, you’ll have learned about engineering and motion by building and testing a roller coaster.
Money Explorer
Money Explorer
Learn what paper money and coins are worth and how to use money to buy things.
1. Find out about different coins
2. Know more about paper money
3. Practice using paper and coin money
When you’ve earned this badge, you will know how much paper bills and coins are worth and how to use money.
My First Cookie Business
My First Cookie Business
Find out how to sell cookies and get your customers excited for the new cookie season.
1. Find out about Girl Scout Cookies
2. Decide how to use your cookie money and set a goal
3. Practice your sales pitch
When you’ve earned the My First Cookie Business badge, you will know how to sell Girl Scout Cookies and use the troop’s cookie money.
My Money Choices
My Money Choices
Find out about what you need or want and learn how to make smart choices with the money you spend!
1. Find out what you need and want
2. Set a goal and save for what you need and want
3. Explore how to make choices with money
When you’ve earned this badge, you will know the difference between what you need and want, and you’ll learn how to make choices about money.
Outdoor Art Maker
Outdoor Art Maker
Explore the outdoors and use what you see and hear to make different kinds of art projects.
- See the colors of nature
- Hear the sounds of nature
- Share your outdoor art
When you’ve earned the Outdoor Art Maker badge, you’ll know how to look at nature like an artist and make your own outdoor art.
Promise Center
Promise Center
To earn the Promise Center, recite the Girl Scout Promise and share what it means to you.
Respect Authority Petal
Respect Authority Petal
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. The Gerri petal is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
- Talk about “Gerri’s Story”
- Visit someone who has authority in your community, such as a police officer, firefighter, or your school principal
- Practice respecting authority
When you’ve earned your Gerri petal, you’ll know how to respect authority, just like Gerri the Geranium.
Respect Myself and Others Petal
Respect Myself and Others Petal
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. The Gloria petal is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
- Talk about “Gloria’s Story”
- Invite an older Girl Scout to talk to your group about ways to respect yourself and others
- Practice respecting yourself and others
When you’ve earned your Gloria petal, you’ll know how to respect yourself and others, just like Gloria the Morning Glory.
Responsible For What I Say and Do Petal
Responsible For What I Say and Do Petal
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. The Mari petal is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
- Talk about “Mari’s Story”
- Act out the story with your Daisy friends
- Practice making the world a better place
When you’ve earned your Mari petal, you’ll know how to make the world a better place, just like Mari the Marigold.
Robotics 1: What Robots Do
Robotics 1: What Robots Do
Learn about the many things robots do. Then, work in teams, like engineers, to design a robot that solves an everyday problem.
- Learn about robots
- Find out what robots can do
- Team up to design your own robots
When you’ve earned the What Robots Do badge, you’ll know about the many things robots can be designed to do.
Robotics 2: How Robots Move
Robotics 2: How Robots Move
Think you might be a good robot? See if you can follow your programmer’s algorithm. Then become a programmer and create algorithms for robots and friends.
- Learn about the parts of a robot
- Find out how robots move
- Make a robot move
When you’ve earned the How Robots Move badge, you’ll know how to create a program that could be run by a robot.
Robotics 3: Design a Robot
Robotics 3: Design a Robot
Now that you know what robots can do and how they do it, it’s time to design your own! Plan and build a prototype of your robot that solves an everyday problem.
- Plan your robot
- Create a prototype
- Get feedback on your robot
When you’ve earned the Design a Robot badge, you’ll know how to design a robot that solves an everyday problem.
Snow or Climbing Adventure
Snow or Climbing Adventure
Choose your adventure: Be active outside in the snow, or boulder on a rock-climbing wall using just your arms and legs—no rope or harness!
- Choose your outdoor adventure
- Prepare for your adventure
- Go on your outdoor adventure
When you’ve earned the Snow or Climbing badge, you’ll know how to do active and fun things in the snow, or boulder up a rock-climbing wall in an indoor gym without a rope or harness.
Space Science Explorer
Space Science Explorer
Explore and observe the sky like a real space scientist.
- Explore the Sun
- Observe the Moon
- Meet the Stars
When you’ve earned the Space Science Explorer badge, you’ll have explored and observed the Sun, Moon, and stars.
STEM Career Exploration
STEM Career Exploration
Find out how the things you love can become a part of your future.
1. Discover STEM
2. Explore your future
3. Learn about a STEM career
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know what STEM is. You’ll also know how you can use STEM to help other people, animals, and the planet.
Toy Business Designer
Toy Business Designer
Have some fun getting into the toy business!
1. Come up with an idea for a toy
2. Make your idea even better
3. Pitch your idea
When you’ve earned the Toy Business Designer badge, you will have come up with an idea for a toy, designed it, made it better, and shared it—just like an entrepreneur!
Trail Adventure
Trail Adventure
Choose your adventure: Jog while you explore the outdoors or go on a hike and play games.
- Choose your outdoor adventure
- Prepare for your adventure
- Go on your outdoor adventure
When you’ve earned the Trail Adventure badge, you’ll know how to go on an adventurous jog or play outdoor hiking games.
Use Resources Wisely Petal
Use Resources Wisely Petal
Daisies earn petals and leaves to make their Daisy flowers. The Clover petal is one of ten petals you can earn. You can earn four leaves too!
- Talk about “Clover’s Story”
- Make a collage using old magazines or postcards
- Practice being resourceful
When you’ve earned your Clover petal, you’ll know how to use resources wisely, just like Clover.
Art and Design
Art and Design
Do you like coloring or making things? Have you ever tried designing something digitally? Art and design uses colors, shapes, and lines to share messages. It can solve problems, too. With the Brownie Art and Design badge, you’ll get a chance to:
1. Explore art and design
2. Experiment with the elements
3. Learn about composition
4. Make art about a subject
5. Share your artwork
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how makers turn ideas into art and design projects.
Automotive 1: Design
Automotive 1: Design
Find out how automotive designers come up with ideas for new vehicles. Then, take the wheel and design your own!
1. Explore how people move from place to place
2. Discover design criteria
3. Choose your vehicle’s design criteria
4. Sketch a vehicle to meet your criteria
5. Sculpt and share your vehicle
When you’ve earned the Automotive 1: Design badge, you’ll know how to design, sketch, and sculpt a vehicle.
Automotive 2: Engineering
Automotive 2: Engineering
Get in gear and explore how automotive engineers build vehicles. Then, engineer your own model of a vehicle to help people during an emergency!
1. Learn about simple machines in vehicles
2. Engineer a vehicle for safety based on criteria
3. Build a vehicle prototype
4. Test and revise your vehicle prototype
5. Share your vehicle prototype and testing results
When you’ve earned the Automotive 2: Engineering badge, you’ll know how automotive engineers plan, build, test, and improve vehicles.
Automotive 3: Manufacturing
Automotive 3: Manufacturing
Experience the importance of having a plan and discover how manufacturers build lots of vehicles that are safe and well made!
1. Experience the manufacturing process
2. Learn about the automotive manufacturing process
3. Plan your own automotive manufacturing process
4. Manufacture a set of vehicles
5. Share your automotive manufacturing process
When you’ve earned the Automotive 3: Manufacturing badge, you’ll know how vehicles are manufactured in a factory. You’ll also know how to make and test products for people to buy.
First Aid
First Aid
Find out what to do in an emergency so you can be prepared if the unexpected happens.
- Find out how to get help from 911
- Talk to someone who treats injured people
- Make a first-aid kit
- Learn how to treat minor injuries
- Know how to prevent and treat outdoor injuries
When you’ve earned the Brownie First Aid badge, you’ll know how to get help in an emergency and treat minor injuries.
Girl Scout Way
Girl Scout Way
Find out how you can share the Girl Scout legacy.
- Sing everywhere
- Celebrate Juliette Low’s birthday
- Share sisterhood
- Leave a place better than you found it
- Enjoy Girl Scout traditions
To earn your Brownie Girl Scout Way, you’ll learn to make the world a better place with Girl Scout traditions.
Budding Entrepreneur
Budding Entrepreneur
Become an entrepreneur by making something, testing it out, and improving your idea to make it the best it can be!
1. Come up with an idea that makes life better
2. Share your idea with others to get feedback
3. Improve your idea
4. Share how your idea works
5. Pitch your idea to an audience
When you’ve earned the Budding Entrepreneur badge, you will have come up with an idea for something that solves a problem, gotten feedback on it, and pitched it to others—all things that entrepreneurs do!
Budget Builder
Budget Builder
Find out what it means to spend and save and how to build a budget.
1. Find out how much things cost and how money is used
2. Learn the difference between wants and needs
3. Plan a budget for a fun adventure
4. Find out how to be thrifty
5. Make a budget for your character
When you’ve earned this badge, you will know how to make the shopping choices and budget decisions that are best for yourself.
Bugs
Bugs
Explore the world of bugs and learn more about these little creatures that do so much.
- Draw a bug poster
- Try a bug craft
- See bugs in action
- Explore bug homes
- Take a bug field trip
Cabin Camper
Cabin Camper
Plan a camping adventure with your Girl Scout friends or family members and then go camping!
- Help plan your camping trip
- Learn about camping gear
- Prepare a camp meal
- Learn a new camping skill
- Go camping!
When you’ve earned the Cabin Camper badge, you’ll know how to plan a camping trip and stay overnight in a cabin* with your friends or family.
*If you don’t have a cabin to use, that’s ok! You can sleep in a tent instead.
Celebrate Community
Celebrate Community
Learn about community celebrations and find out what your communities do to celebrate all the people in them.
- Explore community symbols
- Sing together
- Follow a parade
- Be a landmark detective
- Join a ceremony or celebration
When you’ve earned the Celebrate Community badge, you’ll know how your community celebrates what makes it special.
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Find out how computer scientists write programs for computers to solve problems.
- Create algorithms for a computer that follow a sequence
- Use loops to improve your algorithm
- Use events to make things happen
- Learn about women in computer science
- Create your own set of commands that use events
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics badge, you’ll know how programmers write programs that make computers work and how people can use computers to help others.
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Explore how video games can help people to learn new skills and experience new things.
- Discover how game design can be used “for good”
- Explore tools used to develop digital games
- Plan a maze game
- Build, test, and improve your maze game using iteration
- Share your game with others
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design badge, you’ll know how to think like a game maker and use iteration to plan, build, and test a game.
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Design your own idea for an app that solves a problem for someone else.
- Discover how apps can be used for good
- Decompose the needs of your app user
- Design your app screens
- Create algorithms for your app that include events
- Share and improve your app with user feedback
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 3: App Development badge, you’ll know about user-centered design and how computer scientists develop apps.
Computer Expert
Computer Expert
Find out what computers can help you do and learn to be a safe, secure computer expert.
- Paint or draw with an art program
- Find some cool facts
- Take a trip online
- Make a connection
- Have some computer fun
When you’ve earned the Computer Expert badge, you’ll know how to do many useful things on a computer.
Cookie Decision Maker
Cookie Decision Maker
Learn to think like an entrepreneur by making decisions for your cookie business.
1. Get to know your Girl Scout Cookie business
2. Decide on your giving goal
3. Build your team
4. Practice handling money and tracking sales
5. Show your cookie spirit!
When you’ve earned the Cookie Decision Maker badge, you will know how to make decisions that help your business succeed.
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Have fun with your family as you earn this award while running your Girl Scout Cookie® business.
1. Go for the goal
2. Find more customers
3. Be a money master
4. Make your pitch
5. Think like a Girl Scout
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Have fun with your family as you earn this award while running your Girl Scout Cookie® business.
1. Go for the goal
2. Find more customers
3. Be a money master
4. Make your pitch
5. Think like a Girl Scout
Craft and Tinker
Craft and Tinker
Makers are problem solvers. They craft objects people can use. All it takes are tools, materials, and some imagination! Make pottery or jewelry, try woodworking or sewing, or tinker with circuits for this badge. The option are endless for what to make! With the Brownie Craft and Tinker badge, you’ll get a chance to:
1. Explore making
2. Learn the basics
3. Figure out the function
4. Discover form and fit
5. Tinker with your craft
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to craft and tinker to solve a problem.
Create and Innovate
Create and Innovate
When makers create and innovate, they make the world better. They can help people, animals, and even the planet!
1. Explore innovation
2. Make something for someone else
3. Create for good
4. Get down to business
5. Share your creation
When you’ve earned this badge, you will know how to create objects that help others.
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Find out how you use technology and how you can keep your technology safe.
- Find out how you use technology
- Discover what your technology can do
- Find out how to create layers of security
- Find out how to use real-life safety rules when you go online
- Find out how messages travel on the internet
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 1: Basics badge, you’ll know cybersecurity basics and understand the role technology plays in your life.
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Find out how to be safe when you go online.
- Create your identity
- Find out what information to keep private when you go online
- Find out how to share information safely online
- Find out why you have to be careful about who you trust online
- Test your knowledge of online safety rules
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards badge, you’ll know what information is private and how to share information safely.
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Put on your detective hat and solve cyber crimes.
- Crack a code to solve a problem
- Investigate what’s real and fake in photos
- Find out about digital footprints
- Investigate how a computer virus can spread
- Explore a cyber attack
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 3: Investigator badge, you’ll know how to use investigative skills to spot problems in the cyber world.
Dancer
Dancer
Learn fun warm-ups, perform steps from new dances, and make a dance of your very own.
- Warm-up and get moving
- Try a new dance
- Take to the floor like a dancer
- Make up your own dance
- Show your moves!
When you’ve earned the Dancer badge, you’ll have explored the world of dancing—and found the dancer inside of you.
Democracy for Brownies
Democracy for Brownies
Find out how people in the government decide what rules are made and how they are followed.
1. Find out about local government
2. Find out about state government
3. Find out about our country’s legislative branch
4. Find out about our country’s executive branch
5. Find out about our country’s judicial branch
When you’ve earned the Democracy for Brownies badge, you will know the three branches of government—and some of the things they are responsible for.
Digital Leadership
Digital Leadership
Find out how technology can help you to be a leader who teaches, inspires,
and makes the real and digital worlds a better place.
1. Explore your communities
2. Discover your digital footprint
3. Examine what’s true and not
4. Design a digital commmunity
5. Create content for change
When you’ve earned the Digital Leadership badge, you will know how to lead in the digital world. You’ll know how to use technology to make the internet and world a better place.
Eco Friend
Eco Friend
Fair Play
Fair Play
Playing fair means that everyone has the same chance to play because everyone follows the same rules. That’s what this badge is about. You’ll learn to work together to have the most fun possible. That’s fair play!
- Follow the rules
- Include everyone
- Be part of a team
- Keep score
- Have a field day
When I’ve earned the Fair Play badge, you’ll know how to follow the same rules and play fair in sports.
Global Action Award
Global Action Award
The Girl Scout Global Action award calls for girls to address the global goals by discovering, connecting, and taking action in their communities and the world. Every Girl Scout must complete five steps to earn her Global Action award:
1. Explore the Global Goals and Global Action Award.
2. Explore what it means to be a global citizen.
3. Create a global citizen challenge.
4. Explore what responsible consumption means.
5. Create a responsible consumption challenge.
When you’ve earned this award, you’ll understand what it means to be a global citizen.
- Brownies can earn this award up to 2 times (once per year)
Hiker
Hiker
Find out what you need to know to become a Brownie hiker.
- Decide where to go
- Try out a hiking skill
- Pick the right gear
- Pack a snack for energy
- Go on your hike!
When you’ve earned the Hiker badge, you’ll know how to hit the trail for a hike.
Home Scientist
Home Scientist
Find out where science has been hiding in your home.
- Be a kitchen chemist
- Create static electricity
- Dive into density
- Make something bubble up
- Play with science
When you earn your Home Scientist badge, you’ll be able to see the science all around you.
Household Elf
Household Elf
Pick up some new household habits to help your family save energy, save water, and save the planet.
- Save energy
- Save water
- Go natural
- Reuse or recycle
- Clear the air
When you’ve earned the Household Elf badge, you’ll know how to make your home clean and green.
Journey: A World of Girls
Journey: A World of Girls
In the A World of Girls Journey, you will:
- Find out about girls around the world and how stories can give you ideas for helping others—play a game from another culture, invite storytellers to talk about what they do, or draw a self-portrait that shows what’s unique about you.
- Plan a Take Action Project, such as sewing a quilt, painting a mural, writing a play, or creating your own ad.
- Earn 4 leadership awards: Hear a Story Award, Change a Story Award, Tell a Story Award, and Better World for Girls! Award.
Journey: Brownie Quest
Journey: Brownie Quest
In the Brownie Quest Journey, you will:
- Find out how to take care of yourself, your family, your Girl Scout sisters, and your community—do an activity with your family to chart everyone’s special talents, play games at your troop meetings to learn how to work together, or do a fun “clue hunting” activity to learn the Girl Scout Law.
- Plan a Take Action project, such as visiting a nursery school to read to younger children or teach them a game, creating a school skit about healthy eating, or making a presentation to your city council about fixing a broken sidewalk by your school.
- Earn 4 leadership awards: Discover Key; Connect Key; Take Action Key; Brownie Quest Award.
Journey: Outdoor
Journey: Outdoor
In the Outdoor Journey, you will:
- Deepen your outdoor skills when you earn your Brownie First Aid, Hiker, and Cabin Camper badges.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
- Earn a Take Action Award.
Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
In the Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey, you will:
- Find out how citizen scientists make observations, collect data, and work with scientists to receive feedback on research.
- Do 3 citizen science activities: sharpen your observation skills through 2 observation games and a SciStarter project.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: Think Like a Programmer
Journey: Think Like a Programmer
In the Think Like a Programmer Journey, you will:
- Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems.
- Do 3 computational thinking activities: find out about paper programming; create a functional suncatcher to explore algorithms, variables, and functions; and create a personal innovation to discover rapid prototyping.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: Think Like an Engineer
Journey: Think Like an Engineer
In the Think Like an Engineer Journey, you will:
- Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems.
- Do 3 design thinking activities: design and build an assistive device, a water collection device, and a device that can launch a ball across a room.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: WOW! Wonders of Water
Journey: WOW! Wonders of Water
In the WOW! Wonders of Water Journey, you will:
1. Explore the wonders of water by finding out more about its importance and how it’s used around the world.
2. Plan a Take Action project, such as making informative posters, promoting recycling at school, or planting low-water gardens.
3. Earn 4 leadership awards: The LOVE Water Award, the SAVE Water Award, the SHARE Water Award, and the WOW! Award.
Letterboxer
Letterboxer
Learn about letterboxing, an amazing adventure game played by people all over the world. To play, you’ll follow clues to find a hidden box with special items inside.
- Get started with letterboxing
- Find your own stamp
- Practice solving clues
- Search for a letterbox
- Make a letterbox
When you’ve earned the Letterboxer badge, you’ll know how to have fun adventures by finding and hiding letterboxes.
Making Friends
Making Friends
Find out how to make new friends, keep old friends, and be the best Brownie friend you can be.
- Make friendly introductions
- Show friends you care
- Share favorite activities
- Learn how to disagree
- Practice friendship!
When you’ve earned the Making Friends badge, you’ll know how to be a good friend.
Making Games
Making Games
Use your imagination to make up new games.
- Try a scavenger hunt
- Make up a mystery game
- Create a party game
- Change the rules
- Invent a whole new sport
When you’ve earned the Making Games badge, you’ll know how to create new games and share them with others.
Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature
Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature
Look carefully at nature, track what you see, and create art inspired by natural objects.
1. Track natural objects
2. Graph natural objects
3. Make a spiderweb with symmetry
4. Explore tessellations
5. Collect data about birds
When you’ve earned the Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature badge, you will know about counting, graphing, symmetry, and tessellations. You’ll also know about spiders, birds, and other natural objects.
Math in Nature 2: Numbers in Nature
Math in Nature 2: Numbers in Nature
Use your senses and other tools to gather information and learn about the natural world.
1. Explore temperature
2. Measure the length of leaves
3. Graph your leaf data
4. Find space to grow
5. Plot and plant a garden
When you’ve earned the Math in Nature 2: Numbers in Nature badge, you will know how to measure temperature and length. You’ll also know about square feet, diagrams, and grids. You’ll have explored leaves and gardening.
Math in Nature 3: Design with Nature
Math in Nature 3: Design with Nature
Use math to do things in the natural world, like find the age of natural objects,
build a honeycomb, design a bird feeder, and go bird-watching.
1. Calculate the age of a natural object
2. Explore the shape of beehives
3. Measure and build a bird feeder
4. Use ratios to make bird food
5. Graph data about birds
When you’ve earned the Math in Nature 3: Design with Nature badge, you will know about natural objects. You’ll know how to measure, use scale and ratio, and make a graph.
Mechanical Engineering: Fling Flyer
Mechanical Engineering: Fling Flyer
Work like an engineer to create a Fling Flyer, an airplane you’ll make, and explore what keeps it and other things, such as birds, planes, and space ships, in the air.
- Learn about forces that affect flight
- Design and build a Fling Flyer
- Test your Fling Flyer
- Analyze and share your results
- Brainstorm ways to improve your design
When you’ve earned the Mechanical Engineering: Fling Flyer badge, you’ll have learned about the forces that affect flight as you design, build, and test a Fling Flyer. You’ll know how to design an investigation—and fine-tune your design after testing it, just like engineers.
Mechanical Engineering: Leap Bot
Mechanical Engineering: Leap Bot
Design, build, and test things like an engineer as you create your own Leap Bot.
- Learn about springs
- Build your Leap Bot
- Create a way to test how well your Leap Bot performs
- Record the results of your test
- Share your results
When you’ve earned the Mechanical Engineering: Leap Bot badge, you’ll have learned about engineering, gravity, and force by building and testing a Leap Bot. You will know how to build and test a new product.
Mechanical Engineering: Race Car
Mechanical Engineering: Race Car
Design, build, and test your own race car to explore how science can make a faster race car!
- Learn how design can affect speed
- Design and build your race car
- Design your racetrack
- Conduct a fair test and record results
- Share what you learned
When you’ve earned the Mechanical Engineering: Race Car badge, you’ll have designed a race car and a race track and carried out “fair tests” to learn how design affects speed.
My Best Self
My Best Self
Learn to pay attention to what your body needs and ask for health help if you need it.
- Get to know your body
- Eat and play in a healthy way
- Find out how your body works
- Know what to do if something bugs you
- Meet a health helper
When you’ve earned the My Best Selfbadge, you’ll know how to keep yourself healthy and happy.
My Cookie Customers
My Cookie Customers
Find out how to get new customers and keep them coming back.
1. Learn about Girl Scout Cookies
2. Decide how to use your cookie money
3. Find customers
4. Handle money and make change
5. Connect with customers
When you’ve earned the My Cookie Customers badge, you will know how to find new customers and talk to them about your cookie business.
My Family Story
My Family Story
Find out more about your family—the people you love and who love you.
- Explore family stories
- Know where your family is from
- Make a story tree
- Find an object that means something to your family
- Share your family story
When you’ve earned the My Family Story badge, you’ll know how to tell your family story.
My Great Day
My Great Day
Try out ways to get organized and learn how to help your family and friends stay organized too.
- Start your day right
- Sort out your stuff
- Make homework a breeze
- Plan ahead
- Help others get organized
When you’ve earned the My Great Day badge, you’ll be able to organize yourself to have a great day every day.
My Own Budget
My Own Budget
Find out how to spend, save, and share by creating a budget.
1. Find out how people spend money
2. Learn how to save
3. Find out what it means to share
4. Explore your wants and needs
5. Make a budget and set goals.
When you’ve earned this badge, you will know how to spend, save, and share money.
Outdoor Adventurer
Outdoor Adventurer
Explore outdoor activities that are new to you.
- Play outdoors in a new way
- Explore nature
- Buddy up and play outdoor games
- Learn a camp skill
- Care for the outdoors
When you’ve earned the Brownie Outdoor Adventurer badge, you’ll have tried a lot of new things outdoors and learned which activities you want to do again.
Outdoor Art Creator
Outdoor Art Creator
Find out how you can make your own art outdoors and have fun doing it.
- Find art ideas outdoors
- Make something!
- Dance or make music outdoors
- Be a nature photographer
- Design with nature
When you’ve earned the Brownie Outdoor Art badge, you’ll know how to do different kinds of fun art projects outdoors.
Pets
Pets
Learn how to choose the pet that’s right for you—or find out how to take the best care of a pet you already have.
- Find out what care different pets need
- Keep a pet comfy
- Help a pet stay healthy and safe
- Make a pet feel loved
- Feed a pet
When you’ve earned the Pets badge, you’ll know how to take care of a pet.
Robotics 1: Programming Robots
Robotics 1: Programming Robots
Learn about the robot brain by engineering a machine that helps a robot to land
- Learn how robots work
- Discover the robot brain
- Learn about programming
- Try simple programming
- Code a robot
When you’ve earned the Robotics 1: Programming Robots badge, you’ll know how to create a program that could be run by a robot.
Robotics 2: Designing Robots
Robotics 2: Designing Robots
Team up with your fellow Brownies to design a robot. Plan, build, and share your robot prototype.
- Explore how robots imitate nature
- Learn about the parts of a robot
- Plan your robot
- Create a prototype
- Get feedback on your robot
When you’ve earned the Robotics 2: Designing Robots badge, you’ll know how to plan, build, and share feedback like an engineer by creating a prototype of a robot that helps other people or animals.
Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots
Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots
After engineers build their robots, they show them to others and enter them into challenges and competitions.
- Create a presentation to share how you designed your robot
- Tell others how you designed your robot
- Learn about robotics competitions
- Learn about robotics teams
- See robots in action
Note: Unlike the other Robotics badges, these steps include options. You may be able to complete multiple steps, particularly three through five, at once.
When you’ve earned the Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots badge, you’ll know how to share your robot with others.
Senses
Senses
You have five senses that work together to let you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch the world around you. Try all five in this badge!
- Look around
- Listen to the world
- Put your nose to work
- Take a taste test
- Touch and feel
When you’ve earned the Senses badge, you’ll know how you use your five senses to explore the world.
Snacks
Snacks
Make great snacks for yourself and your friends.
- Find out about different types of snacks
- Make a savory snack
- Try a sweet snack
- Snack for energy
- Slurp a snack
When you’ve earned the Snacks badge, you’ll know how to make yummy snacks for your family and friends.
Snow or Climbing Adventure
Snow or Climbing Adventure
Choose your adventure: Ski along trails on a cross-country winter adventure, or learn climbing skills on an artificial wall, indoors or outdoors.
- Choose your outdoor adventure
- Plan and prepare
- Gather your gear
- Train for your adventure
- Go on your outdoor adventure
When you’ve earned the Snow or Climbing Adventure badge, you’ll have planned and learned the skills for cross-country skiing or rock climbing on a climbing wall.
Space Science Adventurer
Space Science Adventurer
Investigate the complexities of the sky as you learn to see things in a new way.
- Meet the neighbors
- See more than before
- Investigate the Moon
- Be a stargazer
- Celebrate and share
When you’ve earned the Space Science Adventurer badge, you’ll know how to investigate the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars.
STEM Career Exploration
STEM Career Exploration
Find out how all the things you love—like camping, baking, and walking your dog—can become a job that changes the world. Then, create a plan to turn your dreams into a reality!
1. Explore your interests
2. Discover the possibilities
3. Learn about the day-to-day
4. Brainstorm your next steps
5. Share your goals
When you’ve earned the STEM Career Exploration badge, you’ll know how to use STEM to help others.
Trail Adventure
Trail Adventure
Choose your adventure: Go trail running, or take different kinds of hikes.
- Choose your outdoor adventure
- Plan and prepare
- Gather your gear
- Train for your adventure
- Go on your outdoor adventure
When you’ve earned the Trail Adventure badge, you’ll have planned and learned the skills for an outdoor trail run or three different types of hikes.
Animal Habitats
Animal Habitats
Find out more about where animals live, how they play, and how humans can help them.
- Find out about wild animals
- Investigate an animal habitat
- Create an animal house
- Explore endangered habitats
- Help protect animal habitats
When you’ve earned the Animal Habitats badge, you will know more about wild animals and how to protect their homes.
Art and Design
Art and Design
Art can share a message, express emotion, and inspire others. Design is making something to solve a problem. Explore everything from drawing and painting to architecture and 3-D-printing with this badge. With the Junior Art and Design badge, you’ll get a chance to:
1. Discover art and design around you
2. Make art about a subject
3. Experiment with the elements
4. Explore composition
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to turn your ideas into art and design projects.
Automotive 1: Design
Automotive 1: Design
Do you want to take a ride in your dream car? Before you can do that, you need to design it! Discover how to create vehicles by sketching and sculpting a model.
1. Explore mobility across time
2. Conduct automotive market research
3. Create your vehicle’s design criteria
4. Sketch a vehicle to meet your criteria
5. Sculpt and share your vehicle
When you’ve earned the Automotive 1: Design badge, you’ll know about innovation and market research. You’ll know how to create criteria, sketch, and sculpt a vehicle.
Automotive 2: Engineering
Automotive 2: Engineering
Find out how automotive engineers fuel the future by building and testing vehicles. Then, create your own model of an alternative fuel vehicle!
1. Learn about simple machines in vehicles
2. Engineer a vehicle that uses alternative fuel
3. Build a vehicle prototype
4. Test and revise your vehicle prototype
5. Share your vehicle prototype and testing results
When you’ve earned the Automotive 2: Engineering badge, you’ll know how to use the Design Thinking Process to plan, build, test, and improve prototypes.
Automotive 3: Manufacturing
Automotive 3: Manufacturing
Explore how automotive manufacturers build lots of vehicles without wasting time and how they make sure the vehicles are ready for the road!
1. Experience the manufacturing process
2. Learn about the automotive manufacturing process
3. Plan your own automotive manufacturing process
4. Manufacture a set of vehicles
5. Innovate your automotive manufacturing process
When you’ve earned the Automotive 3: Manufacturing badge, you’ll know how high-quality vehicles are manufactured.
Bronze Award
Bronze Award
The Bronze Award is the highest award you can earn as a Girl Scout Junior. By working as part of a team, explore a community issue, and complete a project that addresses it.
- Go on a Girl Scout Junior Journey.
- Build your Girl Scout Junior team.
- Explore your community.
- Choose your Girl Scout Bronze Award project.
- Make a plan.
- Put your plan in motion.
- Spread the word.
When you earn the Bronze Award, you will represent what Girl Scouts can achieve in their communities.
Business Jumpstart
Business Jumpstart
Everyone has the ability to come up with an idea—it’s what you do to bring it to life that makes you an entrepreneur!
1. Create a prototype that solves a problem
2. Get feedback
3. Revise your prototype
4. Come up with a pitch
5. Pitch your idea to an audience
When you’ve earned the Business Jumpstart badge, you will have come up with an idea, gotten feedback on it, and pitched it to others—just like an entrepreneur!
Camper
Camper
Find out how to plan a camping adventure.
- Start planning your adventure
- Gain a new camping skill
- Find your inner camp chef
- Try a new activity
- Head out on your trip—and have some nighttime fun!
When you’ve earned the Camper badge, you’ll know how to have a great overnight camping trip at a campsite or cabin.
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Find out how programmers write computer programs for computers to solve problems.
- Create algorithms for a computer that follow a sequence
- Use loops to improve your algorithm
- Keep your code interesting with conditionals
- Create your own set of commands that use conditionals
- Learn about women in computer science
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics badge, you’ll know how programmers write computer programs and how people can use computers to help others.
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Find out how programmers create a video game that is fun and helps solve a problem.
- Discover how game design can be used “for good”
- Explore tools used to develop digital games
- Plan a maze game
- Build, test, and improve your maze game using iteration
- Share your game with others
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design badge, you’ll know how to use iteration to plan, build, and test a game “for good.”
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Design your own idea for an app that solves a problem.
- Discover the needs of others
- Decompose the needs of your app user
- Design your app screens
- Include conditionals in your app design
- Share and improve your app with user feedback
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 3: App Development badge, you’ll know how to use user-centered design to create an app.
Cookie Collaborator
Cookie Collaborator
Learn to collaborate with your troop, community, and network to grow your cookie business.
1. Get to know the Girl Scout Cookie business
2. Decide on your goals
3. Collaborate on a troop budget
4. Reach more customers
5. Learn from your customers
When you’ve earned the Cookie Collaborator badge, you will know how to work with your Girl Scout team to set goals and make decisions to run your cookie business, and how to collaborate with your friends and family to connect with more customers.
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Have fun with your family as you earn this award while running your Girl Scout Cookie® business.
1. Strategize your sales
2. Learn from the past
3. Run the show
4. Fine-tune your pitch
5. Know your product
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Have fun with your family as you earn this award while running your Girl Scout Cookie® business.
1. Strategize your sales
2. Learn from the past
3. Run the show
4. Fine-tune your pitch
5. Know your product
Craft and Tinker
Craft and Tinker
When you craft, you make something with care, skill, and imagination. You can craft with anything from clay or fabric to a computer or 3-D printer. You can craft with recycled materials to help the planet. Tinkering helps you fix problems and make your creations even better. With the Junior Craft and Tinker badge, you’ll get a chance to:
1. Explore crafting and tinkering
2. Tinker with a craft
3. Learn about users
4. Craft for form, fit, and function
5. Tinker with your project
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to craft and tinker to solve problems.
Create and Innovate
Create and Innovate
Somebody invented the seat belt. Other people created the hammer and the bicycle. Makers use their imaginations to solve problems and build new things. They innovate or find new ways to solve problems. They change the world, and now you can, too! With the Junior Create and Innovate badge, you’ll get a chance to:
1. Create a solution
2. Make it a function
3. Create for a community
4. Think bigger
5. Share your creation
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to use the design thinking process to improve things you create for others.
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Find out how computers talk to each other.
- Find out how computers read information
- Discover how networks work
- Find out what protocols are and create one
- Explore computer communication protocol
- Find out what malware is
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 1: Basics badge, you’ll know the basics of cybersecurity and how computers communicate.
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Find out how to keep your online identity safe.
- Create and protect a username
- Create and protect a password
- Discover how you share information and what to share
- Find out how information online can last forever
- Find out who is trustworthy online
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards badge, you’ll know how to protect your online identity and stay safe online.
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Become a cybersecurity investigator and learn how to spot threats online.
- Create and crack a shift cipher code
- Find out how updates can help your security
- Explore identity theft
- Find out what to do if your identity is stolen
- Investigate if a message is real or fake
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 3: Investigator badge, you’ll know how computers use codes to communicate and how to spot cybercrime.
Democracy for Juniors
Democracy for Juniors
Learn more about how your government works—from your town or city to the whole country.
1. Find out about local government
2. Find out about state government
3. Find out about our country’s legislative branch
4. Find out about our country’s executive branch
5. Find out about our country’s judicial branch
When you’ve earned the Democracy for Juniors badge, you will know more about how government works—from your town or city to the whole country.
Detective
Detective
Try out the skills that make great detectives.
- Practice the power of observation
- Communicate in code
- Fingerprint for fun
- Try out detective science
- Follow the clues to solve a real mystery!
When you earn your Detective badge, you will learn how to follow clues like a real detective.
Digital Leadership
Digital Leadership
Find out how you can use technology to help others and explore how to learn, share, and lead in the digital world.
1. Explore how you connect with others
2. Discover your digital footprint
3. Consider the source
4. Design a digital community
5. Create content for change
When you’ve earned the Digital Leadership badge, you will know how to protect yourself and others online. You’ll know how technology can make the world a better place.
Digital Photographer
Digital Photographer
Find out how to capture a winning photo with your digital device, whether you’re using a phone, tablet, laptop, or digital camera.
- Learn about digital cameras from an expert
- Take tons of photographs!
- Edit three photos
- Make a digital photo project
- Share your photos
When you’ve earned the Digital Photographer badge, you’ll know how to use a digital camera to create one-of-a-kind photos.
Eco Camper
Eco Camper
Find out how to protect the environment when you go on a camping trip.
- Learn the Leave No Trace Seven Principles
- Plan meals with the environment in mind
- Prepare a minimal impact campsite
- Have fun with Leave No Trace
- Take a conservation hike
When you’ve earned the Eco Camper badge, you’ll have learned skills for minimal impact camping and know how to protect the environment when you go outdoors.
Entertainment Technology
Entertainment Technology
Explore the ins and outs of entertainment technology.
- Animate your own artwork
- Dig into video game development
- Try the science of amusement park rides
- Create your own special effects
- Surf a sound wave
When you’ve earned the Entertainment Technology badge, you’ll know the science behind the world of entertainment.
Flowers
Flowers
Discover that there’s more to flowers than just good looks.
- Uncover the science of one flower
- Look under the petals
- Find out how flowers help people
- Have fun with flowers
- Send a message in flower code
When you’ve earned the Flowers badge, you’ll know all that’s wonderful about flowers.
Gardener
Gardener
Find out how to make your own garden, no matter where you live.
- Visit a garden
- Explore garden design
- Learn how to choose garden plants
- Experiment with seeds
- Grow your own garden
When you’ve earned the Gardener badge, you’ll know how to help plants and flowers grow.
Geocacher
Geocacher
Find out about geocaching. You’ll search for treasure chests, called “geocaches,” using a device called a GPS receiver.
- Prepare for your adventure
- Learn to use a GPS receiver
- Make a trade item
- Go on a geocaching adventure
- Take part in a bug’s travels!
When you’ve earned the Geocache badge, you’ll know how to have a geocaching adventure.
Global Action Award
Global Action Award
The Girl Scout Global Action award calls for girls to address the global goals by discovering, connecting, and taking action in their communities and the world. Every Girl Scout must complete five steps to earn her Global Action award:
1. Explore the Global Goals and Global Action Award.
2. Explore what it means to be a global citizen.
3. Create a global citizen challenge.
4. Explore what responsible consumption means.
5. Create a responsible consumption challenge.
When you’ve earned this award, you’ll understand what it means to be a global citizen.
- Juniors can earn this award up to 2 times (once per year)
Horseback Riding
Horseback Riding
Find out about horse behavior and riding basics.
- Know the basics of horseback riding
- Take care of a horse and learn about safety
- Prepare for your ride
- Practice your ride
- Go for a ride
When you’ve earned the Horseback Riding badge, you’ll know what it takes to be a good rider—from understanding horse body language to controlling the horse’s speed while you’re riding.
Independence
Independence
Get to know yourself and what you’re capable of so you can feel confident on your own.
- Get transportation smart
- Make your clothes look great
- Break a bad habit
- Help around the house
- Show off your independence!
When you’ve earned the Independence badge, you’ll feel more confident doing things on your own—and know how to help others be confident in you.
Inside Government
Inside Government
Find out more about the basics of government and start to become an active citizen.
- Decide what being an active citizen means to you
- Go inside government
- Look into laws
- Report on the issues
- Get involved in government
When you’ve earned the Inside Government badge, you’ll know more about how the government is run.
Journey: Agent of Change
Journey: Agent of Change
In the Agent of Change Journey, you will:
- Explore how powerful individual women have been throughout history, how your own individual powers can be linked together to create a powerful team, and how your team power can become community power.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
- Earn 3 leadership awards: Power of One, Power of Team, and Power of Community.
Journey: aMUSE
Journey: aMUSE
In the aMUSE Journey, you will:
- Explore roles you play in your life and try on new ones—play a role-playing game, invite actors to talk about the characters they’ve played, or learn to spot stereotypes on TV, in movies, or in ads.
- Plan a Take Action Project, such as putting on a performance that creatively urges an end to stereotyping, drawing a graphic novel to share with younger girls, or starting a “mix it up” day in the school cafeteria and having girls sit with new people.
- Earn 3 leadership awards: Reach Out!, Speak Out!, and Try Out!
Journey: GET MOVING!
Journey: GET MOVING!
In the GET MOVING! Journey, you will:
- Explore energy and how to use it wisely by interviewing power-use experts and conducting an energy audit of a building in your community.
- Plan a Take Action project to fix an energy problem in your community. You could launch carpools, work to dim the lights on city buildings, or promote energy savings at your school.
- Earn 3 leadership awards: The Energize Award, the Investigate Award, and the Innovate Award.
Journey: Outdoor
Journey: Outdoor
In the Outdoor Journey, you will:
- Deepen your outdoor skills when you earn your Animal Habitat, Camper, and Eco Camper badges.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps make your favorite park, beach, or forest a better place for everyone.
- Earn a Take Action Award.
Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
In the Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey, you will:
- Find out how citizen scientists make observations, collect data, and work with scientists to receive feedback on research.
- Do 3 citizen science activities: sharpen your observation skills through 2 observation games and a SciStarter project.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
In the Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey, you will:
- Find out how citizen scientists make observations, collect data, and help scientists conduct scientific research.
- Do 3 citizen science activities: make observations about your environment, design a way to test a hypothesis, and a SciStarter project.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: Think Like a Programmer
Journey: Think Like a Programmer
In the Think Like a Programmer Journey, you will:
- Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems.
- Do 3 computational thinking activities: create algorithms to make images with tangrams; create mad libs and craft suncatchers to learn more about algorithms, abstraction, functions, and variables; and create a personal innovation to discover rapid prototyping.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: Think Like an Engineer
Journey: Think Like an Engineer
In the Think Like an Engineer Journey, you will:
- Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems
- Do 3 design thinking activities: design and build a paper structure that can support the weight of heavy books, an emergency shelter, and a prototype of a structure that can withstand an earthquake’s shaking.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
First Aid
First Aid
Find out how to help people when they’re ill or injured and learn how to respond during an emergency.
- Learn the first steps to take in an emergency
- Talk to first responders
- Make a portable first-aid kit
- Find out how to handle urgent first-aid issues
- Know how to take care of someone who’s sick
When you’ve earned the Junior First Aid badge, you’ll know how to help people who are sick or hurt.
Girl Scout Way
Girl Scout Way
Find out about Girl Scout traditions and share activities and spirit that are a century strong.
- Match songs to an occasion
- Celebrate the Girl Scout birthday
- Share sisterhood
- Leave a place better than you found it
- Enjoy Girl Scout traditions!
When you’ve earned the Junior Girl Scout Way badge, you’ll know how to use the Girl Scout ways and traditions to make the world a better place.
Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature
Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature
Explore patterns found in nature and use math to create your own.
1. Identify symmetry in nature
2. Explore bilateral symmetry in nature
3. Create nature-inspired art with circular symmetry
4. Find fractals in nature
5. Search for the Fibonacci sequence
When you’ve earned the Math in Nature 1: Shapes in Nature badge, you will know about symmetry, fractals, and the Fibonacci sequence. You’ll have identified and made patterns inspired by nature.
Math in Nature 2: Numbers in Nature
Math in Nature 2: Numbers in Nature
Explore how math can be used to tell us all kinds of information about nature, from how tall or old a tree is to the weather, season, or time.
1. Tell time with nature
2. Track the weather
3. Explore the circumference of trees
4. Search for shadows
5. Find the area and perimeter of plants
When you’ve earned the Math in Nature 2: Numbers in Nature badge, you will know how to use math to tell time, predict the weather, and learn about trees. You’ll know how to measure shadows, perimeter, and area.
Math in Nature 3: Design with Nature
Math in Nature 3: Design with Nature
Use math to plan and organize an outdoor adventure.
Decide where you’ll go, how long you’ll be gone for, and what you’ll bring.
1. Find your hiking pace
2. Choose a hiking trail
3. Find changes in elevation on a map
4. Decide how much food to bring
5. Pack for your adventure
When you’ve earned the Math in Nature 3: Design with Nature badge, you will know about different types of maps. You’ll know how to calculate distance, pace, elevation changes, and area.
Mechanical Engineering: Balloon Car
Mechanical Engineering: Balloon Car
Learn about airpower and create an alternative fuel car.
- Learn about potential and kinetic energy
- Design and build a balloon car
- Test your balloon-powered car
- Analyze and share results
- Brainstorm ways to improve your design
When you’ve earned the Mechanical Engineering: Balloon Car badge, you’ll know how to engineer a balloon-powered car and understand potential energy, kinetic energy, and jet propulsion.
Mechanical Engineering: Crane
Mechanical Engineering: Crane
Learn about simple machines and how they work together as you build your own heavy-lifting crane.
- Explore simple and compound machines
- Design and build a crane
- Test your crane
- Analyze and share your results
- Brainstorm ways to improve your design
When you’ve earned the Mechanical Engineering: Crane badge, you’ll know how to build and test a crane and understand simple and compound machines.
Mechanical Engineering: Paddle Boat
Mechanical Engineering: Paddle Boat
Explore how paddle boats work and engineer your own paddle boat.
- Explore how paddle boats work
- Design and build a rubber band-powered paddle boat
- Test your rubber band-powered paddle boat
- Analyze and share your results
- Brainstorm ways to improve your design
When you’ve earned the Mechanical Engineering: Paddle Boat badge, you’ll know how to build and test a paddle boat and understand buoyancy, potential energy, and kinetic energy.
Musician
Musician
Find out more about the fun of making music.
- Explore how music is made
- Travel around the world of music
- Check out the music in your life
- Make your own music
- Perform your music
When you’ve earned the Musician badge, you’ll know how music is made and how to perform music yourself.
My Cookie Team
My Cookie Team
Bring your different skills and ideas together to meet your goals.
1. Find out about Girl Scout Cookies
2. Decide how you will use your cookie money
3. Set a troop budget and package goal
4. Build your team
5. Create your pitch to customers
When you’ve earned the My Cookie Team badge, you will know how to use teamwork to help your cookie business.
My Money Plan
My Money Plan
Find out how people earn money and make it grow by saving and investing. Then investigate ways to protect your money and information.
1. Explore how to earn an income
2. Investigate jobs and income
3. Find out about income tax
4. See the difference between saving and investing
5. Protect money and information
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to earn an income, invest it, and protect it.
Outdoor Art Explorer
Outdoor Art Explorer
Let nature be your inspiration as you explore, create, and design different kinds of art.
- Explore outdoor art
- Make something!
- Find music in nature
- Be a nature photographer
- Design with nature
When you’ve earned the Junior Outdoor Art badge, you will know how to find art in nature and create your own outdoor artwork.
Playing the Past
Playing the Past
Explore what it was like to live in the past. Dream up a character and get ready to live history!
- Decide who you are
- Create a costume
- Experience daily life
- Have some old-fashioned fun
- Become your character
When you’ve earned the Playing the Past badge, you’ll know how girls of the past lived, worked, and played.
Practice with Purpose
Practice with Purpose
While earning your Practice with Purpose badge, you will learn how to set sports goals and practice to achieve them.
Robotics 1: Programming Robots
Robotics 1: Programming Robots
Engineer a simple machine that helps a robot land, learn about the robot brain, and create programs for your friends.
- Learn how robots work
- Discover the robot brain
- Learn about programming
- Try simple programming
- Code a robot
When you’ve earned the Robotics 1: Programming Robots badge, you’ll know how robots receive instructions in a way similar to the human brain. You will be able to create simple programs that could be run by a robot.
Robotics 2: Designing Robots
Robotics 2: Designing Robots
Plan and build a prototype of a robot that solves a global problem.
- Discover the future of robots
- Determine your robot’s expertise
- Plan your robot
- Create a prototype
- Get feedback on your robot
When you’ve earned the Robotics 2: Designing Robots badge, you’ll know how to plan, build, and share feedback like an engineer by creating a prototype of a robot that solves a global problem.
Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots
Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots
Now that you have your robot prototype, create a presentation and share your design with others. Then, find out about robot teams and competitions.
- Create a presentation to share how you designed your robot
- Tell others how you designed your robot
- Learn about robotics competitions
- Learn about robotics teams
- See robots in action
Note: Unlike the other robotics badges, these steps include options. You may be able to complete multiple steps, particularly steps three through five, at once.
When you’ve earned the Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots badge, you will have shared your prototype and design process with others. You will see a robot in action and learn about robotics teams and competitions.
Scribe
Scribe
Explore what you can do with words and find out how you can encourage, entertain, and excite people with your writing.
- Start with a poem
- Create a short story
- Use words to share who you are
- Write an article
- Tell the world what you think
When you’ve earned the Scribe badge, you’ll know how to write different kinds of stories—both true tales and ideas from your imagination.
Simple Meals
Simple Meals
Make amazing meals and learn to create a whole meal of your own.
- Step up your skills with a pro
- Whip up a great breakfast
- Fix a healthy lunch or dinner
- Create a delicious dessert
- Make your own meal
When you’ve earned the Simple Meals badge, you’ll know how to serve up a meal for your family and friends.
Snow or Climbing Adventure
Snow or Climbing Adventure
Choose your adventure: Go downhill skiing/snowboarding, or recreational tree climbing.
- Choose your outdoor adventure
- Plan and prepare
- Gather your gear
- Set a goal and train for your adventure
- Go on your outdoor adventure
When you’ve earned the Snow or Climbing Adventure badge, you’ll have learned the skills—and experienced—downhill skiing, snowboarding, or recreational tree climbing.
Social Butterfly
Social Butterfly
Have fun practicing the social style and good manners that will make you comfortable in any situation.
- Hold a conversation
- Use table manners
- Be prepared for special occasions
- Say thank you
- Practice being at ease
When you’ve earned the Social Butterfly badge, you’ll know how to act at many types of events, from picnics to weddings to parties.
Space Science Investigator
Space Science Investigator
Venture through the Solar System and beyond, and see that space is even bigger than you may have imagined.
- Model the Solar System
- Circle the Sun
- Discover the stars
- Use the tools to explore
- Share your sky
When you’ve earned the Space Science Investigator badge, you’ll understand that the Earth orbits the Sun, and how far away the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are from our home planet, Earth.
Staying Fit
Staying Fit
Figure out what fitness, food, and fun you need to stay strong for life.
- Start moving!
- Keep your fit body fueled
- Know how to stress less
- Get the truth about health
- Help your family stay fit
When you’ve earned the Staying Fit badge, you’ll know what you need to get strong and stay that way.
STEM Career Exploration
STEM Career Exploration
Explore what you’re interested in and what you care about. Then, create a plan for how you’ll change the world!
1. Explore your interests
2. Discover the possibilities
3. Learn about the day-to-day
4. Brainstorm your next steps
5. Share your goals
When you’ve earned the STEM Career Exploration badge, you’ll know about STEM careers that make the world a better place.
Trail Adventure
Trail Adventure
Choose your adventure: Go on a trail run for a distance that challenges you, or train for and go on three separate day hikes.
- Choose your outdoor adventure
- Plan and prepare
- Gather your gear
- Set a goal and train for your adventure
- Go on your outdoor adventure
When you’ve earned the Trail Adventure badge, you’ll have planned and learned the skills for trail running or three separate day hikes.
Animal Helpers
Animal Helpers
Learn about the many ways animals help humans.
- Explore the connection between humans and animals
- Find out how animals help keep people safe
- Know how animals help people emotionally
- Check out how animals help people with disabilities
- Look at how animals might help us in the future
When you’ve earned the Animal Helpers badge, you’ll know how animals help humans and how to help them keep it up.
Archery
Archery
Find out about archery, an exciting sport that takes strength, focus, good form, and practice.
- Get to know archery equipment
- Learn about archery safety
- Practice archery before you go on a range
- Shoot on an archery range
- Create an archery challenge
When you’ve earned the Archery badge, you’ll know how to take aim outdoors with your archery skills.
Babysitter
Babysitter
Gain the skills that will help you become the best babysitter you can be.
- Get to know how kids develop
- Prepare for challenges
- Focus on play
- Find potential employers
- Practice your babysitting skills
When you’ve earned the Babysitter badge, you’ll be prepared to babysit and will have tried out your skills on the job.
Book Artist
Book Artist
Learn book artistry.
- Explore the art of bookbinding
- Get familiar with the insides of a book
- Try out book artist techniques
- Focus on function
- Focus on style
When you’ve earned the Book Artist badge, you’ll know how to make different kinds of books.
Business Creator
Business Creator
Become a business creator and learn the skills you need for success in life, no matter what future path you choose.
1. Come up with an idea that solves a problem
2. Design a prototype and get feedback
3. Revise your prototype
4. Create your business plan
5. Make your pitch
When you’ve earned the Business Creator badge, you will have learned to think like an entrepreneur when you come up with a business idea that solves a problem, design a prototype, solicit feedback, improve your idea, then create a business plan and pitch it.
Community Service Bar
Community Service Bar
To earn your Cadette Community Service bar, provide at least 20 hours of community service to the same organization.
First Aid
First Aid
Find out how to deal with minor injuries and illnesses and how to tell when the problem is more serious.
- Understand how to care for younger children
- Know how to use everything in a first-aid kit
- Find out how to prevent serious outdoor injuries
- Know the signs of shock and know how to treat it
- Learn to prevent and treat injuries due to weather
When you’ve earned the Cadette First Aid badge, you’ll know how to take care of people in an emergency, including younger children in your care.
Girl Scout Way
Girl Scout Way
Learn about Girl Scout traditions and share activities that are a century strong.
- Lead a group in song
- Celebrate Girl Scout Week
- Share sisterhood through the Girl Scout Law
- Leave a camp better than you found it
- Enjoy Girl Scout traditions!
When you’ve earned the Cadette Girl Scout Way badge, you’ll know how to use Girl Scout ways and traditions to make the world a better place.
Service to Girl Scouts Bar
Service to Girl Scouts Bar
To earn your Cadette Community Service bar, provide at least 20 hours of community service to the Girl Scout organization.
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Find out how to write a computer program and create a meme with a positive message.
- Learn about functions and arguments
- Explore how memes are created
- Write pseudocode for a meme
- Write shareable code
- Share your meme
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics badge, you’ll know the basics of computer coding and how to create a meme that can have an impact on other people, your community, and the world.
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Explore how programmers design video games that make positive changes in the world.
- Create an avatar
- Learn how to use arrays to create images
- Write an array to create an icon
- Develop a game scenario
- Play your game
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design badge, you’ll know how video games are developed, how images are stored and displayed on screens, and how to use elements from Javascript to create game characters.
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Collect and visualize personal data to design a prototype for an app that will help to build a healthy habit.
- Learn about data collection and visualization
- Write an array to store personal data
- Create a personal data collection plan
- Learn how to correlate data
- Develop a prototype for a habit tracking app
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 3: App Development badge, you’ll know how to use elements from JavaScript to create your own idea for a habit-tracking app.
Comic Artist
Comic Artist
Find out more about the world of comic art and then tell your own visual story.
- Delve into the world of comics
- Choose a story to tell
- Draw it out
- Frame it in four panels
- Add the words
When you’ve earned the Comic Artist badge, you’ll know how to create your own comic.
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Take the lead—getting support from your family—as you earn this award while running your Girl Scout Cookie® business.
1. Hit those benchmarks
2. Choose your path
3. Learn about financial planning
4. Grow your network
5. Thank your customers
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Take the lead—getting support from your family—as you earn this award while running your Girl Scout Cookie® business.
1. Hit those benchmarks
2. Choose your path
3. Learn about financial planning
4. Grow your network
5. Thank your customers
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Take the lead—getting support from your family—as you earn this award while running your Girl Scout Cookie® business.
1. Hit those benchmarks
2. Choose your path
3. Learn about financial planning
4. Grow your network
5. Thank your customers
Cookie Innovator
Cookie Innovator
Create bolder and bigger goals for your cookie business and find unique ways to connect with your customers.
1. Master your cookie business
2. Choose a big idea, set goals, and build a budget
3. Decide how to meet your big goals
4. Explore ethics in your cookie business
5. Sell your big dream to others
When you’ve earned the Cookie Innovator badge, you will know how to set bigger goals for your cookie business and come up with ways to reach them.
Cookie Market Researcher
Cookie Market Researcher
Explore your customers’ experience to help you reach more people and expand your business.
1. Know your product and resources
2. Set goals and a budget
3. Explore the Girl Scout Cookie brand
4. Develop your marketing plan
5. Create your marketing campaign
When you’ve earned the Cookie Market Researcher badge, you will know how to use market research to grow your cookie business and connect with customers.
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Explore different hacking techniques and how to protect yourself with basic cybersecurity precautions.
- Crack a code
- Hack a password
- Explore two-factor authentication
- Launch a Man-in-the-Middle attack
- Explore social engineering
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 1: Basics badge, you’ll know how (and why it’s important!) to protect yourself with strong passwords, secure encryption, and caution when clicking on links.
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Find out why it’s important to keep your personal information private online and how you can keep your data secure.
- Guard your identity
- Create a profile based on your interests
- Learn about metadata
- Shop for apps in a life-sized app store
- Inventory your digital presence
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards badge, you’ll know about your digital footprint and how others can use data from your footprint to target you with both legitimate ads and social engineering scams.
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Solve a series of fictional cyber crimes using what you know about cybersecurity.
- Find clues in text messages
- Identify phishing emails
- Learn how hackers use social media
- Analyze log files
- Protect your identity from hackers
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 3: Investigator badge, you’ll know about the potential vulnerabilities and risks in personal digital communications (emails, text messages, and social media) and how you can protect your identity.
Democracy for Cadettes
Democracy for Cadettes
If you want to make a difference, start by fully understanding how your government works. Informed citizens are change makers!
1. Find out about local government
2. Find out about state government
3. Find out about the federal legislative branch
4. Find out about the federal executive branch
5. Find out about the federal judicial branch
When you’ve earned the Democracy for Cadettes badge, you will have learned new things about your government—how each branch works, how they work together, and how each piece makes a difference in society.
Digital Leadership
Digital Leadership
Explore the digital world and how you can use technology to inspire and guide others.
1. Discover your digital landscape
2. Investigate the digital world
3. Design a digital community
4. Create content for change
5. Share your process
When you’ve earned the Digital Leadership badge, you will know how technology can be used to make a difference. You’ll know how to make the internet a better place for yourself and others.
Digital Movie Maker
Digital Movie Maker
Try your hand at movie-making.
- Learn digital video basics
- Film. Then film some more…
- Pick the perfect subject
- Action!
- Edit and premiere your movie
When you’ve earned the Digital Movie Maker badge, you’ll know how to create a digital movie.
Eating for You
Eating for You
Find out how eating well can help you both inside and out.
- Know how good nutrition helps your body stay healthy
- Find out how what you eat affects your skin
- Explore how your diet affects your stress level
- Investigate how the food you eat affects your sleep
- Look at how your diet affects your energy
When you’ve earned the Eating for You badge, you’ll know how to eat your way to a healthy mood, mind, and body.
Eco Trekker
Eco Trekker
Plan and take an outdoor trek—with minimal environmental impact.
- Learn how to make minimal impact on a trek
- Plan an eco trek with a purpose
- Practice an eco skill while on your trek
- Make a difference on your eco trek
- Make a difference after your eco trek
When you’ve earned the Eco Trekker badge, you’ll have learned the skills for minimizing your impact on the environment while planning and taking an outdoor trek.
Field Day
Field Day
From friends playing in the park to countries competing against one another at the Olympics, games unite us all. And Girl Scouts have been inventing their own games since 1912! In this badge, you’ll experience this firsthand, by organizing teams and events for an exciting, do-it-yourself field day.
- Team up and dress up
- Host a historical game
- Play a scientific game
- Find fun in fiction
- Stage your grand finale!
When you’ve earned the Field Day badge, you’ll know how to organize a field day filled with friends and fun.
Finding Common Ground
Finding Common Ground
Find out how people in democratic governments make trade-offs, giving up some things they favor to gain support for others.
- Get to know someone different from you
- Make decisions in a group
- Explore civil debate
- Understand a compromise
- Find common ground through mediation
When you’ve earned the Finding Common Ground badge, you’ll know strategies for bringing people together to find common ground.
Global Action Award
Global Action Award
The Girl Scout Global Action award calls for girls to address the global goals by discovering, connecting, and taking action in their communities and the world. Every Girl Scout must complete five steps to earn her Global Action award:
1. Explore the Global Goals and Global Action Award.
2. Explore what responsible consumption means.
3. Create a responsible consumption challenge.
4. Find out what responsible production means.
5. Create a responsible production challenge.
When you’ve earned this award, you’ll understand how the things we use and the waste we create impacts us and our planet.
- Cadettes can earn this award up to 3 times (once per year)
Good Sportsmanship
Good Sportsmanship
Find out how to make good sportsmanship a habit in games and in life.
- Create your own definition of sportsmanship
- Be a good competitor
- Be a good teammate
- Psych yourself up
- Put your definition of good sportsmanship into action
When you’ve earned the Good Sportsmanship badge, you’ll know how you define sportsmanship and will have put your definition into action.
Journey: aMAZE!
Journey: aMAZE!
In the aMAZE! Journey, you will:
- Find out how to develop true friendships, navigate cliques, and move beyond stereotypes, with the ultimate goal of peace in your interpersonal relationships.
- Plan a Take Action Project that shares your new friendship-building skills.
- Earn 3 leadership awards: Interact, Diplomat, and Peacemaker.
Journey: Breathe
Journey: Breathe
In the Breathe Journey, you will:
- Find out about the air we breathe by visiting a wind farm, talking to an environmental scientist, or doing experiments using wind.
- Plan a Take Action project to fix an air problem in your community. You could plant an indoor garden, campaign against smoking, or push for clean-air initiatives in your community.
- Earn 3 leadership awards: Aware, Alert, and Affirm.
Journey: MEdia
Journey: MEdia
In the MEdia Journey, you will:
- Explore media and find out how to reshape negative media messages into more positive ones—invite a TV show producer to talk about what influences her work, organize a movie night and discuss the film’s messages, or write a rap song or TV script.
- Plan a Take Action Project that encourages positive messages in media—rewrite a song that has hurtful lyrics about women, create a blog that reviews how movies and TV shows depict girls, or start a Twitter campaign responding to stereotypes you see in the media.
- Earn 3 awards: Monitor Award, Influence Award, and Cultivate Award.
Journey: Outdoor
Journey: Outdoor
In the Outdoor Journey, you will:
- Deepen your outdoor skills when you earn your Night Owl, Trailblazing, and Primitive Camper badges.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps make your favorite park, beach, or forest a better place for everyone.
- Earn a Take Action Award.
Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
Journey: Think Like a Citizen Scientist
In the Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey, you will:
- Find out how citizen scientists make observations, collect data, and help scientists conduct scientific research.
- Do 3 citizen science activities: make observations about your environment, create a community field guide, and a SciStarter project.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: Think Like a Programmer
Journey: Think Like a Programmer
In the Think Like a Programmer Journey, you will:
- Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems
- Do 3 computational thinking activities: categorize various objects as “Computer” or “Not a Computer” to explore the four tasks that define a computer, create a card-sorting algorithm to learn about processing, and design technology that will best meet a user’s needs using user-centered design.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: Think Like an Engineer
Journey: Think Like an Engineer
In the Think Like an Engineer Journey, you will:
1. Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems.
2. Do 3 design thinking activities: design and build prototypes of a life vest for a dog, a model camp cabin inspired by nature, and a prosthetic leg for an elephant.
3. Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Leader In Action (LiA) Award
Leader In Action (LiA) Award
The Leadership in Action (LiA) Award gives you the opportunity to learn by doing! To earn your LiA Award, teach younger Girl Scouts something important from their Journey and reflect on your experience.
My Cookie Venture
My Cookie Venture
Learn to expand your knowledge of your business resources and customers
and create a business plan that will guide you to your most successful cookie season yet.
1. Get prepared for your cookie business
2.Set goals and a budget
3. Create a mission statement
4. Plan to reach your customers
5. Write a team business plan
When you’ve earned the My Cookie Venture badge, you will know how to create a business plan for your cookie business.
My Dream Budget
My Dream Budget
Create a budget to support your 25-year-old self.
1. Explore your earning power
2. Analyze where you’ll live
3. Imagine your day-to-day life
4. Make a plan to give back
5. Add up your future
When I’ve earned this badge, you’ll be able to create a budget for your future life.
My Money Habits
My Money Habits
Develop positive habits that help you reach your goals and protect your finances.
1. Explore ways to exchange money
2. Find out what influences spending
3. Manage your spending habits
4. Learn investing basics
5. Investigate how to be a safe and savvy shopper
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll learn what it means to invest, manage your spending habits, and make smart money decisions.
Netiquette
Netiquette
Our digital world makes it easy to stay in touch and share friendships, memories, and ideas. But we’ve all heard embarrassing stories in which people wish they’d never hit the “send” button. Once you’ve put it out there, it never goes away. But you can use that to your benefit, too. This badge is all about knowing how to make positive choices in the online world.
- Explore “oops!” and “wow!” moments
- Dig into stories of “ouch” — and repair some hurt if necessary
- Look at e-mail, commenting, or blogging
- Decide what makes a great social media profile
- Spread better practices
When you’ve earned the Netiquette badge, you’ll know how to make—and keep—my online world a positive place.
New Cuisines
New Cuisines
Cook up four dishes from across time and distance, and find out where your taste buds want to travel.
- Make a dish from another country
- Create a dish from another region of the United States
- Whip up a dish from another time period
- Cook a dish that makes a statement
- Share your dishes on a culinary “tour”!
When you’ve earned the New Cuisines badge, you’ll be able to make amazing dishes from all over the world and way back in time.
Night Owl
Night Owl
Grow your imagination and expand what you know about the night.
- Take a field trip to explore the night
- Tour your world after dark
- Meet people who work night hours
- Explore nature at night
- Host an Extreme Nighttime Party
When you’ve earned the Night Owl badge, you’ll have uncovered the mysteries of the world after dark.
Outdoor Art Apprentice
Outdoor Art Apprentice
Find out how to observe and collect things outdoors that will drive your art and creativity.
- Explore art outdoors
- Make something!
- Get to know—and create—sounds of nature
- Be a nature photographer
- Design with nature.
When you’ve earned the Cadette Outdoor Art badge, you’ll have been inspired outdoors and created nature-themed art.
Primitive Camper
Primitive Camper
Learn to tackle outdoor activities without the comforts of home.
- Plan a primitive camping trip
- Prepare your gear
- Make a camp meal
- Learn a new primitive camping skill
- Go camping
When you’ve earned the Primitive Camper badge, you’ll have planned and gone on a primitive camping trip with a group of Girl Scouts or family members.
Program Aide Pin
Program Aide Pin
Complete the council course to earn the Program Aide pin.
Public Speaking
Public Speaking
Work on your stage presence and develop your onstage skills.
- Get a feel for performing solo
- Focus on body language
- Find your voice
- Choose or create a piece to perform
- Get onstage!
When you’ve earned the Public Speaking badge, you’ll have found your inner performer and be unafraid to speak up.
Robotics 1: Programming Robots
Robotics 1: Programming Robots
To help you understand how robots work, learn about the parts that make up a robot. Get started with electronics by making a simple sensor, something robots use to function without human operators. Then practice coding robots using important programming concepts like functions and loops.
- Learn about robots
- Build a robot part: simple sensors
- Make a box model robot with sensors
- Learn about programming
- Write a program for a robot
When you’ve earned the Robotics 1: Programming Robots badge, you’ll understand how robots work and how to control them.
Robotics 2: Designing Robots
Robotics 2: Designing Robots
Build a prototype of a new kind of robot that could help someone to overcome a daily obstacle. Decide on a challenge, brainstorm solutions, plan, build a prototype, and test it to see how well it meets the challenge.
- Pick a challenge
- Explore possible solutions
- Plan your prototype
- Build a prototype
- Get feedback on your robot
When you’ve earned the Robotics 2: Designing Robots badge, you’ll know how to design a robot and build a prototype.
Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots
Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots
After engineers build a working version of their robots, they release them to the public. They may enter them into challenges and competitions or market them through a website or crowd-funding campaign. Now that you’ve built your robot, share your design with others and explore a future in robotics.
- Learn about robotics events and organizations
- Create a presentation about your robot
- Present your robot pitch to others for feedback
- Find out about robotics opportunities for teens
- See robot makers and robots in action
When you’ve earned the Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots badge, you’ll know how to share your robot designs with the world.
Science of Happiness
Science of Happiness
Find out how scientists measure happiness and put their results into action.
- Make yourself happier
- Think differently for happiness
- Get happy through others
- Do a helpful happiness experiment
- Create a happiness action plan
When you’ve earned the Science of Happiness badge, you’ll know how to use the science of happiness to make your world the happiest place it can be.
Screenwriter
Screenwriter
Try your hand at writing for the big (or small) screen.
- Decide what makes a good script good
- Come up with an idea for a story
- Get to know your characters
- Build the plot
- Write a 12-page script—and share it!
When you’ve earned the Screenwriter badge, you’ll know how to create a screenplay for a show or movie.
Silver Award
Silver Award
The Silver Award is the highest award you can earn as a Girl Scout Cadette. By working as an individual or part of a small group, identify the root cause of a community issue, and complete a project that addresses it.
- Go on a Cadette Journey.
- Identify issues you care about.
- Build your Girl Scout Silver Award team or decide to go solo.
- Explore your community.
- Pick your Take Action project.
- Develop your project.
- Make a plan and put it into motion.
- Reflect, share your story, and celebrate.
When you earn the Silver Award, you will know how to use your knowledge and leadership skills to make a difference in the world.
Silver Torch Award
Silver Torch Award
Complete the Leadership Journey and a Take Action project for the Silver Torch Award.
Snow or Climbing Adventure
Snow or Climbing Adventure
Choose your adventure: Go on a skiing/snowboarding trip, or have an outdoor climbing adventure.
- Choose your outdoor adventure
- Plan and prepare
- Gather your gear
- Set a goal and train for your adventure
- Go on your outdoor adventure
When you’ve earned the Snow or Climbing Adventure badge, you’ll have planned, learned the skills, and experienced a snowboarding or ski trip or an outdoor climbing adventure.
Space Science Researcher
Space Science Researcher
Observe and explore light, deepening your understanding of the Sun, stars, and other objects in space.
- What more can you see?
- Explore “invisible” light
- See the stars in a new way
- Expand your vision
- Conserve the night sky
When you’ve earned the Space Science Researcher badge, you’ll understand more about the amazing properties of light and how you use it to make discoveries about the Universe and space science.
Special Agent
Special Agent
Use your investigative mind to take on the many roles of a special agent: detective, scientist, psychologist, enforcer of the law.
- Investigate investigation
- Reveal reality
- Try the science
- Key in to body language
- Practice the art of detection
When you’ve earned the Special Agent badge, you’ll know secrets from the worlds of forensic science and criminal psychology.
STEM Career Exploration
STEM Career Exploration
Explore careers that make a difference. Then, map out how you’ll help others and change the world!
1. Explore how you want to make a difference
2. Discover your career possibilities
3. Learn about the day-to-day
4. Brainstorm your next steps
5. Map your career path
When you’ve earned the STEM Career Exploration badge, you’ll know about STEM careers and how you can make the world a better place.
Trail Adventure
Trail Adventure
Choose your adventure: Go on a long-distance trail run, or take a hiking challenge.
- Choose your outdoor adventure
- Plan and prepare
- Gather your gear
- Set a goal and train for your adventure
- Go on your outdoor adventure
When you’ve earned the Trail Adventure badge, you’ll have planned and learned the skills to do a long-distance trail run or take three separate challenging trail hikes.
Trailblazing
Trailblazing
Gain new outdoor skills when you stay at least one night at a backwoods or primitive site.
- Start planning your adventure
- Get your body and your teamwork skills ready
- Create your menu
- Gain some trailblazing know-how
- Head out on the trail
When you’ve earned the Trailblazing badge, you’ll know how to take a safe and fun overnight backpacking trip.
Trees
Trees
Find out all about trees: from the shade to the science, the fruit to the forest, and the legends to the lumber.
- Try some tree fun
- Dig into the amazing science of trees
- Make a creative project starring trees
- Explore the connection between people and trees
- Help trees thrive
When you’ve earned the Trees badge, you’ll have gone to the root of what trees are all about—and branched out as a naturalist.
Woodworker
Woodworker
Find out how to use wood to make stylish, useful things for yourself and others.
- Swing a hammer
- Keep it level
- Use a screwdriver
- Saw some wood
- Build something yourself
When you’ve earned the Woodworker badge, you’ll know how to use some basic tools to make simple woodworking projects.
Adventure Camper
Adventure Camper
Find out how to add overnight camping to an outdoor adventure, such as kayaking, mountain biking, or rock climbing.
- Plan your adventure camping trip
- Gather your camping gear
- Plan and prepare your trip meals
- Use a camping skill on your trip
- Go adventure camping
When you’ve earned the Adventure Camper badge, you’ll have planned and gone on a camping trip that includes adventure activities with a group of Girl Scouts or family members.
Adventurer
Adventurer
Go on a multiday high-adventure challenge: rock climbing, spelunking, ice caving, skiing, canoeing, kayaking, biking, rafting—or a combination!
- Enhance your adventure
- Get in the team spirit—and refine your teamwork
- Know your gear
- Plan your service to the great outdoors
- Capture the adventure
When you’ve earned the Adventurer badge, you’ll know how to go on a multi-day outdoor adventure trip with friends and Girl Scout sisters.
Behind the Ballot
Behind the Ballot
Learn about the importance of voting and find out about the electoral process in the United States and around the world.
- Find out more about elections
- Investigate the ins and outs of voting
- Get out the vote
- Plan a campaign
- Explore voting in other countries
When you’ve earned the Behind the Ballot badge, you’ll know the importance of voting and how people get elected to office.
Business Etiquette
Business Etiquette
Learn the basic business manners that will allow you to showcase just what you’re capable of.
- Communicate with style and confidence
- Ace an interview
- Try your hand at negotiating
- Explore how to act on the job
- Network with flair
When you’ve earned the Business Etiquette badge, you’ll know the kind of savvy you’ll need to be successful in the business world.
Business Startup
Business Startup
Find out more about the entrepreneurial mindset and what it takes to start your own business.
1. Come up with an idea you can turn into a business
2. Design a prototype and get feedback
3. Revise your prototype
4. Create your business plan
5. Make your pitch
When you’ve earned the Business Startup badge, you will have the skills to come up with a business idea, design a prototype, solicit feedback, improve your idea, then create a business plan and pitch it.
Car Care
Car Care
Master maintenance tips that keep a car in top form and driving skills that will help you rule the road safely.
- Get a handle on basic car maintenance
- Investigate vehicle safety
- Research safe driving practices
- Find out what to do in case of an emergency
- Drive for a greener world
When you’ve earned the Car Care badge, you’ll know tips for driving safely and how to take care of a car.
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Explore how computer programming can make a positive difference in the world and write code you can share with others.
- Use functions to create a self-portrait
- Write code to create a portrait
- Learn about computer logic
- Explore “IF” statements
- Use computer logic to create a quiz show
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics badge, you’ll know how to code images and how computers make decisions.
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Explore narrative video game design and how video games can help people understand the world and its issues.
- Brainstorm your “game for good” scenario
- Create a character for your game
- Develop a decision tree for your game
- Design your game
- Playtest and iterate your game
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design badge, you’ll know how video games use a story to move the game along, how players make decisions, and how games can make a positive difference in the world.
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Collect and visualize data to develop a prototype for an app that supports your community.
- Learn to collect and visualize community data
- Write objects to organize and store data
- Design a community data collection plan
- Analyze your community data
- Develop a prototype for a social app
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 3: App Development badge, you’ll understand JavaScript syntax, how to use arrays with community and social data, how to store data, and how to display it.
Collage Artist
Collage Artist
No matter what you do with your collage, there won’t be another just like it in the world. This badge is an opportunity to make art as unique as you are.
- Explore collage
- Focus on composition
- Create with color
- Use found objects
- Share a message
When I’ve earned the Collage Artist badge, I’ll know how to create collages using different materials and color themes.
Cookie Boss
Cookie Boss
Lead with confidence as you become the boss of your cookie business.
1. Take the lead in your cookie business
2. Set SMART goals
3. Team up to make business decisions
4. Make your cookie boss pitch
5. Expand your customer base
When you’ve earned the Cookie Boss badge, you will have the skills to take the lead in your cookie business to reach your goals.
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Take charge of your Girl Scout Cookie® business and let your family know how they can support you as you earn this award.
1. Take note and reflect
2. Shout out your strategy
3. Look to the future
4. Segment your customers
5. Show your appreciation
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Take charge of your Girl Scout Cookie® business and let your family know how they can support you as you earn this award.
1. Take note and reflect
2. Shout out your strategy
3. Look to the future
4. Segment your customers
5. Show your appreciation
Counselor in Training Pin
Counselor in Training Pin
Complete the council course to earn the Counselor in Training pin.
Cross Training
Cross Training
Get the skills you need to customize a cross-training fitness program that’s effective and fun.
- Set your cross-training goal
- Start a stretching and flexibility program
- Add a cardio element
- Add a toning or strengthening element
- Stay motivated to reach your goal
When you’ve earned the Cross Training badge, you’ll have developed a great cross-training routine that keeps your workouts interesting and fun.
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Explore how cybersecurity professionals keep computer networks safe.
- Find out how computers run multiple programs
- Identify functions and privileges
- Learn how computers hide information
- Design a layered security system
- Design a Rube Goldberg machine
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 1: Basics badge, you’ll know the major principles of cybersecurity and understand how they work in real life and in the cyber world.
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Find out how to keep your data and devices safe wherever you go.
- Protect your travel documents
- Protect your Wi-Fi
- Protect your conversations
- Protect your electronics
- Protect your environment
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards badge, you’ll know how to protect your travel documents, Wi-Fi, digital conversations, electronics, and environment.
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Investigate and respond to a fictional cybercrime.
- Look for clues about a fictional hack
- Learn how traceroutes work
- Solve a cybercrime
- Role-play how to handle the crisis
- Play a life-sized version of Minesweeper
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 3: Investigator badge, you’ll know about insider threats and other security vulnerabilities for companies and organizations.
Democracy for Seniors
Democracy for Seniors
Learn all about the three branches of government—and more.
1. Find out about local government
2. Find out about state government
3. Find out about the federal legislative branch
4. Find out about the federal executive branch
5. Find out about the federal judicial branch
When you’ve earned the Democracy for Seniors badge, you will have expanded your knowledge about how your local, state, and national government works.
Digital Leadership
Digital Leadership
Explore how to use technology safely and effectively, inspiring and motivating others to action.
1. Discover your digital landscape
2. Examine digital advertising
3. Advocate for yourself and others online
4. Create content for change
5. Expand your reach
When you’ve earned the Digital Leadership badge, you will know how to use technology for positive change. You’ll also know how to make the internet a better place for yourself and others.
Eco Explorer
Eco Explorer
Become an eco explorer as you get hands-on experience with environmental issues and help make positive changes to the environment.
- Meet an eco explorer
- Explore biodiversity
- Investigate a global ecosystem issue
- Plan a trip to explore and work on an issue
- Share what you learned
When you’ve earned the Eco Explorer badge, you’ll have researched different environmental issues and taken at least one trip to see how an area is impacted.
Game Visionary
Game Visionary
Use your creativity and imagination to invent unforgettable games.
- Break the ice
- Imagine all the world’s a board
- Create a physical challenge
- Get puzzled
- Make an ultra scavenger hunt
When you’ve earned the Game Visionary badge, you’ll be able to design and organize games that will bring people together for creative and thoughtful fun.
Global Action Award
Global Action Award
The Girl Scout Global Action award calls for girls to address the global goals by discovering, connecting, and taking action in their communities and the world. Every Girl Scout must complete five steps to earn her Global Action award:
1. Explore the Global Goals and Global Action Award.
2. Explore what responsible consumption means.
3. Create a responsible consumption challenge.
4. Find out what responsible production means.
5. Create a responsible production challenge.
When you’ve earned this award, you’ll understand how the things we use and the waste we create impacts us and our planet.
- Seniors can earn this award up to 2 times (once per year)
Gold and Silver Torch Award
Gold and Silver Torch Award
Complete the Leadership Journey and a Take Action project for the Gold and Silver Torch Award.
Gold Award
Gold Award
The Gold Award is highest award you can earn as a Girl Scout Senior or Ambassador. By leading a team, research the root cause of a community issue, and complete a project that addresses it with lasting impact.
- Identify an issue.
- Investigate it thoroughly.
- Get help and build your team.
- Create a plan.
- Present your plan and gather feedback.
- Take action.
- Educate and inspire.
When you earn the Gold Award, you will know how to use your knowledge and leadership skills to make a difference in the world.
Journey: GIRLtopia
Journey: GIRLtopia
In the GIRLtopia Journey, you will:
- Develop your vision for an ideal world and acquire the skills to make it a reality—paint a mural, write a poem or story, film a video, or perform a show about ways society can improve.
- Plan a Take Action project that addresses an issue in your community.
- Earn the Senior Visionary Award.
Journey: Mission: Sisterhood!
Journey: Mission: Sisterhood!
In the Mission: Sisterhood! Journey, you will:
- Discover the powerful benefits of sisterhood and ways to nurture healthy friendships—invite a women’s shelter counselor to talk about her work, role-play friendship scenarios to explore trust in relationships, or create a collage about what sisterhood means to you.
- Plan a Take Action Project with a focus on a sisterhood issue you care about—organize a school film club that focuses on positive movies about women, help younger girls expand their friendship circles, or host a girls’ mixer.
- Earn the Sisterhood Award.
Journey: Outdoor
Journey: Outdoor
In the Outdoor Journey, you will:
- Deepen your outdoor skills when you earn your Adventurer, Senior First Aid, and Adventure Camper badges.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps make your favorite park, beach, or forest a better place for everyone.
- Earn a Take Action Award.
Journey: Sow What?
Journey: Sow What?
In the Sow What? Journey, you will:
- Learn about food: how and where it’s grown, harvested, processed, distributed, and consumed, and why it matters.
- Plan a Take Action Project to share your knowledge with others—host a farmers market, inspire others to eat locally, or plan a community vegetable garden.
- Earn the Harvest Award.
Journey: Think Like a Programmer
Journey: Think Like a Programmer
In the Think Like a Programmer Journey, you will:
- Find out how programmers use computational thinking to solve problems.
- Do 3 computational thinking activities: create rules for how to stack cards to share messages and learn about encoding information, develop an algorithm for building a simple block arrangement, and test whether an app will meet a user’s needs to explore user-centered design.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Journey: Think Like an Engineer
Journey: Think Like an Engineer
In the Think Like an Engineer Journey, you will:
- Find out how engineers use design thinking to solve problems.
- Do 3 design thinking activities: design and build prototypes of a can holder that isn’t harmful to animals, a kinetic sculpture, and an assistive device for the elderly.
- Plan a Take Action project that helps others.
Locavore
Locavore
Find out how the efforts of locavores—people who are committed to eating locally grown, seasonal foods—can be an important and delicious part of healthful eating.
- Explore the benefits and challenges of going local
- Find your local food sources
- Cook a simple dish showcasing local ingredients
- Make a recipe with local ingredients
- Try a local cooking challenge
When you’ve earned the Locavore badge, you’ll know how to prepare a meal of seasonal and locally grown dishes.
My Cookie Network
My Cookie Network
Find out how to use your network to strengthen your customer base and take your business to the next level.
1. Review your cookie business
2. Set a goal for all parts of your business
3. Share what you stand for
4. Build your customer base
5. Tailor your marketing messages
When you’ve earned the My Cookie Network badge, you will know how to leverage your network to run and grow your cookie business.
My Financial Power
My Financial Power
Get familiar with different ways to earn and share money, what it means to invest, and how inflation works.
1. Find out about income power
2. Focus on making informed money decisions
3. Find out about inflation
4. Explore investing
5. See how giving back impacts a community
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll have strategies for your financial stability.
Novelist
Novelist
Experience the fun of a novelist’s career and learn the steps involved in writing a novel. Then, write your own work of fiction.
- Deconstruct a novel
- Create great characters
- Develop a plot
- Write at least 20 pages
- Edit your pages
When you’ve earned the Novelist badge, you’ll know what it takes to write a great novel and you’ll have written at least 20 pages of your own.
Paddling
Paddling
Choose one of three paddling activities—canoeing, kayaking, or standup paddleboarding (SUP)—and learn the knowledge and skills you need to have an unforgettable experience.
- Explore the three paddling sports
- Learn paddling safety
- Practice paddling techniques
- Go on a short paddling adventure
- Take your paddling skills to the next level
When you’ve earned the Paddling badge, you’ll have paddling skills and know how to be safe—and have fun—on the water.
Robotics 1: Programming Robots
Robotics 1: Programming Robots
To understand more about how robots work, explore the parts and systems that make up a robot, and then learn about different ways to control a robot, including computer programming.
- Learn about robots
- Build a robot part: robot arm
- Learn how robot systems work together
- Learn about programming
- Write a program for a robot
When you’ve earned the Robotics 1: Programming Robots badge, you’ll understand how robots work and how to control them.
Robotics 2: Designing Robots
Robotics 2: Designing Robots
Build a prototype of a new kind of robot that helps or replaces people who work in difficult or dangerous situations. Decide on a challenge, brainstorm solutions, plan, build a prototype, and test it to see how well it meets the challenge.
- Pick a challenge
- Explore possible solutions
- Plan your prototype
- Build a prototype
- Get feedback on your robot
When you’ve earned the Robotics 2: Designing Robots badge, you’ll know how to design a robot and build a prototype.
Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots
Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots
After engineers build their robots, they show them to others and enter them into challenges and competitions. Now that you’ve built your robot prototype, it’s time to share your design with others.
- Create a presentation about your robot
- Present your robot pitch to others for feedback
- Hold a mini robotics competition
- Explore robotics opportunities in high school, college, and beyond
- See robot makers and robots in action
When you’ve earned the Robotics 3: Showcasing Robots badge, you’ll know how to share your robot designs with the world.
Room Makeover
Room Makeover
Find out how to use design concepts and fix-it tactics to turn a simple space into a creative statement.
- Gather ideas and inspiration
- Paint something
- Sew or glue something
- Redo something
- Build something
When you’ve earned the Room Makeover badge, you’ll know how to do a fast, fun, and thrifty room makeover.
Savvy Saver
Savvy Saver
Find out how to be savvy with money by planning for your expenses, reducing financial risk, and being disciplined about saving. Then use what you discover to help plan for a big expense you might have in your future.
1. Learn the ins and outs of income
2. Make a list of budgeting tips
3. Find out how to plan for a big expense
4. Compare ways to borrow money
5. Create a budget for a big expense
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll have the financial skills and know-how to prepare to make a big purchase.
Science of Style
Science of Style
Use the science of style to create and imagine your own products.
- Test skincare and makeup
- Examine the science behind fabrics and accessories
- Explore the science behind hair products and perfume
- Investigate the sociology of style
- Formulate future style
When you’ve earned the Science of Style badge, you’ll know the science behind makeup, perfume, fashion fabrics, and skincare products.
Community Service Bar
Community Service Bar
To earn your Senior Community Service bar, provide at least 20 hours of community service to the same organization.
First Aid
First Aid
Find out how to differentiate between minor and major injuries, provide emergency treatment in some life-threatening situations, and share important information about injuries or illnesses.
- Find out how to perform triage
- Know how to help someone with a head or neck injury
- Learn how to use everyday objects to make splints
- Recognize the signs of drug overdose and alcohol poisoning
- Share your knowledge with others
When you earn your Senior First Aid badge, you’ll learn basic first aid and what to do in an emergency.
Girl Scout Way
Girl Scout Way
Share the Girl Scout way and bring together generations of Girl Scouts.
- Explore Girl Scout music
- Help younger Girl Scouts celebrate a special day
- Spread sisterhood through the Girl Scout Law
- Leave your environment better than you found it
- Enjoy Girl Scout traditions!
When you’ve earned the Senior Girl Scout Way badge, you’ll know how to use the Girl Scout ways and traditions to make the world a better place.
Outdoor Art Expert
Outdoor Art Expert
Learn to see nature with an artist’s eye and create something helpful to the environment.
- Explore art outdoors
- Make something!
- Create or share music inspired by nature
- Capture nature digitally
- Design outdoors
When you’ve earned the Senior Outdoor Art badge, you’ll have learned how to create art outdoors with a focus on the environment.
Service to Girl Scouts Bar
Service to Girl Scouts Bar
To earn your Senior Community Service bar, provide at least 20 hours of community service to the Girl Scout organization.
Sky
Sky
The sky is a masterpiece. Every day it graces us with living art, whether through a glorious sunset, shifting cloud formations, or the stunning display of night stars. No wonder we take every opportunity to spend time outdoors. Our world is a stage, and the sky performs with beauty, wonder, and mystery.
- Watch the skies
- Investigate the science of the skies
- Explore the connection between people and flight
- Help clear sky pollution
- Create sky art
When I’ve earned the Sky badge, I’ll understand the sky — from science to stars to stories.
Snow or Climbing Adventure
Snow or Climbing Adventure
Choose your adventure: Camp in the snow, or advance your rock-climbing skills on an outdoor climbing trip.
- Choose your outdoor adventure
- Plan and prepare
- Gather your gear
- Set a goal and train for your adventure
- Go on your outdoor adventure
When you’ve earned the Snow or Climbing Adventure badge, you’ll have planned and learned the skills to take an overnight snow camping trip or a two-day outdoor climbing trip.
Space Science Expert
Space Science Expert
Explore light and discover what it teaches us about the Universe!
- Uncover the stuff you’re made of
- Explore the brilliance of the stars
- Discover telescopes as light collectors
- Find the light in the darkness
- Share your knowledge
When you’ve earned the Space Science Expert badge, you’ll understand more about the Universe—your place in it and how light is used to make discoveries about it.
Textile Artist
Textile Artist
Trail Adventure
Trail Adventure
Choose your adventure: Compete in a trail race, or take a backpacking trip.
- Choose your outdoor adventure
- Plan and prepare
- Gather your gear
- Set a goal and train for your adventure
- Go on your outdoor adventure
When you’ve earned the Trail Adventure badge, you’ll have planned and learned the skills to compete in a trail race or to take a 3-day, 2-night backpacking trip.
Traveler
Traveler
Get the travel-savvy you need to make the most of your adventures, now and throughout your life.
- Research destinations
- Look into fun itineraries
- Find out how to create a budget, including ways to travel inexpensively
- Gain travel expertise before you go
- Take your trip—and make a memory
When you’ve earned the Traveler badge, you’ll know how to plan a great trip of at least one night—whether it’s around the corner or across the globe.
Troupe Performer
Troupe Performer
Find out what goes into putting on a show.
- Pick your performance style
- Find and develop material
- Rehearse!
- Launch your performance
- Put on your show
When you’ve earned the Troupe Performer badge, you’ll know how to organize a team of people and put together a performance.
Truth Seeker
Truth Seeker
Gain the skills you need to separate fact from fiction and judge sources on credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, and support for their claims.
- Evaluate your sources
- Investigate what the experts say
- Be a wise consumer
- Find truth in your everyday life
- Become a citizen journalist
When you’ve earned the Truth Seeker badge, you’ll be able to figure out what is true in the media, online, and what you hear in your daily life.
Voice for Animals
Voice for Animals
Find out about the complex relationship between animals and humans so you can make informed choices and help others make them too.
- Find out about domestic animals
- Investigate animals used for science
- Explore animals in husbandry
- Take a look at animals used for sports and entertainment
- Look into an animal issue
When you’ve earned the Voice for Animals badge, you’ll better understand animal issues worldwide and know what you can do to help.
Volunteer in Training Pin
Volunteer in Training Pin
Complete the council course to earn the Volunteer in Training pin.
Website Designer
Website Designer
Build yourself a safe space online where you can show your readers what moves you.
- Find a worthwhile subject for your website or blog
- Be the host with the most
- Build a blueprint
- Create must-see content
- Go live—then drive!
When you’ve earned the Website Designer badge, you’ll know how to design, build, and promote your own website.
Women’s Health
Women’s Health
Find out how to make the health decisions that are right for you and what kinds of support exist to guide you.
- Investigate the tests that help women stay healthy
- Find out how fads and beauty practices impact health
- Focus on techniques to help you stay emotionally healthy
- Take a closer look at a women’s health issue
- Get the word out on a women’s health topic
When you’ve earned the Women’s Health badge, you’ll know how women can lead healthy lives.
Community Service Bar
Community Service Bar
To earn your Ambassador Community Service bar, provide at least 20 hours of community service to the same organization.
First Aid
First Aid
Know how to handle injuries and other urgent medical situations that can happen outdoors.
- Learn how to deal with medical emergencies in the wilderness
- Research careers that save lives in extreme conditions
- Find out how to care for a critically injured person
- Know how to move an injured person
- Explore real-life examples for handling wilderness emergencies
When you’ve earned the Ambassador First Aid badge, you’ll know more about how to provide first aid in extreme conditions.
Girl Scout Way
Girl Scout Way
Find out how you can share the Girl Scout legacy.
- Use song to bring people together or to spread a message
- Celebrate World Thinking Day
- Share sisterhood around the world
- Leave your world better than you found it
- Enjoy Girl Scout traditions!
When you’ve earned the Ambassador Girl Scout Way badge, you’ll know how to use the Girl Scout ways and traditions to make the world a better place.
Service to Girl Scouts Bar
Service to Girl Scouts Bar
To earn your Ambassador Community Service bar, provide at least 20 hours of community service to the Girl Scout organization.
Coaching
Coaching
Understand the important role coaches have in athletics and share your love of a sport.
- Begin to outline your coaching strategy
- Conduct a first assessment
- Design your coaching plan
- Put your plan into action—and revise it, if necessary
- Attend the big event, and make a final assessment
When you’ve earned the Coaching badge, you’ll know what it takes for a coach to be successful.
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Coding for Good 1: Coding Basics
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design
Find out about narrative video game design and explore how games can make a positive change in the world.
- Brainstorm “game for good” scenarios
- Create a G.I.R.L. avatar for your game
- Learn about decision trees in game design
- Design your game
- Playtest and iterate your game
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 2: Digital Game Design badge, you’ll know how video games use conditionals to give players choices and how video games can help players understand the world.
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Coding for Good 3: App Development
Collect and visualize data to design a prototype for an app that helps leaders change the world.
- Learn to code data objects
- Create a data visualization
- Design a data collection plan
- Analyze your leadership data
- Develop an app based on your data
When you’ve earned the Coding for Good 3: App Development badge, you’ll know how to create data objects and how to develop apps that will help leaders make a positive difference in their communities.
College Knowledge
College Knowledge
From test prep to financial aid, explore the ins and outs of the college admissions process.
- Explore your options
- Start the admissions process
- Make a financial plan
- Get set for success
- Build healthy habits
When you’ve earned the College Knowledge badge, you’ll understand the steps in the college admissions process and be prepared to attend the school of your choice.
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Take charge of your Girl Scout Cookie® business and let your family know how they can support you as you earn this award.
1. Get information from the past
2. Find a mentor
3. Make your personal financial plan
4. Be a sister to every Girl Scout
5. Translate your experience
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin
Take charge of your Girl Scout Cookie® business and let your family know how they can support you as you earn this award.
1. Get information from the past
2. Find a mentor
3. Make your personal financial plan
4. Be a sister to every Girl Scout
5. Translate your experience
Cookie Influencer
Cookie Influencer
Become an authority on your cookie business and come up with new ways to share information so it makes a big impact.
1. Become an authority in your cookie business
2. Set cookie business goals and develop a new skill
3. Create and share your value proposition
4. Create a marketing campaign
5. Leave a legacy
When you’ve earned the Cookie Influencer badge, you will know how to use your cookie business experience to influence customers and help younger Girl Scouts navigate their own Girl Scout Cookie businesses.
Counselor in Training ll Pin
Counselor in Training ll Pin
Complete the next level council course to earn the Counselor in Training II pin.
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Cybersecurity 1: Basics
Explore how hackers operate and how hacking can be used for the purposes of corporate and national security.
- Learn about different kinds of hackers
- Hide a message in plain sight
- Debate the ethics of hacking
- Learn cyberwarfare strategies
- Explore cyber careers
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 1: Basics badge, you’ll know about steganography, cyberwarfare, and a variety of different careers in cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards
Find out how to protect your personal data and digital footprint with healthy online habits.
- Guard your movements
- Outsmart the online marketers
- Plan your digital future
- Take the rights steps to secure your data
- Make cyber hygiene go viral
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 2: Safeguards badge, you’ll know how to cultivate healthy online habits.
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Cybersecurity 3: Investigator
Investigate and respond when a fictional city has been affected by a cyberattack.
- Determine how the attack has affected the city
- Identify suspects
- Decide whether to pay the ransom
- Figure out how the attack happened
- Learn how to prevent future attacks
When you’ve earned the Cybersecurity 3: Investigator badge, you’ll know how to analyze hidden messages and security log files, and make decisions about how to best allocate cybersecurity resources.
Democracy for Ambassadors
Democracy for Ambassadors
Investigate and respond when a fictional city has been affected by a cyberattack.
- Determine how the attack has affected the city
- Identify suspects
- Decide whether to pay the ransom
- Figure out how the attack happened
- Learn how to prevent future attacks
When you’ve earned the Democracy for Ambassadors badge, you will have learned more about your local, state, and national government—and you’ll be ready to use that knowledge to inform your voting.
Digital Leadership
Digital Leadership
Explore how you can use technology to build community and lead others.
1. Explore your digital landscape
2. Examine digital bias
3. Advocate for your community
4. Create content for change
5. Evaluate and expand your impact
When you’ve earned the Digital Leadership badge, you will know how to use technology to lead and inspire. You’ll also know how to make the internet and world a better place for yourself and others.
Dinner Party
Dinner Party
Make and serve a fabulous 3 course meal for your Dinner Party badge.
Eco Advocate
Eco Advocate
Discover a nature issue that’s important to you, find solutions, and make a difference.
- Learn what eco advocates do
- Find an issue you’re passionate about
- Come up with a solution
- Advocate for your issue
- Teach others how to advocate for your cause
When you’ve earned the Eco Advocate badge, you’ll have learned how to advocate for environmental issues concerning nature.
Entrepreneur Accelerator
Entrepreneur Accelerator
Think and act like an entrepreneur as you bring your business vision to life, learn how to work with a team, and motivate people to take a chance with you.
1. Come up with a business idea and create a prototype
2. Develop a customer profile
3. Conduct market research
4. Come up with a business model
5. Pitch your business
When you’ve earned the Entrepreneur Accelerator badge, you will have the skills to come up with a business idea, produce a prototype, identify your customers, solicit feedback, improve your idea, then create a business plan and pitch it.
Financial Planner
Financial Planner
Discover how to build and keep an eye on your credit, make informed decisions about borrowing money, and do your best to pay back what you owe on time.
1. Explore real-life expenses
2. Learn the ins and outs of credit cards
3. Investigate loans
4. Find out how to establish good credit
5. Make your commitment to financial responsibility
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to pay attention to your credit and plan for a big financial goal.
Global Action Award
Global Action Award
The Girl Scout Global Action award calls for girls to address the global goals by discovering, connecting, and taking action in their communities and the world. Every Girl Scout must complete five steps to earn her Global Action award:
1. Explore the Global Goals and Global Action Award.
2. Explore what responsible consumption means.
3. Create a responsible consumption challenge.
4. Find out what responsible production means.
5. Create a responsible production challenge.
When you’ve earned this award, you’ll understand how the things we use and the waste we create impacts us and our planet.
- Ambassadors can earn this award up to 2 times (once per year)
Gold Torch Award
Gold Torch Award
Complete the Leadership Journey and a Take Action project for the Gold Torch Award.