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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Financial Literacy – Making Choices

There are things we need, and there are things we want – but both cost money!

Find out the difference between needs and wants
Try setting a goal to save for what you want
Help others with what they need and want

When you’ve earned the Making Choices leaf, you’ll learn the difference between needs and wants and know more about how to make choices about using money.

Financial Literacy – Money Counts

Find out about money. You can use it to buy things, and you can use it to help other people too.

Understand different kinds of coins
Know more about paper money
Find out the cost of fun

When you’ve earned this leaf, you’ll know more about money and what it’s worth.

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.

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

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.

Daisy Journey Badge - 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.

Daisy Journey Badge - 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

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.

Daisy Journey Badges - 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.

Daisy Journey Badges - 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.

Daisy Journey Badges - 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.

Daisy Journey Badge - 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

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

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 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

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

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

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.

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.

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

To earn the Promise Center, recite the Girl Scout Promise and share what it means to you.

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

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.

Daisy | Responsible For What I Say and Do

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Give Back

Find out how philanthropists give money to help others. Then use the skills you learned to come up with ideas for how to give back with some of your cookie money!

Find out about businesses that give back
Set a giving goal
Involve your customers
Practice giving back
Tell your cookie customers how they helped

When you’ve earned the Give Back badge, you’ll know how businesses help others—and how you can do the same thing.

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

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

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.

Inventor

Find out how inventors make stuff—and become an inventor yourself!

Warm-up your inventor’s mind
Find lots of ways to solve the same problem
Make a needs list
Solve a problem
Share your invention

When you’ve earned the Inventor badge, you’ll know how to think like an inventor.

Brownie Journey Badges - 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

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

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.

Brownie Journey Badges - 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.

Brownie Journey Badges - 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.

Brownie Journey Badges - 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.

Brownie Journey Badges - 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Meet My Customers

Find out how to manage your money by pretending to be a customer. Then use what you learned to make sure your cookie customers enjoy buying from you.

Find out where your customers are
Talk to some customers
Practice handling money and making change
Role-play good customer relations
Thank your customers!

When you’ve earned the Meet My Customers badge, you’ll know how to find customers and be comfortable selling to them.

Money Manager

Learn the difference between needs, like food and clothing, and wants, like video games and movie tickets.

Shop for elf items with your elf doll
Go grocery shopping
Go clothes shopping
Get ready for school
Have some fun

When you’ve earned the Money Manager badge, you’ll know how to manage money wisely.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Painting

Learn to paint and color your world.

Get inspired
Paint the real world
Paint a mood
Paint without brushes
Paint a mural

When you’ve earned the Painting badge, you’ll have new ideas about what to paint—and how to paint it.

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.

Philanthropist

Find out more about basic human needs and learn how you can be a “philanthropist”—a person who gives to people who need help!

Learn what every person needs
Investigate how to help people who are hungry
Find out how to help people who need clothing
Know how to help in times of emergency
Think—and act—like a philanthropist

When you’ve earned the Philanthropist badge, you’ll know how to help people in need.

Potter

Explore the history of clay art and become a clay artist yourself.

Find some pottery
Get to know clay
Make a simple pot
Make an art piece
Paint and glaze!

When you’ve earned the Potter badge, you’ll be able to make your own projects out of clay.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

Business Owner

Find out how you can turn something you love into a successful business.

Explore a business you might like to start someday
Learn the basics of running a business
Find out what kind of support is available for small-business owners
Investigate what makes great customer service
Understand the importance of consumer research

When you’ve earned the Business Owner badge, you’ll know the basic steps to plan and create a new business.

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

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

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

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 CEO

When you sell Girl Scout Cookies, you’re already running your own business—and you can earn this badge for it!

Set a group goal
Explore how a small business works
Create a cookie sale job list
Learn to make a good impression
Track your sales

When you earn your Cookie CEO badge, you will learn how to run a business.

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

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

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

Customer Insights

Use what you learn from your customers to make your cookie business even stronger!

Ask an expert what customers want
Do some research at the grocery store
Find out who buys cookies and why
Learn from people who don’t buy
Listen for clues and ask great questions

When you’ve earned the Customer Insights badge, you’ll have a better understanding of your cookie customers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Drawing

Learn techniques to make your drawings even better.

Experiment with different materials
Learn how to add shading
Get some perspective
Use your imagination like a graphic artist
Make your masterpiece—and show it off!

When you’ve earned the Drawing badge, you’ll know some great drawing techniques.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Jeweler

Discover different ways to make jewelry.

Get to know the tools of the trade
Make jewelry with metal
Turn everyday objects into jewelry
Create jewelry inspired by another culture
Make a sparkling gift

When you’ve earned the Jeweler badge, you’ll know how to make different kinds of jewelry.

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

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!

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

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.

Junior Journey Badges - 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.

Junior Journey Badges - 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.

Junior Journey Badges - 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

While earning your Practice with Purpose badge, you will learn how to set sports goals and practice to achieve them.

Project Designer

Find out what it takes to make an innovative product and come up with one of your own.

Observe what makes a great product
Be an innovation detective
Figure out what’s working and what’s not
Innovate to find solutions
Mess up so you can try again!

When you’ve earned the Project Designer badge, you’ll know how to think like a product designer.

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

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

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.

Savvy Shopper

Explore the difference between needs and wants, and learn how to save for both.

Explore your needs and wants
Look into why you want what you want
Find out what makes people happy (or not!) with what they buy
Learn how to decide what to buy
Make a plan to buy something you need or want

When you’ve earned the Savvy Shopper badge, you’ll know the difference between what you need and what you want—and you’ll be able to wisely save money for both.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Budgeting

Find out how to make a budget, which is a plan for spending and saving money.

Practice budgeting for what you value
Learn to track your spending
Find out about ways to save money
Explore different ways to give
Create a budget that focuses on your values

When you’ve earned the Budgeting badge, you’ll be able to keep track of your money, save for things you need and want, and help others by giving.

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.

Business Plan

Find out how to create a business plan.

Write your mission statement and business goals
Increase your customer base
Get into the details
Make a risk management plan
Gather expert feedback on your plan

When you’ve earned the Business Plan badge, you’ll know how to write an effective business plan for your cookie business.

Community Service Bar

To earn your Cadette Community Service bar, provide at least 20 hours of community service to the same organization.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Comparison Shopping

Learn how to use the internet to find great products and save money.

Learn to comparison shop
Find out how to use online reviews
Check out the fine print
Investigate how to avoid online fraud
Know how to manage your online shopping

When you’ve earned the Comparison Shopping badge, you’ll know how to go online to find the best deals on the best products in the safest way possible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Entrepreneur

Find out what it takes to turn a great idea into a successful business.

Brainstorm business ideas
Improve one idea
Get into the financial side of things
Imagine creating a business
Practice sharing your business ideas

When you’ve earned the Entrepreneur badge, you’ll know how to think like an entrepreneur.

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.

Financing My Dreams

Find out how to turn your daydreams into real life—and then learn how to budget for them.

Explore dream jobs
Price out buying your dream home
Research dream vacations
Make a dream giving goal
Add up your dreams!

When you’ve earned the Financing My Dreams badge, you’ll know the realities of budgeting and how to practice financial habits that will help you in the future.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

Cadette Journey Badges - 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.

Senior Journey Badges - 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.

Cadette Journey Badges - 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.

Cadette Journey Badges - 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

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.

Marketing

Find out how to sort through promotions, deals, and ads to find the best bargain for you. Then use what you learned to create a strong advertisement and marketing message for your cookie sale.

Find out more about brand identity
Check out the competition
Research other products that have a philanthropic angle
Develop your marketing message
Create your marketing campaign

When you’ve earned the Marketing badge, you’ll know how to create a marketing plan for your cookie business.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Complete the council course to earn the Program Aide pin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Complete the Leadership Journey and a Take Action project for the Silver Torch Award.

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

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

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

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.

Think Big

Come up with a big goal and then take your cookie business to a whole new level so you can achieve it.

Come up with a big idea
Take your sales to the next level
Sell your big dream to others
Ask experts to help you take your plan up a notch
Share your experience in a big way

When you’ve earned the Think Big badge, you’ll know how to set bigger goals for your cookie sale and come up with creative ways to reach them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Buying Power

Find out about the long-term impact of making a big purchase and understand how you need to be prepared to keep paying for your purchases long after you’ve started to use the items.

Compare costs and options
Conduct consumer research
Calculate the long-term costs
Investigate ways to find better deals
Create a savings plan for a big purchase you’d like to make

When you’ve earned the Buying Power badge, you’ll know how to research and budget for a big purchase for yourself or your family.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Complete the council course to earn the Counselor in Training pin.

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.

Customer Loyalty

Find out how to engage your cookie customers so they’ll keep coming back for more.

Show how cookie money helps girls
Connect with former cookie sellers
Build your customer list
Create a customer appreciation program
Keep your customer connection

When you’ve earned the Customer Loyalty badge, you’ll know how to build your cookie business by increasing customer loyalty.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Financing My Future

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.

Gold and Silver Torch Award

Complete the Leadership Journey and a Take Action project for the Gold and Silver Torch 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

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.

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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

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?

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.

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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.

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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

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

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 Portfolio

Find out how you can use your cookie sales experience to stand out in the future.

Create a cookie resume
Put together a cookie portfolio
Get feedback about how to market yourself for a job or college interview
Write an essay about what you learned from the cookie sale
Learn how to ace an interview

When you’ve earned the My Portfolio badge, you’ll be able to show college admissions officers and employers what you’ve learned from your cookie sales experience.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

To earn your Senior Community Service bar, provide at least 20 hours of community service to the same organization.

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

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

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

To earn your Senior Community Service bar, provide at least 20 hours of community service to the Girl Scout organization.

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

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.

Social Innovator

Find out how you can go from identifying a social problem to developing a social solution. Then, use what you learned to create Take Action projects that truly do change the world.

Explore the big picture
Make connections
Build empathy for people affected by the issue you’ve identified
Develop a solution from a specific point of view
Practice pitching ideas and getting feedback

When you’ve earned the Social Innovator badge, you’ll know how to think like a social innovator.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Complete the council course to earn the Volunteer in Training pin.

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

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

To earn your Ambassador Community Service bar, provide at least 20 hours of community service to the same organization.

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

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

To earn your Ambassador Community Service bar, provide at least 20 hours of community service to the Girl Scout organization.

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Complete the next level council course to earn the Counselor in Training II pin.

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

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

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

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

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

Make and serve a fabulous 3 course meal for your Dinner Party badge.

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

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.

Gold Torch Award

Complete the Leadership Journey and a Take Action project for the Gold Torch Award.

Good Credit

Know what it takes to keep good credit and borrow money wisely, including how to pay back what you owe in time.

Get the scoop on credit scores
Find out how bank loans work
Learn the ins and outs of credit cards
Gather real-life borrowing stories
Write your own credit commitment

When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know more about ways to responsibly borrow money and understand the importance of establishing good credit.

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Journey: BLISS: Live It! Give It!

In the BLISS: Live It! Give It! Journey, you will:

Find out how to fulfill your dreams and help others realize their dreams as well—invite an athlete to talk about how she pursued a goal, write songs and create artwork about following dreams, or find and share stories about women who successfully pursued their goals.
Plan a Take Action Project that helps someone else follow her dream.
Earn the Dream Maker Award.