What is a Gold Award Anyway?

Not many people know what exactly the Girl Scout Gold Award is. It is basically the equivalent of an Eagle Scout Award for Boy Scouts, but with just a few changes:

1. The project must be completely unique to the Girl Scout who earns her award
2. The Girl Scout must lead others in completing the project- you can't do all the work by yourself :)
3. The project must be sustainable after the award is earned- so someone else has to be able to pick up where you left off or continue your work for themselves.
4. The project must have a global connection- a way for your project's audience to be stretched outside of the immediate community (that's where this blog comes in)
5. The project must educate others in some way

And one last change: the Girl Scout Gold Award is a very rare award- only about 5% of eligible Girl Scouts earn it.