2011 – Cadette: Badge List – The Badge Archive

Yes – 2011 Is the current GSUSA badge

Official GSUSA Badges released from 2011 to present (including those retired starting in 2021)
Does not include any Council Own badges or Council Patch Program fun patches or troop Fun Patches.

Girl Scout Promise and Law Printable from GSUSA
Promise and Law in Spanish by GSUSA
Year Planner by GSUSA

Badges

Animal Helpers – Learn how animals help people and explore careers that work with animals.
App Development (Part 3 of Coding Set) – Design a tracking app that visually shows data.
Archery – Practice aiming and shooting arrows safely.
Babysitter – Learn about child development, how to care for younger kids, and be a responsible babysitter.
Book Artist – Create and decorate your own handmade books.
Budget Manager (Year 1 – Financial Literacy) – Track spending and income, compare prices, and make a budget.
Business Creator – Think of a business idea, make a prototype, learn how to pitch the idea, AND make a business plan.
Climbing or Snow Adventure – Try to climb and belay using a top-rope climbing system OR skiing and/or snowboarding on a 2 day trip while staying safe.
Coding Basics (Part 1 of Coding Set) – Learn about functions and arguments in computer programs, how to pseudocode making a meme, and how to change it to coding language.
Coding for Good (3 Progressive Badges Set)
Comic Artist – Draw and write your own 4 panel comic.
Cookie Innovator (Year 3 – Cookie Business) – Practice cookie sales, set a cookie-selling goal, make a sales plan, learn Business Ethics, and how to find customers.
Cookie Market Researcher (Year 2 – Cookie Business) – Practice cookie sales, set a cookie-selling goal, make a marketing plan, and learn social responsibility.
Cybersecurity (3 Progressive Badges Set)
Cybersecurity Basics (Part 1 of Cybersecurity Set) – Learn about encryption keys, how information travels, and how to stay safe online.
Cybersecurity Investigator (Part 3 of Cybersecurity Set) – Learn about log files and how to protect computers and information from online dangers.
Cybersecurity Safeguards (Part 2 of Cybersecurity Set) – Create a visual digital footprint, and learn how to keep your online information safe.
Democracy for Cadettes – Discover how local, state, and federal government works and explore the three branches of government.
Designing Robots (Part 2 of Robotics Set) – Design a robot that can help a physical problem humans have and make a model of the robot.
Digital Game Design (Part 2 of Coding Set) – Design an avatar, write a simple array to create an image, and design a game scenario with what game mechanics it needs.
Digital Leadership – Make an infographic and choose a community to celebrate and help build/improve/influence it.
Digital Movie Maker – Plan, film, and edit your own short movie.
Eco Trekker – Learn Leave No Trace principles, practice an eco-friendly skill, plan and take an eco-hike to explore an issue, and use the eco-hike to make a difference
Field Day – Organize and play a series of fun outdoor games.
Finding Common Ground – Practice listening and working together with different people, learn about formal debates, and watch and discuss a formal debate.
First Aid – Learn how to use first aid kit items, help choking victims, treat musculoskeletal injuries, and learn the signs and how to treat heat stroke, frostbite, hypothermia, hyperthermia, and different types of seizures.
Girl Scout Way – Learn about Girl Scout traditions and songs.
Good Sportsmanship – Play games and learn how to be a fair and supportive teammate.
My Cookie Venture (Year 1 – Cookie Business) – Practice cookie sales, set a cookie-selling goal, make a sales plan, and create a mission statement.
My Dream Budget (Year 3 – Financial Literacy) – Create a budget for your future goals with specific future job/career income, location cost of living, and daily life costs.
My Money Habits (Year 2 – Financial Literacy) – Analyze spending habits, learn how to manage spending, ways beyond using cash to spend money, learn about online fraud, and do an activity around GSUSA’s “Investments and Savings: Potential and Risks”.
Netiquette – Learn good and bad online communication and social media etiquette.
New Cuisines – Make 3 dishes from a different culture, region, history, and 1 dish that makes a statement.
Night Owl – Explore nighttime activities and learn about the world after dark.
Outdoor Art Apprentice – Make art inspired by or from nature.
Outside the Mirror – Explore how appearance ideals are shaped by culture, time, and media and create something that empowers confidence, authenticity, and self-expression.
Primitive Camper – Learn a new survival camp skill, a new camp skill, make a new food, and go camping.
Programming Robots (Part 1 of Robotics Set) – Learn about robot parts, algorithms, and make and use a simple pressure sensor.
Public Speaker – Practice speaking confidently in front of others and perform a speech.
Robotics (3 Progressive Badges Set)
Science of Happiness – Discover ways to boost happiness and well-being, survey happiness, and thank someone.
Screenwriter – Write a 12 page script for a short film or play.
Showcasing Robots (Part 3 of Robotics Set) – Show off a robot you built and learn about robotic competitions.
Snow or Climbing Adventure – Try to climb and belay using a top-rope climbing system OR skiing and/or snowboarding on a 2 day trip while staying safe.
Space Science Researcher – Do a visible and an invisible light experiment, explore stars, and learn about and help the light pollution issue.
Special Agent – Perform a forensic experiment, observation exercises, learn more about body language, and solve mysteries using evidence.
STEM Career Exploration – Discover cool jobs and how they use STEM.
Trail Adventure – (Hiking or Trail Running) – Go on three different 6 hour hikes on 3 different days or a 3-mile run.
Trailblazing – Get in shape for a hike, plan food and a hiking adventure, and learn one new skill.
Trees – Learn a tree science aspect, make a tree craft, do a tree activity, explore the connection between humans and trees, and plant/care for a tree.
Woodworker – Use a hammer, level, screwdriver, and saw, and make a project using wood and tools.
World Thinking Day (Yearly Release) – Learn about a topic GSUSA picks each year that affects the entire world.

Other Awards

Community Service Bar – Give 20 hours of service to an approved organization.
Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin (Year 1, 2, & 3) – Earn a Cookie Business badge, AND work at home to set cookie-selling goals, practice using money, and learn how to talk to customers.
Global Action Award (New GSUSA Pin in 2025) – Find a way to help one of the 17 sustainable development goals and make a difference.
International Friendship Pin – Live in a different country, teach a friend about scouts, and do a good turn daily.
Mariner Membership – New GSUSA Pin Coming Soon in August 2025
My Promise, My Faith Pin (Year 1 & 2) – Explore how your Girl Scout Promise connects to your faith and values.
Program Aide (CPA) (New GSUSA Pin in 2025) – Work with a younger group by observing and assisting in a meeting, then plan and lead an activity and a full session that encourages hands-on learning, teamwork, and youth-led experiences.
Safety Award Pin – Learn child safety and water safety, perform a water reach assist, teach a younger scout about being lost and stranger danger, gather 3 days of emergency supplies, make a family emergency contact plan, AND make a personal responsibility pledge after learning about bullying.
Service To Girl Scouting Bar – Provide 20 hours of service to girl scouts.
Silver Award – Spend at least 50 hours on a community-focused permanent project, such as building a structure, providing education, or advocating for an issue, that includes research, planning, taking action, and sharing the impact the project had.
Silver Torch Award – Serve a leadership role in an approved organization.
Take Action Award (New GSUSA Pin in 2025) – Find a way to help your community and make a difference.
Trailblazer Membership – New GSUSA Pin Coming Soon in August 2025
True North Award (Silver) – (New GSUSA Pin in 2025) Choose a courageous goal that reflects your values, make a plan to achieve it, take action, and reflect on how it strengthens your character and leadership.

Journeys

Per GSUSA’s 2025 Award Log: “These awards are retiring on 10/1/26”

aMAZE! (Journey Set) – Explore friendships, learn how to handle tricky social situations, build confidence in relationships, and do a Take Action Project.
Breathe (Journey Set) – Discover how air affects our world, do fun experiments, dive deep into one Air Issue, and do a Take Action Project.
MEdia! (Journey Set) – Learn how media shapes ideas, create a Cultivate Commitment, make a MEdia Remake Project, and do a Take Action Project.
Outdoor Journey (Journey Set) – Earn three specific outdoor badges, and do a Take Action Project.
Think Like a Citizen Scientist (Journey Set) – Observe nature, record what you see, help scientists study the world, and do a Take Action Project.
Think Like a Programmer (Journey Set) – Learn how to give computers instructions solve problems using coding, and do a Take Action Project.
Think Like an Engineer (Journey Set) – Build and create things to solve problems, and do a Take Action Project.

Retired Badges

Budgeting (Retired – Year 1 from 2011 Original Financial Literacy)
Business Plan (Retired – Year 1 from 2011 Original Cookie Business)
Comparison Shopping (Retired – Year 2 from 2011 Original Financial Literacy)
Eating for You (Previously called Eating for Beauty) – Learn how to make healthy food choices that fit your lifestyle. (Retired in 2025)
Entrepreneur (Retired – from 2011 Original)
Financing My Dreams (Retired – Year 3 from 2011 Original Financial Literacy)
Leadership in Action (LiA) – All Journeys – Help younger Girl Scouts earn a journey and practice leadership skills. (Retired in 2025)
Marketing (Retired – Year 2 from 2011 Original Cookie Business)
Think Big (Retired – Year 3 from 2011 Original Cookie Business)

Per GSUSA’s 2025 Award Log: “These awards are retiring on 10/1/26”

Journey Summit Award – Complete three journeys.
Global Action Award (Year 1, 2, & 3 Badges) – Learn about a topic GSUSA picks each year to help achieve one of the 17 sustainable development goals.

Badges with the official “Cadette…” name are listed without “Cadette” in this Alphabetical list, but will link to the “Cadette…” badge name on the webpage about the badge (i.e. “Cadette First Aid”, is just listed as “First Aid”). Some badges are known under multiple variations of the name. Any duplicated badges in this list will link to the same page about the badge.

The Cadette Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting page has specific information on the Brownie 2011 Program and what year all badges were released.
The full GSUSA 2011 Program has links to Badge Lists of all levels.

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