- The Bronze Award is designed to be done as a troop or small groups, usually 2-5 scouts.
- The Silver Award is designed to be done in small groups, usually 2-5 scouts, or solo.
- The Gold Award is done solo, but can have a team of volunteers (either adults or peers).
Some multi-levels will do a Silver and Bronze Award together, making sure to keep each level with a different aspect of a larger project and tracking individual hours. All projects must be approved by your local council. As long as you have checked with them, a plan like that can be approved. Each council will have different requirements to approve such a plan.
Higher Awards
How the Awards correlate from other levels
- Daisy – Fun Patch (no equivalent)
- Brownie – Fun Patch (no equivalent)
- Junior – Bronze Award – small group or troop ideal, but can be done solo with friends and family helping, 20 hours
- Cadette – Silver Award – solo or small groups, 50 hours
- Senior – Gold Award – solo, 80 hours
- Ambassador – Gold Award – solo, 80 hours
General Multi-Level Notes
These are simply suggestions and may take some creativity and extra steps to earn all the badges in various levels.
A Multi-Level Troop will need to do extra steps when earning different badges across levels. It depends on how many requirements overlap. Some will only have one or two matching requirements.
GSUSA has an Award Log for each level with a comparison table for all badges in similar themes. Not all badges in the same theme have correlating requirements – you basically have to earn two separate badges. We recommend a Fun Patch in that case.
Badges with correlating requirements means you can do an activity that counts towards different badges in the different levels.
Badges with correlating requirements means you can do an activity that counts towards different badges in the different levels.
The Badge Archive 