Released in 2011. Retired in 2023.
Junior Create and Innovate replaced the Product Designer badge.
The Junior Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting page has the information on when all badges were released.
Requirements
Five steps are needed to complete this badge:
- 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!
Resources available through GSUSA
- The badge is no longer in production. GSUSA stores will only sell this badge until their original stock runs out.
- Leader Guide is NO LONGER available in Girl Scout Shop online
- Official badge is NO LONGER available in Girl Scout Shop online
or look for your local shop to save on shipping - Retired badge – no VTK available
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How to Earn
Ways to earn as a Troop or an Individual
Our Summary of the GSUSA booklet activity choices
- Coming soon…
Pick Out Different Activities
- Basic Info from Scouts Honor Wiki
- Info webpage at Girl Scout Wiki
Use a Pre-Made Plan
- Meeting Plan at Earn Junior Girl Scout Badges Blog
- PDF Meeting Plan (Mtg 1 and Mtg 2) from GSRV (River Valley) – Archived Copy of Mtg1 and Mtg2
- At Home Plan w/video from GSCWM – Archived Copy of PDF
- Activity Booklet from Leader Connecting Leaders
Multi-Level Matches
Badges that correlate from other levels
- Daisy – Fun Patch (no equivalent)
- Brownie – Inventor (Retired) – think outside the box and design an invention to solve a problem
- Junior – Product Designer (Retired) – do research on possible solution, design product to solve issue
- Cadette – Entrepreneur (Retired) – brainstorm ideas for business, learn where finances come from, and propose business idea
- Senior – Fun Patch (Social Innovator does not correlate)
- Ambassador – Fun Patch (no equivalent)
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.
Uniform
Location and placement of badge
This badge should go where #13 is stated on the GSUSA Uniform Guide.
(Note – Badges and pins on a sash simply go in order (top of sash to bottom of sash) of Identification badges, bridging badge, pins, journeys, and other badges. Anything that does not fit on the front can be placed on the back of the sash. Sashes will not hold a lot of badges and vests are recommended if you plan to earn badges.)
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