Talk:Gold Award (Girl Scouts of the USA)

Women of note
Are there any women of note with this award? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.241.245.49 (talk • contribs)
 * I haven't been able to find any, though there must be some. Part of the difficulty is that it's a pretty recent award; it just replaced the First Class Award in 1980, whereas the Eagle Scout honor in Boy Scouts (to give just one example) has been around sice 1911.  Not many scouts have earned the Gold Award yet, and those who have are still fairly young.  Perhaps in a few years . . . Eaglet
 * We should be able to find at least three who have earned the Gold Award/First Class Award. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.241.245.49 (talk • contribs)
 * let's not get desparate to find names to put to the list for the sole sake of putting them there. if someone is notable, that's fine, but don't stretch it as far as we can. we might want to revise it to something along the lines of "notable reciepients of highest awards of GSUSA" or something like that. -- preschooler @  heart   my talk  -  contribs  06:35, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Photos and Precursors
Photos of the Gold/FC/etc would be nice in their appropriate articles. I agree that the fact GSUSA has changed its top award several times detracts from their 'name recognition'. BSA keeping theirs called Eagle Scout certainly helped. How about an article on the FC award? Also, I understand only 10-12 graders can earn this, other grades the Sivler, etc.; whereas in BSA anyone in a troop can earn the Eagle award--it is not grade dependent....signed and Eagle Scout and father of an Eagle Scout. Rlevse 18:50, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd like to see both requirements and photos of the precursors to the Gold Award, from a historical standpoint. Emb021 26 June 2006
 * I'm working on my Gold right now, so as I get input and so on I can place some more information in here or find out how to find cited information. Also, as I did with the Silver award, I can try to get a real picture hopefully within the next few months that isn't copyrighted.  Darthgriz  9  8  03:52, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Notability
What is the standard of notability that is going to be used? evrik 18:16, 18 April 2006 (UTC) I did a search of the microsoft website and nothing came up at all for anyone named lisa chiang. presumed unnotable, deleted. if anyone has a problem with that please state notablity here before reverting.
 * Who is Lisa Chiang? evrik 18:17, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I vote to delete Chiang. i'm not seeing the notability, expecially under the header "Famous people..". nothing personal, just not seeing notability. are these seirously the only two people we could find? surely there's more somewhere.-- preschooler @  heart   my talk  -  contribs  06:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

IMHO, I'd use criteria similar to what is at List of Eagle Scouts on its talk page. If they fail the "google test", we delete them from the article. Rlevse 10:06, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Requirements
I don't have the new book(s), but you used to be eligible until you turned 18 OR until graduation (assuming you didn't take extra years to complete high school), whichever was later. Is this still the case? -Bbik 01:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Girls have until September 30th of the year they finish High School, or until they turn 18 if they graduate sooner. 216.119.215.193 18:12, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Girl Scout Gold Award Alliance
I would like to see more on the Girl Scout Gold Award Alliance. To my uninformed mind, it would appear to be the equivalent of the National Eagle Scout Association. --Gadget850 ( Ed) 14:16, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Equality of this award
It appears that the the gold award is truly not comparable to the Eagle scout rank of the Boy Scouts. The difficulty of achieving this award might be similar, but the benefit is far from equal. Far more people are aware of Eagle Scouts the are aware of the gold award

as for another thing is there any equivalent to eagle palms in Girl Scouting?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.85.128.227 (talk) 18:11, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Stolen Valor
The problem here is that this award can be highly politicized and there is no way to confirm that adult recepients have actually achieved the award. Girls are not given any way to track or verify their hard work as members of this organization. Even when their leaders keep a record, this is merely a pen and paper form that can be neglected or forged; and the girl herself may never be given a physical copy of the record. The public has no way of tracking which person actually achieved the award. This is vital for those girls who are given military rank or public office based on Girl Scout activities, alleged or faked.

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Lisa Campanella and Katrina Gillard
We didn't Win this award (GOLD) in 1987, WE EARNED IT! No recognition from Girl Scouts of America..WTF? 2600:1700:E7E0:6ED0:C521:6FEB:4AE6:A0A0 (talk) 22:47, 22 July 2023 (UTC)