Updated Badge, Journey, and Award Summaries for 2025-26
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It’s that time of year again! Here are updated Badge, Journey, and Award summaries for all levels for Membership Year 2025-26.
Updates include the new badges for all levels plus the new Leadership Awards for Juniors through Ambassadors. I also updated the Animal Helper badge for Cadettes with the new design and summary. Journeys (and any related awards) were updated with a note that they will be retired in October of 2026. Note that these are just summaries of the badge requirements, not the requirements themselves. Requirements can be found in Volunteer Tool Kit, downloaded from the GSUSA store, or purchased in council stores.
Also, these badges have been retired:
- My Best Self (Brownie)
- Staying Fit (Junior)
- Eating for You (Cadette)
- Women’s Health (Senior)
The following are links to PDF files stored on Dropbox. You shouldn’t need a Dropbox account in order to download them. Just click off the box and then a Download button should appear in the top right corner.
Hello! Just wanted to say I love your badge pages so much. This is my fourth year as a leader and I use your drop boxes like a holy grail, they make it so easy to scan all the badges and find a summary of each one in one place! I tried looking but I couldn’t find it, did you by chance create one for 26/27? I know so much changed with the journeys retiring. Thank you!
GSUSA will be rolling out a new badge program in the spring of 2027, so no changes have been made from last year’s catalog.