Easy Badge and Journey Adaptations for Virtual Troop Meetings
In-person troop meetings are amazingly fun, but virtual meetings can offer a whole range of new ways to engage your Girl Scouts, your guests, and families!
Check out these proven tips for adapting your badge, Journey, or award activities to a virtual setting with your girls.
Group Activities 
Trips
Guest Experts
Family Events
Updates are on the horizon.
Journeys will officially be retired on October 1, 2026, to make way for an exciting new leadership exploration path: the Leadership Awards. These new awards will offer more flexible, interest-based ways for Girl Scouts to build their leadership skills—whether they’re leading themselves, their team, or their community.
So, what does the transition from Journeys to Leadership Awards mean for the Highest Awards? It means that Girl Scouts now have more ways to meet the prerequisite:
Level up. Already earned the Bronze Award or Silver Award? They count— each award now leads to the next.
Lead your way. Complete one of the new Leadership Awards—and check the prerequisite box. Win-win!
Keep it going. Only one Journey is needed to meet the prerequisite (it used to be two for the Gold Award!), and any completed Journey will still count, even after they retire.
Want to know more? Check out the Journeys page for full details.
