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Gold Level

Gold level is your highest level in the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award. If you have completed tasks at Silver level, you will need at least 12 months to complete Gold level. Otherwise, you will need at least 18 months to obtain your Gold Level Certificate and Badge.

You can start your Gold challenge immediately after you have completed Silver. If you have not yet completed Silver Level, you are not eligible to begin your Gold Level until 16 years old.

In this process, you need to complete activities in three sections: Skills, Physical Recreation, and Voluntary Service. You need to choose specific activities from these three sections that suit you. When you do the Gold Level Challenge without completing the Silver Award, you need to choose one of these three sections as your major. In addition, you need to complete the training, practice journey and qualifying journey and the Gold Residential Project. When all five sections are completed, you are eligible to sign off Gold award.

Case Study - 63 weeks

Physical Recreation: Basketball

Skills: Drawing

Voluntary Service: Public library

Adventurous Journey: Trekking across Tongariro National Park

Gold Residential Project: YES! Camp C24, Food Crisis Puzzle

Adventurous Journey - Get Wild and Explore

Training: All participants must undergo appropriate training to acquire sufficient wilderness survival skills, knowledge and wisdom, so that they can confidently carry out their adventure expedition.
Practice Journey: At least 1 day and 1 night, 8 hours of adventure expedition activities per day. The number of expedition practices depends on the team's ability; this will be decided by your assessor or award leader.
Qualifying Journey: At least 4 days and 3 night, 8 hours of adventure expedition activities per day.
(1) Form a small group of 4-7 people
(2) Decide on the goal of the expedition together
(3) Plan, prepare and train for the expedition
(4) Enter information in the ORB record and send it to your award leader for approval
(5) Carry out the expedition
(6) Summarize/report/present
(7) Send to the assessor teacher for approval

Section Activity Example

Physical Recreation - Break a Sweat

One hour per week, for 13 weeks
Individual or team activities, such as ball games, athletics, cycling, equestrian, fitness, dance and yoga.

Section Activity Example

Skills - Find Your Genius

One hour per week, for 13 weeks
The activity must be passive learning and not physical skill learning. For example, music, programming, performance, leadership, coaching, art and crafts, professional skills, gardening and cooking, etc. If you chose ``coaching`` as your activity in the skills section, please make sure your record reflects how you improved your own skills, not the content of the coaching itself.

Section Activity Example

Voluntary Service - Give Back

One hour per week, for 13 weeks
The activity must meet genuine needs, including supporting residents in the community, youth work, community education, health education, environmental service, charity work and supporting local emergency services.

Section Activity Example

Gold Residential Project - Leave Your Comfort Zone

5 days and 4 nights
8 hours of purposeful activity every day
Spending time with people you didn’t know before
Leave home to attend training courses, student exchanges, cultural or service projects, conferences, or serve as a YES! Camp counselor/assistant.

Section Activity Example