How to Earn the Rank of
Eagle Scout
Pages 180-181, 446-447 of
the Boy Scout Handbook
- Be active in your troop and patrol
for at least 6 months as Life Scout
- Demonstrate Scout spirit by living
the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
- Earn 10 more merit badges (so that
you have 21 in all), including the following:
- First Aid
- Citizenship in the Community
- Citizenship in the Nation
- Citizenship in the World
- Communications
- Personal Fitness
- Emergency Preparedness
- Environmental Science
- Personal Management
- Swimming
- Camping
- Family Life
- While a Life Scout, serve actively 6
months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility:
in a Boy
Scout troop
- Senior Patrol Leader
- Assistant Senior Patrol Leader
- Troop Guide
- Den Chief
- Scribe
- Librarian
- Historian
- Quartermaster
- Bugler
- Junior Assistant Scoutmaster
- Chaplain Aide
- Instructor
or
in a Varsity
Scout team
- Captain
- Cocaptain
- Program manager
- Squad leader
- Team secretary
- Librarian
- Historian
- Quartermaster
- Chaplain Aide
- Instructor
- Den Chief
- While a Life Scout, plan, develop,
and give
leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious
institution, any school, or your community. (The project should benefit
an organization other than Boy Scouting.) The project idea must be
approved by the organization benefiting from the effort, your
Scoutmaster and troop committee, and the council or district before you
start. You must use the Life to Eagle packet, BSA publication
No.18-927, in meeting this requirement.
- Participate in a Scoutmaster
conference.
- Complete the board of review.
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