These requirements were revised effective on January 1, 2000.
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1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as a Life Scout. 2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. 3. Earn a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than you already have), including the following: First Aid Citizenship in the Community Citizenship in the Nation Citizenship in the World Communications Personal Fitness Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving * Environmental Science Personal Management Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling * Camping, and Family Life 4. While a Life Scout, serve actively for a period of 6 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility: Patrol Leader Assistant Senior Patrol Leader Senior Patrol Leader Troop Guide OA Troop Representative Den Chief Scribe Librarian Historian Quartermaster Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Chaplain Aide Instructor 5. 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 Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project Workbook, BSA publication No. 18-927A, in meeting this requirement. 6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference. 7. Successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review.
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* You must choose only one merit badge from the group listed.
If you have earned more than one of the badges listed in the group,
choose one merit badge to be used for Eagle Requirements, and list the
remaining merit badge(s) as electives to complete the required 21.
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Note: All requirements must be completed before a candidate's 18th birthday.
The eagle Scout board of review can be held after the candidate's 18th birthday.
For more information, see Advancement Committee Policies and Procedures,
publication No. 33088B. Also see the note below.
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If you have a permanent physical or mental disability, you may become an Eagle Scout by qualifying for
as many required merit badges as you can and qualifying for alternative merit badges for the rest.
If you seek to become an eagle Scout under this procedure, you must submit a special application
to your local council service center. Your application must be approved by your council advancement
committee before you can work on alternative merit badges.
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The Alternate requirements are also listed in more detail under Eagle Scout Rank -
Alternate Requirements on page 16 of the y2k Boy Scout Requirements book. (No. 33215C).
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The Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project Workbook (#18-927A) is now available
for download from the BSA website in both PDF and RTF versions
which can be used by Scouts in lieu of the printed form.
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Mike Walton has created a Power Point Presentation that contains a set of worksheets
that you can use to gather all of the information you will need to fill out your
Application for Eagle Scout Rank Award. To download it, Click Here.
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Rick Cordray has developed a set of Microsoft Word documents that can be used to enter
the data onto an Eagle Scout Rank Application (#55-728 - 1999 printing)
using your computer printer. To use them, download each of these files:
BSA has a PDF version of the Eagle Scout Rank Application (No 58-728 - 2000 edition) on their site.
It can be used as the form submitted to BSA for an Eagle Scout candidate.
You may also try using that document to work with the templates Rick has provided.
To view the pdf file, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you do not have the free Acrobat Reader, click on the icon below to obtain it.
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