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Eagle Requirements





Badge
Requirements
Eagle Scout
  • Be active in your troop or patrol for at least 6 months as a Life Scout.
  • Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
  • Earn a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than you already have), including the following:
    1. First Aid
    2. Citizenship in the Community
    3. Citizenship in the Nation
    4. Citizenship in the World
    5. Communications
    6. Personal Fitness
    7. Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving
      • (You must choose only one merit badge in this list. If you have earned more than one of the badges listed, choose one and list the remaining badges to make your total of 21.)
    8. Environmental Science
    9. Personal Management
    10. *Hiking OR Swimming OR Cycling
      • (You must choose only one merit badge in this list. If you have earned more than one of the badges listed, choose one and list the remaining badges to make your total of 21.)
    11. *Camping, and
    12. *Family Life
  • While a Life Scout, serve actively for 6 months in one or more of the following troop positions of responsibility:
    • assistant senior patrol leader,
    • chaplain aide,
    • den chief,
    • instructor,
    • junior assistant Scoutmaster,
    • librarian,
    • patrol leader,
    • quartermaster,
    • scribe,
    • senior patrol leader,
    • troop guide,
    • instructor
    • bugler
    • Venture crew chief, or
    • Varsity team captain.
  • 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 idea must be approved by your Scoutmaster and troop committee and approved by the council or district before you start. YOU MUST USE THE _Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook_, No. 18-927, IN MEETING THIS REQUIREMENT.
  • Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
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