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Scout Rank Requirements
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Scout
- Meet age requirements. Be a boy who is 11
years old who has completed the fifth grade or the Arrow of Light
Award and is at least 10 years old, but is not 18 years old.
- Complete a Boy Scout application and health
history signed by your parent or guardian.
- Find a Scout troop near your home.
- Repeat the pledge of allegiance.
- Demonstrate the Scout sign, salute and handshake.
- Understand and agree to live by the Scout Oath or
Promise, Law, motto, and slogan, and the outdoor code.
- Describe the Scout badge.
- Complete the pamphlet exercise.
- Participate in a scoutmaster conference.
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Tenderfoot
- Present yourself to your leader, properly
dressed, before goi on an overnight camping trip. Show the
camping gear you will use. Show the right way to pack and
carry it.
- Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop
campout. Sleep in a tent you have helped pitch.
- On the campout, assist in preparing a cooking on
of your patrol's meals. Tell why it is important for each
patrol member to share in meal preparation and cleanup, and explain
the importance of eating together.
- Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a
rope.
- Demonstrate that you know how to tie the
following knots and tell what their uses are: two half hitches
and the taut-line hitch.
- Explain the rules of safe hiking, both on the
highway and cross country, during the day and at night.
Explain what to do if you are lost.
- Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and
fold the American flag.
- Repeat from memory and explain in your own words
the Scout Oath, Law, motto and slogan.
- Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and
describe your patrol flag.
- Record your best in push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups,
standing long jump and 1/4 mile walk/run. Also record the same
after 30 days. Show improvements in those activities after
practicing for 30 days.
- Identify local poisonous plants and tell how to
treat for exposure to them.
- Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when
it is used.
- Show first aid for the following; Simple cuts and
scratches, Blisters on the hand and foot, Minor burns or scalds
(first-degree), bites or stings of insects and ticks, poisonous
snakebite, nosebleed, frost bite and sunburn.
- Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath
(Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Complete your board of review.
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Second Class
- Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a
map. Explain what map symbols mean.
- Using a compass and map together, take a 5-mile
hike (or 10 miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your
parent or guardian.
- Since joining, have participated in five separate
troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two which
included camping overnight. One one of these campouts, select
your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you pitched yourself.
- Demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and the use of
the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used.
Use these tools to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for a cooking
fire.
- Discuss when it is appropriate to use a cooking
fire and a lightweight stove. Discuss the safety procedures for
using both.
- Demonstrate how to light a fire and lightweight
stove.
- One one campout, plan and cook over an open fire
one hot breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the food
pyramid. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell
how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected.
- Participate in a flag ceremony for your school,
religious institution, chartered organization, community, or troop
activity.
- Participate in an approved (minimum of one hour)
service project.
- Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of
wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your
community.
- Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped
breathing, serious bleeding, and internal poisoning.
- Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you
on a hike.
- Demonstrate aid for the following; Object in the
eye, Bite of a suspected rabid animal, Puncture wound from a
splinter, nail, and fishhook, Serious burns, Heat exhaustion, Shock,
and Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation.
- Tell what precautions must be take for a safe
swim.
- Demonstrate your ability to jump feetfirst into
water over your head in depth, level off and swim 25 feet on the
surface, stop, turn sharply, resume swimming, then return to your
starting place.
- Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with
your arm or leg, by reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing
lines and objects. Explain why swimming rescues should not be
attempted when a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and
explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the
victim.
- Participate in a school, community, or troop
program on the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco and
other practices that could be harmful to your health. Discuss
your participation in the program with your family.
- Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath
and Scout Law in your everyday life.
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Complete your board of review.
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First Class
- Demonstrate how to find directions during the day
and at night without using a compass.
- Using a compass, complete an orienteering course
that covers at least one mile and requires measuring the height
and/or width of designated items (tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.)
- Since joining, have participated in ten separate
troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight.
- Help plan a patrol menu for one campout that
includes at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner, and that
requires cooking at least two of the meals. Tell how the menu
includes the foods from the food pyramid and meets nutritional
needs. Make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed to
fee three or more boys and secure the ingredients.
- Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be
needed to cook and serve these meals.
- Explain the procedures to follow in the safe
handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy products, eggs,
vegetables, and other perishable food products. Tell how to
properly dispose of camp garbage, cans, plastic containers, and
other rubbish.
- On one campout, serve as your patrol's cook.
Supervise your assistants in using a stove or building a cooking
fire. Prepare a breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Lead your
patrol in saying grace at the meals and supervise cleanup.
- Visit and discuss with a selected individual
approved by your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil
servant, principal, teacher) your Constitutional rights and
obligations as a U.S. citizen.
- Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds
of native plants found in your community.
- Discuss when you should and should not use
lashings.
- Demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove
hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by
joining two or more poles or staves together.
- Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
- Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe
several ways it can be used.
- Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for
injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.
- Show how to transport by yourself, and with one
other personnel, a person from a smoke-filled room. Also
demonstrate how to carry a person with a sprained ankle for at least
24 yards.
- Tell the five most common signs of heart attack.
Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR).
- Tell what precautions must be take for a safe
trip afloat.
- Successfully complete the Boy Scouts of America
swimmer test.
- With a helper and a practice victim, show a line
rescue both as tender and as rescuer.
- Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath
and Scout Law in your everyday life.
- Tell someone who is eligible to join Boy Scouts,
or a an inactive Boy Scout, about your troop's activities.
Invite him to a troop outing, activity, service project, or meeting.
Tell him how to join, or encourage the inactive Boy Scout to become
active.
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Complete your board of review.
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Star
- Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 4
months as a First Class Scout.
- Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath
and Scout Law in your everyday life.
- Earn 6 merit badges, including any 4 from the
required list for Eagle.
- While a First Class Scout, take part in service
projects totaling at least 6 hours of work. These projects
must be approved by your Scoutmaster
- While a First Class Scout, serve actively for 4
months in one or more approved positions of responsibility (or carry
out a Scoutmaster assigned leadership project to help the troop).
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Complete your board of review.
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Life
- Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6
months as a Star Scout.
- Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath
and Scout Law in your everyday life.
- Earn 5 merit badges, including any 3 from the
required list for Eagle.
- While a Star Scout, take part in service projects
totaling at least 6 hours of work. These projects must be
approved by your Scoutmaster
- While a Star Scout, serve actively for 6 months
in one or more approved positions of responsibility (or carry out a
Scoutmaster assigned leadership project to help the troop).
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Complete your board of review.
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Eagle
- Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6
months as a Live Scout.
- Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath
and Scout Law in your everyday life.
- Earn a total of 21 merit badges, 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.
- While a Life Scout, serve actively for 6 months
in one or more approved positions of responsibility.
- 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 coucil or
district before you start. You must use the Eagle Scout
Leadership Service Project Workbook, BSA publication No. 18-927, in
meeting this requirement.
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Complete your board of review.
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