Scout Rank Requirements

	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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 council 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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