Scout

• Submit a completed Boy Scout application and health history signed by your parent or guardian.
• Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance.
• Demonstrate the Scout salute, sign, and handclasp.
• Show how to tie the square knot.
• Understand and agree to live by the Scout Oath, the Scout Law, the Scout motto, the Scout slogan, and the Outdoor Code.
• Describe the Scout badge.
• With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse and Drug Abuse.
• Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.

Tenderfoot

1. Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on an overnight camping trip. Show the camping gear you will use. Show the right way to pack and carry it.
2. Spend at least 1 night on a patrol or troop campout. Sleep in a tent you have helped pitch on a ground bed you have prepared.
3. a. Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
   b. Demonstrate tying two half hitches and a tautline hitch by using these knots to pitch a tent.
4. 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.
5. Demonstrate hot to display, raise, lower, and fold the American flag.
6. Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath, Law, motto, and slogan.
7. Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe your patrol flag.
8. Explain why we use the buddy system in Scouting
9. a. Record your best in the following tests: Pushups; Pullups; Situps; Standing long jump; 500 yd. walk/run
   b. Show improvement in the activities listed above after practicing for 30 days.
10. Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.
11. a. Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.
    b. Show first aid for the following:
    • Simple cuts and scratches
    • Blisters on the hand and foot
    • Bites or stings of insects and ticks
    • Poisonous snakebite
    • Nosebleed
12. Participarte in a Scoutmaster conference
13. Board of review

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Second Class

1. a. Domonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean.
   b. Using a compass and a map you have drawn, take a 5-mile hike (or 10 miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.
2. a. Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight.

        b. On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of knife, saw, and
        ax.
        c. Use the tools listed above to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire.
        d. Light the cooking fire. Assist with the meal preparation and cleanup.
        e. On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you have
        pitched.
  3.  Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious institution, chartered
        organization, community, or troop.
  4.   Participate in an approved (minimun of 1 hour) service project.
  5.   Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of wild animals (birsd, mammals,
        reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community.
  6.   a. Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and
        internal poisoning.
        b. Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike.
        c. Demonstrate first aid for the following:
                Object in the eye
                Bite of a suspected rabid animal
                Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fish hook
                Serious burns (second degree)
                Heat exhaustion
                Shock
                Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation
  7. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim. Domonstrate your ability to swim       50 yards using two different strokes.
  8. 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.
  9. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your
      everyday life.
10. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
11. Complete your board of review.

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First Class

1. Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and night without using a compass.
2. Using a compass, complete an orienteering course that covers at least 1 mile and requires measuring the height and/or width of designated items (tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.)
3. Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight.
4. On one campout, serve as your patrol's cook.  Prepare a breakfast, lunch, and dinner menu that requires cooking; secure ingredients; supervise your assistants in fire building; and prepare the meals.  Lead your patrol in saying grace at the meals, and supervise cleanup.
5. 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.
6. Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants found in your community.
7. a. Demonstrate trying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more poles or staves together.

b. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
8. a.  Demonstrate tying the bowline (rescue) knot and how it's used in rescues.

b.  Demonstrate bandages for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and collarbone, and for a sprained ankle.
c.  Show how to transport by yourself, and with one other person, a person:
• from a smoke filled room
• with a broken leg, for at least 25 yards
d.  Tell the five most common signs of heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
9. Demonstrate your ability to swim 100 yards using one resting stroke and two other strokes, and to float (rest) as motionless as possible for one minute.
10. Show Scout spirit.
11. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
12. Board of review.

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Star

1. Be active in your troop and partol for at least 4 months as a First Class Scout.
2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
3. Earn six merit badges, including four from the Required List for Eagle.
4. While a First Class Scout, take part in service projects toatling at least 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your Scoutmaster.

  5. While a First Class Scout, serve actively 4 months in one or more of the following troop       positions of responsibility (or carry out a Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to           help the troop): patrol leader, senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leaded, den         chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, chaplain aide, instructor, junior       assistant Scoutmaster, troop guide, Venture crew chief, or Varsity team captain.
  6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
  7. Complete your board of review.

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Life

1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as a Star Scout.
2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
3. Earn five more merit badges (so that you have 11 in all), including any three more from the Required List for Eagle.
4. While a Star Scout, take part in service projects totaling at least 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your Scoutmaster.
5. While a Star Scout, serve actively for 6 months in one or more of the following troop positions of responsibility (or carry out a Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop): patrol leader, senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leaded, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, chaplain aide, instructor, junior assistant Scoutmaster, troop guide, Venture crew chief, or Varsity team captain.
6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
7. Complete your board of review.

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Eagle

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.....Please see Required List for Eagle.
4. While a Life Scout, serve actively for 6 months in one or more of the following troop positions of responsibility (or carry out a Scoutmaster- assigned leadership project to help the troop):

      patrol leader, senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leaded, den chief, scribe,               librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, chaplain aide, instructor, junior assistant             Scoutmaster, troop guide, Venture crew chief, or Varsity team captain.
  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 idea             must be approved by your Scoutmaster and troop committee and approved by the                 council or district before you start.

  6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
  7. Complete your board of review.

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