Scout Rank
Tenderfoot
Rank
Second Class Rank
First Class Rank
Star Rank
Life Rank
Eagle Rank
*Indicates
2008 changes (see http://www.scouting.org/BoyScouts/AdvancementandAwards.aspx
for more info)
Scout Rank
1. Meet age requirements. Be a boy who is 11 years old, or one
who has completed the fifth grade or earned the Arrow of Light Award and is at
least 10 years old, but is not yet 18 years old.
2. Complete a Boy Scout application and health history signed by
your parent or guardian.
3. Find a Scout troop near your home.
4. Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance.
5. Demonstrate the Scout sign, salute, and handshake.
6. Demonstrate tying the square knot (a joining knot).
7. Understand and agree to live by the Scout Oath or Promise,
Law, motto, and slogan, and the Outdoor Code.
8. Describe the Scout badge.
9. Complete the pamphlet exercises. With your parent or
guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children
from Child Abuse: A Parent's Guide.
10. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference. Turn in your Boy
Scout application and health history form signed by your parent or guardian, then participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
Tenderfoot
Rank Requirements
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 one night on a patrol or troop campout. Sleep
in a tent you have helped pitch.
3. On the campout, assist in preparing and cooking one 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.
4a. Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
4b. Demonstrate that you know how to tie the following knots and
tell what their uses are: two half hitches and the taut-line hitch.
5. 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.
6. Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the
American flag.
7. Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout
Oath, Law, motto, and slogan.
8. Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe
your patrol flag.
9. Explain the
importance of the buddy system as it relates to your personal safety on outings
and in your neighborhood. Describe what a bully is and how you should respond
to one.*
10a. Record your best in the following tests: Push-ups, Pull-ups,
Sit-ups, Standing long jump, 1/4-mile walk/run. Record them again 30 days
later.
10b. Show improvement in the activities listed in requirement 10a
after practicing for 30 days.
11. Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for
exposure to them.
12a. Demonstrate
how to care for someone who is choking.*
12b. Show first aid for the following:
·
Simple cuts and scrapes
·
Blisters on the hand and foot
·
Minor (thermal/heat) burns or scalds (superficial, or first-degree)
·
Bites or stings of insects and ticks
·
Venomous snakebite
·
Nosebleed
·
Frostbite and sunburn
13. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise)
and Scout Law in your everyday life.
14. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
15. Complete your board of review.
Second Class Rank
Requirements
1a. Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map.
Explain what map symbols mean.
1b. Using a compass and a map together, take a five-mile hike (or
10 miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.
(Note: If you use a wheelchair or crutches, or if it is difficult for you to
get around, you may substitute "trip" for "hike.")
2a. Since joining, have participated in
five separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two
of which included camping overnight.
2b. On one of these campouts, select
your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you pitched.
2c. On one campout, demonstrate proper
care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they
should be used.
2d. Use the tools listed in requirement 2c to prepare tinder,
kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire.
2e. Discuss when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire and a
lightweight stove. Discuss the safety procedures for using both.
2f. Demonstrate how to light a fire and a lightweight stove.
2g. On 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.
3. Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious
institution, chartered organization, community, or troop activity.
4. Participate in an approved (minimum of one hour) service
project.
5. Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of wild
animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks)
found in your community.
6a. Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped
breathing, serious bleeding, and ingested poisoning.
6b. Prepare a personal first-aid kit to take with you on a hike.
6c. Demonstrate first aid for the following:
·
Object in the eye
·
Bite of a suspected rabid animal
·
Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fishhook
·
Serious burns (partial thickness, or second-degree)
·
Heat exhaustion
·
Shock
·
Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation
7a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim.
7b. Demonstrate your ability to jump feet first 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.
7c. 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.
8a. 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.
8b. Explain the
three R's of personal safety and protection.*
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.
First Class Rank
Requirements
1. Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at
night without using a compass.
2. 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.).
3. Since joining, have participated in 10 separate troop/patrol
activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping
overnight.
4a. 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.
4b. Using the menu planned in requirement 4a, make a list showing
the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more boys and secure the
ingredients.
4c. Tell which pans, utensils, and other
gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.
4d. 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.
4e. On one campout, serve as your
patrol's cook. Supervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building a
cooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned in requirement
4a. 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
6. Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native
plants found in your community.
7a. Discuss when you should and should not
use lashings.
7b. 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.
7c. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
8a. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot
and describe several ways it can be used.
8b. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on
the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.
8c. Show how to transport by yourself,
and with one other person, a person
·
From a smoke-filled room
·
With a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards
8d. Tell the five most common signals of a heart attack. Explain
the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
9a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.
9b. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.
9c. With a helper and a practice victim,
show a line rescue both as tender and as rescuer. (The practice victim should
be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water.)
10. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise)
and Scout Law in your everyday life.
11. Tell someone who is eligible to join Boy Scouts, or 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.
12. Describe
the three things you should avoid doing related to use of the Internet.
Describe a cyberbully and how you should respond to
one.*
13. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
14. Complete your board of review.
Star Rank Requirements
1. Be active in your troop and patrol
for at least four 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 any four from the required
list for Eagle. (See the Eagle Rank
Requirements, number 3, for this list.) A Scout may choose any of the 15
required merit badges in the 12 categories to fulfill this requirement.
4. While a First Class Scout, take part in service projects
totaling at least six hours of work. These projects must be approved by your
Scoutmaster.
5. While a First Class Scout, serve actively for four months in
one or more of the following positions of responsibility (or carry out a
Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop):
·
Boy Scout troop. Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior
patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop
representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler,
junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, or instructor.
6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
7. Complete your board of review.
Life Rank Requirements
1. Be active in your troop and patrol
for at least six 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. (See the Eagle Rank Requirements, number 3, for
this list.) A Scout may choose any of the 15 required merit badges in the 12
categories to fulfill this requirement.
4. While a Star Scout, take part in service projects totaling
at least six hours of work. These projects must be approved by your
Scoutmaster.
5. While a Star Scout, serve actively for six months in one or
more of the troop positions of responsibility listed in requirement 5 for Star Scout (or carry out a
Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop).
6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
7. Complete your board of review.
Eagle Rank Requirements
1. Be active in your troop, team,
crew, or ship for a period of at least six months after you have achieved the
rank of Life Scout.
2. Demonstrate that you live by the principles of the Scout
Oath and Law in your daily life. List the names of individuals who know you
personally and would be willing to provide a recommendation on your behalf,
including parents/guardians, religious, educational, and employer references.
3. Earn a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than you already
have), including the following:
a. First
Aid
b. Citizenship
in the Community
g. Emergency
Preparedness OR Lifesaving
j.
Swimming
OR Hiking
OR Cycling
k. Camping
l.
Family
Life
You must choose only one merit badge listed in items
g and j. If you have earned more than one of the badges listed in items g and
j, choose one and list the remaining badges to make your total of 21.
4. While a Life Scout, serve actively for a
period of six months in one or more of the following positions of
responsibility:
·
Boy Scout troop. Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior
patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop
representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, junior
assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, or 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 plan 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.
6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
7. Successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review.