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Life to Eagle
Congratulations!! You've attained the rank of Life
Scout. In achieving Eagle, you'll find some different steps on final path to
Eagle.
How to Earn the Rank of Eagle
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Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as Life Scout
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Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and
Scout Law in your everyday life.
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Earn 10 more merit badges (so that you have 21 in all),
including 12 Eagle-required merit
badges
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While a Life Scout, serve actively 6 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility:
Senior Patrol Leader; Assistant Senior Patrol Leader; Patrol Leader;
Troop Guide; Den Chief; Scribe; Librarian; Historian; Quartermaster;
Junior Assistant Scoutmaster; Chaplain Aide; Instructor
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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 Life to Eagle packet, BSA publication No.18-927, in meeting this requirement.
Eagle Scout Leadership Project
Workbook: http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts/eagleproject/dload.html
Some Ideas for projects:
Scoutorama Project Ideas http://www.scoutorama.com/project/
Another website for ideas: Buckskin
project ideas
Some local contacts for projects:
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Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
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Complete the board of review.
The Eagle Board of Review will include two or three troop review members familiar to you, and it will include one or more district Review members. The District
Advancement Chairman will chair the review. The Board will ask you about your project, leadership, and how becoming an Eagle affects and changes you. This is typically the easiest review you will have (though you should make sure to review the Scout Law and Promise). The Board members will enjoy seeing the fruits of several years of Scouting in you. The Eagle Board of Review is not so much a test as it is a celebration of the completion of your long, challenging, and successful journey toward Eagle.
Letters of Recommendation
The Eagle Board of Review will want five or six letters of recommendation for you. You need to select the recommenders, give them the letter of recommendation form (get this from the Board of Review), and give them a firm deadline to return the letters (about a week after the Scoutmaster Conference would be good). Either have them send the letters directly to our troop Eagle Board of Review Chairman, or collect them yourself in sealed envelopes and give them to him.
The letters should show how you have lived like an Eagle Scout in all phases of your life (home, school, church, etc). You will need recommendations from—
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your parents
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religious leader (minister, teacher, etc; see the Scoutmaster for guidance if you don't have a church)
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school (teacher or principal who knows you well)
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employer (if any)
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two
others of your choice who know you well (neighbors, Scout leaders, etc)
Resources:
Eagle
Scout http://www.eaglescout.org/
Last updated: Jan. 19, 2005 |
