Star through Eagle requirements
Here are the requirements for Star through Eagle.
Star requirements
- Be active in your troop or patrol as a First Class Scout for at least 4 months.
- Demonstrate scout spirit by living the scout oath and law in your everyday life.
- Earn 6 merit badges, including 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 of the following positions: Patrol leader, assistant patrol leader, senior patrol leader, troop guide, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, junior assistant scoutmaster, chaplain aide, or instructor.
- Take prat in a scoutmaster conferance.
- Complete your board of review.
Life requirements
- Be active in your troop or patrol for at least 6 months as a star scout.
- Demonstrate scout spirit by living the scout oath and law in your everyday life.
- Earn 5 more merit badges (so that you have 11 in all) 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 in one of the positions mentioned in requirement 5 for the Star scout.
- Take part in a scoutmaster conference.
- Complete your board of review.
Eagle requirements
- Be active in your troop or patrol for at least 6 months as a Life scout.
- Demonstrate scout spirit by living the scout oath and law in your everyday life.
- Earn a total of 21 merit badges, including: First aid, citizenship in the community, citizenship in the nation, citizenship in the world, communications, personal fittness, emergency preparedness OR lifesaving, environmental science, personal managment, swimming OR hiking OR cycling, camping, and family life.
- While a Life scout, serve actively for 6 months in one of the following positions: Patrol leader, assistant patrol leader, senior patrol leader, troop guide, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, junior assistant scoutmaster, chaplain aide, or instructor.
- While a Life scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a helpful service project to any religious institution, any school, or your community. The project must be approved by the orginization benefitting from the effort, your scoutmaster and troop commitee, and the council district before you start. You must use the Life to Eagle packet, BSA publication number 18-927, in meeting this requirement.
- Take part in a scoutmaster conference.
- Complete your Eagle scout board of review.