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New Advancement requirements

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New Advancement requirements: On April 1, 1999, the following advancement requirements will take effect.

  • Tenderfoot
  • Second Class
  • First Class
  • Star
  • Life
  • Eagle

  • Tenderfoot requirements

    1. Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on an overnight camping trip. Show the camping gear that 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 that 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.
      1. Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
      2. Demonstrate that you know how to tie the following knots and tell what their uses are:two half hitches and the taut-line hitch.
    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 how 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.
      1. Record your best in the following tests:
        Push ups __________
        Pull ups __________
        Sit-ups __________
        Standing Long Jump _____ feet ______ inches
        1/4 mile walk/run __________
      2. Show improvement in the activities listed in 10a after practicing for 30 days
        Push ups __________
        Pull ups __________
        Sit-ups __________
        Standing Long Jump _____ feet ______ inches
        1/4 mile walk/run __________
    9. Identify local poisonous plants: tell how to treat for exposure to them.
      1. Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used
      2. Show first aid for the following:
        • Simple custs and scratches
        • Blisters on the hand and foot
        • Minor burns or scalds
        • Bites or stings of insects and ticks
        • Poisonous snakes
        • Nosebleed
        • Frostbite and sunburn
    10. Participate in a Scoutmaster Conference
    11. Complete your board of review.

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    Second Class Requirements

      1. Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean.
      2. 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.*
      1. Since joining, have particpated in five separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight.
      2. On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you pitched.
      3. On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw and ax, and describe when they should be used.
      4. Use the tools listed in requirement 2c to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire.
      5. Discuss when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire and a lightweight stove. Discuss the safety procedures for using both.
      6. Demonstrate how to light a fire and a lightweight stove.
      7. On one campout, plan and cook over an open fire one hot breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the four basic food groups. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected.
    1. Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious institution, chartered organization, community or troop activity.
    2. Participate in an approved (minimum of one hour) service project.
    3. Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community.
      1. Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and internal poisoning.
      2. Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike.
      3. 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 (second degree)
        • Heat exhaustion
        • Shock
        • Heat stroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation
      1. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim.
      2. 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.#
      3. 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.
    4. 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.
    5. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
    6. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
    7. Complete your board of review.

    Notes

    *If you use a wheelchair or crutches, or if it is difficult for you to get around, you may substitute "trip" for "hike".

    #This requirement may be waived by the troop committee for medical or safety reasons.


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    First Class 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 ten separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight.
      1. Help plan a patrol menu for one campout--including one breakfast, lunch, annd dinner -- that requires cooking. Tell how the menu includes the four basic food groups and meets nutritional needs.
      2. 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.
      3. Tell what pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.
      4. 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.
      5. 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.
    4. 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.
    5. Identify or show evidance of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community.
      1. Discuss when you should and should not use lashings
      2. Demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more staves together.
      3. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
      1. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways that it can be used.
      2. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.
      3. Show how to transport by yourself, and with another person, a person
        • From a smoke filled room
        • With a sprianed ankle, for at least 25 yards
      4. Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
      1. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.
      2. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.*
      3. Demonstrate survival skills by leaping into deep water wearing cloths (shoes, socks, swim trunks, long pants, belt and long-sleeved shirt). Remove shoes and socks, inflate the shirt, and show that you can float using the shirt for support. Remove and inflate the pants for support. Swim 50 feet using the inflated pants for support, then show how to reinflate the pants while using them for support.*
      4. 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.)
    6. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
    7. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
    8. Complete your board of review.

    Notes

    *This requirement may be waived by the troop committee for medical or safety reasons.


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    Star Requirements

    The list of Required merit badges for Eagle Scout, referenced in requirement 3 has been changed. Sports and Safety have been removed and Hiking and Cycling have been added.

    Requirement 5 has been changed to read

    5. While a First Class, serve actively for 4 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility:

    1. Boy Scout troop.
      • Patrol leader,
      • assistant senior patrol leader,
      • senior patrol leader,
      • troop guide,
      • den chief,
      • scribe,
      • librarian,
      • historian,
      • quartermaster,
      • junior assistant scoutmaster,
      • chaplain aide, or
      • instructor.
    2. Varsity Scout team.
      • Captain,
      • cocaptain,
      • program manager,
      • squad leader,
      • team secretary,
      • librarian,
      • quartermaster,
      • chaplain aide,
      • instructor, or
      • den chief.

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    Life Requirements

    The list of Required merit badges for Eagle Scout, referenced in requirement 3 has been changed. Sports and Safety have been removed and Hiking and Cycling have been added.

    Requirement 5 has been changed to read

    5. While a Star scout, serve actively for 6 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility:

    1. Boy Scout troop.
      • Patrol leader,
      • assistant senior patrol leader,
      • senior patrol leader,
      • troop guide,
      • den chief,
      • scribe,
      • librarian,
      • historian,
      • quartermaster,
      • junior assistant scoutmaster,
      • chaplain aide, or
      • instructor.
    2. Varsity Scout team.
      • Captain,
      • cocaptain,
      • program manager,
      • squad leader,
      • team secretary,
      • librarian,
      • quartermaster,
      • chaplain aide,
      • instructor, or
      • den chief.

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    Eagle Scout Requirements

    Boys who become Life Scouts before October 1, 1998, will have until April 1, 1999 to complete the old requirements. After January 1, 1999 these Scouts may use either the OLD or NEW requirements until April 1, 1999. (The Board of Review MAY take place after April 1st, if the requirements are completed by that date.)

    Boys who are NOT Life Scouts by October 1, 1998, must use the new requirements.

    After April 1, 1999, all Scouts must use the new requirements (below).

    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 the following:
      1. First Aid
      2. Citizenship in the Community
      3. Citizenship in the Nation
      4. Citizenship in the World
      5. Communications
      6. Personal Fitness
      7. Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving
      8. Environmental Science
      9. Personal Management
      10. Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling
      11. Camping, and
      12. 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 6 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility:
      1. Boy Scout troop.
        • Patrol leader,
        • assistant senior patrol leader,
        • senior patrol leader,
        • troop guide,
        • den chief,
        • scribe,
        • librarian,
        • historian,
        • quartermaster,
        • junior assistant scoutmaster,
        • chaplain aide, or
        • instructor.
      2. Varsity Scout team.
        • Captain,
        • cocaptain,
        • program manager,
        • squad leader,
        • team secretary,
        • librarian,
        • quartermaster,
        • chaplain aide,
        • instructor, or
        • den chief.
    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 idea must be approved by your Scoutmaster and troop committee and approved by the council or district before you start. You must use the Life to Eagle Packet, 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.

      NOTE: If you have a permanent physical or mental disability you may become an Eagle Scout by qualifying for as many required merit badges as you can and qualifying for alternate merit badges for the rest. If you seek to become and Eagle under this procedure, you must submit a special application to your council service center. Your application must be approved by your council committee on advancement BEFORE YOU CAN WORK ON ALTERNATIVE MERIT BADGES.

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