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Complete the fifth grade, or be 11 years old, or have earned the
Arrow of Light Award, but be younger than 18 years old.
Submit a completed Boy Scout application and health history signed by
your parent or guardian.
Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance.
Demonstrate the Scout sign, salute, and handclasp.
Demonstrate tying the square knot (joining knot).
Understand and agree to live by the Scout Oath or promise, Law, motto
and 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.
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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.
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.
Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
Demonstrate tying two half hitches and a tautline hitch by using
these knots to pitch a tent.
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.
Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the American flag.
Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath, Law,
motto, and slogan.
Know your patrol name, give your patrol yell, and describe your
patrol flag.
Explain why we use the buddy system in Scouting.
Record your best in the following tests:
Pushups____ Pullups____ Situps____
Standing long jump ____ ft. ____ in.
Run/walk 500 years ____
Show improvement in the activities listed above after practicing for
30 days.
Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to
them.
Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.
Show first aid for the following:
* Simple cuts and scratches
* Blisters on the hand and foot
* Minor burns or scalds (first degree)
* Bites or stings of insects and ticks
* Poisonous snakebite
* Nosebleed
Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
Board of review completed.
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Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain
what map symbols mean.
Using a compass and a map you've drawn, take a 5-mile hike (or 10
miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or
guardian.
Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol (other
than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight.
On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of
knife, saw, and ax.
Use the tools listed above to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for
a cooking fire.
Light the cooking fire. Assist with the meal preparation and
cleanup.
On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent
that you pitched.
Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious
institution, chartered organization, community, or troop activity.
Participate in an approved (minimum of 1 hour) service project.
Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of wild animals
(birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community.
Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious
bleeding, and internal poisoning.
Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike.
Demonstrate first aid for the following:
* Object in eye
* Bite of a suspected rabid animal
* Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fish hook
* Serious burns (second degree)
* Heat Exhaustion
* Shock
Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim. Demonstrate
your ability to swim 50 yards using two different strokes (this
requirement may be waived by the troop committee for medical or
safety reasons).
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.
Show Scout spirit.
Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
Board of review completed.
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Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night
without using a compass.
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.).
Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol
activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which
included camping overnight.
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.
Visit and discuss 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.
Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants found
in your community.
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.
Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
Demonstrate tying the bowline (rescue) know and how it's used in
rescues.
Demonstrate bandages for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and
collarbone, and for a sprained ankle.
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
Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain the steps
(procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Demonstrate your ability to swim 100 yards using one resting stroke
and two other strokes, and to float (rest) as motionless as possible
for 1 minute. (This requirement may be waived by the troop committee
for medical or safety reasons).
Show Scout spirit.
Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
Board of review completed.
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Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 4 months as a First
Class Scout.
Show Scout spirit.
Earn six merit badges including any four from the required list for
Eagle.
While a First Class Scout, take part in service projects totalling at
least 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your
Scoutmaster.
While a First Class Scout, serve actively 4 months in one or more of
the following positions of responsibility (or carry out a
Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop): patrol
leader, senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, den
chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, chaplain
aide, instructor, junior assistant Scoutmaster, or troop guide.
Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
Board of Review.
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Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as a Star
Scout.
Show Scout spirit.
Earn five more merit badges (so that you have 11 in all) including
any three from the required list for Eagle.
While a Star Scout, take part in service projects totalling at least
6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your
Scoutmaster.
While a Star Scout, serve actively 6 months in one or more of the
following positions of responsibility (or carry out a Scoutmaster-
assigned leadership project to help the troop): patrol leader, senior
patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, den chief, scribe,
librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, chaplain aide,
instructor, junior assistant Scoutmaster, or troop guide.
Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
Board of Review.
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Be active in your troop or patrol for at least 6 months as a Life
Scout.
Show Scout spirit.
Earn a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than you already have),
including the following: (a) First Aid, (b) Citizenship in the
Community, (c) Citizenship in the Nation, (d) Citizenship in the
World, (e) Communications, (f) Safety, (g) Emergency Preparedness OR
Lifesaving, (h) Environmental Science, (i) Personal Management,
(j) Personal Fitness OR Swimming OR Sports, and (k) Camping.
While a Life Scout, serve actively 6 months in one or more of the
following positions of responsibility: assistant senior patrol
leader, chaplain aide, den chief, instructor, junior assistant
Scoutmaster, librarian, patrol leader, quartermaster, scribe, senior
patrol leader or troop guide.
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.
Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
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