Eagle Scout Requirements
- 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:
- First Aid
- Citizenship in the Community
- Citizenship in the Nation
- Citizenship in the World
- Communications
- Personal Fitness
- Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving
- Environmental Science
- Personal Management
- Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling
- Camping, and
- Family Life
- 4. While a Life Scout, serve actively for a period of 6 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,
- OA troop representative,
- den chief,
- scribe,
- librarian,
- historian,
- quartermaster,
- junior assistant Scoutmaster,
- chaplain aide, or
- instructor
Varsity Scout team.
- Captain,
- cocaptain,
- program manager,
- squad leader,
- team secretary,
- OA team representative,
- librarian,
- historian,
- quartermaster,
- chaplain aide,
- instructor, or
- den chief.
Venture crew/ship.
- president,
- vice president,
- secretary,
- treasurer,
- boatswain,
- boatswain's mate,
- yeoman,
- purser, or
- storekeeper
- 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 the organization benefitting
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. 18-927A, in
meeting this requirement.
- 6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
- 7. Successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review.