BSA RANK ADVANCEMENT REQUIREMENT

• Meet age requirements. Be a boy who is 11 years old, or has completed the fifth grade or earned the Arrow of Light Award and is at least 10 years old, but is not yet 18 years old.
• Complete a Boy Scout application and health history signed by your parent or guardian.
• Find a Scout troop near your home.
• Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance.
• Demonstrate the Scout sign, salute, and handshake.
• Demonstrate tying the square knot (a 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.
• Complete the pamphlet exercises. With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet "How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse: A Parent's Guide."
• Participate in a Scoutmaster conference. Turn in your Boy Scout application and health history form signed by your parent or guardian, then participate in a Scoutmaster conference.

1.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.

2. Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop campout. Sleep in a tent 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.

4a. Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.

4b. Demonstrate you know how to tie the following knots and tell what their uses are: two half hitches and the taut line hitch.

4c. Using the EDGE method teach another person how to tie the square knot.

5. 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.

6. Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the American flag.

7. Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath, Law, motto and slogan.

8. Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe your patrol flag.

9. Explain the importance of the buddy system as it relates to your personal safety on outings and in your neighbor hood. Describe what a bully is, and how you should respond to one.

10a. Record your best in the following tests:
        Push-ups
        Pull-ups
        Sit-ups
        Standing long jump (feet and inches)
        Quarter-mile walk/run

10b. Show improvement in the activities listed in requirement 10a after practicing for 30 days.

11. Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.

12a. Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.

12b. 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
        Frostbite and sunburn

13. Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
      Discuss four specific examples of how you have lived the points of the Scout Law in your daily life.

14. Complete your board of review.

1a. Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean.

1b. Using a compass and a map together, take a 5-mile hike (or 10 miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.*

2. Discuss the principles of "Leave No Trace"

3a. Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight.

3b. On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you pitched. Explain what factors you should consider when choosing a patrol site and where to pitch a tent.

3c. On one campout, demonstrate Demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used.

3d. Use the tools listed in requirement 2c 3c to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire.

3e. Discuss when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire and a lightweight stove. Discuss the safety procedures for using both.

3f. In an approved place and at an approved time, demonstrate Demonstrate how to light build a fire and set up a lightweight stove. Note: Lighting the fire is not required.

3g. On one campout, plan and cook over an open fire one hot breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the food pyramid. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected.

4. Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious institution, chartered organization, community, or troop activity. Explain to your leader what respect is due the flag of the United States.

5. Participate in an approved (minimum of one hour)service project.

6. Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community.

7a. Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and ingested poisoning.

7b. Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike.

7c. 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 (partial thickness, or second degree)
      Heat exhaustion
      Shock
      Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation

8a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim.

8b. 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.

8c. 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.

9a. 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, and explain the dangers of substance addictions.

9b. Explain the three R's of personal safety and protection.

10. Earn an amount of money agreed upon by you and your parent, then save at least 50 percent of that money.

11. Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. Discuss four specific examples (different from those used for Tenderfoot requirement 13) of how you have lived the points of the Scout Law in your daily life.

12. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.

13. Complete your board of review.

1. Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night without using a compass.

2. Using a map and 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. Demonstrate the principles of Leave No Trace on these outings.

4a. Help plan a patrol menu for one campout that includes at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner and that requires cooking at least two of the meals. Tell how the menu includes the foods from the food pyramid and meets nutritional needs.

4b. 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.

4c. Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.

4d. Explain the procedures to follow in the safe handling and storage of the 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.

4e. On one campout, serve as your patrol's cook. Supervise your assistant's use of 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.

5. 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.

6. Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community.

7a. Discuss when you should and should not use lashings. Then 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.

7b. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.

8a. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used.

8b. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.

8c. Show how to transport by yourself, and with one other person, a person from a smoke-filled room with a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards

8d. Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

9a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.

9b. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.

9c. Demonstrate survival skills by leaping into deep water wearing clothes (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.

9d. 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 short in deep water.)

10. Tell someone who is eligible to join Boy Scouts, or an inactive Boy Scout, about your troop's activities. Invite him to a troop outing, activity, service project or meeting. Tell him how to join, or encourage the inactive Boy Scout to become active.

11. Describe the three things you should avoid doing related to use of the Internet. Describe a cyberbully and how you should respond to one.

12. Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. Discuss four specific examples (different from those used for Tenderfoot requirement 13 and Second Class requirement 11) of how you have lived the points of the Scout Law in your daily life.

13. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.

14. Complete your board of review.

1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 4 months as a First Class Scout.

2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.

3. Earn 6 merit badges, including any 4 from the required list for Eagle.

4. 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.

5. While a First Class Scout, serve actively for 4 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility (or carry out a Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop):

Boy Scout troop. Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, Venture patrol leader troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, instructor, troop Webmaster, or Leave No Trace trainer.

Varsity Scout team. Captain, co-captain, program manager, squad leader, team secretary, Order of the Arrow team representative, librarian, historian, quartermaster, chaplain aide, instructor, den chief, team Webmaster, or Leave No Trace trainer.

Venturing crew / Sea Scout ship. President, vice president, secretary, treasurer, den chief, quartermaster, historian, guide, boatswain, boatswain's mate, yeoman, purser, storekeeper, crew/ship Webmaster, or Leave No Trace trainer.

6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.

7. Complete your board of review.

1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as a Star Scout.

2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.

3. Earn 5 more merit badges (so that you have 11 in all), including any 3 more from the required list for Eagle.

4. While a Star Scout, take part in service projects totaling at least 6 hours of work. These  projects must be approved by your Scoutmaster.

5. While a Star Scout, serve actively for 6 months in one or more of the positions of responsibility listed in requirement 5 for Star Scout (or carry out a Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop).

6. While a Star Scout, use the EDGE method to teach a younger Scout the skills from ONE of the following six choices, so that he is prepared to pass those requirements to his unit leader's satisfaction.
    a. Second Class - 7a and 7c (first aid)
    b. Second Class - 1a (outdoor skills)
    c. Second Class - 3c, 3d, 3e, and 3f (cooking/camping)
    d. First Class - 8a, 8b, 8c, and 8d (first aid)
    e. First Class - 1, 7a, and 7c (outdoor skills)
    f. First Class - 4a, 4b, and 4d (cooking/camping)

7. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.

8. Complete your board of review.

1. Be active in your troop, team, crew, or ship and patrol for a period of at least 6 months as a after you have achieved the rank of Life Scout.

2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living that you live by the principles of the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday daily life. List the names of individuals who know you personally and would be willing to provide a recommendation on your behalf, including parents/guardians, religious, educational, and employer references.

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
    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, Venture patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, instructor, Webmaster, or Leave No Trace trainer	Varsity Scout team. Captain, cocaptain, program manager, squad leader, team secretary, Order of the Arrow team representative, librarian, historian quartermaster, chaplain aide, instructor, or den chief. Webmaster, or Leave No Trace trainer	Venturing crew / Sea Scout ship. President, vice president, secretary, treasurer, quartermaster historian den chief, guide boatswain, boatswain's mate, yeoman, purser, storekeeper Webmaster, or Leave No Trace trainer

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 plan 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 Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project Workbook, No. 512-927, in meeting this requirement.

6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.

7. Successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review.

1. Be active in your troop, team, crew, or ship and patrol for a period of at least 6 months as a after you have achieved the rank of Life Scout.

The following requirements apply to boys, including Sea Scouts, registered in the Venturing Program.

• Any male Venturer who has achieved the First Class rank as a Boy Scout in a troop or Varsity Scout in a team may continue advancement toward Star, Life and Eagle Scout ranks and Eagle Palms up to his 18th birthday.
• He must meet the requirements as prescribed in the official Boy Scout Handbook and the current Boy Scout Requirements book.
• The Venturer may fulfill leadership requirements by serving as president, vice president, secretary, or treasurer of his crew, or as boatswain, boatswain's mate, yeoman, purser, or storekeeper for his ship.
• The Scoutmaster conference will be conducted by the Advisor or Skipper.
• As the Venturer meets requirements for the Star and Life ranks or Eagle Palms, a board of review will be conducted by the crew or ship committee.
• The Eagle board of review should follow the procedures established by the local council.

Explorers

Explorers (participants in the Exploring program of the Learning for Life Corporation) are ineligible for Boy Scout advancement unless they are also registered as members of a Boy Scout Troop, a Varsity Scout Team, a Venturing Crew, and/or a Sea Scout Ship.