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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.
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- Submit a completed Boy Scout application and health history signed by
- your parent or guardian.
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- Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance.
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- Demonstrate the Scout sign, salute, and handclasp.
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- Demonstrate tying the square knot (joining knot).
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- Understand and agree to live by the Scout Oath or promise, Law, motto
- and slogan, and the Outdoor Code.
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- Describe the Scout badge.
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- With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet
- "How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse and Drug Abuse."
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
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- Demonstrate tying two half hitches and a tautline hitch by using
- these knots to pitch a tent.
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- 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.
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- Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the American flag.
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- Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath, Law,
- motto, and slogan.
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- Know your patrol name, give your patrol yell, and describe your
- patrol flag.
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- Explain why we use the buddy system in Scouting.
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- Record your best in the following tests:
- Pushups____ Pullups____ Situps____
- Standing long jump ____ ft. ____ in.
- Run/walk 500 years ____
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- Show improvement in the activities listed above after practicing for
- 30 days.
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- Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to
- them.
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- Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.
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- 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
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- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
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- Board of review completed.
- eor
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- Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain
- what map symbols mean.
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- 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.
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- Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol (other
- than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight.
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- On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of
- knife, saw, and ax.
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- Use the tools listed above to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for
- a cooking fire.
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- Light the cooking fire. Assist with the meal preparation and
- cleanup.
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- On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent
- that you pitched.
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- Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious
- institution, chartered organization, community, or troop activity.
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- Participate in an approved (minimum of 1 hour) service project.
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- Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of wild animals
- (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community.
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- Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious
- bleeding, and internal poisoning.
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- Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike.
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- 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
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- Show Scout spirit.
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- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
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- Board of review completed.
- eor
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- Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night
- without using a compass.
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- 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.).
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- Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol
- activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which
- included camping overnight.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants found
- in your community.
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- 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.
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- Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
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- Demonstrate tying the bowline (rescue) know and how it's used in
- rescues.
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- Demonstrate bandages for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and
- collarbone, and for a sprained ankle.
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- 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
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- Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain the steps
- (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
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- 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).
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- Show Scout spirit.
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- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
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- 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.
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- Show Scout spirit.
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- Earn six merit badges including any four from the required list for
- Eagle.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
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- Board of Review.
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- Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as a Star
- Scout.
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- Show Scout spirit.
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- Earn five more merit badges (so that you have 11 in all) including
- any three from the required list for Eagle.
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- While a Star Scout, take part in service projects totalling at least
- 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your
- Scoutmaster.
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- 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.
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- Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
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- Board of Review.
- eor
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- Be active in your troop or patrol for at least 6 months as a Life
- Scout.
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- Show Scout spirit.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
- eor