Eagle Scout Resource Page
So your interested in being an Eagle Scout huh? Well, first thing is first.
- You do not need to complete all of the required or secondary merit badges first.
- As soon as you are a Life Scout you can work on ALL of your Eagle Requirements including your service project.
- You can start formulating your idea at any time during your Scouting Career for an Eagle Service Project.
- You will likely have many discussions with people who will tell you their opinion is. Understand, this is YOUR project and your award, not theirs – you are the one who is solely responsible for the planning, work, fundraising, execution from soup to nuts.
Where do you start?
You do not need to ask permission to start on your project. Your permission was automatically granted as soon as you became a LIfe Scout.
Requirement #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 must benefit an organization other than the Boy Scouts of America.) A project proposal must be approved by the organization benefiting from the effort, your Scoutmaster and unit committee, and the council or district before you start. You must use the Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook, BSA publication No. 512-927, in meeting this requirement.
We start with the first thing you should start with of course! Getting your Eagle Service Project Workbook.
Step 1: Download AND Save the Eagle Service Project Workbook to Your Local Computer. If you open it in a browser, once you close the browser – you lose everything – and have to do it all over again. Get the Eagle Service Project Workbook Here. This workbook is updated regularly.
Step 2: Read the Troop Life to Eagle Manual, which is located below. If you follow that book from first to last page, it will keep you on the appropriate track. It will tell you what to expect, and it will walk you through the project workbook
Step 3: You do NOT need to fill out the Eagle Scout Rank Application! Do not download it. That is completely handled through Scoutbook.
4. Once this is completed, then your advisor will guide you through the rest of the process. To get to your first of two board of reviews.
- First BOR: To Approve Your Eagle Project
- Second BOR: To Review your Scouting Career, Project, etc. This is known as your final.
