How to Earn the Rank of Eagle

Pages 180-181, 446-447 of the Boy Scout Handbook

• Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as Life Scout
  
  
• Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
  
  
• Earn 10 more merit badges (so that you have 21 in all), 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
    
• While a Life Scout, serve actively 6 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility:
  
  in a Boy Scout troop
  
  • Senior Patrol Leader
  • Assistant Senior Patrol Leader
  • Troop Guide
  • Den Chief
  • Scribe
  • Librarian
  • Historian
  • Quartermaster
  • Bugler
  • Junior Assistant Scoutmaster
  • Chaplain Aide
  • Instructor

  or in a Varsity Scout team

  • Captain
  • Cocaptain
  • Program manager
  • Squad leader
  • Team secretary
  • Librarian
  • Historian
  • Quartermaster
  • Chaplain Aide
  • Instructor
  • Den Chief
    
• 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 benefiting from the effort, your Scoutmaster and troop committee, and the council or district before you start. You must use the Life to Eagle packet, BSA publication No.18-927, in meeting this requirement.
  
  
• Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
• Complete the board of review.