Advancement

Everything in Advancement

• Second Class Rank

  Twelve requirements, two of which are months long: five separate activities with two nights of camping, and four weeks of daily activity that cannot start until Tenderfoot requirement 6c is done.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Outdoors Rank Requirements

• First Class Rank

  Thirteen requirements, including a five-part cooking project that must all happen on one planned campout, a rubbish-reduction requirement needing two outings, and the last four weeks of a fitness chain that began at Tenderfoot.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Outdoors Rank Requirements

• Sea Scout Boards of Review

  The board of review for Apprentice, Ordinary, Able and Quartermaster: who sits on it, who chairs it, what is discussed, and what happens after, including the four places where "very similar to Scouts BSA" stops being true.

  Sea Scout Ranks and Awards Appeals Boards of Review Process Rank Sea Scouts

• Sea Scout Ranks and Awards

  Apprentice, Ordinary, Able and Quartermaster, with the Skipper conference before each board of review, the Quartermaster service project and its four approvals, the bars and badges alongside the ranks, and the bridge of honour where all of it is presented.

  Sea Scout Ranks and Awards Deadlines Rank Registration Sea Scouts Service Project

• Registering Beyond the Age of Eligibility

  A permanent arrangement that lets a chronological adult take part as a youth member. Not a time extension, and not a council advancement committee decision.

  Special Considerations Council Eagle Scout Process Registration Special Needs

• Posthumous Awards and the Spirit of the Eagle Award

  What may be recognised after a registered youth member dies: a rank or award they had already earned, an honorary award that depends on no advancement at all, or both.

  Special Considerations Boards of Review Council Eagle Scout Process Rank

• How to Earn a Merit Badge

  Four signatures, two of them before you start. The order matters more than most people are told, and the step that is skipped most often is the first one.

  Merit Badges Blue Card Merit Badge Counselors Merit Badges Process

• Merit Badge Miscellany

  The requirements changed halfway through. The badge was discontinued. A Scout came back from camp with an implausible number of them. May a council charge for a merit badge fair? Is Swimming really a prerequisite for Scuba Diving? Section 7.0.4 of the Guide, drawn one question at a time.

  Merit Badges Appeals Council Merit Badge Counselors Merit Badges Process

• Judging the Requirements That Are Hardest to Judge

  Active participation, Scout spirit, service projects, positions of responsibility and the unit leader conference. The rank requirements that cannot be checked by watching, and the tests the Guide to Advancement gives for each.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review For Adults Process Rank

• Time Extension Past the 18th Birthday

  Only for Life Scouts, only for Eagle, only where something outside the Scout's control made it impossible. Three tests, four weeks, six months.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Appeals Deadlines Eagle Scout Process Rank

• The Eagle Scout Service Project

  Requirement 5 is one sentence of the Eagle Scout rank and seventeen topics of the Guide. Who approves what, in which order, before any work may begin; what a project may not be; what a candidate has the right to expect from the people reviewing it; and the four things the Guide names as misconceptions.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Council Eagle Scout Process Rank Service Project

• Lone Scout Advancement

  No den, no troop, and a registered adult called a friend and counselor. Responsible flexibility, with limits the Guide is careful to state.

  Special Considerations Eagle Scout Lone Scouts Process Rank Registration

• Boards of Review

  A conversation, not an examination. It cannot be refused, it cannot be used to retest, and the date it happens is the date the rank was earned.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Appeals Boards of Review Eagle Scout Process Rank

• Advancement in a Cub Scout Pack

  Preparation, qualification and recognition: how a den leader and a pack committee move a Cub Scout through a rank, who may approve what, and why the rank badge cannot be bought until the advancement has been reported.

  Cub Scout Ranks Cub Scouts For Adults Process Rank

• Advancement in Camp Settings

  Eleven things a council decides, and one it does not: nobody at camp may add to or subtract from a requirement.

  Special Considerations Camp For Councils Merit Badge Counselors Merit Badges Process

• Advancement Already Earned Elsewhere

  What carries over when a Scout arrives with advancement they did not earn in your unit, after time away from Scouting America, or from a Scouting association in another country.

  Special Considerations Council Merit Badges Process Rank Registration