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Council

Decisions that belong to a council rather than to a unit or district.

Pages carrying this tag, from wherever they are filed.

• Advancement for Members With Special Needs

  Three levels of allowance, and one line between them: an accommodation changes how a Scout learns and is a unit decision; a modification changes what a Scout learns and only a council may approve it.

  Special Considerations Council Eagle Scout Merit Badges Process Rank Special Needs

• Technology-Based Tools in Advancement

  Videoconference boards of review, online merit badge classes, web-based counseling, virtual attendance and generative AI: what the Guide to Advancement permits, what it requires, and the three words it defines so that a tool cannot quietly redefine them.

  Special Considerations Boards of Review Council Merit Badge Counselors Merit Badges Process Technology

• The Summit Service Project and Rank Application

  Four focus areas rather than five tests, an approval that stops at the crew Advisor and one crew member, and a council that reviews the application but never the project. Then the time extension, and the route the Summit Rank Application takes from the crew to the National Service Center.

  Venturing Ranks Council Deadlines Rank Service Project Venturing

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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