Service Project

Eagle Scout Rank

Seven requirements, three of them six months long, one of them needing four separate approvals before any work starts, and a deadline that does not move.

Scouts BSA Ranks Deadlines Eagle Scout Merit Badges Rank Service Project

Star Rank

Eight requirements, five of which only count from the day First Class was approved, and two four-month clocks that run concurrently rather than one after the other.

Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Merit Badges Rank Requirements Service Project

Eight requirements, two six-month clocks that run side by side rather than end to end, three hours of service that have to be conservation-related, and the only other place in the whole rank ladder that asks a Scout to teach.

Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Conservation Merit Badges Rank Requirements Service Project Teaching

Reading Merit Badge

Seven requirements. Requirement 1 is a library tour and catalog search, 2 is finding books, and the long part is reading: four books of different types in 3, each with a review, a film comparison or a book talk; a how-to book and a project from it in 4; two sources about the world in 5. Requirement 6 is at least four hours of service, one of five kinds. Requirements 4 and 6 need counselor and parent or guardian permission first.

Elective Merit Badges Communication Merit Badges Requirements Service Project

Health Care Professions Merit Badge

Nine requirements. Requirements 1 to 4 are four groups of professions: from each, select three that interest you and describe their roles and their educational and licensing requirements. Requirement 5 is visiting one professional at their workplace. Then the Physician's Oath, confidentiality and HIPAA, a recent medical advancement, and volunteering at a health-related event or facility, with your parent or guardian's and counselor's approval.

Elective Merit Badges Health Merit Badges Requirements Service Project

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

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

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