Scout Ranks!

This is a quick reference guide to your scouting requirements, please use your Scout Handbook to find greater detail and greater assistance with your rank advancements

All of the ranks require you to Demonstrate the "Scout Spirit by living the Scout Oath and the Scout Law in your Everyday Life" as well as Complete a Board of Review, and Participate in a Scout Master Conference. You can find more detailed information on Rank Requirements here at US Scouts.org.

Tenderfoot Scout

• Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on an overnight camping trip. Show the camping gear you will use. Show the right way to pack and carry it.
• Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop campout. Sleep in a tent you have helped pitch.
• On the campout, assist in preparing and cooking one of your patrol's meals. Tell why it is important for each patrol member to share in meal preparation and cleanup, and explain the importance of eating together.
• Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope and demonstrate you know how to tie the following knots and tell what their uses are: two half hitches and the taut-line hitch.
• Explain the rules of safe-hiking on the highway and cross-country, during day and night.
• Show how to display, raise, and lower the American Flag.
• Repeat from Memory the Scout Oath, Scout Law, Scout Motto, and Slogan
• Know why we use the Buddy System in Scouting
• Perform several physical tests and show improvement in them after practicing them for 30 days.
• Identify Local Poisonous plants; tell how to treat any spot that has been exposed to them.
• Show first Aid for several simple situations including the Heimlich Maneuver.

Second Class Scout

• Perform simple orientation skills with a compass.
• Since joining scouts you must have participated in five seperate troop activites (not including troop meetings).
• Pitch a tent on a campout
• Plan, prepare, and cook a meal for yourself as well as explain much about cooking (Safety, Cleaning, Cooking over an open fire, Nutrition, etc.)
• Participate in a Flag Ceremony
• Work on a Service project for at least one hour
• Identify/Show evidence of ten different wildlife in your community
• Prepare a first Aid Kit as well as discuss what to to do for many First Aid Situations
• Do many swimming requirements (which can be completed by doing the Eagle required badges Swimming and Lifesaving).
• Participate in a school/community/troop program in the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and other practives that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation in the program with your family. The D.A.R.E. program is an example of such a program.

First Class Scout

• Demonstrate that you know how to find directions during the day and night without a compass.
• Complete an orienteering course.
• Since joining scouts you must have participate in at least ten seperate troop activites (not including troop meetings). Can be completed by doign the Orienteering Merit Badge
• Show you know how to prepare, cook, and dispose of food during a campout Can be completed by doing the cooking Merit Badge
• Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant, principal, teacher) your constitutional rights and obligations as a U.S. Citizen.
• Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your neighborhood.
• Discuss when you should and should not use lashings.
• Demonstarte tying the Timber Hitch and Clove hitch and their use in Square, Shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more poles or staves togehter.
• Use lashings to make a camp gadget Such as a Tripod, or Gate
• Perform several emergency carries as well as demonstrate how to bandage a sprained ankle, a head wound and injury to the upper arm and collarbone.
• Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain the steps of CPR.
• Demonstrate many swimming challenges Can be accomplished by completing the Swimming and Lifesaving Merit Badges

Star Scout

• Be active in your troop for at least four months as a First Class Scout.
• Earn six merit badges; four of them being Eagle Required Merit Badges
• Take part in at least six hours of service projects. The projects must be approved by your Scoutmaster
• Serve in a position of responsibility for four months as a First Class Scout

Life Scout

• Be active in your troop for at least six months as a Star Scout.
• Earn five more merit badges; three of them being Eagle Required Merit Badges
• Take part in at least six hours of service projects. The projects must be approved by your Scoutmaster
• Serve in a position of responsibility for six months as a Star Scout

Eagle Scout

• You must earn 21 merit badges, 12 being Eagle Required and the remaining nine can be of your choice.
• Be active as a Life Scout for six months
• Serve in a position of responsibility for six months as a Life Scout.
• Plan and develop an Eagle Project, talk to your Scoutmaster for more information on how to go about doing this.