Requirements for Eagle Scout
- Must attain Life rank
- Earn 21 Merit Badges, with 13 specifically being required (listed below)
- Complete an Eagle Scout Service Project
- Eagle Scout Board of Review
- Must Complete All Requirements before Reaching the Age of 18
List of Eagle-Required Merit Badges
- Camping
- Citizenship in the Community
- Citizenship in the Nation
- Citizenship in the World
- Communications
- Cooking
- Emergency Preparedness or Lifesaving
- Environmental Science or Sustainability
- Family Life
- First Aid
- Personal Fitness
- Personal Management
- Swimming, Hiking, or Cycling
Eagle Service Project
The Eagle Scout service project is perhaps the most well known aspect of the requirements for eagle. The scout is tasked with completely planning, overseeing, and executing a community service project aimed at proving the scouts leadership potential and giving back to the community at large. While, the scope of this project does not have to be grand, the scout is not allowed to base a project around raising money, nor base it around solely benefiting the scouting; the project must seek to beneficially impact the lives of a community (including religious institutions and schools). Some examples of projects conducted in the past have included: interviewing veterans to immortalize their life stories, documenting the habitats and creating roosting posts for endangered osprey, refurbishing, re-marking the graves of a decrepit 17th century graveyard, and restoring bicycles, then giving them to disadvantaged children and teaching them how to ride them. The project must be approved by the district counsel and typically recruits the help of scouts from the troop on a volunteering basis.
List of Merit Badges offered by Troop 3
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