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Eagle Scout Rank Application

Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project Workbook

LDS Eagle Scout Project Approval Form

Scout and Leader Transfer Form (National version)

 

Board of Review Training Manual

Here is a publication for planning Boards of Review in your Troop

 

Calling All Merit Badge Counselors

 

Current Merit Badge Counselors -- Please email a copy of your Youth Protection Training Certificate

to Karen Bredahl.  A current certificate needs to be kept on file for renewal on December 31.

 

Our Dean of Merit Badges is asking all of you who are planning to teach merit badges to fill out a new Adult Application to submit. Please send it to Karen Bredahl. PLEASE DELIVER THIS FORM TO KAREN BREDAHL; DO NOT SEND IT TO COUNCIL. Also you are asked to fill out this form regardless of your current registration as this information goes into a separate database. We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your help. If you choose to not do so, you are only hurting the boys whom you would like to help. Thank you.

 

The council Advancement Committee has reminded us that a single Merit Badge Counselor can only sign up for 8 merit badges.  This has been a policy for quite some time but needs to be re-stated every once in a while.

 

Advancement Form Resolutions

Now that we have recognized our Eagle Scouts we need to realize that they all arrived at that point because of proper use of Advancement Forms. From our Advancement Chairman comes the following issues: Common problems with advancement forms:

 

  • one line representing multiple boys (e.g. name field entered as "10 boys" - need one line per award).  Remember: One line--one boy 

 

  • multiple units represented on form (eg. Troop xxx, Team xxx, and Crew xxx entered on same form - each unit needs separate forms even if they have the same unit number, mostly applies to LDS units).

 

  • multiple rank advancements shown on same form with different dates (eg. one boy shows Tenderfoot as 9/21, another boy shows Life as 10/03 - all rank advancements on a form must show same date and agree with large box on right side of form, which should also agree with what is entered in boy's Scout book).  One date for each advancement form, no exceptions!

 

  • date from merit badge blue card differs from what shows on form Whatever date counselor signs on blue card should be entered verbatim on advancement form.

To make your advancement paperwork easier try using TroopMaster! See their website at www.troopmaster.com

 

Life to Eagle Seminar

New Location for Life to Eagle Seminar starting in April, download map & directions

The Eagle Advancement Seminar is held at the monthly Round Table meeting the third Thursday of each month. This seminar is designed for Life Scouts, parents and leaders that have questions about the Eagle Scout submission process. The seminar includes instructions on projects and packets. No pre-registration is necessary. Just show up.

Council and National no longer supply Eagle packets. So all Scouts attending the Life-to-Eagle Seminars are expected to print off their documentation ahead of time. Please make sure all Life Scouts print the following documents and bring with them:

 

 

o       Print Eagle Scout Leadership Project planning book http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/512-927.pdf

o       Print Eagle Scout Questionnaire http://www.gec-bsa.org/fs/page/000245/eagleprojecteval.pdf

o       Print Eagle Scout application book (http://www.gec-bsa.org/fs/page/000245/eagleappinstpkt.pdf)

o       Print Eagle Scout application (preferably on a single piece of paper in red, white and blue http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/512-728_web.pdf

 

 

Eagle Court of Honor Guestlist

Congratulations! Your scout has just passed his Eagle Board of Review and you are eagerly planning the ceremony. Be sure to invite the following people. While many of them may not attend, they will probably send some sort of commendation celebrating this high honor of Scouting.

  • Council President
  • Council Executive
  • Council Commissioner
  • Council Advancement Chairman
  • District Chairman
  • District Advancment Chairman
  • The people who administered your Eagle Board of Review
  • The beneficiaries of your Eagle Service Project
  • Members of your Troop Committee
  • Your Scoutmaster and Assistants
  • Members of your brother Pack
  • Members of your church or religious institution
  • Family members and friends
  • School District Board of Trustees
  • City Council members
  • County Supervisor
  • State Senator
  • State Assemblyman
  • US Representative
  • US Senator
  • President of the United States 

 

An important part of advancement for our youth is the earning of certain merit badges. This could not happen without the help of registered merit badge counselors. Please print and fill out this form and send to our District Dean of Merit Badges.

 

Eagle Countdown

How many people help an Eagle Scout attain that rank? Twelve? Fifteen? Get a pencil and paper and be ready for a surprise! Let's start with 2 parents . . . 21 merit badge counselors . . . 5 boards of review. . . schoolteachers. . .4 camporees. The list should be about 60 people already. How about camp staffs…Scoutmaster and staff…Explorer Advisor… senior patrol leader and assistants…post officers…the institutional representative …troop committee…mothers' auxiliary…district commissioners and public and school librarians. If your counting has been correct, you should have at least 100 people. Each has done his part in preparing Scouts for the Eagle rank. If just 1 had not taken the time or the effort, the entire chain might have been broken. Eagle Scouts can wear their badges proudly and be thankful that so many people really care.