7 Tips to Earn Eagle Rank Faster in Scouts BSA

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lin. On my honor, I will do my best, a Scout is trustworthy, loyal and helpful. Hello Scouts, welcome to the channel. Alright, this episode is about the manual. The Scout Handbook - Boy Scout Handbook - Girl Scout Handbook, actually Scouts BSA, but you know what I'm talking about. Woman and man, it's okay, there is absolutely no difference. The requirements are the same, the only difference will be the pictures and when I first saw this in the Scout store I thought it would be a lot of money to spend on making a whole new Scout Handbook, but after looking into it, eh.

It does say that if you see people who look like you, it gives you a boost. You point out that "hey, if they can do it, I can do it," so there's a purpose to it. I think it's amazing! You know, you read the Girl Scout Handbook, the girls' handbook, and you see that they're holding bows and arrows, they're kayaking, they're swimming, they're doing everything, they're climbing. everything the boys can do. Hurrah! Well, let's get to the specific languages ​​used that you should pay attention to. All these Scouters need to know that, first of all, "you can do no more and no less" than what is asked of you in this book.

If it says demonstrate, you will have to demonstrate, if it says discuss and that means talk about it. The nice thing about exploration and how it's organized is that you don't have to do everything linearly. Just like you don't have to meet all the requirements in Scout first and the Scout

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, you don't have to meet all the requirements next in Tenderfoot and get the Tenderfoot rank. You can meet all requirements at any time. The only thing you have to do to get the rank. So, that means that if you've already finished everything in Second Class but don't have your Tenderfoot yet, you can't get your Second Class rank.

So, you can fulfill the requirements whenever you want,   that's fine, but you have to get those ranks in order. Here are some

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that will help you get through all of this and, believe it or not, it could take you seven years. We've seen Scouts make it all the way to their 18th birthday, but you don't have to. "Within 30 days, you'll do this again and we'll take your baseline values ​​again and we should see some level of improvement." First, when you come in, do the Tenderfoot physical exercise: "We'll help him on his last lap." Remember I said you can meet any requirement at any time, so start with that always takes time we've had a scout for three years, he's already done everything else, but that.

So focus on doing it first. Then you also have other fitness requirements in the following ranks, so make sure you meet them one after another. You can't combine them, but you can do them consecutively. Alright, next is to start your Camping Merit Badge. You can start with that since you meet the Scouts (rank). As soon as you start, if you're going camping, go with someone. This is how you

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Merit Badges. You must also first obtain approval from your Scoutmaster. He will give you a blue card or make a note, he will help you find a Merit Badge counselor and now there are Merit Badge counselors who can do that on Zoom.

So, there is no excuse. Especially if you have a midterm and midterms just mean you haven't completed it yet. You have the card or you have proof that you have made parts of it, you have to finish it. So you have to find and make sure you have a counselor who can approve it. And by the way, there are 14 Eagle-required Merit Badges that you must take, the others are optional. You have 21 total to obtain your Eagle rank. The third tip. Bring your book to camps and meetings, and a great tip for camps is to make sure it's in a Ziploc bag because you never know when it's going to rain... (laughs) Well, we've seen some of these books, here There is another tip.

Make sure, well, I would recommend purchasing a cover, but make sure to take a photo once you've gotten a ranking. Put it on your phone, put it on your hard drive, whatever, take a photo. Now everyone is starting to use the Scout Book, which is fantastic, but I've also heard that when they make their updates they are losing some requirements. So make sure you at least print it. "Camping Merit Badge, Citizenship in Society Merit Badge, World Citizen, Metal Working, Shotgun Shooting, Wilderness Survival, Cooking and Family Life." Just make sure there is another way to prove that you have met all your requirements and ranks.

Alright, to me a Scout is trustworthy, but when it comes to the Eagle Board, you have to have everything in order. They want to make sure the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed. Alright, so you have um, I've lost count, but maybe we're at five. Make sure you go to as many camps as you can, but summer camps are really huge. In summer camp, make sure, especially if you are just starting out, that you go and do the program with first-class emphasis. They're all, they're called all kinds of things, like "Ranger Program" we were on last summer.

This is for anyone who is not already First Class and will greatly stimulate Scouts. They do a lot in a week, and you need to do it; When they return, you need to make sure they understand all the requirements that you knew; Just review it with them and make sure they have absorbed some of it. The good thing about exploring is that everything is repetitive: "Clean up my outdoor spaces and be conservation conscious. Two." That's the only way you're going to learn. "You remember that part!" So everything from the Scout Law, the Scout Oath, the Outdoor Code, everything that is said in meetings, and you say it, you say it, you say it.

They will understand it, they will learn it and then they will understand it too, it just becomes natural. Six, I said the cover of a book is very important, these books fall apart. "Oh! Now everything's out of order. Wait, I shouldn't have ripped them off, Second Class, Tenderfoot, I didn't do it on purpose, so that goes there, that goes there, Tenderfoot, then that goes there, then you fold it, that It goes there. It's just that, look, I've used it a lot!" So if you can, make sure you have some kind of protective cover for it. Then the last one is, when you're in a court of honor, which is where everyone gets all their awards, they're recognized for everything they've done within their...

I don't know how often you have a Court of Honor. Honor. But some do it every four months, others will do it every six months. There is a trick where if you have the rank card you get the baseball card holders. Those transparent sheets that you can buy and that come out of notebooks. So those are the tips. I probably counted wrong. So that's the Primer and remember to take your book with you wherever you go. We are going to explore