Advancement

RANK ADVANCEMENT:

Please click below to see the latest Scouts BSA requirements for each rank:

• Rank Advancement and Awards (webpage!)
  • Scout 
  • Tenderfoot 
  • Second Class
  • First Class 
  • Star 
  • Life 
• Eagle Rank
  • Eagle Leadership Service Project Workbook  (right click and save to download the file)
  • Eagle Rank National Application
  • Eagle Palms

To request a Board of Review when you have completed your rank requirements, contact the Advancement Coordinator.

Guide to Advancement (FULL Text):

• GUIDE TO ADVANCEMENT 2021

MERIT BADGES:

• Scouts MUST get a blue merit badge card from the Advancement Coordinator BEFORE contacting their counselor. 
• To find a merit badge counselor, review our Troop 281 Merit Badge Counselor List, or, contact the Advancement Coordinator.
• MERIT BADGE REQUIREMENTS.
• When you have completed the requirements, give the two remaining parts of the blue card to the Advancement Coordinator.

ADDITIONAL SCOUT AWARDS:

Here are a number of additional Scout Awards that can be earned.  Please check out all of them in the Boy Scout column.