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EAGLE
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
1)
After
you have completed the first five requirements for Eagle Rank in the Boy Scout
Handbook, you may begin working on your Eagle Scout Rank Application. You can
print the application by clicking here..
Ask the Troop Advancement Record Keeper to print you out a troop report called
“Individual History Report”. This will
give you all the dates that you will need to fill out the application. If your “Individual History Report” is
missing any requirements, bring your red or blue notebook with all your merit
badge cards and your Boy Scout Handbook to the Advancement Record Keeper so
that the two of your can determine where the mistakes are how to fix them.
2)
References. You need six reference letters, which are
listed on the application. These
reference letters need to be sent directly to the Scoutmaster and you will
never see their contents. Since all Eagle
Scout candidate reference letters are sent to the Scoutmaster it is very
important the envelopes used be marked appropriately. We have had many,
many problems with trying to figure out which letters the Scoutmaster receives
are for any Eagle Scout candidate. An Eagle Scout Candidate can
not go before the Eagle Board without all the required reference letters
and they must arrive at the Eagle Board unopened. Download the reference letter form here. This is a Microsoft Word file. The first page is the envelope. You will need to edit and print this file six
times!
a. First go through the entire file and
replace “scoutname” with the Eagle Scout Candidate’s
name, correct the date on the first page of the letter, and save the file on
your computer.
b. For your first reference letter,
replace “referencename” on the envelope and the
letter with your first reference’s name (e.g. Pastor Bob, Mrs,
Smith). Load a
legal size envelope into your printer on top of your stack of paper and print.
c. Repeat step b for each reference
letter required.
d. Add a postage stamp to the
envelope. Fold each stamped envelope and
letter so that it fits in another legal size envelope. You may address this envelope however you
like. The Scoutmaster requires that the
Eagle Scout Candidate himself brings these letters to his references and asks
if they will provide him with a reference letter. If for any reason, a selected reference can not provide this for the Eagle Scout Candidate, the
Eagle Scout Candidate needs to select an alternate and go back to step b.
e. List the reference names on the application.
3)
Merit
Badges. When entering Merit Badges 13
through 21, be sure and follow the order listed in your “Individual History
Report”. Under normal circumstances,
this means #13 should be a badge you earned for Star.
4)
Position
of Responsibility. This must be a
position listed on the “Individual History Report”. The Scoutmaster does not automatically give
credit for all positions served. Only
positions approved by the Scoutmaster will show on the report. Meet with the Advancement Record Keeper to
have her review your application and sign and date somewhere near Requirement
#3 or #4.
5)
Eagle
Project. Enter date project was
completed
6)
Ambitions
and Life Purpose. Attach written
statement. Meet with the Scoutmaster to
review this statement and hold the Eagle Rank Scoutmaster Conference. The Scoutmaster will then sign your Boy Scout
Handbook and the Eagle Application.
7)
Meet
with the Troop Committee Chairman so that he can review your application and
sign it.
8)
A
parent or Scout Leader needs to take your Boy Scout Handbook, your red or blue
notebook with all your merit badge cards, and your Eagle Application to Bay
Area Council Office at 3020 53rd Street in Galveston. Call (409) 744-5206 for hours that they are
open (normally week days). The Scout may
attend also.
9)
Call
Mr. Don Bennett to schedule your Eagle Board of Review. For Eagle Rank only, the Board of Review is
held by the District instead of the Troop or Crew.
10)
Make
copies of your signed handbook, your Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook, and
both pages of your Eagle Application before you go to the Eagle Board. The Board will keep your Eagle Scout Service
Project Workbook and your Eagle Application and they will never be returned to
you.
11)
After
the Eagle Board of Review has approved your advancement, they will forward your
project workbook and Eagle application to Bay Area Council and then on to Boy
Scouts of America’s National Office.
Usually within a couple of months, you will receive notification from
BSA National Office that your application has been approved.
12)
After
this notification, the new Eagle Scout or his parents may schedule a troop
Eagle Ceremony.