Advancement

2008 Early Rank Requirement Changes
Several Boy Scout rank requirements have been updated for 2008. Visit our Boy Scout Advancement and Awards page online to learn what they are before you purchase your new editions Available February 1, 2008.

Rank requirement changes in:

Tenderfoot--9, 12a, 12b

Second Class rank--6a, 6c, 8

First Class

Eagle Scout rank alternate requirements

Revised merit badge requirements for

First Aid, Metalwork, Sculpture, Water Sports (formerly Water skiing), Wilderness Survival.

Minor merit badge requirement updates for:

Backpacking (1, 3c [new], 4c[new], 6b, 6c [new], 7, 8d, 10, 11)

Hiking (7)

Revised requirements for

Leave No Trace Achievement Award (formerly Leave NO Trace Awareness Award)

The current Boy Scout Requirements book is available from Calumet Council Scout Shop. See new Front pages here.

New Boy Scout Requirements for  First Class Effective January 1, 2006:

New First Class requirement 

Beginning January 1, 2006 and additional requirement will be added

to the requirements for first class rank in Boy Scouting. Scout beginning their First Class requirements work after this date must complete the new requirement. Scouts working on first class requirements prior to this date will have until June 30, 2006 to complete First Class rank with out completing the new requirements. 

The new requirements test the candidate’s persuasive communications skills and can help make Scouting available to more boys. It reads as follows. 

“Tell someone who is eligible to join Boy Scouts, or an inactive e Boy Scout, about your troop’s activities. Invite him to a troop outing, activity, service project, or meeting. Tell him how to join, or encourage the inactive Boy Scout to become active.” 

The Boy Scout Handbook and 2006 Requirements book will be updated with this new detail.

Merit Badge UPDATES!!

Merit Badge Counselor's List

The requirements for the following merit badges have been updated for 2005: Archery, Astronomy, Canoeing, Camping, Chemistry, Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Cooking, Electricity, Emergency Preparedness, Family Life, Fire Safety, First Aid, Fish & Wildlife Management, Medicine, Metalwork, Nuclear Science (was Atomic Energy), Plumbing, Railroading, Scholarship, Small Boat Sailing, Soil & Water Conservation, Space Exploration, Surveying, and Theater.