Plans

Each of these lays out what has to happen first, in the order it has to happen.

Open one and answer a few questions, and the steps that do not apply to you drop out. Nothing you answer is stored — the answers travel in the address, so the plan you end up with is a link you can send to somebody else.

Advancement Already Earned Elsewhere

Advancement already earned elsewhere One choice at the top, then two separate branches: coming back to Scouting America after time away, and arriving with advancement from another country's association. 34 steps

Advancement for Members With Special Needs

Advancing with a disability or special need From an open-minded reading of a requirement to a council-approved alternative, with the approver named at every level. 47 steps

Advancement in Camp Settings

Setting Up Advancement at Camp What the council advancement committee establishes, who approves the counselors, and the line nobody may cross. 24 steps

Becoming a Merit Badge Counselor

Registering and Being Approved From wanting to counsel a badge to being on the council list, and what keeps you there. 26 steps

Boards of Review

The Board of Review, Start to Finish From asking for a board to the rank being presented, with the appeal route that follows a denial. 40 steps

Eagle Scout Rank

Eagle Scout Rank Requirements The seven requirements, the service project approval chain, and the merit badges — in the order they actually have to happen. 44 steps

How to Earn a Merit Badge

The Merit Badge Process From choosing a badge to the record in the unit's file, with the two approvals that come before any work with a counselor. 24 steps

Judging the Requirements That Are Hardest to Judge

Judging the requirements that are hardest to judge Six requirements that cannot be checked by watching, each with the tests the Guide gives for it — drawn as independent branches, because the Guide sets no order between them. 50 steps

Lone Scout Advancement

Advancing as a Lone Scout From registering to the Eagle application, and what changes when there is no unit. 25 steps

Mechanics of Advancement in Scouts BSA

How a Scouts BSA rank is earned Learn, be tested, be reviewed, be recognized — with the sign-off rules that govern the second step and the branch at the third, where the Scout rank has no board of review. 31 steps

Posthumous Awards and the Spirit of the Eagle Award

Posthumous awards and the Spirit of the Eagle Award Two independent branches from one point: a rank or award earned before death and received posthumously, and the honorary Spirit of the Eagle Award with its six-month deadline. 33 steps

Registering Beyond the Age of Eligibility

Registering beyond the age of eligibility From deciding whether it is the right route at all, through six enclosures and a council executive board decision, to what changes afterwards. 31 steps

Sea Scout Boards of Review

The Sea Scout board of review, start to finish A common lead-in, a fork between the Apprentice through Able particulars and the Quartermaster particulars, and a rejoin at the review itself and everything after it. 69 steps

Technology-Based Tools in Advancement

Using a technology-based tool in advancement The general stance and the council's role, a fork by what the technology is being used for, and a rejoin at the three defined words that every branch has to satisfy. 63 steps

Time Extension Past the 18th Birthday

Asking for an Extension From realising the deadline cannot be met to the Scout executive's letter, and the appeal if it is refused. 33 steps

Venturing Boards of Review

The Venturing board of review, start to finish A common lead-in, a fork between the Discovery and Pathfinder particulars and the Summit particulars, and a rejoin at the review itself and everything after it. 59 steps