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Eagle Rank Forms and Information

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Eagle Candidates – Please download and read this information carefully, following the instructions as indicated. Remember to share the draft versions of your Eagle forms, your “Statement of Ambitions and Life Purpose” and your “Listing of Positions, Honors and Awards” with the Troop Eagle Coordinator (sometimes referred to as the Eagle Project Coach) and other Adult Leaders for review before seeking signatures. Please contact Troop 333’s Eagle Coordinator if you have questions.

The complete Eagle Scout Advancement process is described at this page on the Scouting website.

A summary and additional resources are provided below.

The Eagle Scout Advancement Process:

Attachments to the Eagle Scout Rank Application:

  • Tour and Activity Plans – The candidate is only required to complete a Tour and Activity Plan if the project will take place outside of Great Trail Council. Please check the Great Trail Council website or ask one of the scout leaders to determine if the site for your project is outside of the Great Trail Council boundaries.
  • Letters of Reference – The Eagle Scout Rank Application requires five or six letter of reference to document that you have lived by the principles of the Scout Oath and Scout Law in your daily life. The candidate should, in consultation with the Troop leadership, select letter writers who know him personally and can provide a detailed recommendation. These should include: parents/guardians, religious leader, educational professionals, employers (if any) and two additional references. If the candidate is not affiliated with a specific religious organization, they should include an additional parent or guardian letter. The letters should be sent to the unit leader and remain sealed until the Eagle Board of Review. Great Trail Council has a specific letter of reference form, the Eagle Candidate Personal Evaluation form, which must be provided to the letter writers.
  • Statement of Ambitions and Life Purpose – The Eagle scout applicant must use a word processing program such as MS Word to write an essay describing his life goals and purpose. Use this statement to address the role that scouting has played in shaping your ambitions and what role you anticipate scouting will play in your future plans.
  • Listing of Positions, Honors and Awards – Use this list or resume template (downloads as an MS Word document) to document what you have accomplished or how you have been recognized in various venues such as scouting, school, community, religious activities, and employment.
  • Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook – The Eagle Service Project is described in three stages using the Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook: The Eagle Service Project Proposal (pgs 7-10), the Eagle Service Project Final Plan (pgs 11-18), and the Eagle Service Project Final Report (pgs. 19-20). Use of the most current version of the Workbook is mandatory. The Project Proposal must be approved as described in the Workbook and should be written in the present or future tense.

About the Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook:

  • The Eagle Service Project Proposal describes the initial concept for the Eagle Service project. It should be written in the present tense, should describe the project and clearly state how the project will benefit the organization that will be assisted. It must explain how you plan to complete the project and what materials, supplies, tools, assistance and permission will be required. The proposal needs to be approved by the Troop leadership, the beneficiary, and the Council. It is helpful to consult with your Project Coach during the development of the Eagle Service Project Proposal prior to requesting signatures. You should also consult the Guide to Safe Scouting to ensure the safety procedures described in the Proposal will follow BSA requirements.  You should write about how you plan to employ the EDGE method to train individuals assisting with the project. You must provide the representative of your Eagle Scout Project Beneficiary with a copy of: “Navigating the Eagle Scout Service Project Information for Project Beneficiaries” prior to requesting their signature of approval on your proposed project. The Beneficiary indicates that they have received a read the form when they sign their approval of the project. You must obtain signatures for the Service Project Proposal after you have revised the proposal in consultation with the Beneficiary and Troop leadership, but before it is submitted to Council for approval.  
  • The Eagle Service Project Final Plan should be written in the present tense and completed prior to the start of the approved service project. It should provide step-by-step instructions describing all aspects of the approved project. It is helpful to consult with your Project Coach during the development of the Final Plan, but you do not need Troop approval at this stage. Be sure to discuss any suggested revisions to the Project Proposal from Council with your Beneficiary before you complete your Final Plan. You should also re-read the Guide to Safe Scouting before writing the Final Plan to ensure the safety procedures described in the Final Plan will follow BSA requirements.  You should plan to write about how you will employ the BSA EDGE method to train individuals assisting with the project.
  • The Eagle Service Project Report should be written in the past tense after completing the project. The Project Report explains how the project was conducted, how you provided leadership and provides an opportunity to explain how the project was conducted and what changes – if any – needed to be implemented to carry out the project successfully.

These three parts (Proposal, Final Plan and Project Report) constitute the Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook. The process begins with completion of the proposal, which the candidate should present to the Troop adult leadership for feedback prior to seeking approval and signatures from the beneficiary and Council. Once the candidate has the signatures from the troop leadership and the beneficiary, the Troop Eagle Coordinator submits a scanned, signed copy of the draft Eagle Service Project Proposal to Council for review and approval. The Council Eagle representative will schedule a meeting with the candidate to provide useful suggestions to improve the draft Project Proposal. Because the proposal is often revised at this stage, it is best to obtain the signatures on a separate page of the proposal so that any revisions will not require a new signature page. Once the candidate has incorporated the suggested revisions from Council, it is his responsibility to return the revised proposal to Council for approval and to notify the Beneficiary and Troop of any revisions. In some cases, additional rounds of revisions may be required to meet Council approval. The candidate should notify the troop Eagle Coordinator when his proposal has been approved and provide a copy of the approved proposal to the troop.

Once the candidate has a proposal approved by the Beneficiary, Troop and Council, and the beneficiary has reviewed and approved the Final Plan, work on the service project can commence.  Remember to communicate progress to the Beneficiary and Troop Leadership as you provide leadership to the volunteer’s work on the project. The candidate should keep notes regarding progress, and records of service hours completed by scout volunteers.  Make note of any changes in plans as work progresses and document the progress of the work with “Before” and “After” photographs as appropriate. Once the project is complete, the candidate writes up the Final Project Report, which the candidate should present to the Troop Adult Leadership for feedback prior to seeking approval and signatures from the Beneficiary and Troop Adult leader. When sending reports to council, the documents should be emailed without photographs due to file size limitations. Bound hardcopies of the entire Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook, including photos are presented at the Eagle Scout Board of Review.

Eagle Scout Scoutmaster Conference and the Eagle Board of Review

After completion of the project, the candidate will request the Eagle Scout Scoutmaster Conference. This final scoutmaster conference serves to evaluate the readiness of the application to proceed to the Eagle Scout Board of Review. Consult with the Troop Adult Leadership prior to the Eagle Rank Scoutmaster Conference regarding obtaining the required letters of reference. The candidate should provide the letter writers with copies of the Great Trail Council “Eagle Candidate Personal Evaluation form” so the writers can complete their letters of reference. The candidate should present the Eagle Scout Rank Application at the Eagle Scout Scoutmaster conference for review prior to obtaining signatures. Once the “Eagle Scout Service Project workbook”, the “Eagle Scout Rank Application”, a minimum of five “letters of reference”, the “Statement of Ambitions and Life Purpose” and the “Listing of Positions Honors and Awards” are completed, the Eagle Candidate advances to the final stage of the process, the Eagle Board of Review.

After the Eagle Scout Board of Review

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