Eagle Application Checklist
q Obtain an Eagle application from the advancement chairman, Mr. Slivensky, the Scoutmaster, Mr. Bass or Tyler office.
q Obtain your “scouting history” from the Tyler office (call or go there). The phone number for the Tyler office is 903-597-7201. The Tyler office can email the scouting history to you. This will have dates for becoming a Scout, Life rank, merit badges and other advancements.
The dates from Tyler will be the dates you put onto your application. If your dates on your records or blue cards are different than Tyler’s, then use Tyler’s dates. If you see anything missing from your “history”, then talk to Mr. Slivensky or Mr. Bass.
q Requirement #6 on the application. You will need to type about one page (give or take a paragraph or two) essay about yourself. You will include any leadership positions you have held or awards you have earned in and outside of scouting. You will include five basic areas in no specific order.
1. God. (Suggestions: Write about which church you attend, youth group activities, mission work and vacation bible school)
2. Family. (Suggestions: Write about what your family has done for you and what you have done for your family.)
3. School. (Suggestions: Write about being in honor society, band, sports, clubs, favorite class or subject and awards earned.)
4. Scouts. (Suggestions: Write about your leadership positions, religious or other awards earned, trips you’ve taken with scouts, worked at events such as summer camp, Mom N’ Me or Webelos campout.)
5. Future – your ambitions in life. (Suggestions: This should include your short and long term goals and career paths. This should include an explanation of why you think this way. Write about what you would like to do after high school. Such as - go to college, join the armed forces or work on an off shore oilrig. If you want to be a doctor, you need to explain why you want to be a doctor. If you want to engage in your spare time as a volunteer in a local school, you need to describe why you believe that this is important to you as a person. How will you contribute to scouting after receiving the Eagle rank? Will you be an adult leader if you have a son?)
6. Future – your life purposes ( What do you perceive to be your purpose in life as a person and citizen, and an explanation of why you think this way.
q Have the correct heading on your essay. The top of your essay should be the following:
John Doe
Troop 618
Requirement #6
Longview, TX
Ambition Statement and Life Purpose
q Have your Mentor and/or other adults to read your essay to give suggestions for spelling, grammar or other items. Your first several drafts of the essay should be reviewed and discussed with your parents and/or a teacher. Only then should you share it with your Eagle Mentor. Certainly, you should go back to the Mentor if you have questions, but your draft should be pretty well developed before formally discussing it with the Eagle Mentor.
q Read over your application before writing on it. (you may even want to have your Mentor look at it with you, so that you both understand what is required) Make a copy of the application and completely fill out the copy with all the dates.
q References. Religious: This can be any adult who knows you from your church or inspires you in a spiritual manner. Educational: This can be any adult who knows you from school. Employer: If you do not work, then write None.
q When you have all the correct information on the copy, fill out the original application. Write very, very neatly. (It will need to be read by other people.)
q Get signatures: Yours and the Committee Chair’s.
q Schedule a Scoutmaster conference. It can NOT be at a Monday night meeting or PLC. Expect to visit for about an hour. The Scoutmaster will discuss the things to expect at the Eagle Board of Review. You have to wear your full Class A uniform to the Scoutmaster conference and you can bring your parents to the Scoutmaster conference if they want to attend with you. You need to review all the requirements for Tenderfoot, Second, and First Class before the Scoutmaster conference.
q The Scoutmaster will sign your application at the end of the Scoutmaster conference.
q Make a copy of the application to keep with your project book.
q You and/or your parents need to personally take the application and a copy of the essay to the Tyler Office. The application will be checked while you are at the office and you will be given back the original application to keep for the Board of Review. The address of the Tyler Office is 1331 East Fifth St., Tyler, TX 75701.
q About two or three weeks after you turn in your application, the District Advancement Chairman will call you to schedule your Board of Review.