Hyrum’s Advancement
Scout: 07-26-2018
Tenderfoot: 09-25-2020
Second Class: 07-24-2021
First Class: 07-24-2021
Star: 02-07-22
(Eagle-required): Cooking
(Eagle-required): Citizenship in the Community
(Eagle-required): Citizenship in the World
(Eagle-required): Citizenship in Society
Elective: Snow Sports
Elective: Railroading
Life: 11-10-2022
(Eagle-required): Emergency Preparation
(Eagle-required): Environmental Science
(Eagle-required): First Aid
Elective: Climbing
Elective: Aviation
Eagle (See below for merit badge requirements he’s working on and still needs to do.)
1. Be active in your troop for at least six months as a Life Scout.
2. As a Life Scout, demonstrate Scout Spirit by living the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
3. Earn a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than required for the Life rank), including these 13 merit badges: (a) First Aid,
(b) Citizenship in the Community, (c) Citizenship in the Nation, (d) Citizenship in the World, (e) Communication,
(f) Cooking, (g) Personal Fitness, (h) Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving, (i) Environmental Science OR Sustainability, (j) Personal Management, (k) Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling, (l) Camping, and (m) Family Life.
You must choose only one of the merit badges listed in categories i, j, and l. Any additional merit badge(s) earned in those categories may be counted as one of your eight optional merit badges used to make your total of 21.
Name of Merit Badge Date Earned
Required: Swimming
Required: Camping (Earned 02-27-2025)
Required: Family Life (Earned 4-28-25)
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Elective: Indian Lore
Elective: Skateboarding
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4. While a Life Scout, serve actively in your troop for six months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility
5. While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious institution, any school, or your community. (Your Eagle Project)
6. While a Life Scout, participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
7. Successfully complete your board of review for the Eagle Scout rank.
Merit Badge Requirements Left
Citizenship in the Nation Requirements left to do
2. List the six purposes for creating the United States Constitution set forth in the Preamble to the Constitution. How do these purposes affect your family and community?
3. List the three branches of the United States government. Explain:
(a) The function of each branch of government
(b) Why it is important to divide powers among different branches
(c) How each branch "checks" and "balances" the others
(d) How citizens can be involved in each branch of government.
4. Discuss the importance of:
(a) Declaration of Independence
(b) Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution) and the 14th Amendment
(c) "E Pluribus Unum," the traditional United States motto.
5. Watch the national evening news for five days in a row or read the main stories in a national media organization (e.g., a newspaper or news website) for five days in a row. Discuss the national issues that you learned about with your counselor. Choose one issue and explain how it affects you, your family, and community.
8. Name your representatives in the United States Congress. Write a letter to your representative in Congress explaining your views on a national issue. Show your letter, along with any response you receive, to your counselor.
Personal Fitness Merit Badge Requirements Left to do
6. Before doing requirements 7 and 8:
(a) Complete the aerobic fitness, flexibility and muscular strength tests as described in this merit badge pamphlet. Record your results and identify those areas where you feel you need to improve.
(b) Keep track of what you eat and drink for three days. Identify three healthy eating goals you want to work on.
7. Outline a comprehensive 12-week physical fitness program using the results of your fitness tests. Be sure your program incorporates the endurance, intensity, and warm-up guidelines discussed in this merit badge pamphlet. Before beginning your exercises, have the program approved by your counselor and parent or guardian. (Complete: May 8, 2025)
8. Complete the physical fitness program you outlined in requirement 7.
· Keep a log of your fitness program activity (how long you exercised; how far you ran, swam, or biked;
· How many exercise repetitions you completed;
· Your exercise heart rate; etc.).
· Keep a log of your weekly healthy eating goals.
· Repeat the aerobic fitness, muscular strength, and flexibility tests every four weeks and record your results.
· After the 12th week, repeat all the required activities in each of the three test categories, record your results, and show improvement in each one.
· Discuss how well you met your healthy eating goals over these 12 weeks.
· Discuss the meaning and benefit of your experience and describe your long-term plans regarding your personal fitness.
Personal Management Requirements
1. Do the following:
(a) Choose an item that your family might want to purchase that is considered a major expense.
(b) Write a plan that tells how your family would save money for the purchase identified in requirement 1a.
(1) Discuss the plan with your counselor.
(2) Discuss the plan with your family.
(3) Discuss how other family needs must be considered in this plan.
(c) Develop a written shopping strategy for the purchase identified in requirement 1a.
(1) Determine the quality of the item or service (using consumer publications or rating systems).
(2) Comparison shop for the item. Find out where you can buy the item for the best price. (Provide prices from at least two different price sources.) Call around; study ads. Look for a sale or discount coupon. Consider alternatives. Can you buy the item used? Should you wait for a sale?
2. Do the following:
(a) Prepare a budget reflecting your expected income (allowance, gifts, wages), expenses, and savings for a period of 13 consecutive weeks.
(b) Compare expected income with expected expenses.
(1) If expenses exceed budget income, determine steps to balance your budget.
(2) If income exceeds budget expenses, state how you would use the excess money (new goal, savings).
(c) Track and record your actual income, expenses, and savings for 13 consecutive weeks (the same 13-week period for which you budgeted). (You may use the forms provided in this pamphlet, devise your own, or use a computer-generated version.) When complete, present the records showing the results to your counselor.
(d) Compare your budget with your actual income and expenses to understand when your budget worked and when it did not work. With your counselor, discuss what you might do differently the next time.
3. Discuss with your counselor FIVE of the following concepts:
(a) The emotions you feel when you receive money.
(b) Your understanding of how the amount of money you have with you affects your spending habits.
(c) Your thoughts when you buy something new and your thoughts about the same item three months later. Explain the concept of buyer's remorse.
(d) How hunger affects you when shopping for food items (snacks, groceries).
(e) Your experience of an item you have purchased after seeing or hearing advertisements for it. Did the item work as well as advertised?
(f) Your understanding of what happens when you put money into a savings account.
(g) Charitable giving. Explain its purpose and your thoughts about it.
(h) What you can do to better manage your money.
4. Explain the following to your counselor:
(a) The differences between saving and investing, including reasons for using one over the other.
(b) The concepts of return on investment and risk and how they are related.
(c) The concepts of simple interest and compound interest.
(d) The concept of diversification in investing.
(e) Why it is important to save and invest for retirement.
5. Explain to your counselor what the following investments are and how each works:
(a) Common stocks
(b) Mutual funds
(c) Life insurance
(d) A certificate of deposit (CD)
(e) A savings account
(f) A U.S. savings bond.
6 Explain to your counselor why people might purchase the following types of insurance and how they work:
(a) Automobile
(b) Health
(c) Homeowner's/renter's
(d) Whole life and term life.
7. Explain to your counselor the following:
(a) What a loan is, what interest is, and how the annual percentage rate (APR) measures the true cost of a loan.
(b) The different ways to borrow money
(c) The differences between a charge card, debit card, and credit card. What are the costs and pitfalls of using these financial tools? Explain why it is unwise to make only the minimum payment on your credit card.
(d) Credit reports and how personal responsibility can affect your credit report.
(e) Ways to reduce or eliminate debt.
8. Demonstrate to your counselor your understanding of time management by doing the following:
(a) Write a "to do" list of tasks or activities, such as homework assignments, chores, and personal projects, that must be done in the coming week. List these in order of importance to you.
(b) Make a seven-day calendar or schedule. Put in your set activities, such as school classes, sports practices or games, jobs or chores, and/or Scout or place of worship or club meetings, then plan when you will do all the tasks from your "to do" list between your set activities.
(c) Follow the one-week schedule you planned. Keep a daily diary or journal during each of the seven days of this week's activities, writing down when you completed each of the tasks on your "to do" list compared to when you scheduled them.
(d) With your counselor, review your "to do" list, one-week schedule, and diary/journal to understand when your schedule worked and when it did not work. Discuss what you might do differently the next time.
9. Prepare a written project plan demonstrating the steps below, including the desired outcome. This is a project on paper, not a real-life project. Examples could include planning a camping trip, developing a community service project or a school or religious event, or creating an annual patrol plan with additional activities not already included in the troop annual plan. Discuss your completed project plan with your counselor.
(a) Define the project. What is your goal?
(b) Develop a timeline for your project that shows the steps you must take from beginning to completion.
(c) Describe your project.
(d) Develop a list of resources. Identify how these resources will help you achieve your goal.
(e) Develop a budget for your project.
10. Do the following:
(a) Choose a career you might want to enter after high school or college graduation. Discuss with your counselor the needed qualifications, education, skills, and experience.
(b) Explain to your counselor what the associated costs might be to pursue this career, such as tuition, school or training supplies, and room and board. Explain how you could prepare for these costs and how you might make up for any shortfall.
Communications, Requirements Left to Do
9. Find out about three career opportunities in communication. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor and explain why this profession might interest you.