Leaders

Stake Goal for 11 year old scouts

 For each young man to achieve the rank of 1st class before the age of 12

Strategic Plan to accomplish goal 

For parents, leaders and  11 year old scouts to work together in an organized way, to focus on one topic at a time to fulfill all advancement requirements.

The following plan is a compilation of all requirements from the "Boy Scouts of America Handbook" advancement requirements for "Tenderfoot", "2nd Class", and "1st class".  All requirements have been grouped by topic.  Each topic is to be the focus for approximately 1 month.  The topic of each month will be supplemented with a merit badge that goes with the topic. 

Merit Badge Requirements:  To print a list of the specific requirements for each merit badge, go to www.scouting.org 

12 Month Plan

There are 10 topics in this plan.  Some will take longer than a month to fulfill, others will take less than a month.  Each ward will customize the order of these topics to best fit their needs.  This plan allows time for merit badge POW WOW as well as time off for holidays.  The critical component of this plan is that you decide the order you will teach each topic, then you will rotate that plan every 12 months.  By doing so, each boy will have the opportunity to cover all topics, regardless of the month that he joins your troop.

Rank Advancement: The 11 year old scout leaders can sign off all of the advancement requirements.  The scout then has a "Scoutmaster Conference" with the scoutmaster, then a "board of review" with members of the troop scout committee.  You will help the scout schedule the conference and board of review.  When complete, he is ready to advance in rank.

Merit Badges:  The M.B. requirements can be taught by anyone with knowledge on the topic, but to be "passed off" the scout has to have an interview with an approved BSA "merit badge counselor" for that topic.  It is most efficient to ask an approved M.B. counselor to come to your meetings to teach the topic, then the M.B. counselor can sign the "blue card" when they are finished.

The "Blue Card" is the official BSA record of completion for merit badges.  This card has 3 sections, the counselor will sign all 3 sections, and will keep the section titled "counselor's record", the section titled "Merit Badge Application" will be turned in to the ward advancement Chair (this person will submit the application to the B.S.A. online), then the section "applicant's record" remains with the scout.

Your ward advancement chair or Scoutmaster can help you find merit badge counselors.

Here are the 10 topics covered in the 12 month plan.  (For details on each topic see "Leader Helps" tab)

 Leadership

 Fitness 

 First Aid

 Cooking 

 Camping  

 Navigation and Hiking 

 Nature 

 Tools

 Citizenship 

  Aquatics