Star is the Scouts BSA rank earned after First Class. With Star, the focus shifts from scout skills to leadership, service, and merit badges.
Find helps for specific Star requirements below.
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Help with Answers for Star Rank Requirements
Find specific helps for some of the Star rank requirements listed below. Some of these resources will just give the answers. Others will provide engaging ways for older Scouts to introduce these concepts to new Scouts.
Requirement 1: Activity
Requirement 1 Helps and Answers
What Is Active Participation?
According to the Guide to Advancement, a Scout must be
- Registered
- In good standing
- Meeting the unit’s reasonable expectations
See section 4.2.3.1 of the Guide to Advancement for details of each of these points.
Attendance Expectations for Scouts BSA
You might notice that these troop leadership position descriptions have attendance expectations on them. These are not meant to be demands or requirements in the troop to deny advancement. But they can be used to indicate to the youth what sort of time requirements are typical for a position.
Requirement 2: Oath and Law
Requirement 2 Helps and Answers
What Is Scout Spirit?
What is Scout spirit and how does a Scout go about demonstrating it?
Scout Law
See the 12 points of the Scout Law and an extended explanation of what they mean.
Requirement 3: Merit Badges
Requirement 3 Helps and Answers
Merit Badges Required for Eagle Scout
Citizenship in Society Merit Badge
The new Citizenship is Society merit badge will be required to earn the Eagle Scout Rank effective on July 1, 2022.
All Scouts BSA Merit Badges
See a list of all of the merit badges available and find some of interest to use as the electives.
Requirement 4: Service
Requirement 4 Helps and Answers
Service Project Ideas for Scouts
Scouts are required to participate service projects for rank advancement. But it is good to encourage all Scouts to participate in service projects whether they need the hours or not.
What Can Scouts Use as Service Hours?
A reader asks what types of service projects can be used as service hours to fulfill requirements. See some comments and add your own ideas.
Requirement 5: Leadership
Requirement 5 Helps and Answers
Scouts BSA Youth Leadership Positions
A Scouts BSA Troop is run by its youth leaders. See the list of Scouts BSA youth leadership positions.
National Youth Leadership Training
National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is an intense week long leadership training class for youth.
Assistant Patrol Leader and Rank Advancement
If you look at the list of positions which can be used to meet the position of responsibility requirement for Star and Life, you will see that assistant patrol leader is not listed there.
Requirement 6: Safety
Requirement 6 Helps and Answers
Cyber Chip
The Cyber Chip portion can be completed online. The requirements depend on the grade level:
Requirement 7: Scoutmaster Conference
Requirement 7 Helps and Answers
What Is a Scoutmaster Conference?
By time Scouts reach this rank, they will have had several Scoutmaster Conferences, so this should be a familiar process.
Scoutmaster Conference – Adding Requirements
A Scoutmaster may not add or take away requirements for advancement.
Requirement 8: Star Board of Review
Requirement 8 Helps and Answers
What Is a Board of Review?
When a Scout has completed all of the requirements for a rank, he must appear before a board of review. A board of review is NOT the same as a Scoutmaster Conference but just with more people.
Board of Review Questions
Reader Shelley asked “I’m a new Troop Committee Chair and was wondering if anyone has some great questions that they ask their Scouts during their Board of Reviews?” Sometimes committee members struggle to come up with good Board of Review questions.
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