Complete the Fundraising Application (located near the end of the Workbook), even if no funds will be raised. If you ask for or receive any help (money, items, or people) that originates outside your ward and family (or if the amount of funds received or required is greater than $500), this application must be signed by the unit leader, beneficiary, and the Council. The person who should sign for the Council is as follows:

• Funds requested or collected from anybody exceeds a total of $500 : Tammy Brunst
• Funds requested or collected from your family and ward members : your bishop
• Funds requested or collected from your family and stake members : your stake president
• Funds requested or collected from anybody outside your stake not related to you : Tammy Brunst

Contact Tammy Brunst if you need her signature:

Tammy Brunst	801-310-2171
900 High Country Rd	Orem, UT 84097
tammybrunst at gmail dot com

Once your Proposal is approved, complete your Final Plan, in which you include all the details that you have only summarized in your Proposal:

• Estimate what day you plan to start your project and what day you plan to finish it up
• Think of where you will want to hold your project. If you want to hold your project in one of the church buildings in our stake, please contact me, and I'll schedule it for you. If you want to do it elsewhere, be sure you select a location that has restrooms nearby. If the location doesn't have a drinking fountain, ask your parents if they could provide water in a cooler, plus paper or plastic cups.
• When you present your Project Proposal to me for my signature, I'll give you feedback regarding your proposal, which you should include in the Comments from Your Proposal Review field
• In the Present Conditions or Situation field describe why your project needs to be done. In other words, if you're improving a forest trail for your project, the present conditions might be that the trail has nearly disappeared because of abuse or vegetation overgrowth. If you're collecting hygiene kits for poor villagers, the present conditions might be that the villagers are in great need, and neither they nor the state can afford to provide them the necessary hygiene items.
• The Project Phases (how you organize your project) should resemble the one in your Project Proposal, but with dates:
  • Announce my project to my family, troop, and church leaders: June 1
  • Put on a fund raiser to pay for project components: June 14
  • Recruit workers from my family, troop, and quorum to help out: June 22
  • Gather materials, supplies, and tools: June 28
  • Carry out the project in teams: June 28
  • Package the project items for delivery: June 28
  • Present the project items for approval by the beneficiary: June 28
• The Work Processes (how your project is to be carried out) should resemble
  • Water the area lightly
  • Remove the weeds, grass, and rocks
  • Till the ground for three inches down
  • Scatter the seeds densely
  • Plant the seedlings sparsely
  • Cover the ground with fertilizer and mulch
  • Lightly water the area again
  • Place signs in appropriate locations
• Scan copies of your plans, drawings, photos, and other relevant docs, then import them into the Attachment section
• If your project is twenty or more miles from your home, you will need to file a Tour and Activity Plan:
  • Go to MyScouting.org and log in
  • On the left nav click Tour and Activity Plan
  • Next to Create a Plan: select New Plan and click Go
  • Continue to the Let's Get Started page and fill out the forms
  • Print a hard copy for your Eagle paperwork
• List in detail what materials, supplies, tools, and other needs you will require to get your project done, plus how much they're going to cost
• Under What are your plans for briefing workers be sure to indicate that you plan to get all the workers and leaders together so you can assign teams and leaders, explain how to do this project safely, and what to do if there is an accident or injury
• Under What is your plan for communicating with your workers put down that you plan to make announcements in church, make fliers to send out to workers, send out texts and emails to them, and make phone calls to help them know where to go, where to park, and what to wear and bring
• Under How will workers get to and from the place indicate that you'll ask adult leaders to drive all the youth to the project location if it's more than just a couple of blocks from your home, and that you'll expect all drivers to be 21 or more years old
• Under Will a first-aid kit be needed for this project? indicate that you plan to assign one of your parents as the first-aid person, and you plan to ask your parent to bring a first-aid kit to the project location
• Under Contingency Plans you can put down things such as rainy weather, your contact could change his or her mind, church building or project location scheduling conflict, the project got done by somebody else because you took too long to decide on it, you got sick, a family emergency, etc.
• Show your Final Plan to your mentor and discuss it with him or her to determine whether it's complete enough to move forward with your project
• Under Comments From Your Project Coach About Your Final Plan put down feedback that your mentor has given you

When it's time to actually do your project, here are some things to keep in mind: Get with your mentor and your parent to see whether it looks like everything is ready Call your contact to arrange for a time to meet and discuss project arrangements Follow your plan by creating fliers, announcing your project in church (especially Priesthood Meeting opening exercises), and contacting your friends and relatives by text and email Since you are in charge, it's important that you ask people to do things for you. Don't assume that they'll do something, and don't order people around. Make it a fun and pleasant experience for your workers by kindly and politely asking could you please and saying thank you very much. Ask one of your parents to be the first-aid person, and to bring a first-aid kit to your project location Call and speak with four to six adult leaders and ask them to be in charge of a group of workers during the project Ask somebody to take a few photos of your project, making sure they know to take two or three before, a few during, and two or three after photos If your parents are bringing or providing the refreshments, be sure to remind them by politely asking how they're going to get the refreshments to the project location. Also, ask somebody to help set up and give out the refreshments at the project location if that's appropriate. Purchase all the things you're going to need for your project that aren't being donated, and keep the receipts Gather the materials, supplies, tools, and other needs, especially the refreshments Make a sign-up sheet for both workers and leaders to sign in on, kind of like this: John Doe Eagle Project Saturday 28 June 2014   Name Time In Time Out                             Worker Hours Total   or you can use an already-made paper chart Make sure you include all people who helped you, regardless of age or position, including your parents, but do not include yourself When people start arriving, there will be a lot of confusion and playing around, and that's usually alright if they're safe. If you offer the refreshments before the project begins, that will usually help bring things to order a little easier. Just before it's time to start Gather your adult leaders where they can easily hear you Assign them their group tasks by asking each to take charge of a team of project workers Instruct the leaders about how to go about doing the project and how to keep the safety of their workers first in their minds Let them know your parent is the first-aid person and has a kit When it's time to start Invite the entire group to come together, then when it looks like you have the attention of a third of them, start talking right away. If you wait until everybody is quiet, you might be waiting a long time. Thank them for coming and giving up their time to help with this service project Explain why it is they are there, what you're hoping to accomplish Remind everybody to have fun and be safe Ask somebody to give the opening prayer As your project gets under way, go from team to team supervising, to make sure they are doing things the way you expect. If any worker has questions, have them ask their adult leader. If the adult leader has a question, answering that is your second priority. Safety is your first priority. Near the conclusion of your project, ask your contact to come and inspect the completed project, if he or she isn't present already Thank everybody for coming, for their hard work, then ask another person to give the closing prayer As much as possible, clean the borrowed tools and return them to their owners the same week, if not the day of your project Thank your contact for the opportunity to serve the beneficiary

This is the 'write-up' that people often talk about:

• Enter the actual starting and ending dates of your project
• Under Please provide a brief description of your completed project be sure to include what good your project will do for your community or for the organization you're doing this for
• Under Describe what you did after your proposal was approved include the facts that you met with your mentor, your parent, and contact to discuss project arrangements, calculate the costs of the things you're going to need, and decide on a date and location to carry out your project
• Under In what ways did you demonstrate leadership? put down that you organized the entire project rather than expecting somebody else to do it for you, you asked people to help you rather than expecting people to volunteer their time, you organized the project into teams of workers and assigned adult leaders to guide them, and you supervised your project work to make sure it got done right and completely rather than perform the work yourself
• Under What did you learn about leadership put down that you discovered it was easier to be in charge of this large group of workers if you split everybody into teams, that you had the confidence to make assignments and give orders to adults you never thought you had before, and that people were more cooperative when you asked them kindly and politely to do something. You also learned that leading a group of people in real life is not the same as it appears on TV or in movies.
• Under Entering Service Project Data the upper-right field should contain the same number of hours you totaled on your Personal Hours spreadsheet. Enter the remaining numbers of people from your project sign-up sheet.
• Fill in the remaining fields as requested
• Print your Workbook. After printing it, do not staple, paper-clip, or bind the papers together. The Eagle Board will want to separate the pages when they examine your project. You can staple together other papers, such as your Member Summary or Letter of Ambitions and Life Purpose if they are two or more pages long.

Ask your unit leader for a Unit Leader Conference. This is a brief interview by your current unit leader, in which he

• asks you about your scouting experience in general
• approves of your activity since the time you earned Life
• makes sure you have everything else you need to complete your Eagle
• determines whether you're ready to be advanced to Eagle

You need to ask for six LORs if you're employed or five if you're not. The LORs must be signed and dated, and from the following people:

• Your bishop (must be on church letterhead)
• A parent
• A teacher who is not your bishop, your unit leader, or your parent
• Your employer who is not your bishop, your unit leader, or your parent
• An adult church or scout leader who is not your bishop, your unit leader, or your parent
• Another adult, preferably not a relative, but still not your bishop, your unit leader, or your parent

A letter from your unit leader or Scout Committee Chair will not be accepted. The LORs should be given to your mentor, not to you. Your mentor should open and discard all the envelopes (after collecting and giving you the addresses on them) to make sure they are signed and dated, then send back the ones that don't have both, and put the acceptable ones into new envelopes labeled

For John Doe Eagle
From Parent (or Bishop or Educator or Employer or Adult Leader)

Also, you need to collect the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of all those who give you an LOR, so you can put that information on your Eagle Application. For your bishop, your teacher, and your employer you can simply use the addresses and phone numbers of your church building (bishop) or places of employment (teacher or employer). Finally, the dates listed on all the LORs must be less than three months old at the time of your BOR.

Most will know what to write in an LOR, but the old online fillable LOR form is no longer accepted. In case they ask you, here's a suggestion:

Tue 10 Feb 2015

Dear Eagle Board:

I have known John Doe for many years. In that time, I have watched as he has accomplished blah, blah. I was also his blah leader when he was made blah, blah. Later, it was my pleasure to work with John doing blah, blah.

In my opinion, John is a living embodiment of the Scout Oath and Law, and a terrific example of what a scout should be. For these reasons, I highly recommend John to be advanced to the rank of Eagle Scout.

Thank you,

< space for his signature >

Jim Dandy, Soccer Coach

Open the Eagle Application, and start filling it out, saving it often. If you fill it out within your browser, you stand a chance of losing all the information. See an example of a properly completed Application.

• Leave the dates blank for becoming a Boy Scout, Varsity Scout, and Venture Scout
• Copy the dates for your First Class, Star, and Life ranks from your Member Summary
• If you earned all of your merit badges in the same unit, leave the UNIT NO. fields blank
• Make sure the dates of the all merit badges match those on your Member Summary
• Make sure the date of your First Aid merit badge is on or before the date of the Emergency Preparedness merit badge
• Cross out the merit badges that you did not count as required ones for your Eagle, such as Lifesaving, Sustainability, Cycling, and Hiking
• List the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of those who gave you their LORs
• List the leadership positions you served in after you were advanced to Life. Make sure their dates add up to at least six months. These can only be the following for LDS units:
  • While you were registered as a Boy Scout:

    Patrol Leader	Scribe	Senior Patrol Leader
    Troop Guide	Librarian	Assistant Senior Patrol Leader
    Webmaster	Historian	Chaplain Aide
    Quartermaster	Instructor	Leave No Trace Trainer

  • While you were registered as a Varsity Scout:

    Team Captain	Secretary	Squad Leader
    Co-captain	Librarian	Program Manager
    Webmaster	Historian	Chaplain Aide
    Quartermaster	Instructor	Leave No Trace Trainer

  • While you were registered as a Venture Scout:

    President	Secretary	Quartermaster
    Vice President	Historian	Storekeeper
    Webmaster	Guide	Leave No Trace Trainer

  • Please note that the positions Assistant Patrol Leader, Junior Assistant Scoutmaster, Deacons Quorum President, and Teachers Quorum President are missing. Church positions do not count, made-up positions not listed here do not count, and you must be 16 and part of a Scout troop to qualify for Junior Assistant Scoutmaster.
• List the same Project name you listed on the front cover of your Workbook. List the same Grand total of hours that appears in Project Report Page B in the box titled Grand Total of Hours in your Workbook. List the same Date project finished as that listed on the cover page of the Project Report in your Workbook.
• Print your Eagle Application in color and on a single, two-sided sheet of plain paper. If you don't have access to a color printer, or if yours is low on one of the colors, email me your Eagle Application and ask me to print it for you. I recommend printing two copies, in case your dog eats one of them.
• Sign your Eagle Application and get your unit leader and Committee Chair to sign it (both copies, if you printed two copies)

Open the Eagle Statistics Form and fill it out from the information in your Workbook, then print it. Do this last because it asks for information that you provide near the end of your Workbook. The form indicates that it should be filled out by the District, but that responsibility now belongs to you.

Write a Letter of Ambitions and Life Purpose, which includes the positions you have held in scouting, church callings, school, and community, plus awards you have earned that demonstrate leadership, as follows:

Tue 10 Feb 2015

Dear Eagle Board:

Ever since I was a small cub scout I wanted to be an Eagle Scout, and looked up to others who were older scouts. When I was nine I was made captain of the baseball team. At eleven I went to Afghanistan and saved my beautiful sister < her name >, whom I love very much, from getting beheaded by terrorists on TV, then skateboarded our way to freedom.

In scouts I served as Patrol Leader, Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, and then Senior Patrol Leader. And at thirteen they made me president of the Deacons Quorum and put me in charge of wiping runny noses of Primary kids. I earned second place in the Pinewood Derby as a Cub Scout, and later won a trophy for the cleanest bedroom on Utah. I also received an award of merit for my ideas of junior high football team uniforms. I was also made water polo team co-captain.

One day I hope to graduate from High School and serve a full-time mission for my church. After that, I will get married in the temple to < your girlfriend's name > and start a family with 10 kids. I plan to attend college and study Bioengineering, and after I graduate I hope to enter my profession as a bioengineer so that I can help people by inventing Soylent Green.

I intend to serve actively in my church at various callings. Also, I plan to give back to scouting some day by serving as a scout leader, so I can help other boys achieve what I have had the opportunity to do.

For these reasons, I ask that you consider me for advancement to the rank of Eagle Scout.

Thank you,

< space for your signature >

John Doe

Be sure to sign your letter.

When you turn in your complete Eagle packet, submit the following together:

— Eagle Project Workbook, complete with signatures and photos
— Eagle Application, complete with with signatures, merit badges, leadership positions, and references listed
— Five or six Letters of Recommendation from those references listed on your Eagle Application
— Letter of Ambitions and Life Purpose
— Member Summary
— Eagle Statistics Form

You can also turn in the following at that time, if you want:

• extra photos
• brochures
• fliers (especially ones that you made)
• posters
• Personal Hours
• sign-up sheet
• applicable receipts

Place all of these in a manila folder labeled John Doe Eagle on the tab

Do not use a binder or any other kind of fancy or pocketed folder

It is not necessary to punch three-ring binder holes in any of your documents

Staple only your Letter of Ambitions and Member Summary if they are each longer than a single sheet

Call me to schedule a time when you, your parent, your mentor, and I can get together so you can submit your Eagle packet to me

When we get together, we'll need about twenty minutes to look over your Eagle packet so I could let you know at first glance whether it appears complete. (Please be prepared to remove your shoes if we meet at my house.) And the moment I accept your packet and tell you that it appears complete must occur before the day you turn 18. After you leave, I'll look through your packet in detail, to make sure it really is complete. I'll try and remember to text you, to let you know that I have submitted your packet to the District.

A District leader will call the number listed on your Eagle Application to schedule you for an Eagle Board of Review.

Information pages or docs that might be useful to you; some of these have been listed previously

• Official Eagle Scout rank requirements website
• Eagle documents website
  All the documents (Workbook, Application, etc.) you need to complete your Eagle
• Local copies of (some are partially filled-out) Eagle documents
  Right-click on the link, select Save target as... (Chrome users select Save link as...), save it to your computer, navigate to that folder where you saved it, then open the PDF file in that folder
  Eagle Project Workbook (Windows)      Eagle Project Workbook (Mac)
  Eagle Application
  Eagle Statistics Form
• Eagle project page
  Info, rules, examples
• District Eagle Advancement website
  Checklist, presentations, merit badge counselors, training
• Internet Advancement
  For Advancement Processors, Advancement Coordinators, and Scout Committee Chairs
• BSA Guide to Advancement
  Advancement rules and guidelines
• Merit badges online
  All merit badges, their requirements, worksheets
• Merit Badge Counselor database
  Username: scouts      Password: tenderfeet
• Project sign-up sheet
• PDF version of this website