THIS JUST IN: The 2009 Edition of the EAGLE SCOUT APPLICATION! NOTE DROP DEAD DATE FOR 2008 FORM USE

[John-in-KC]

This email was waiting for me tonight when I got home from sitting in on a Pack Committee meeting. It's from one of the senior secretaries in the Heart of America Council... and it's NOT a late April Fool.

 

I quote verbatim, except her name:

 

The National Council, BSA has changed the Eagle Scout Rank application. The new official form will say 2009 Printing on the back of the form. Thanks to Steve he has published the new form on the council website at: http://hoac-bsa.org/Adv_Resource.cfm'>http://hoac-bsa.org/Adv_Resource.cfm . Please let your units know about this change. This is the third change that the National office has implemented regarding these forms over the past year. According to Eagle Scout Services at the National office we will be accepting the 2008 Printing 2nd Edition Eagle Scout Rank Application until July 31, 2009. No earlier editions of this form will be accepted for processing. On August 1, 2009 and after, only the 2009 Printing of the Eagle Scout Rank Application will be accepted.

 

 

C

Program & Camping Department

Heart of America Council, BSA

10210 Holmes Road

Kansas City, MO 64131

 

Once again, the urls are:

http://hoac-bsa.org/Adv_Resource.cfm to the webpage with the guidance

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/512-728.pdf to the app itself

 

BTW: It's not yet a fillable. Print and use, or save as a background and use textboxes on a word processor. Sigh.(This message has been edited by John-in-KC)

[Hal_Crawford]

Looking at the two side by side the biggest change seems to be asking for e-mail addresses for the references. There is a minor format change at the top of the first page and a note that the number of hours on the Eagle project are for statistical purposes only.

 

Requirement 4 (POR) is reformatted and there is additional text pertaining to Lone Scouts.

 

The number of the Eagle Project Workbook has been changed. I'm guessing this means that we will see a new edition of the workbook as well.

[John-in-KC]

Actually, if you don't have the 2008 edition of the ELSP workbook #18-927, it's available at the NESA website:

 

http://www.nesa.org/trail/18-927.pdf

 

The current pdf format version is 18-927E.