Family Life

Emergency Preparedness is an Eagle-required badge about being ready when crisis strikes. You will explore disaster risk across the five phases of emergency management (prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery), create family evacuation and shelter-in-place plans, practice life-saving rescues for live wires, carbon monoxide, fires, and drowning/ice accidents, demonstrate distress signaling and improvised stretcher transports, study NIMS and Incident Command, assemble a personal Go Bag, and plan troop emergency mobilization.

Citizenship in Society focuses on ethical leadership, self-reflection, and what it means to create communities where all people feel respected, heard, and welcomed. Through thoughtful discussions with your counselor and peers, you will explore real-world scenarios, examine personal values in light of the Scout Oath and Law, and practice standing up for others as an active upstander.

Communication is essential to leadership, teamwork, and lifelong success. In this Eagle-required badge, you will analyze your personal communication and listening habits, write and deliver a formal five-minute speech, interview an expert, report objectively on a public meeting, teach a skill using the EDGE method, create digital or print publications, and serve as master of ceremonies for a major unit event.

Cooking is an Eagle-required badge about nourishing yourself, your family, and your patrol safely and well. You will master food safety and nutrition guidelines, plan balanced multi-day menus, cook meals at home, outdoors at camp, and on the trail using a wide variety of cooking methods, and learn to manage time, budgets, and clean-up.