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Quest for Eagle Merit Badge Series

Event Details

The Sinquefield Innovation Space is proud to present the 2025 Quest for Eagle Merit Badge Series at the Scouting Adventure Center.

Scouts need to accumulate at least 21 merit badges before earning the Eagle Scout rank. Of those 21 badges,14 must come from this list of Eagle-required merit badges and the rest can be any badges not used for these 14.
Starting in January, the Innovation Space will host an Eagle Required Merit Badge Event every month.  All prerequisites and merit badge specific information will be available in the course catalog as they become available.   
Dates for each Merit Badge are listed below.  The Merit Badge offered will vary month-to-month.  Please Check-out the Registration Page below for details on upcoming Merit Badges being offered.

Quest for Eagle Merit Badge Series Dates for 2025:

  • January 11, 2025: First Aid Merit Badge
  • February 1, 2025: Citizenshiip in the Community and/or Citizenship in Society
  • March 1, 2025: Citizenship in the World
  • April 5, 2025: Environmental Science
  • May 3, 2025: Emergency Preparedness
  • June 7, 2025: Citizenship in the Nation
  • August 2, 2025
  • September 6, 2025: Communication OR Personal Managemant
  • November 1, 2025
  • December 6, 2025

First Aid Merit Badge - Quest for Eagle

Date:  January 11, 2025

Citizenship in the Community and/or Citzenship in Society - Quest for Eagle

Date:  February 1, 2025

Citizenship in the World - Quest for Eagle

Date:  March 1, 2025

Environmental Science - Quest For Eagle
 
Date:  April 5, 2025
Time: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
Location: Scouting Adventure Center
Cost:  $20
Requirements:  
Prerequisites:  Complete Requirement #2, and be prepared to discuss this with your counselor.
 
Lunch:  There will be one hour lunch break at ~11:30 am.  Scouts must bring there own lunch or make lunch arrangements.

Emergency Preparedness - Quest for Eagle & Drone Workshop Recreational Drone Certification

Date:  May 3, 2025
Time: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
Location: Scouting Adventure Center
Cost:  $50
Requirements:  
Prerequisites:  1, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 3c

Lunch:  There will be a 1 hour break for lunch from 11:30 to 12:30.  Scouts must bring there own lunch.

Specific Information for this Merit Badge Event:

Earn your Eagle-required Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge while learning to operate a recreational drone, obtaining your FAA recreational Drone Certification, and constructing your own Do-it-yourself Drone that you will get to take home at the end of the day. Scouts will spend a half day earning their Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge, and the other half of the day earning their FAA recreational UAS Safety Test Certification, building their very own Drone, and learning the basics of how to operate and fly their own recreational drone. At the end of the day, each scout will take home their very own drone valued at $32.

Citizenship in the Nation - Quest for Eagle

Date:  June 7, 2025
Time: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
Location: Scouting Adventure Center
Cost:  $20
Requirements:  
Prerequisites:  Requirements 5 & 8
5. Watch the national evening news for five days in a row or read the main stories in a national media organization (e.g., a newspaper or news website) for five days in a row. (We will discuss issues in class)
8. Name your representatives in the United States Congress. Write a letter to your representative in Congress explaining your views on a national issue. Show your letter, along with any response you receive, to your counselor. (Bring the letter to class)
 
Lunch:  There will be a 1 hour break for lunch at ~11:30.  Scouts must bring there own lunch.
 

Sustainability

Date:  August 2, 2025
Time: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
Location: Scouting Adventure Center
Cost:  $20
Requirements:  
Prerequisites:  TBD
Lunch:  There will be a 1 hour break for lunch at ~11:30.  Scouts must bring there own lunch.

Specific Information for this Merit Badge Event:  TBD


Communication OR Personal Management
 

Date:  September 6, 2025

Time: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
Location: Scouting Adventure Center
Cost:  $20 
Requirements:  
Communication Prerequisites:  Prerequisites: Requirements 2A or 2B (choose one and be prepared to report on it), -- Half of Requirement 3, which requires scouts to write a five-minute speech then deliver it in a meeting of the group. Please write the speech in advance, you will deliver it during the class.-- Half of Requirement 4, which requires them to interview someone then prepare and deliver an introduction of the person as if they were going to be a guest speaker. These interviews need to be done in advance, Scouts will do the introductions during the class. Requirements 5, 7 and 8 must be done in advance. (Please bring copy of any documents prepared to show completion and for use during discussion)
 
Personal Management Prerequisites: The following requirements need to be completed prior to class: Req. 1, 2 (requires 13 consecutive weeks of assembled budget items), 8, 9 and 10 (consider a career path to be discussed with the counselor).

Lunch:  There will be one hour lunch break at ~11:30 am.  Scouts must bring there own lunch or make lunch arrangements.


Merit Badge To Be Determined

Date:  November 1, 2025
Time: TBD
Location: Scouting Adventure Center
Cost:  TBD
Requirements:  
Prerequisites:  TBD
Lunch:  TBD
Specific Information for this Merit Badge Event:  TBD

Merit Badge To Be Determined

Date:  December 6, 2025
Time: TBD
Location: Scouting Adventure Center
Cost:  TBD
Requirements:  
Prerequisites:  TBD
Lunch:  TBD
Specific Information for this Merit Badge Event:  TBD


Eagle Required Merit Badges:

Earn ALL of the following Merit Badges:

1. First Aid*
2. Citizenship in the Community*
3. Citizenship in the Nation*
4. Citizenship in Society*
5. Citizenship in the World*
6. Communication*
7. Cooking
8. Personal Fitness
9. Personal Management*
10. Camping
11. Family Life

Earn one Merit Badge from each of the following

For badges 12, 13 and 14 listed below, only one of the badges listed can be used as an Eagle-required badge. If another in the grouping is earned, it can be counted as one of the 7 optional merit badges required to reach Eagle rank.
For example, if a Scout earns Cycling and Hiking merit badges to fulfill their Life rank requirement, when applying for Eagle, either the Cycling or the Hiking can be counted as a required merit badge and the other can be counted as an optional merit badge.
Having these required merit badges from a range of disciplines ensures that an Eagle Scout has experienced doing badges that support the BSA mission and vision. These present concepts around citizenship, family, personal responsibility, preparedness, physical fitness, and outdoors skills.
12. Choose one:
  • Emergency Preparedness*
  • Lifesaving
13. Choose one:
  • Environmental Science*
  • Sustainability*
14. Choose one:
  • Swimming
  • Hiking
  • Cycling



As a reminder, there will be no physical blue cards issued at the completion of this event.  To access your blue cards after the completion of the event you will need to follow the below steps:

  1. Go back into your registration.  If you need to look up your registration just follow this link and click on the “Lookup” menu on the top right of the page. https://scoutingevent.com/?OrgKey=BSA653&reservationFromEmail=true
  2. Each registration has its own list of available reports.  When you view your registration, click on the Reports tab to run the reports available for that event. 
  3. This should bring up the blue cards for the scout or scouts you registered. * This will also provide you the option to export your individual blue cards into Scoutbook as well.



Cancellation and Refund Policy

Event Coordinators reserve the right to postpone or cancel an event if registrations are insufficient to cover the event expenses up to five days prior to the event. If an event is postponed or canceled, the registrant will have an option to receive a full refund or transfer fees to a future or different event. 

In the event a participant or unit must cancel, you must inform GRC of your inability to attend no less than 7 days prior to the event. 

All refund requests must be submitted to the Council office via this online portal, or via the paper refund request form, no later than 7 days following the event
(The request must be made prior to unit check-out for summer camp requests). 

A unit leader, scout, or parent, may request a refund of fees under the following conditions only:
♦  Illness or serious accident prevents the scout from attending the event.
♦  Family illness or emergency prevents the scout from attending the event.
♦  The event has been canceled or postponed by the event coordinator.
♦  Other situations deemed permissible by the event coordinator.

If a refund is approved, a 25% readiness fee will be deducted.
Opting for the refund to be credited to your unit shop account (for GRC units only) will reduce the readiness fee to 15%.


The final approved amount is decided by the team.

Scouts Summer and Cub Resident Camps also have a non-refundable per person deposit, and any additional activity fees are non-refundable. 

To request a refund please follow the link below

→    Refund Request Form

Contact
When & Where
Quest For Eagle - Emergency Preparedness & Drones
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 05-03-2025
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Quest For Eagle - Citizenship in the Nation
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 06-07-2025
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Quest For Eagle - Sustainability
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 08-02-2025
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Quest For Eagle-Communication OR Personal Management
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 09-06-2025
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Quest For Eagle November
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 11-01-2025
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Quest For Eagle December
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 12-06-2025
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Quest For Eagle-First Aid MB
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 01-11-2025
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT Past
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Quest For Eagle-Citizenship in Society & the Community
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 02-01-2025
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT Past
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Quest For Eagle-Citizenship in the World
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 03-01-2025
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT Past
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Quest For Eagle-Environmental Science
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 04-05-2025
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT Past
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