Great Rivers Council - 2026 Pathway to Eagle Merit Badge Series


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2026 Pathway to Eagle Merit Badge Series

Event Details

The Sinquefield Innovation Space is proud to offer the Pathway to Eagle Merit Badge Series at the Scouting Adventure Center in 2026.

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.

Pathway to Eagle Merit Badge Series Dates for 2026:

  • January 3, 2026
  • February 7, 2026
  • March 7, 2026
  • April 4, 2026
  • May 2, 2026
  • June 6, 2026
  • August 1, 2026
  • September 5, 2026
  • October 3, 2026
  • November 7, 2026
  • December 5, 2026
 

Guidance for 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
Save the Date Pathway to Eagle - January
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 01-03-2026
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Save the Date Pathway to Eagle - February
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 02-07-2026
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Save the Date Pathway to Eagle - March
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 03-07-2026
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Save the Date Pathway to Eagle - April
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 04-04-2026
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Save the Date Pathway to Eagle - May
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 05-02-2026
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Save the Date Pathway to Eagle - June
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 06-06-2026
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Save the Date Pathway to Eagle - August
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 08-01-2026
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Save the Date Pathway to Eagle - September
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 09-05-2026
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Save the Date Pathway to Eagle - October
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 10-03-2026
12:30 PM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Save the Date Pathway to Eagle - November
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 11-07-2026
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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Save the Date Pathway to Eagle - December
Scouting Adventure Center
Saturday 12-05-2026
8:30 AM CT to 3:30 PM CT
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