A User-Friendly Mobile Application to Accelerate the Attainment of the First Class Rank in the Boy Scouts of America using the Unity Engine

Abstract

The process of Scouts within the Boy Scouts of America ranking up to First Class, and eventually Eagle, can be quite gruesome and challenging [1]. Though there are various resources online ranging from articles and videos that explain how to potentially speed up the ranking process, none of them actually give an effective solution to the problem. Scouts nowadays lack things like attention span because of the harmful side of social media, especially TikTok [2]. They don’t want tips and tricks on how to rank faster, and they also don’t want to flip through massive textbooks to find the answers to requirements. They just want straightforward and quick answers to their problems without any stalling. This is exactly what the Trail to First Class app is. It gives them quick answers to their problems without any ties. Though, the app is not perfect. There is a severe limitation that if some requirements require scouts to, for example, identify things around their geological area, the app cannot help them because providing the answers to every single possible geological area would be quite inefficient. Though something like this might be possible in the future, it definitely cannot come now. Despite the limitations, the app is more than enough to provide scouts with all the resources they need in order to accelerate their ranking process.