Life Skills Challenges

Eight life skills. Real feats with a clear standard. Pick your challenges, practice, then show your guide you can do it.

Your grades

A narrow dirt trail climbs a golden hillside above Ogden in evening light, heading toward the peak of Ben Lomond. — Bonneville Shoreline Trail, Ogden

Your year

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How it works

Pick
Choose a challenge and tell your Field Guide your plan.
Practice
Use the “Where to learn” links and the AI prompts on each challenge, and ask for help.
Show it
Show your guide in person, any day you’re ready, or in the lightning test at the end of a Lab. Challenges marked Can do at home can also be passed off with a parent’s video or log. A few need big setup, like a pool swim, so those get a scheduled test day.
Pass, or not yet
No partial credit and no limit on retries. A not yet tells you exactly what to practice.
Rank up
Every pass is a credit. Credits move you up your trail.

Bring your hobby

Into music, drawing, coding, games, a sport or birds? Lots of challenges can be done through the thing you already love, at a harder level than you’d push yourself alone. Look for the Bring your hobby tag, or search for your hobby: challenges about it come first, and challenges you can do through it are listed after them.

Four words to know

Challenge: One “I can” statement with a clear standard.
Credit: One passed challenge from your grade band or higher.
Epic: A bigger build over several weeks, with 3 checkpoints. Worth 2 credits.
Gate: A safety check you pass before an activity, like your fire card before you light a fire.

Grades 2–4 trail

Rank	Credits
Fox	4
Badger	16
Elk	32
Moose	48

Grades 5–8 trail

Rank	Credits
Tracker	4
Pathfinder	16
Ranger	32
Vanguard	48
Trailblazer	64, plus the passport

Everyone starts at the bottom of their own trail, whatever their age. After grades 1 and 4 a crossing ceremony moves you to the next trail, and your credits come with you. You receive each rank at Honor Court, with your feat named out loud. The passport means one challenge each with a real audience, a night outdoors, teaching someone, leading a group, a hard physical feat, and building with tech. Rank names are working names; the Founders Crew picks the final ones.

Mastery badges

Every challenge in one life skill for your band.

Assist

Coach a younger student through a challenge they then pass.

About “not yet”

You will hear it a lot. So does everyone who gets good at anything. A not yet comes with what was missing, how to practice it, and a retry date. Before a hard test your heart will race. That’s your body sending oxygen to your brain and muscles. Use it.

Passing off at homeHigh standards, high support

Parents can pass off some challenges from home: a video for skills your child can show on demand, a same-day log for habits, and a witness note for moments only you see. A pass from home is worth exactly the same as a pass at school, so it’s held to exactly the same sentence.

Read the parent guide

Video for skills shown on demand, like a timed run, a knot or a talk
Parent log for habits over days or weeks, written the same day
Witness note for real moments you see, like ordering food on their own
Safety Gates always need a guide or certified instructor, never a parent