merit badges [Links below]
You can learn about sports, crafts, science, trades, business, and future careers as you earn merit badges. There are more than 130 merit badges. Any Boy Scout may earn a merit badge at any time. You don't need to have had rank advancement to be eligible. [Links to Merit Badges, Workbooks, and T89 Merit Badge Counselors are below.]
Pick a Subject. Talk to your unit leader (Scoutmaster) about your interest in earning a merit badge. Read the requirements of the merit badges you think might interest you. Choose one to earn. Your unit leader will give you a signed merit badge application (the "blue card") and the name and contact information of a merit badge counselor. These individuals have special knowledge in their merit badge subjects and are interested in helping you.
Use the Scout Buddy System. You must have another person with you at each meeting with the merit badge counselor. This person can be another Scout, your parents or guardian, a brother or sister or other relative, or a friend.
Call the Merit Badge Counselor. Get in touch with the merit badge counselor and tell them that you want to earn the merit badge. The counselor may ask to meet you to explain what is expected and to start helping you complete the requirements. You should also discuss work that you have already started or possibly completed.
Unless otherwise specified, work for a requirement can be started at any time. Ask your counselor to help you learn the things you need to know or do. You should obtain and read the merit badge pamphlet on the subject.
Show Your Stuff. When you are ready, call the counselor again to make an appointment. When you go take along the things you have made to meet the requirements. If they are too big to move, take pictures or have an adult tell in writing what you have done. The counselor will test you on each requirement to make sure you know your stuff and have done or can do the things required.
Get the Badge. When the counselor is satisfied that you have met each requirement, they will sign your application (the "blue card"). Give the signed application to your unit leader so that your merit badge emblem can be secured for you.
Merit Badges and their Requirements
Merit Badge Workbooks
T89 Merit Badge Counselors
Eagle Scout Project Workbook
Pick a Subject. Talk to your unit leader (Scoutmaster) about your interest in earning a merit badge. Read the requirements of the merit badges you think might interest you. Choose one to earn. Your unit leader will give you a signed merit badge application (the "blue card") and the name and contact information of a merit badge counselor. These individuals have special knowledge in their merit badge subjects and are interested in helping you.
Use the Scout Buddy System. You must have another person with you at each meeting with the merit badge counselor. This person can be another Scout, your parents or guardian, a brother or sister or other relative, or a friend.
Call the Merit Badge Counselor. Get in touch with the merit badge counselor and tell them that you want to earn the merit badge. The counselor may ask to meet you to explain what is expected and to start helping you complete the requirements. You should also discuss work that you have already started or possibly completed.
Unless otherwise specified, work for a requirement can be started at any time. Ask your counselor to help you learn the things you need to know or do. You should obtain and read the merit badge pamphlet on the subject.
Show Your Stuff. When you are ready, call the counselor again to make an appointment. When you go take along the things you have made to meet the requirements. If they are too big to move, take pictures or have an adult tell in writing what you have done. The counselor will test you on each requirement to make sure you know your stuff and have done or can do the things required.
Get the Badge. When the counselor is satisfied that you have met each requirement, they will sign your application (the "blue card"). Give the signed application to your unit leader so that your merit badge emblem can be secured for you.
Merit Badges and their Requirements
Merit Badge Workbooks
T89 Merit Badge Counselors
Eagle Scout Project Workbook
Eagle Required Merit Badges
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Camping
Citizenship in the Community Citizenship in the Nation Citizenship in the World Communications Cooking Cycling Emergency Preparedness |
Environmental Science
Family Life First Aid Hiking Lifesaving Personal Fitness Personal Management Swimming |
Elective Merit badges
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American Business
American Cultures American Heritage American Labor Animal Science Archaeology Archery Architecture Art Astronomy Athletics Auto Maintenance Aviation Backpacking Basketry Bird Study Bugling Canoeing Chemistry Cinematography Coin Collecting Composite Materials Computers Crime Prevention Dentistry Disabilities Awareness Dog Care Drafting Electricity Electronics Energy Engineering Entrepreneurship |
Farm Mechanics
Fingerprinting Fire Safety Fish and Wildlife Management Fishing Fly Fishing Forestry Genealogy Geology Golf Graphic Arts Home Repairs Horsemanship Indian Lore Insect Study Journalism Landscape Architecture Law Leatherwork Mammal Study Medicine Metalwork Model Design and Building Motor boating Music Nature Nuclear Science Oceanography Orienteering Painting Pets Photography Pioneering Plumbing |
Pottery
Public Health Public Speaking Pulp and Paper Radio Railroading Reading Reptile and Amphibian Study Rifle Shooting Rowing Safety Salesmanship Scholarship Sculpture Shotgun Shooting Skating Small Boat Sailing Snow Sports Soil and Water Conservation Space Exploration Sports Stamp Collecting Surveying Textile Theatre Traffic Safety Truck Transportation Veterinary Medicine Water Sports Weather Whitewater Wilderness Survival Wood Carving Woodwork |