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Boy Scout Merit badges give scouts the opportunity to investigate around 120 different areas of knowledge and skills. The Merit Badge program plays a major role in the scouting advancement program and participation can begin as soon as a scout registers with a troop. Each scout can explore topics from American Business to Woodworking as he has interest. The only limitations are his ambition and availability of adult Merit Badge counselors to offer instruction.
Required Merit Badges: A boy scout can begin taking Merit badges as soon as he joins a troop, but no Merit badges are required for advancement until he receives his First Class rank. Advancement to Star, Life, and Eagle all require completion of Merit badges, service, and leadership. To reach Eagle rank, a scout must complete a total of at least 21 Boy Scout Merit badges listing them in his handbook, 12 of which come from the Eagle-required Badge list.
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| Merit Badges Requiring Prior Approval for Certain Requirements | ||||
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| American Heritage #2b, 2c, 2d, 5a, 5 | American Labor #2, 5c, 5d | Architecture #3 | Art #2a, 2b, 4 | |
| Astronomy #9 | Athletics #6b | Backpacking #11b | Cinematography #3a | |
| Citizenship in the Community #4b, 5, 7c | Citizenship in the Nation #6 | Communications #5, 6, 7b | Computers #6e, #7c, 7d | |
| Crime Prevention #7b | Disabilities Awareness #5a | Emergency Preparedness #8b, 9a | Engineering #1 | |
| Environmental Science #3e3 | First Aid #6c | Forestry #5 | Geology #4a, 5c | |
| Golf #8 | Graphic Arts #4a | Home Repairs #2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Indian Lore #2b | |
| Journalism #3b, 3c | Mammal Study #5 | Medicine #10 | Metalwork #5b, 3c3a | |
| Model Design and Building #1, 3, 4a, 4c | Oceanography #8a, 8c | Painting #3 | Personal Fitness #7 | |
| Pets #1 | Photography #4a, 4b | #10 | Pottery #7 | |
| Public Health #5, 7 | Pulp and Paper #7 | Radio #7 | Safety #2a | |
| Salesmanship #3 | Scholarship #4b | Sculpture #2c | Small-Boat Sailing #6c | |
| Soil and Water Conservation #7f | Sports #5 | Surveying #2 | Weather #9a, 9b | |
| Woodwork #6d | ||||
The following 15 badges are on the list of badges in requirement 3 for Eagle Scout. Although a Scout must earn only 12 of them for the rank of Eagle Scout, and certain of them are therefore options for others, a Scout may choose any combination of these Merit badges to fulfill requirement number 3 for Star and Life Scout. (He must have a total of 4 of these badges for Star and 7 of these badges for Life)
There are some web sites with great worksheets to help you organize :
MeritBadge.Org and
U.S. Scouting Service Project .
They are highly recommended.
Click on any of the following Icons to see the requirements for that Merit Badge.
Many of these images and links came from the wonderful MeritBadge.com web site.
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