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Beginning Jan. 1, 2016, there’s a fourth way to earn the Snow Sports merit badge. Snowshoeing joins downhill skiing, cross-country skiing and snowboarding as options for earning this elective merit badge.
Requirements for the Eagle-required Cooking merit badge have been revised for 2016, with better organization, fewer redundancies and a focused approach.
There’s no official recommended order for earning merit badges. So which merit badge makes the best “first merit badge” for Scouts?
It’s the job of the Merit Badge Maintenance Task Force to keep our current library of pamphlets and badge requirements up-to-date, relevant and fun.
Merit badges cover American Business, Woodwork and everything between. Boy Scouts should read these 12 steps to learn how to earn a merit badge.
Maybe it doesn’t fully encompass the merit badge, or maybe it looks a little dated. Here are 10 times the BSA changed merit badge emblems for the better.
Scouts working on the Game Design merit badge created a board game, Walls, and now their Scoutmaster is turning to Kickstarter to bring it to the world.
Each merit badge has at least one doozy — a sufficiently sized hurdle standing between a Scout and the merit badge. These are the toughest requirements.
Tent, hammock, cabin, retired battleship — all offer great experiences for Scouts, but only some count as camping nights for the Camping merit badge.
The talented team tasked with creating the new Animation merit badge includes experts in the fields of animation and digital media. Meet three of them here.
The Animation merit badge requirements were released this week, officially making it the BSA’s 136th current merit badge.
It turns out each of the Avengers — Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hawkeye and the rest — would be pretty great at counseling certain merit badges.
Crack open some merit badge pamphlets and you’ll find books that offer an excellent overview on everything from American Business to Woodwork.
April Fools! OK, so merit badge emblems aren’t increasing in size. Relive the fun in this April Fools’ Day post.
The 2014 merit badge rankings are out, and there’s a new king. The Cooking merit badge unseats the First Aid merit badge, which had long been champ.
Introducing Merit Badge Madness, a fun chance for you to decide which merit badge will be crowned the champion. Voting takes place exclusively on Instagram.
Know a Scout taking a spring break staycation? He can still find time for Scouting, if he chooses, by completing some spring break-friendly merit badges.
How can Scouts and Scouters be better prepared for the next time there are llamas on the loose? Start by checking out these five merit badges.
Today the Boy Scouts of America officially releases Signs, Signals and Codes merit badge, making it the 135th current merit badge.
Last month, the Three Fires Council of St. Charles, Ill., hosted a first-of-its-kind “Women-Only Welding” event. It was a huge success.
With 135 merit badges to choose from, selection isn’t a problem. But motivating Scouts to earn merit badges sometimes can be.
With a winter storm on the way, check out five Boy Scout merit badge books to help you get through unscathed.
Eagle Scouts can earn one Eagle palm for every five merit badges beyond the 21 required. He can earn Eagle palms as quickly as one palm every three months.
Unofficial merit badge worksheets hasten the process of earning a merit badge, but are they allowed or encouraged by the Boy Scouts of America?
For the first time in BSA history, six Eagle-required merit badge pamphlets are available in Spanish.
Merit badges represent days, weeks or even months of work by Scouts. But what isn’t always clear is what the art on the merit badges themselves represents.
FAQs about merit badge counselors: Is there a limit to the number of merit badges an individual may counsel? Can someone counsel his own family member?
Merit Badge Maintenance Task Force member Steve Bowen reveals facts about merit badges you probably didn’t know in the November 2014 ScoutCast.
The simple answer: There is no time limit for completing a merit badge except for the Scout’s 18th birthday.
It’s up to the merit badge counselor, not the Scoutmaster, to determine whether to accept a requirement fulfilled before the blue card was issued.
