Welcome to Troop 10
Welcome to Troop 10
These
following guidelines are the current policies for learning & earning Merit
Badges.
You can learn
about sports, crafts, science, trades, business and future careers as you earn
these merit badges. There are more than 100 merit badges.
Any Boy Scout may earn any merit badge at any time. You don’t need to have had
rank advancement to be eligible.
Pick A Subject. Read the
requirements of the merit badges you think might interest you. Pick one to
earn. Troop 10’s Advancement Chairman can give you a list of counselors. These
counselors have special knowledge in their merit badge subjects and are
interested in helping you. Troop 10
will offer some Merit Badges prior to
some Troop Meetings. Other
opportunities include various Merit Badge Forums or ‘Colleges’, special events
and during Summer Camp.
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, a relative or a friend.
Call The Counselor. Get a signed merit badge application from
the Advancement Chairman. Get in touch with the merit badge counselor and tell
him or her that you want to earn the merit badge. The counselor may ask you to
come and see him so he can explain what he expects and start helping you meet
the requirements.
When you know
what is expected, start to learn and do the things required. Ask your counselor
to help you learn the things you need to know or do. You should read the merit
badge pamphlet on the subject. These
are avalible from the Scout Shop, a fellow Scout or the Troop Library.
Show Your
Stuff. When you are ready, call the
counselor again to make an appointment to meet the requirements. 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 ask you to do each requirement to make sure that 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, he or she will sign your Merit Badge Card. Give the signed
Card to the Advancement Chairman so that your merit badge emblem can be secured
for you at the next Court of Honor.
Requirements. You are expected to meet the requirements as they
are stated --- no more and no less. You are expected to do exactly what is
stated in the requirements. If it says "show or demonstrate," that is
what you must do. Just telling about it isn’t enough. The same thing holds true
for such words as "make," "list," "in the field,"
and "collect," "identify," and "label."
Note: There is NO DEADLINE for earning Merit Badges,
except the Scout's 18th Birthday. Once a Scout has started working on a
Merit Badge (i.e. obtained a signed "Blue Card" Application for Merit
Badge from his Scoutmaster, had an initial discussion with a merit badge
Counselor, and started working on the requirements), he may continue using
those requirements until he completes the badge or turns 18.
THERE IS NO ONE YEAR LIMIT ON SO-CALLED "PARTIALS".
In contrast to the rule for rank advancements, which imposes a
specific deadline for using the old requirements, The rule for Merit Badges is
as follows:
If the requirements change while a
Scout is working on the badge, he may continue to use the OLD requirements
until he completes the work, or he may use the new requirements if he
wishes. It is HIS choice, and his alone.
If a Merit Badge is discontinued, Scouts working on the badge
when it is removed from the Boy Scout Requirements booklet may continue to work
toward completing the badge, and get credit for earning the badge, until they
turn 18. However, it may not be possible to obtain an actual merit badge
patch, once the local council's supply is exhausted.
If a discontinued Merit Badge is replaced with one or more other
Merit Badges covering the same or similar topics (such as Rifle and Shotgun
Shooting MB which was replaced by Rifle Shooting MB and Shotgun Shooting MB), a
Scout that has earned the discontinued badge may also earn the new badge or
badges. If the badge is simply renamed (such as Firemanship MB
which was changed to Fire Safety MB), Scouts may NOT earn the badge
again. If the badge number in BSA's
numbering system is the same before and after the change, it is a
renaming. If a new number is assigned, it is a replacement.
U.S. Scouting Service Project
http://usscouts.org/usscouts/mb/mbindex.asp
Merit Badge.Com
www.meritbadge.com
Merit Badge.Org
http://meritbadge.org/index.php?title=Merit_Badges
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