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• Fly Fishing Merit Badge

  Eleven requirements with a rigging chain running through them: balance an outfit, tie the five knots that assemble it, cast it 30 feet, catch a fish on it. Requirement 4 hides the badge's one real lead time, tie at least two flies, in its final sentence, and requirement 11 deliberately does not wait on catching anything.

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• Game Design Merit Badge

  Eight requirements that need other people eight separate times: four play sessions at requirement 4, three playtests across requirement 6, and a blind test at requirement 7 which must use players who have not seen the game before. The prototype needs the counselor's approval first, stated in an unlettered note, and the game design notebook has to be kept as the work happens rather than written up afterwards.

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• Gardening Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, two of which are seasons rather than tasks: requirement 2 grows twelve plants through harvest and flowering, and requirement 8 is ninety days on five of its six routes with the sixth needing somebody else's beehive. The two overlap on the calendar, the germination test at requirement 4 belongs before the sowing at requirement 2, and none of that is stated anywhere on the badge.

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• Geocaching Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, and requirement 8 is a four-way choice where the quick route may not be open to you. Cache to Eagle needs your council to run one; the Travel Bug and the hidden cache each need thirty days of monitoring, and the cache also needs a three-month maintenance plan. Answer requirement 8 first, not eighth.

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• Horsemanship Merit Badge

  Twelve requirements, eleven of them linear and one of them a single continuous ride disguised as seven lettered items. Five requirements need a horse in front of you, requirement 7 cannot be finished on a day you do not ride, and the badge numbers saddling a horse before catching and tying it.

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• Forestry Merit Badge

  Eight requirements, and the first produces a field notebook that two of requirement 2's three routes write into by name. Requirement 5 is three appointments, each needing a forester, a mill or a fire warden, and all needing parent and counselor approval first. Requirement 6 offers two routes, and one depends on a professional hazardous tree report existing for your area, which is a fact about where you live rather than a preference.

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• Genealogy Merit Badge

  Nine requirements. The parts that take time are other people and records: an interview with a relative (3), contacting a genealogical society, genealogist or archive (5), obtaining a genealogical document (4(c)), a family tree of three generations (6) and two family group records (7). Requirement 2 is a timeline and short biography, or a journal kept for six weeks. Requirement 9 is what you learned about your family.

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• Golf Merit Badge

  Two requirements. Requirement 1 is safety on the course and first aid for the injuries and illnesses golf can bring. Requirement 2 is ONE of two options, traditional golf or disc golf, each done in full: the rules, history, a healthy lifestyle, the shots or throws shown, a round played with another golfer about your age and your counselor or an adult your counselor approves, and careers.

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• Graphic Arts Merit Badge

  Seven requirements. Learn the printing processes (1) and kinds of artwork (2), then design a printed piece (3) and print it by ONE of four processes (4): offset lithography, screen printing, electronic/digital or relief, 20 or 50 copies. Then the finishing and binding operations (5), ONE of four visits or a website search, then describe its highlights (6), and careers (7).

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• Health Care Professions Merit Badge

  Nine requirements. Requirements 1 to 4 are four groups of professions: from each, select three that interest you and describe their roles and their educational and licensing requirements. Requirement 5 is visiting one professional at their workplace. Then the Physician's Oath, confidentiality and HIPAA, a recent medical advancement, and volunteering at a health-related event or facility, with your parent or guardian's and counselor's approval.

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• Family Life Merit Badge

  Seven requirements, nineteen parts, and one of them takes ninety days. Everything else here is an afternoon, which is exactly why the ninety-day one has to start today.

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• Environmental Science Merit Badge

  Eleven requirements and thirty-one parts, but six of them are "do ONE of the following": answer the six questions and you are looking at thirteen. Two of the parts have a clock attached.

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• Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge

  Ten requirements and fifty-nine parts, and requirement 9 is not a part at all, it is the whole First Aid merit badge. Start that one first; everything else here can wait for it.

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• First Aid Merit Badge

  The largest merit badge here: fifteen requirements, a hundred and six parts, and almost no order between them. This is an honest grouped checklist rather than a dependency graph, plus the six parts that need equipment or another person.

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• Electronics Merit Badge

  Six requirements. The centre of the badge is 4(c): build ONE project (a control device, a digital circuit or an analog circuit), with a schematic you find or create, and explain how it operates. Soldering and desoldering in 3 and reading resistor bands in 5(c) are shown to your counselor. The rest is a schematic you draw, binary conversions, Ohm's law, test equipment and a career.

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• Fingerprinting Merit Badge

  Six short requirements, five of them explanations: history, identification systems, the science, the patterns and a career. Requirement 4 is taking a clear set of prints, either rolled and plain on a fingerprint card from your police department or counselor, or with tape and pencil.

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• Exploration Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, three of which are one continuous undertaking: requirement 6 plans, requirement 7 prepares, requirement 8 goes, each naming the last by number. Requirement 6's eight steps get used four separate times, and two different qualified adults have to be found.

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• Energy Merit Badge

  Eight requirements, and the first one is also the last. Requirement 1(a) is twenty minutes of reading in week one; requirement 1(b) cannot be started until requirements 2 through 8 are all finished, and it revisits the same source. Requirement 4 is a fourteen-day log numbered fourth, so it wants starting early, and requirement 7 is a choice of five energy systems from nine that decides most of the reading. The article chosen in week one is the article the closing discussion is built on.

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• Fish and Wildlife Management Merit Badge

  Eight requirements, and two of them are choices where the options differ by months. Requirement 5 runs from two weeks of daily feeder records to a whole nesting season of nest box records, and requirement 7 from an afternoon examining fish stomachs to sixty days of running an aquarium. Both sets are printed as neighbouring lines with nothing to mark the difference. The aquarium option also carries a legal check and a counselor conversation that have to happen before the sixty days are up.

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• Electricity Merit Badge

  Eleven requirements. Requirement 1 is electrical emergencies, with a rescue, first aid and burn treatment shown, not only explained. Four involve your home: a safety inspection (2), circuits, fuses and breakers (6), a room's wiring diagram (7), and an electric bill and its meter (8). Requirements 3 and 5 are an electromagnet and a drawing, and requirement 10 is any two of six circuit projects.

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• Engineering Merit Badge

  Nine requirements. Three need arranging: investigating a manufactured item at home with adult supervision and your counselor's approval (1), a visit with an engineer in five parts (4), and, if chosen, a science or engineering fair (6(g)). Requirement 5 is designing something with the systems engineering approach, and requirement 6 is any two of seven projects.

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• Entrepreneurship Merit Badge

  Six requirements that build on each other. Interview someone who started a business (3). List business ideas, pick three, choose one (4). Write a business plan for that idea in five sections, including a promotional flyer or poster (5). Then imagine it running: successes, problems, failures and ethical questions (6).

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• Farm Mechanics Merit Badge

  Seven requirements, mostly hands-on. Safety comes first and applies throughout: the right equipment and clothing, a farm shop plan, warning symbols, and the safety data sheets for what you use (1). Then two of four tool jobs (3), one of three jobs on an engine-powered machine (4), a visit to an implement dealer (5), and one maintenance procedure explained step by step (6).

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• Fire Safety Merit Badge

  Ten requirements in forty parts. Many are demonstrations, from a fire extinguisher and fire blanket to a match, flint and steel, a charcoal fire, a campfire and a camp stove. Your family is part of it: candle safety, a home fire-safety inspection with an adult, and an escape plan and home fire drill. You also teach a fire safety skill to other Scouts, and requirement 10 is a fire station visit or career research.

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• Cooking Merit Badge

  Three kitchens (home, camp and trail) each with the same five steps in the same order. The menu comes first every time, and the three menus may not be the same.

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