Elective Merit Badges

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Dentistry Merit Badge

  Seven requirements, and the first one needs dental radiographs that only a dentist can supply, while the requirement that arranges a dentist is numbered third. One appointment can carry four requirements if it is booked that way, and requirement 3 hides the instruction that decides what the visit contains in its second sentence, where it expires the moment you arrive. Two of requirement 6's five options are requirement 2 written up.

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• Drafting Merit Badge

  Eight requirements with the longest stated dependency chain in this library: 1 feeds 2, 2 and 3 feed 4, 4 feeds 5, 5 feeds 6. The CAD drawing is the one piece that waits on nothing. And requirement 1 sends you to requirement 5 for the lettering project, which is really requirement 6.

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• Disabilities Awareness Merit Badge

  Seven requirements, and requirement 4 prints the same four places under both of its options, so the choice is not where you go but what you look for: physical access, or how a place accommodates invisible disabilities. Only one of the two needs a member of staff to stop and talk to you. Requirement 5 hides a whole requirement above its menu, and its most research heavy option ends with a presentation nobody notices in the final clause.

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• Competitive Gaming Merit Badge

  Seven requirements, and requirement 3 is the clock: two weeks of tracking gaming, activity and sleep side by side, then a week following a schedule built from them. Three steps need somebody else, and requirement 6 is a choice of three.

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• Composite Materials Merit Badge

  Six requirements, and requirement 5 is numbered in the reverse of the order it happens in: the site, the supervision and the marking scheme all have to be agreed before the two projects they apply to. At least one project must come from the merit badge pamphlet, so the pamphlet is a dependency rather than background reading, and six safety data sheets have to be obtained along the way.

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• Digital Technology Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, and the one that takes the longest hides its own condition in the sentence above the options: each of the three projects chosen at requirement 6 has to be copied to a backup device. The badge also asks for a parent or guardian's permission five separate times, and two of the five routes at requirement 8 are visits to real places rather than desk work.

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• Dog Care Merit Badge

  Ten requirements, of which nine are conversations and one is two months long. Requirement 4 keeps and cares for a dog with a nine-item log including a weekly body weight record, and the things that log records are explained in requirements 6 and 8, both numbered after it. The rule that work here cannot count towards another badge now sits above the whole badge rather than inside requirement 4.

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• Cybersecurity Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, and the one that matters most is easy to throw away: 4(f) asks you to list your own cyber attack surface, and two later options are exactly the work of acting on that list, though the badge never connects them. Requirement 5(c) offers nine options and needs three, several of which are the same evening. One option needs the system owner's permission and has a legal edge. Two of the four cryptography routes need another person to take part.

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• Crime Prevention Merit Badge

  Eleven requirements, seven of them topics to discuss or research with your counselor. The rest take arranging: research into three crimes in the news (3), with permission first; a supervised security survey (4(b)) that becomes a lesson you teach your family or Scouts (4(c)), with the teaching plan reviewed by your counselor first; and an interview with a law enforcement officer or civil servant (10), with permission first.

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• Chemistry Merit Badge

  Eight requirements that split in two. Requirement 1 is the safety data for three named chemicals, and it gates requirements 2, 3 and 4: the only three where you handle anything. Requirements 5 to 8 are ungated and can be started immediately.

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