Merit Badges

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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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• Communication Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, three of them a choice of one, and four that need an audience, an approval, or a meeting that happens on somebody else's calendar.

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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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• Cycling Merit Badge

  Six requirements, and the sixth is a fork: road biking with a road safety test and 100 miles of riding, or trail biking with a trail safety test and 30, plus a second choice nested inside the road option.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Camping Merit Badge

  Ten requirements, thirty-six parts, and two places where you choose. Most of it can be done in any order, but four steps depend on another step having happened first, and one of them is twenty nights long.

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• Citizenship in the Nation Merit Badge

  Eight requirements, twenty-five parts, one choice of two from four, and one requirement that quietly needs five consecutive days before you can discuss it.

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• Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge

  Eight requirements, twenty-two parts, and two chains that have to run in order: the one ending in eight hours of volunteering, and the one ending in an interview you cannot arrange until you know who to interview.

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• Citizenship in the World Merit Badge

  Seven requirements and thirty-two parts, but three of them are "do two of the following", one of those is nested inside another, and a Scout who answers the three questions is looking at closer to twenty.

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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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• Basketry Merit Badge

  Three requirements. The first two are safety and knowledge: the hazards of basketry tools and materials and first aid for the injuries they cause, then identifying four types of basket and describing three types of weave. The third is most of the work: plan and weave a square basket, a round basket and a campstool seat.

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• Chess Merit Badge

  Seven requirements, nearly all shown at a board. Three need people: a learner to teach for requirement 3, five mate problems from your counselor for 5(e), and requirement 7, which is three games, a scholastic tournament, or a tournament you organize. Learn notation first: the games in 7 are replayed from your score sheets.

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• Collections Merit Badge

  Seven requirements, all about a collection of your own, which may not be stamps or coins. A written report or outline (1), its growth (2), preserving, displaying, events and cataloging (3), investing (4), and in 5 its terms, two groups shown to your counselor, its value, grading, associations and identification marks. Then your future plans (6) and a career (7).

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• Canoeing Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, and requirement 2 stands in front of eight of them: the swimmer test gates everything except requirement 1, including the dry-land parts about naming canoe components. Requirement 9 is eight manoeuvres multiplied by two seats and two sides.

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• Climbing Merit Badge

  Thirteen requirements, and three of them add up to eighteen separate turns on a rope: three climbers belayed, three climbs backed up, three rappellers belayed, three rappels backed up, three routes climbed and three rappelled. Twelve of the eighteen need somebody else on the other end of the rope, which is the fact the requirement text never states.

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• Bugling Merit Badge

  Six requirements, of which five are a week of work and the sixth is three months of serving as your troop's bugler. That term is a troop appointment, so the clock starts when somebody gives you the job rather than when you decide to earn the badge. Bugler counts as a position of responsibility toward Star and Life but not toward Eagle, the instrument may be a trumpet or a cornet rather than a bugle, and the ten calls chosen in requirement 3 are the ten that requirement 4 makes you explain.

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• Bird Study Merit Badge

  Thirteen requirements. The long one is requirement 5: 20 wild species observed and identified, each in a field notebook, and requirement 7 then asks for five of those same 20 by song alone. Start early. Requirements 8, 9 and 13 are choices, and two routes in 8 need a club or a banding program.

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