Plans

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50-Miler Award

50-Miler Award Plan the trip, cover 50 miles over five days without motors, do 10 hours of trail work, then the unit leader files the application with the council. 6 steps

Advancement Already Earned Elsewhere

Advancement already earned elsewhere One choice at the top, then two separate branches: coming back to Scouting America after time away, and arriving with advancement from another country's association. 34 steps

Advancement for Members With Special Needs

Advancing with a disability or special need From an open-minded reading of a requirement to a council-approved alternative, with the approver named at every level. 47 steps

Advancement in a Cub Scout Pack

Advancement in a Cub Scout pack The Guide's own three steps, drawn end to end: preparation, qualification and recognition, with reporting placed where it actually belongs, before the badge is bought. 45 steps

Advancement in Camp Settings

Setting Up Advancement at Camp What the council advancement committee establishes, who approves the counselors, and the line nobody may cross. 24 steps

Advancement in Venturing

Advancement in Venturing The four ranks in order, with the three places Venturing advancement meets another program and somebody has to decide who is responsible. 34 steps

American Business Merit Badge

American Business Merit Badge Six requirements, with the explanations of requirements 1 to 3 drawn as steps, the five primary areas of business in 1(c) drawn before the business research of requirement 5 and the career route of 6(a), and requirement 6 (career or interview) drawn as a question. 22 steps

American Cultures Merit Badge

American Cultures Merit Badge Five requirements drawn so the unnumbered choice that governs three of them is read before requirement 1 rather than discovered inside it, and so the options that depend on somebody else saying yes are visible while the choice is still open. 11 steps

American Heritage Merit Badge

American Heritage Merit Badge Six requirements, with the two of four in requirement 2, the two of five in requirement 4 and the one of three in requirement 5 drawn as questions, the routes needing your counselor's approval marked, and the Declaration of Independence, the news, the national symbols and your family's history drawn as required steps. 22 steps

American Indian Culture Merit Badge

American Indian Culture Merit Badge Five requirements, with the parts of requirements 3 and 4 drawn as steps, the game taught and led with a Scout group marked, and requirement 5 (a museum visit or a contemporary gathering) drawn as a question. 14 steps

American Labor Merit Badge

American Labor Merit Badge Nine requirements drawn so the list made in requirement 1 is still in your hand when requirement 2 asks for it, and so the permissions and the very different sizes of requirement 5 are visible before you choose. 17 steps

Animal Science Merit Badge

Animal Science Merit Badge The seven requirements, with requirement 6 drawn as its six options and the three inner choices that decide whether this badge takes weeks or months. 53 steps

Animation Merit Badge

Animation Merit Badge Five requirements, with requirement 3 drawn as two techniques chosen with the counselor's approval, each planned, created and shared in that order, among the explanations, the principles, the studio tour and careers. 18 steps

Archaeology Merit Badge

Archaeology Merit Badge Eleven requirements drawn so that the two needing another person are visible on day one rather than at the end, so the five sites of requirement 4 are counted honestly, and so the week inside requirement 7(c) is seen before it is chosen. 26 steps

Archery Merit Badge

Archery Merit Badge The five requirements, with requirement 5 drawn to its full three levels so the shooting test you actually face is visible before you pick a bow. 50 steps

Architecture Merit Badge

Architecture Merit Badge Five requirements, with the community tour and sketch, the scaled floor plan of a measured room, and requirement 3 (an architect's model and drawings, a construction site, or a client interview) drawn as a question, and the four topics of requirement 2 summarized as one discussion. 11 steps

Arrow of Light Rank

Arrow of Light Rank The six required Arrow of Light Adventures and their requirements, Bobcat first, then the thirteen electives under one choice that keeps only the ones your Scout is doing. 122 steps

Art Merit Badge

Art Merit Badge Seven requirements, with the four-media rendering, the three project routes and the permission-first visit marked as the parts that need materials or arranging. 11 steps

Artificial Intelligence Merit Badge

Artificial Intelligence Merit Badge Eight requirements drawn so the three parts that need another person in the room are visible before the twenty-four that do not, with the two routes at requirements 7 and 8 shown as what each actually costs. 33 steps

Astronomy Merit Badge

Astronomy Merit Badge The nine requirements with the parts that need a clear night marked as such, the two numbered cross-references drawn as arrows, and requirement 8 shown as the counselor-agreed decision that reorders everything else. 41 steps

Athletics Merit Badge

Athletics Merit Badge The seven requirements, with requirement 5 drawn as the nine-way choice it is, the three stated cross-references drawn as edges, and the two three-month clocks marked where they start. 60 steps

Automotive Maintenance Merit Badge

Automotive Maintenance Merit Badge Twelve requirements in the badge's own order, ten of them systems of the vehicle with their lettered parts drawn as steps. The safety equipment of 1(b), used throughout, is marked. The electrical system diagrammed in 8(a) is a question of three, and requirement 11 (two of four projects) is a multiple-choice question. 62 steps

Aviation Merit Badge

Aviation Merit Badge Five requirements, with the eight explanations of requirement 1 and the five parts of requirement 5 drawn as steps, and the build-and-fly of requirement 2, the two flight operations of requirement 3 and the visit of requirement 4 drawn as questions. 31 steps

Backpacking Merit Badge

Backpacking Merit Badge The eleven requirements with the two plan-and-execute pairs the text names (9(a) into 9(e), 11(a) into 11(b)) drawn as conditions, the scale of requirements 10 and 11 shown at the front, and the two requirements that have to be scheduled onto a trek rather than done at home flagged where a reader will still meet them in time. 38 steps

Basketry Merit Badge

Basketry Merit Badge Three requirements, with the safety and first aid of requirement 1 and the basket types and weaves of requirement 2 drawn before the three projects of requirement 3: a square basket, a round basket and a campstool seat, each planned and woven. 11 steps

Bear Rank

Bear Rank The six required Bear Adventures and their requirements, Bobcat first, then the seventeen electives under one choice that keeps only the ones your Bear is doing. 146 steps

Becoming a Merit Badge Counselor

Registering and Being Approved From wanting to counsel a badge to being on the council list, and what keeps you there. 26 steps

Bird Study Merit Badge

Bird Study Merit Badge Thirteen requirements, with the 20-species field notebook drawn as the prerequisite of identifying five by song, and the field experience, the thing to build and the career or hobby drawn as questions. 29 steps

Boards of Review

The Board of Review, Start to Finish From asking for a board to the rank being presented, with the appeal route that follows a denial. 40 steps

Bugling Merit Badge

Bugling Merit Badge Six requirements drawn so that the one with a ninety day clock on it is visible on day one rather than last, so the appointment it depends on gets asked for early, and so the ten calls of requirement 3 are chosen with requirement 4 already in view. 9 steps

Camping Merit Badge

Camping Merit Badge The ten requirements, with the four dependencies the requirements state and the two places where you choose. 47 steps

Canoeing Merit Badge

Canoeing Merit Badge The nine requirements, with the swimmer test drawn as the seven-edge gate its own sentence makes it, and requirement 1 left outside where it belongs. 38 steps

Chemistry Merit Badge

Chemistry Merit Badge The eight requirements, with requirement 1 drawn as the three-edge safety gate it states itself to be, and the four ungated requirements drawn where they can actually start. 25 steps

Chess Merit Badge

Chess Merit Badge Seven requirements, with the learner for requirement 3, the counselor's mate problems and the three routes through requirement 7 marked as the parts that need other people, and 4(a) notation drawn into the games that are replayed from score sheets. 29 steps

Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge

Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge The eight requirements, with the five dependencies the requirements state and the two that decide how long the badge takes. 23 steps

Citizenship in the Nation Merit Badge

Citizenship in the Nation Merit Badge The eight requirements, with the choice in requirement 7 and the two that need planning rather than reading. 26 steps

Citizenship in the World Merit Badge

Citizenship in the World Merit Badge The seven requirements, with the three choices the badge offers and the nested one inside requirement 4. 33 steps

Climbing Merit Badge

Climbing Merit Badge The thirteen requirements with the conditions the practical parts state in their own words drawn as conditions (the harness before anything is tied to it, the verbal signals before the climb that uses them) the eighteen rope sessions counted at the front, and the two requirements that are about a particular site rather than about climbing in general marked as such. 48 steps

Coin Collecting Merit Badge

Coin Collecting Merit Badge Seven requirements, with the six parts of the U.S. coin set in requirement 4 drawn as steps, its explanation of design features and designers marked as often forgotten, and requirement 7 (a world coin, paper money or token collection, or one of four experiences) drawn as one question. 22 steps

Collections Merit Badge

Collections Merit Badge Seven requirements about a collection of your own (not stamps or coins), with the written report, the four parts of preserving and displaying (preserving drawn before displaying), the investing discussion summarized as one step, and the six parts of requirement 5 drawn as steps. 18 steps

Communication Merit Badge

Communication Merit Badge The nine requirements, with the three choices the badge offers and the four that need other people booked in advance. 19 steps

Competitive Gaming Merit Badge

Competitive Gaming Merit Badge Seven requirements, with the two weeks of side-by-side tracking in requirement 3 drawn as running together and the balanced week after them drawn as waiting on all three. 35 steps

Composite Materials Merit Badge

Composite Materials Merit Badge Six requirements drawn so that the agreements requirement 5 depends on appear before the work they govern, rather than after it as the numbering has them. 22 steps

Cooking Merit Badge

Cooking Merit Badge Three cooking requirements built on the same five-step chain, plus the cross-reference from requirement 4 back to the ten cooking methods of requirement 3. 44 steps

Crime Prevention Merit Badge

Crime Prevention Merit Badge Eleven requirements, with the news research of requirement 3 drawn before its notes, the supervised security survey of 4(b) drawn as the prerequisite of the lesson in 4(c), the permissions for the research and the interview marked, and the seven discussion lists summarized in their steps. 17 steps

Cybersecurity Merit Badge

Cybersecurity Merit Badge Nine requirements drawn so the attack surface list you write in requirement 4 is still in your hand when requirement 5 asks you to act on it, and so the options that need another person are visible before you pick them. 51 steps

Cycling Merit Badge

Cycling Merit Badge The six requirements, with requirement 6 drawn as the two options it is, and the choice inside Option A nested under it. 38 steps

Dentistry Merit Badge

Dentistry Merit Badge Seven requirements drawn so the one appointment this badge depends on is arranged before requirement 1 rather than at requirement 3, and so the menu options at requirements 4 and 6 can be picked knowing what each actually costs. 26 steps

Digital Technology Merit Badge

Digital Technology Merit Badge Nine requirements drawn so the backup device, the five separate permissions and the publishing condition on the blog and webpage routes are visible before a reader commits to any of them. 42 steps

Disabilities Awareness Merit Badge

Disabilities Awareness Merit Badge Seven requirements drawn so that the nested choice at requirement 4 is a choice of what to look for rather than where to go, so requirement 5's three routes can be compared honestly, and so the visits that could share one organisation are visible before the first one is booked. 28 steps

Distinguished Conservation Service Award

Distinguished Conservation Service Award First Class and seven conservation merit badges alongside two pre-approved conservation projects, then a board of review by the council conservation committee. 7 steps

Dog Care Merit Badge

Dog Care Merit Badge The ten requirements with the two-month log pulled out of the middle of the list, the knowledge requirements that ought to precede it marked, and the standing no-double-counting note attached where it now applies. 33 steps

Drafting Merit Badge

Drafting Merit Badge The eight requirements in the order the badge itself states, including the counselor redline round-trip in the middle of it and the second formatted sheet that sits unused until the last step. 27 steps

Eagle Palms

Earning Eagle Palms From the Eagle board of review to a Palm on the ribbon, separating the ones that are counted from the ones that are earned. 12 steps

Eagle Scout Rank

Eagle Scout Rank Requirements The seven requirements, the service project approval chain, and the merit badges: in the order they actually have to happen. 44 steps

Electricity Merit Badge

Electricity Merit Badge Eleven requirements, with the emergency demonstrations of requirement 1, the home inspection, circuits, wiring diagram and electric bill marked as the parts that involve your home, and requirement 10 (two of six circuit projects) drawn as a question. 34 steps

Electronics Merit Badge

Electronics Merit Badge Six requirements, with the lettered parts of 2, 3, 4 and 5 drawn as steps, the shown work (soldering, binary conversion, Ohm's law, resistor bands) marked, and the project build of 4(c) drawn as a question of three: a control device, a digital circuit or an analog circuit. 22 steps

Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge

Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge The ten requirements, with the First Aid merit badge drawn as the major undertaking it is and the chart drawn before the family meeting that discusses it. 60 steps

Energy Merit Badge

Energy Merit Badge Eight requirements drawn so that requirement 1 appears at both ends of the plan, where the badge actually puts it, and so the fourteen-day log is visible from the start rather than at the point it is numbered. 35 steps

Engineering Merit Badge

Engineering Merit Badge Nine requirements, with the home investigation (counselor approval first), the five parts of the visit with an engineer, the systems engineering design, and requirement 6 (two of seven projects) drawn as a question. 22 steps

Entrepreneurship Merit Badge

Entrepreneurship Merit Badge Six requirements, with the business idea chosen in requirement 4 drawn as the prerequisite of the written business plan in requirement 5, the plan's five sections drawn as steps, and imagining the business running (6) drawn after the plan. 12 steps

Environmental Science Merit Badge

Environmental Science Merit Badge The eleven requirements, with the six choices the badge offers and the two parts that need days rather than an afternoon. 32 steps

Exploration Merit Badge

Exploration Merit Badge The nine requirements, with the plan-prepare-go chain drawn as the single undertaking the badge states it to be, and the six ungated requirements drawn where they can actually start. 36 steps

Family Life Merit Badge

Family Life Merit Badge The seven requirements, with the ninety-day chore record placed first and the family meetings drawn as the several conversations they usually are. 20 steps

Farm Mechanics Merit Badge

Farm Mechanics Merit Badge Seven requirements, with the four safety parts of requirement 1 drawn as steps and the SDS step drawn before the machine work, and three questions: two of four tool jobs (3), one of three machine jobs (4) and one of three maintenance procedures to explain (6). 22 steps

Fingerprinting Merit Badge

Fingerprinting Merit Badge Six requirements, with the two ways of taking prints at requirement 4 drawn as a choice and fed into identifying the patterns on your own hand. 14 steps

Fire Safety Merit Badge

Fire Safety Merit Badge Ten requirements with all forty lettered parts drawn, the family and home work of requirement 5 and the lesson of 8(h) marked as often forgotten, the fire tetrahedron (1(b)) linked to 8(c), Leave No Trace (8(a)) to the fire lay (8(e)) and the alarm list (5(e)) to replacement plans (5(f)), and requirement 10 drawn as a question. 51 steps

Firem'n Chit

Firem'n Chit Eight responsibilities shown to your Scout leader, then the chit. No counselor and no blue card. 10 steps

First Aid Merit Badge

First Aid Merit Badge All fifteen requirements grouped by subject, drawn as the checklist the badge honestly is, with the parts needing equipment or a partner marked. 107 steps

First Class Rank

First Class Rank The thirteen requirements of the First Class rank, with the cooking project drawn as the ordered sequence the sheet actually states. 48 steps

Fish and Wildlife Management Merit Badge

Fish and Wildlife Management Merit Badge Eight requirements drawn so the very different costs inside requirement 5 and requirement 7 are visible at the point where the choice is made rather than after it. 20 steps

Fishing Merit Badge

Fishing Merit Badge The ten requirements, drawn so that requirement 9, the only one luck controls, is visibly not a gate on requirement 10, because requirement 10 states its own alternative. 17 steps

Fly Fishing Merit Badge

Fly Fishing Merit Badge The eleven requirements, with the rigging chain from balanced outfit through knots to cast and catch drawn as the sequence it physically is, and the fly-tying buried in requirement 4 surfaced as the lead time it is. 22 steps

Forestry Merit Badge

Forestry Merit Badge Eight requirements drawn so the field notebook from requirement 1 is visibly a prerequisite of two of requirement 2's routes, and so the appointments buried in requirement 5 are visible from the start. 45 steps

Game Design Merit Badge

Game Design Merit Badge Eight requirements drawn so the four dependencies the badge states by number are explicit, and so the eight separate occasions that need other people are visible before any of them is arranged. 27 steps

Gardening Merit Badge

Gardening Merit Badge The nine requirements with the two long clocks drawn as the first things to settle, the germination test marked as belonging before the sowing it informs, and the pest and pollination requirements linked to the routes and seasons they depend on. 25 steps

Genealogy Merit Badge

Genealogy Merit Badge Nine requirements, with the timeline or six-week journal of requirement 2 and the individual or institution contacted in requirement 5 drawn as questions, the genealogical document of 4(c) drawn as the prerequisite of its evaluation in 4(d), and the interview, family tree and family group records marked as the parts that need your family. 22 steps

Geocaching Merit Badge

Geocaching Merit Badge The nine requirements with requirement 8 drawn as the four-way fork it is, so the thirty-day and three-month clocks on three of its four routes are visible before anybody commits to one. 22 steps

Geology Merit Badge

Geology Merit Badge The six requirements, with requirement 4 drawn as its four options and seven inner choices, and requirement 5(b) drawn as the backward-reaching step it is. 47 steps

Golf Merit Badge

Golf Merit Badge Two requirements: safety and first aid, then requirement 2 drawn as a question (traditional golf or disc golf) with all seven parts of the chosen option shown, and the round drawn after the rules it follows. 19 steps

Graphic Arts Merit Badge

Graphic Arts Merit Badge Seven requirements, with the design of requirement 3 drawn as the prerequisite of printing it in requirement 4, and the printing process (ONE of four) and the visit (ONE of four) drawn as questions. 18 steps

Health Care Professions Merit Badge

Health Care Professions Merit Badge Nine requirements: four groups of health care professions (three selected from each, with their roles and their educational and licensing requirements described), a visit to one professional at their workplace, the Physician's Oath, confidentiality and HIPAA, a recent medical advancement, and volunteering at a health-related event or facility, which needs your parent or guardian's and counselor's approval first. 10 steps

Hiking Merit Badge

Hiking Merit Badge The five requirements, with requirement 4 opened out into the five separate hikes it actually is. 16 steps

Historic Trails Award

Historic Trails Award Research a trail or site, hike or camp two days and a night there, then restore and mark it or stage a public event with a historic society, and file the application with the council. 7 steps

Home Repairs Merit Badge

Home Repairs Merit Badge Seven requirements, five of them menus, drawn so you can see which options your home actually offers, which ones share a tool or an afternoon, and which ones close in cold weather. 42 steps

Horsemanship Merit Badge

Horsemanship Merit Badge The twelve requirements with requirement 11 marked as the one continuous performance it actually is, the requirements that need a horse present drawn as such, and the arrow from catching and tying the horse to saddling it drawn against the badge's own numbering. 27 steps

How to Earn a Merit Badge

The Merit Badge Process From choosing a badge to the record in the unit's file, with the two approvals that come before any work with a counselor. 24 steps

Insect Study Merit Badge

Insect Study Merit Badge Nine requirements, with the raising of an insect through complete metamorphosis (3(b)) and the observation of 20 live species (4(b)) marked as the long parts, the scrapbook (4(c)) and the eight species (4(d)) drawn as built from that observation, and the ant colony or bee hive of 5(b) and the careers of 9 drawn as questions. 22 steps

Inventing Merit Badge

Inventing Merit Badge Nine requirements drawn so the camping trip both of the gear requirements depend on, and the approval buried at the end of requirement 7, are visible before a reader reaches them. 23 steps

Journalism Merit Badge

Journalism Merit Badge The five requirements, with the two options and the two three- and four-way choices drawn, and the permissions each route needs in advance marked on it. 19 steps

Judging the Requirements That Are Hardest to Judge

Judging the requirements that are hardest to judge Six requirements that cannot be checked by watching, each with the tests the Guide gives for it: drawn as independent branches, because the Guide sets no order between them. 50 steps

Kayaking Merit Badge

Kayaking Merit Badge The eight requirements, with the swimmer test drawn as the six-edge gate its own sentence makes it, and the buddy-boat constraint on requirement 6 made visible before anybody books water time. 38 steps

Landscape Architecture Merit Badge

Landscape Architecture Merit Badge Five requirements drawn so that the three permissions are asked for on day one rather than when each requirement is reached, so the drainage observation is made while there is still weather to make it in, and so the two copies of the site plan get made before the original is marked. 13 steps

Law Merit Badge

Law Merit Badge Eleven requirements, with the five interviews of requirement 4, the court session or mock trial of requirement 6 and the lawyer visit of requirement 7 marked as the parts that need other people. Requirements 2 (two of three topics) and 11 (two of eleven areas of law) are multiple-choice questions, and requirement 6 is a question. 28 steps

Leatherwork Merit Badge

Leatherwork Merit Badge Five requirements, with the hazards and first aid of requirement 1 drawn first, the leather articles of requirement 3 drawn with their steps as a multiple-choice question (at least five of eight), the braided article of requirement 4, and requirement 5 (one of four) drawn as a question. 20 steps

Life Rank

Life Rank The eight requirements of the Life rank, drawn so the two six-month clocks sit side by side and the conservation half of the service requirement is visible before the hours are given. 10 steps

Lifesaving Merit Badge

Lifesaving Merit Badge The seventeen requirements, with the two gates drawn as the twenty-six dependencies they state. 39 steps

Lion Rank

Lion Rank The six required Lion Adventures and their requirements, Bobcat first, then the fourteen electives under one choice that keeps only the two (or more) your Lion is doing. 95 steps

Lone Scout Advancement

Advancing as a Lone Scout From registering to the Eagle application, and what changes when there is no unit. 25 steps

Mammal Study Merit Badge

Mammal Study Merit Badge The seven requirements with both choices drawn out as routes, the cross-reference from requirement 4(c) back to 3(c) shown as an arrow, and the Leave No Trace requirement marked as the retrospective one it is. 20 steps

Mechanics of Advancement in Scouts BSA

How a Scouts BSA rank is earned Learn, be tested, be reviewed, be recognized, with the sign-off rules that govern the second step and the branch at the third, where the Scout rank has no board of review. 31 steps

Merit Badge Miscellany

Merit badge miscellany Nine independent answers drawn as nine branches, because the Guide sets no order between them, with the recourse procedure drawn in full as the one that is really a procedure. 54 steps

Metalwork Merit Badge

Metalwork Merit Badge The five requirements, drawn in the order the badge actually implies rather than the order it prints: the option chosen first, the four gate edges into requirement 5, and the same piece of metal carried from 3(a) into 3(b). 46 steps

Mile Swim Award

Mile Swim Award Swimmer test, then the discussion and the quarter-mile qualifier, then the mile, signed off by a council-approved counselor. 6 steps

Mining in Society Merit Badge

Mining in Society Merit Badge Eight requirements drawn so the mineral list from requirement 1(a) is visibly the input to 1(c), and so the six routes through requirement 5 are separated by what each one actually requires you to arrange. 28 steps

Model Design and Building Merit Badge

Model Design and Building Merit Badge Six requirements drawn so the choice buried in requirement 3 is made with requirement 4 in front of you, and so the scale, the size and the second model are all visible before any planning starts. 27 steps

Motorboating Merit Badge

Motorboating Merit Badge The five requirements, with the swimmer test drawn as the single-edge gate its own sentence makes it, narrower than on any other water badge here, and the state permit inside requirement 4(b) surfaced as the lead time it is. 31 steps

Moviemaking Merit Badge

Moviemaking Merit Badge Four requirements, with the production of requirement 2 drawn from the treatment and storyboard through the six shooting techniques to a program presented to a pack, troop, patrol or class, and the program of 2(d), the film set visit or zoom lens of 3 and the career or hobby of 4 drawn as questions. 16 steps

Multisport Merit Badge

Multisport Merit Badge The eight requirements, with the four format options drawn as the four options they are, and the Swimming merit badge drawn where it actually blocks: in front of requirements 5 through 8, on three of the four routes. 71 steps

Music Merit Badge

Music Merit Badge Six requirements, with requirement 3 (two of four ways to explore music) drawn as a multiple-choice question, and requirements 4 (teach, compose or make an instrument) and 6 (career or hobby) drawn as questions. The six-month route in 3(c) carries a deadline notice. 16 steps

National Outdoor Badge for Adventure

National Outdoor Badge for Adventure Rank, a wilderness or emergency merit badge, then ten adventure activities from a menu of seven, two of them awards in their own right. 12 steps

National Outdoor Badge for Aquatics

National Outdoor Badge for Aquatics Rank, Swimming and Lifesaving, the Mile Swim, a watercraft badge with 25 hours on the water, then 50 hours in all. 7 steps

National Outdoor Badge for Camping

National Outdoor Badge for Camping Rank, then Camping and two of Cooking, First Aid and Pioneering, then 25 days and nights of camping including a week at an accredited resident camp. 6 steps

National Outdoor Badge for Conservation

National Outdoor Badge for Conservation Rank, five conservation tools, three conservation merit badges, then 25 hours of conservation work in Scouting. 6 steps

National Outdoor Badge for Hiking

National Outdoor Badge for Hiking Rank, then a hiking or backpacking badge and a navigation badge, then 100 miles in Scouting including the badges' own miles. 6 steps

National Outdoor Badge for Riding

National Outdoor Badge for Riding Rank, one riding merit badge with its own mileage, then 200 miles of riding in Scouting. 9 steps

Nature Merit Badge

Nature Merit Badge Seven requirements drawn so the five-fields-from-eight choice at requirement 4 shows what each field costs, and so the retrospective Leave No Trace requirement is visible before the work it asks about. 39 steps

Nuclear Science Merit Badge

Nuclear Science Merit Badge Eight requirements, with 3(b), the two classic experiments of requirement 4, the radiation safety activity of requirement 5 and the nuclear energy route of requirement 6 drawn as questions, the ALARA plan of 1(b) linked ahead of requirements 4 and 5, and the 3-D isotope models of 2(b) marked. 28 steps

Oceanography Merit Badge

Oceanography Merit Badge Nine requirements, with the six projects of requirement 7 and the three reports or speech of requirement 8 drawn as questions, the five-day temperature log and three-week satellite tracking marked as time-bound, and the counselor approvals for the book, the satellite tracking and the speech outline marked. 23 steps

Orienteering Merit Badge

Orienteering Merit Badge The ten requirements with requirement 8 drawn as the two-way fork it states, and the two things nobody can do alone, three events and an official's role, surfaced early rather than at their numbers. 26 steps

Painting Merit Badge

Painting Merit Badge Eight requirements, with the two surfaces of requirement 3 (preapproved by your counselor) and the color-wheel item of requirement 4 marked as the painting work, requirement 2's four explanations drawn as steps, and requirement 8 (a career or a hobby) drawn as a question. 15 steps

Paul Bunyan Award

Paul Bunyan Award Seven requirements built on the Totin' Chip, with the tool list in requirement 5 feeding requirement 6, and a supervised two-hour conservation project at the end. 9 steps

Personal Fitness Merit Badge

Personal Fitness Merit Badge Five cross-references between requirements, all pointing backwards, and a twelve-week programme that cannot start until the measurements are taken. 43 steps

Personal Management Merit Badge

Personal Management Merit Badge The ten requirements, with the thirteen-week budget chain drawn first and the four requirements of pure explanation grouped so their size is visible. 64 steps

Pets Merit Badge

Pets Merit Badge Five requirements drawn so the four-month clock and its approval-first condition are the first thing visible, with the two routes at requirement 4 shown as what actually decides them. 10 steps

Photography Merit Badge

Photography Merit Badge Eight requirements drawn so the image budget is visible before the shooting starts, and so the approval buried inside requirement 7 is read before the photo story rather than after it. 34 steps

Pioneering Merit Badge

Pioneering Merit Badge The nine requirements with requirement 2's knots and lashings drawn into the three builds of requirement 3 exactly as the requirement text names them, and the full-size structure at requirement 9 shown for the separate undertaking it is. 18 steps

Plant Science Merit Badge

Plant Science Merit Badge Nine requirements, with requirement 8's three options and their nested alternatives drawn as the two-answer branch they are, so that only the path chosen is shown. 109 steps

Plumbing Merit Badge

Plumbing Merit Badge Seven requirements: health, regulations and safety; two drawings of a house's water supply and drainage; five tools; fourteen terms; the kinds of pipe; four of seven hands-on tasks, each under the supervision of a knowledgeable adult, drawn as a multiple-choice question; and a career. 17 steps

Posthumous Awards and the Spirit of the Eagle Award

Posthumous awards and the Spirit of the Eagle Award Two independent branches from one point: a rank or award earned before death and received posthumously, and the honorary Spirit of the Eagle Award with its six-month deadline. 33 steps

Pottery Merit Badge

Pottery Merit Badge Eight requirements, with the pots, figurine, thrown form and kiln of requirement 5 drawn as steps (every piece decorated by you), and the kiln yard, museum or history of requirement 7 drawn as a question that needs your parent or guardian's permission and your counselor's approval first. 16 steps

Programming Merit Badge

Programming Merit Badge Six requirements drawn so the specification hidden in requirement 5's preamble, and the three toolchains it quietly depends on, are visible before a reader commits to any language. 19 steps

Public Health Merit Badge

Public Health Merit Badge Eight requirements, every part drawn, with the facility visit of requirement 5 and the agency visit or website of 7(a) drawn as questions needing approval first, 7(b) drawn after 7(a), 1(d) after the ten diseases of 1(c), and 2(c) after the list in 1(b). 35 steps

Public Speaking Merit Badge

Public Speaking Merit Badge Five requirements in the badge's own order, with the audience needed for requirement 1, the impromptu talk on a subject your counselor selects at requirement 3, and the researched eight- to 10-minute speech of requirement 4 marked as the parts that take arranging. 6 steps

Pulp and Paper Merit Badge

Pulp and Paper Merit Badge Eight requirements, with the lettered parts of 2 and 3 drawn as steps, the handmade sheet of paper in 4 and the home products in 6 marked as hands-on, and requirement 7 (one of four visits or a research project, with parent or guardian and counselor approval) drawn as a question. 21 steps

Radio Merit Badge

Radio Merit Badge The nine requirements, with requirement 8 drawn as its five options so their very different costs are visible before choosing, and the log comparisons drawn behind the listening that produces them. 79 steps

Railroading Merit Badge

Railroading Merit Badge Seven requirements drawn so that the one requirement carrying the whole cost of the badge is seen before it is reached, so the cheap pair inside each of requirement 7's two options is visible while the option is still being chosen, and so the two nine item lists in requirement 4 are not written twice. 47 steps

Reading Merit Badge

Reading Merit Badge Seven requirements, with the library work of requirement 1 drawn in order, the four books of requirement 3 drawn with a question on how you respond to each, the how-to project and the service hours marked as needing permission first, and the service activity of requirement 6 drawn as a question. 23 steps

Registering Beyond the Age of Eligibility

Registering beyond the age of eligibility From deciding whether it is the right route at all, through six enclosures and a council executive board decision, to what changes afterwards. 31 steps

Reptile and Amphibian Study Merit Badge

Reptile and Amphibian Study Merit Badge The ten requirements with requirement 8's two routes drawn as what they cost in months rather than in words, the standing prohibitions attached to the requirement they actually govern, and the field work hidden inside requirement 1 made visible. 20 steps

Rifle Shooting Merit Badge

Rifle Shooting Merit Badge Three requirements, with the ten explanations of requirement 1 drawn as steps, the supervised range work of requirement 2 drawn as a question of three options (modern cartridge, air rifle, muzzleloading) with every part of the chosen option shown, and the sight adjustment drawn after the groups it centers. 52 steps

Robotics Merit Badge

Robotics Merit Badge Seven requirements drawn so the engineering notebook, the counselor's approval and the two degrees of freedom are visible before the build starts rather than after it. 26 steps

Rowing Merit Badge

Rowing Merit Badge Nine requirements drawn so that the swimmer test is seen as the gate on four of them rather than as one more line to sign, so the seventeen steps it does not block are visible to a Scout who cannot yet pass it, and so the two knots nobody has ever been taught are found before the day at the waterfront rather than on it. 32 steps

Safety Merit Badge

Safety Merit Badge The nine requirements with the four at-home projects drawn out of the lettered lists they hide in, the two building inspections linked so they can be done on one visit, and the knowledge parts that feed each project shown pointing at it. 44 steps

Salesmanship Merit Badge

Salesmanship Merit Badge Seven requirements, with the sales plan and presentation of requirements 3 and 4 marked as starting with what your counselor assigns, requirement 5 (one real sale, with a cost sheet) and requirement 6 (one interview) drawn as questions, and the career work of requirement 7 drawn as two steps. 17 steps

Scholarship Merit Badge

Scholarship Merit Badge Five requirements: grades for a term (one of two), two of four ways to learn beyond class drawn as a multiple-choice question, the principal's note on the past year, an activity or team project (one of two), and a report (one of two). The note and the interview approvals are marked as easily forgotten. 16 steps

Scout Rank

Scout Rank The seven requirements of the Scout rank, with the two conditions the sheet prints above them rather than inside them. 24 steps

Scouting Heritage Merit Badge

Scouting Heritage Merit Badge Nine requirements, with the jamboree, museum or exhibit of requirement 4 and the career or volunteer route of requirement 9 drawn as questions, the unit history research, the game taught to other Scouts and the interviews with former Scouts marked, and requirement 8 linked to requirement 5 because its interviewees must be different people. 17 steps

Scuba Diving Merit Badge

Scuba Diving Merit Badge The six requirements, with the Swimming merit badge drawn as the four-edge gate it states itself to be, and the external certification drawn as the milestone it is. 9 steps

Sculpture Merit Badge

Sculpture Merit Badge Three requirements: the safety precautions, then requirement 2 (two of a clay head and small figure, a plaster mold and copy, or a visit to a museum, gallery or studio) and requirement 3 (a career or a hobby) drawn as questions. 9 steps

Sea Scout Boards of Review

The Sea Scout board of review, start to finish A common lead-in, a fork between the Apprentice through Able particulars and the Quartermaster particulars, and a rejoin at the review itself and everything after it. 69 steps

Sea Scout Ranks and Awards

Sea Scout ranks and awards Apprentice through Quartermaster with the Skipper conference before each board, the service project and its four approvals, and the two branches that reach outside the ship. 41 steps

Search and Rescue Merit Badge

Search and Rescue Merit Badge The eight requirements with requirement 7's five parts drawn in the order its own words set (scenario, plan, briefing before the search, search, debriefing after it) the backward reference from requirement 6(b) to the term used at 3(d) shown as the edge it is, and the standing prohibition on flying carried where it will be read first. 63 steps

Second Class Rank

Second Class Rank The twelve requirements of the Second Class rank, with the two that take months drawn apart from the ten that take an afternoon. 46 steps

Shotgun Shooting Merit Badge

Shotgun Shooting Merit Badge Three requirements, with the ten explanations of requirement 1 drawn as steps and the supervised range work of requirement 2 drawn as a question of two options (modern shotshell or muzzleloading), every part of the chosen option shown and the shooting skill rules quoted on the score. 39 steps

Signs, Signals, and Codes Merit Badge

Signs, Signals, and Codes Merit Badge Ten requirements, every part drawn, with the five signals for three of five activities in requirement 8 drawn as a question, the semaphore message and nautical flags of 4(c) drawn after 4(a) and 4(b), and the mile-long trail of requirement 7 and the silent signals used with your patrol in 6(b) marked. 30 steps

Skating Merit Badge

Skating Merit Badge Seventy steps drawn so the four options of requirement 2 can be compared before one is chosen, because the published page prints them as one long list and never says that they differ in size, in season, in what has to be booked or bought, or in whether they need a facility at all. Answering the question empties the page of the three options not taken. 71 steps

Small-Boat Sailing Merit Badge

Small-Boat Sailing Merit Badge The nine requirements with all three of the badge's stated gates drawn: the swimmer test, "before going afloat", and the wind check before setting sail, and the conditions requirement 3 places on the boat made visible before one is booked. 32 steps

Snow Sports Merit Badge

Snow Sports Merit Badge The seven requirements, with the option choice drawn where it actually has to happen (ahead of the fitness and clothing requirements that name it), and the four options drawn out in full. 63 steps

Soil and Water Conservation Merit Badge

Soil and Water Conservation Merit Badge Seven requirements, with every lettered part drawn as a step so that the pictures, drawings, contour-map outlines and demonstration stand out, 4(c) drawn after the smaller watershed it contains, and requirement 7 (two of six projects) drawn as a multiple-choice question. 38 steps

Space Exploration Merit Badge

Space Exploration Merit Badge Eight requirements, with the model rocket and its second launch marked as the part with a date and a safety code, and requirement 5 (two of three) and requirement 6 (one of two) drawn as questions. 14 steps

Sports Merit Badge

Sports Merit Badge Six requirements, with the choice of two sports in requirement 4 drawn as a prerequisite of the season in requirement 5, the training chart drawn from the start of the season to its sharing at the end, and the career or hobby of requirement 6 drawn as a question. 19 steps

Stamp Collecting Merit Badge

Stamp Collecting Merit Badge Eight requirements, with the ten examples of requirement 3 drawn as steps, requirement 5 (at least three of seven tools) and requirement 7 (two of six activities) drawn as multiple-choice questions, and requirement 8 (one of five collections) drawn as a question. The 30-day mail collection in 8(e) carries a deadline notice and needs the types listed in requirement 3. 43 steps

Star Rank

Star Rank The eight requirements of the Star rank, drawn so the two four-month clocks sit side by side and the one requirement without a First Class qualifier stands apart. 12 steps

Surveying Merit Badge

Surveying Merit Badge Eight requirements drawn so the two that share a field session are joined to each other rather than separated by the map drawing the numbering puts between them. 11 steps

Sustainability Merit Badge

Sustainability Merit Badge The nine requirements, with the six choices drawn as questions so the plan shows only the branches the reader is actually taking. 34 steps

Swimming Merit Badge

Swimming Merit Badge The nine requirements, with the swimmer test drawn as the gate the badge states it to be. 26 steps

Technology-Based Tools in Advancement

Using a technology-based tool in advancement The general stance and the council's role, a fork by what the technology is being used for, and a rejoin at the three defined words that every branch has to satisfy. 63 steps

Tenderfoot Rank

Tenderfoot Rank The eleven requirements of the Tenderfoot rank, drawn so the thirty days and the campout that most of it depends on are visible. 35 steps

Textile Merit Badge

Textile Merit Badge Six requirements, with the swatches of 2(a) drawn as the prerequisite of describing each fiber in 2(b), and requirement 3 (two of seven projects) drawn as a question. 18 steps

The Eagle Scout Service Project

The Eagle Scout service project The procedure from choosing a beneficiary to the board of review, with the four approvals that all fall before any work begins and the things around the spine that are not steps at all. 49 steps

The Summit Service Project and Rank Application

The Summit service project and rank application From the four focus areas to the certificate, with the crew-level approval that replaces the Eagle project's council review and the application route 4.3.4.0 sets out step by step. 40 steps

Theater Merit Badge

Theater Merit Badge Five requirements, with the three plays of requirement 1 marked as the part that takes time, requirement 3 (a safety discussion, then three of ten production roles) drawn as a multiple-choice question with the counselor's approvals marked, and the mime of requirement 4 set by your counselor. 16 steps

Tiger Rank

Tiger Rank The six required Tiger Adventures and their requirements, Bobcat first, then the seventeen electives under one choice that keeps only the ones your Tiger is doing. 127 steps

Time Extension Past the 18th Birthday

Asking for an Extension From realising the deadline cannot be met to the Scout executive's letter, and the appeal if it is refused. 33 steps

Totin' Chip

Totin' Chip Six responsibilities shown to your Scout leader, then the card. No counselor and no blue card. 8 steps

Traffic Safety Merit Badge

Traffic Safety Merit Badge Eight requirements, every lettered part drawn, with the five hands-on vehicle checks of requirement 3 marked as needing adult supervision and a vehicle, and requirement 7 (an interview, a pledge or an event) drawn as a question. 33 steps

Truck Transportation Merit Badge

Truck Transportation Merit Badge Ten requirements, with the five parts of the truck terminal visit in requirement 4 drawn as steps and the visit marked as the part to arrange, and the written shipping plan of requirement 8 summarized in one step. 21 steps

Venturing Boards of Review

The Venturing board of review, start to finish A common lead-in, a fork between the Discovery and Pathfinder particulars and the Summit particulars, and a rejoin at the review itself and everything after it. 59 steps

Veterinary Medicine Merit Badge

Veterinary Medicine Merit Badge The seven requirements drawn as the hub they are, with the edges that requirements 4, 6 and 7 state back into the two catalogues at the top. 26 steps

Water Sports Merit Badge

Water Sports Merit Badge The six requirements, with the swimmer test drawn as the three-edge gate it states itself to be, and the three towed requirements grouped so that the boat they all need is visible before anything is booked. 15 steps

Weather Merit Badge

Weather Merit Badge Twelve requirements, with the week of observations or professional visit at requirement 10 drawn as a choice, the approved talk at requirement 11 fed from the safety rules of requirement 2, and the family discussion marked as often forgotten. 15 steps

Webelos Rank

Webelos Rank The six required Webelos Adventures and their requirements, Bobcat first, then the seventeen electives under one choice that keeps only the ones your Webelos is doing. 148 steps

Welding Merit Badge

Welding Merit Badge Seven requirements, with the six welds of requirement 6 drawn as requiring requirements 1 through 5 and the setup prepared in 5(b), 6(d) drawn as requiring the plates tacked in 6(c), and the counselor's inspections in 5(b), 6(e) and 6(f) marked. 23 steps

Whitewater Merit Badge

Whitewater Merit Badge The twelve requirements, with requirement 3 drawn as the nine-edge gate it is, and the canoe-or-kayak answer carried through to every requirement that depends on it. 56 steps

Wilderness Survival Merit Badge

Wilderness Survival Merit Badge The ten requirements as the page now arranges them, with the overnight in the improvised shelter shown for the expedition it is, the parts of requirement 5 that feed it drawn in, and requirement 10's stated choice asked as a question so the route you are not taking disappears. 42 steps

Wildland Fire Management Merit Badge

Wildland Fire Management Merit Badge Eleven requirements, with the tool demonstration and the five ways to take action marked as the parts that need arranging, and the 5(c) diagram drawn into the tactics exercise that reuses it. 28 steps

Wolf Rank

Wolf Rank The six required Wolf Adventures and their requirements, Bobcat first, then the seventeen electives under one choice that keeps only the ones your Wolf is doing. 133 steps

Wood Carving Merit Badge

Wood Carving Merit Badge Seven requirements: safety and first aid, the Totin' Chip and the Safety Checklist for Carving, tools and sharpening, four basic cuts, the choice of woods, a carving in the round and a low-relief or chip carving. Requirement 5 explains the woods chosen for the carvings in 6 and 7. 14 steps

Woodwork Merit Badge

Woodwork Merit Badge Seven requirements: safety, first aid and the Totin' Chip; wood; tools and sharpening; a project made with hand tools; your own project with its time and cost tracked; two of five further projects or a service, drawn as a multiple-choice question; and a talk with a cabinetmaker or finish carpenter. 20 steps