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Requirement

5. Improve a product you used on an overnight troop camp

Required Often forgotten

Choose a commercially available product that you HAVE USED on an overnight camping trip WITH YOUR TROOP, recommend improvements, sketch them, and discuss them. The trip has to have happened already.

Warning. THIS REQUIREMENT NEEDS A CAMPING TRIP THAT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. "A commercially available product that you HAVE USED on an overnight camping trip WITH YOUR TROOP": past tense, overnight, and with the troop rather than with family or friends. A Scout who has not yet camped overnight with their troop cannot start requirement 5, and nothing on the page warns them. If that trip has not happened, it is the first thing to plan.

Where this step comes from

  1. Inventing Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-12-31), Requirement 5 · Requires a product the Scout has used on an overnight camping trip with their troop.

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