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Task

7.0.3.2. Group instruction: camp, fair, clinic or webinar

Optional

Acceptable and sometimes desirable, but discuss it with your unit leader well before the event, and expect a partial rather than a finished badge.

Notes and warnings

Note. Guest experts and speakers who are not registered and approved counselors may help, but only under the direction of one who is on site and supervising. They may not sign anything.

Tip. Ask the event for its prerequisite list in advance and bring evidence of anything already done: an initialled partial from another counselor is the strongest form.

Where this step comes from

  1. Guide to Advancement (2025), Section 7.0.3.2 · Group instruction, and what has to be in place for it.
  2. Guide to Advancement (2025), Section 7.0.4.12 · Online and virtual merit badge classes.