Requirement
3. Planning: choose from requirement 4, then plan it
Required Often forgotten
THE REAL DECISION POINT OF THE BADGE. Its first instruction sends you to requirement 4 to pick one of five subjects, with your counselor's advice. No pre-made kit, and the project must be your own original design. Everything below is then specific to what you chose.
Notes and warnings
Warning. THIS REQUIREMENT SENDS YOU FORWARDS, AND IT IS THE REAL DECISION POINT OF THE BADGE. Its first instruction is to select a subject from requirement 4, with your counselor's advice. Requirement 4 is where the five options are printed: architectural, structural, process, mechanical, industrial. Everything else in requirement 3 then belongs to whichever one you took, because the plans in 3(a) are drawn to that option's scale and the lists in 3(b) and 3(c) are that option's materials and tools. So read requirement 4 in full before you do anything here. Two other things live in this stem and are easy to skim past: NO PRE-MADE KIT may be used, and the project must be your own original design. Those are not advice, they are the condition of the whole badge.
What this is made of
Where this step comes from
- Model Design and Building Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-12-31), Requirement 3 · The requirement instructs you to select a subject from requirement 4 with your counselor's advice, and states that no pre-made kit may be used.