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Communication

Writing, speaking, reporting and the media that carry them.

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• Radio Merit Badge

  Requirement 8 offers five options as if they were equals: one is eight explanations and a walk, one is six hours of logged listening split between day and night, and one needs a fox hunt somebody else organises.

  Elective Merit Badges Communication Merit Badges Requirements

• Reading Merit Badge

  Seven requirements. Requirement 1 is a library tour and catalog search, 2 is finding books, and the long part is reading: four books of different types in 3, each with a review, a film comparison or a book talk; a how-to book and a project from it in 4; two sources about the world in 5. Requirement 6 is at least four hours of service, one of five kinds. Requirements 4 and 6 need counselor and parent or guardian permission first.

  Elective Merit Badges Communication Merit Badges Requirements Service Project

• Signs, Signals, and Codes Merit Badge

  Ten requirements, each a code or signal to learn and use: Morse code, American Sign Language and semaphore (each with a six- to 10-word message), braille read and written, sound and silent Scout signals, nautical flags, symbols, traffic signs, map symbols and text symbols, and a secret code of your own. Requirement 7 is a trail of at least a mile laid out on a Scout outing, and requirement 8 is five signals each for THREE of five activities.

  Elective Merit Badges Communication Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements

• Public Speaking Merit Badge

  Five requirements, five kinds of speaking: a three- to five-minute introduction of yourself to an audience such as your troop or class; a prepared talk with body language and visual aids; an impromptu talk of at least two minutes on a subject your counselor picks; an eight- to 10-minute researched speech; and parliamentary procedure, shown by leading a meeting or answering questions on the rules of order.

  Elective Merit Badges Communication Merit Badges Requirements

• Journalism Merit Badge

  Requirement 2's Option A has a virtual-visit fallback if there is no newsroom near you and Option B has none, and requirement 4 makes you pick how you will cover an event that, read in order, you have already attended.

  Elective Merit Badges Communication Merit Badges Requirements

• Moviemaking Merit Badge

  Four requirements. Requirement 1 is the elements of a good motion picture, discussed and demonstrated. Requirement 2 is the production: a treatment, a storyboard, six shooting techniques, and ONE of three programs planned from a treatment and presented to a pack, troop, patrol or class. Then ONE of a visit to a film set or studio or the zoom lens explained, and ONE of a career or a hobby.

  Elective Merit Badges Arts Communication Merit Badges Requirements

• Graphic Arts Merit Badge

  Seven requirements. Learn the printing processes (1) and kinds of artwork (2), then design a printed piece (3) and print it by ONE of four processes (4): offset lithography, screen printing, electronic/digital or relief, 20 or 50 copies. Then the finishing and binding operations (5), ONE of four visits or a website search, then describe its highlights (6), and careers (7).

  Elective Merit Badges Arts Communication Merit Badges Requirements