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Merit Badge Counselors

Registered and approved counselors, and working with them.

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• Becoming a Merit Badge Counselor

  Two approvals, not one: to hold the position at all, and to counsel each particular badge. Then it renews every year.

  Merit Badges For Adults Merit Badge Counselors Merit Badges Process Registration

• Technology-Based Tools in Advancement

  Videoconference boards of review, online merit badge classes, web-based counseling, virtual attendance and generative AI: what the Guide to Advancement permits, what it requires, and the three words it defines so that a tool cannot quietly redefine them.

  Special Considerations Boards of Review Council Merit Badge Counselors Merit Badges Process Technology

• How to Earn a Merit Badge

  Four signatures, two of them before you start. The order matters more than most people are told, and the step that is skipped most often is the first one.

  Merit Badges Blue Card Merit Badge Counselors Merit Badges Process

• Merit Badge Miscellany

  The requirements changed halfway through. The badge was discontinued. A Scout came back from camp with an implausible number of them. May a council charge for a merit badge fair? Is Swimming really a prerequisite for Scuba Diving? Section 7.0.4 of the Guide, drawn one question at a time.

  Merit Badges Appeals Council Merit Badge Counselors Merit Badges Process

• Advancement in Camp Settings

  Eleven things a council decides, and one it does not: nobody at camp may add to or subtract from a requirement.

  Special Considerations Camp For Councils Merit Badge Counselors Merit Badges Process