Health

Mile Swim Award

Four requirements with a council-approved counselor: pass the swimmer test, learn how skill, stamina, stroke choice and pace affect distance swimming, qualify with a continuous quarter mile, then swim the mile over an approved course. No time limit, any strokes, no flotation.

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Sports Merit Badge

Six requirements. The long one is requirement 5: two sports for a season (or three months), with a personal training program, a chart kept throughout, and the completed chart shared with your counselor at the end. Requirement 4 is choosing the two sports and planning that season with your counselor first. Requirements 1 to 3 are safety, first aid, health and sportsmanship, and 6 is a career or a hobby.

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Skating Merit Badge

Two requirements, and the second is a choice between four options that share no work at all. Ice skating is fourteen steps, roller skating thirteen, in-line skating sixteen, and skateboarding fourteen with a choice of three trick families out of five inside it. Between forty six and fifty two of this badge's seventy steps belong to an option nobody will do, and which option to take is settled by the rink, pavement or skatepark you can actually reach.

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Personal Fitness Merit Badge

Twelve consecutive weeks, and the tests that measure them have to be taken before the first week starts. This is the badge that punishes starting in the middle.

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Public Health Merit Badge

Eight requirements, mostly explanations of disease, immunization, vectors and pollution. Three take doing or arranging: a demonstration of two ways to make water safe to drink at camp; a visit to a wastewater or solid-waste facility or a food service facility; and a visit to a public health agency or a study of its website. Both visits need your parent or guardian's and counselor's approval first.

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Multisport Merit Badge

Eight requirements, and the fourth of them exists four times over: pick triathlon, duathlon, aquathlon or aquabike in requirement 3(d) and that answer decides requirement 4, requirement 5 and the race in requirement 7. Three of the four formats need the Swimming merit badge first; duathlon does not.

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Gardening Merit Badge

Nine requirements, two of which are seasons rather than tasks: requirement 2 grows twelve plants through harvest and flowering, and requirement 8 is ninety days on five of its six routes with the sixth needing somebody else's beehive. The two overlap on the calendar, the germination test at requirement 4 belongs before the sowing at requirement 2, and none of that is stated anywhere on the badge.

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Golf Merit Badge

Two requirements. Requirement 1 is safety on the course and first aid for the injuries and illnesses golf can bring. Requirement 2 is ONE of two options, traditional golf or disc golf, each done in full: the rules, history, a healthy lifestyle, the shots or throws shown, a round played with another golfer about your age and your counselor or an adult your counselor approves, and careers.

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Health Care Professions Merit Badge

Nine requirements. Requirements 1 to 4 are four groups of professions: from each, select three that interest you and describe their roles and their educational and licensing requirements. Requirement 5 is visiting one professional at their workplace. Then the Physician's Oath, confidentiality and HIPAA, a recent medical advancement, and volunteering at a health-related event or facility, with your parent or guardian's and counselor's approval.

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Competitive Gaming Merit Badge

Seven requirements, and requirement 3 is the clock: two weeks of tracking gaming, activity and sleep side by side, then a week following a schedule built from them. Three steps need somebody else, and requirement 6 is a choice of three.

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Dentistry Merit Badge

Seven requirements, and the first one needs dental radiographs that only a dentist can supply, while the requirement that arranges a dentist is numbered third. One appointment can carry four requirements if it is booked that way, and requirement 3 hides the instruction that decides what the visit contains in its second sentence, where it expires the moment you arrive. Two of requirement 6's five options are requirement 2 written up.

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Dog Care Merit Badge

Ten requirements, of which nine are conversations and one is two months long. Requirement 4 keeps and cares for a dog with a nine-item log including a weekly body weight record, and the things that log records are explained in requirements 6 and 8, both numbered after it. The rule that work here cannot count towards another badge now sits above the whole badge rather than inside requirement 4.

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Athletics Merit Badge

Four of nine options in requirement 5: the widest choice on this site, 126 combinations. And two separate three-month clocks that the badge never says are the same three months, which is the difference between a three-month badge and a six-month one.

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