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• STEM Nova and Supernova Awards (retired)

  Scouting America has ended the national STEM Nova and Supernova program. Councils report that national support and Scoutbook recording stopped on June 1, 2025, and that each council may now run a STEM award of its own. Ask your council what it offers.

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• Weather Merit Badge

  Twelve requirements, nine of them explanations and drawings. Three take arranging: a week-long weather log from an instrument you make, or a visit to a weather professional; a five-minute safety talk to a group, with the outline approved first; and discussing the safety rules with your family.

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• Soil and Water Conservation Merit Badge

  Seven requirements. Six are explanations with things to make among them: pictures or drawings of erosion and erosion control, two watersheds outlined on a contour map, drawings of the hydrologic cycle and of waste treatment, and a demonstration of water in soil. Requirement 7 is any two of six projects: a trip and report, planting 100 trees, bushes or vines, seeding a fifth of an acre, a soil survey, a list of problem places, or a project your counselor approves.

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• Space Exploration Merit Badge

  Eight requirements. The one with a launch day is requirement 3: build, launch and recover a model rocket, then launch again for a specific objective, to the National Association of Rocketry safety code. Two more are things you make: a collector's card and a design for an inhabited base. Requirements 5 and 6 are choices.

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• Welding Merit Badge

  Seven requirements. Hazards and first aid (1), safety data sheets, safety gear worn and equipment care (2), welding terms (3), cutting methods (4), and two welding processes with one set up and its area approved by your counselor (5). Only after 1 through 5 come the six welds of requirement 6, on the equipment prepared in 5(b), with your counselor inspecting the T and lap joints before they are welded. Then careers and the American Welding Society (7).

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• Pulp and Paper Merit Badge

  Eight requirements. Most are explanations about paper and the industry that makes it. Three parts are hands-on: make a sheet of paper by hand (4), list 15 pulp or paper products in your home and share examples of 10 (6), and ONE visit or research project (7), done with your parent or guardian's and your counselor's approval. Requirement 8 is three papermaking careers, one looked into.

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• Robotics Merit Badge

  Seven requirements, and the thing that matters most has no requirement number: the robot engineering notebook. Five separate steps write into it and 5(b) hands it to your counselor, so it cannot be written up afterwards. Requirement 4(a) also needs your counselor's approval before anything is built, and the constraints that design has to satisfy, including at least two degrees of freedom, are printed one line later in 4(b) rather than with the choice they govern.

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• Nuclear Science Merit Badge

  Eight requirements. Radiation and basic nuclear science are explained, with 3-D models of three isotopes. Then four choices: a visit to a scientist or a study of three accelerators; TWO of three classic experiments (electroscope, cloud chamber, half-life); ONE of three radiation safety activities; and a fission drawing with a mousetrap reactor or a visit to a reactor, followed by a discussion of nuclear electricity. Adults handle any radioactive materials.

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• Oceanography Merit Badge

  Nine requirements. Most are explanations: branches of oceanography, seawater, waves and rip currents, the sea floor (with a drawing), marine life and how scientists study the ocean. Requirement 7 is ONE of six projects, two of them time-bound: water temperatures four times daily for five days, or satellite images for three weeks. Requirement 8 is a book report, a visit report, or a five-minute speech to your troop with the outline approved first.

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• Plumbing Merit Badge

  Seven requirements. Health, local regulations and safety precautions for home repairs; drawings of the water supply and drainage systems of a house; five plumber's tools shown; plumbing terms; the kinds of pipe; then FOUR of seven hands-on tasks, each under the supervision of a knowledgeable adult; and a career in plumbing.

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• Electronics Merit Badge

  Six requirements. The centre of the badge is 4(c): build ONE project (a control device, a digital circuit or an analog circuit), with a schematic you find or create, and explain how it operates. Soldering and desoldering in 3 and reading resistor bands in 5(c) are shown to your counselor. The rest is a schematic you draw, binary conversions, Ohm's law, test equipment and a career.

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• Fingerprinting Merit Badge

  Six short requirements, five of them explanations: history, identification systems, the science, the patterns and a career. Requirement 4 is taking a clear set of prints, either rolled and plain on a fingerprint card from your police department or counselor, or with tape and pencil.

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• Electricity Merit Badge

  Eleven requirements. Requirement 1 is electrical emergencies, with a rescue, first aid and burn treatment shown, not only explained. Four involve your home: a safety inspection (2), circuits, fuses and breakers (6), a room's wiring diagram (7), and an electric bill and its meter (8). Requirements 3 and 5 are an electromagnet and a drawing, and requirement 10 is any two of six circuit projects.

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• Engineering Merit Badge

  Nine requirements. Three need arranging: investigating a manufactured item at home with adult supervision and your counselor's approval (1), a visit with an engineer in five parts (4), and, if chosen, a science or engineering fair (6(g)). Requirement 5 is designing something with the systems engineering approach, and requirement 6 is any two of seven projects.

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• Farm Mechanics Merit Badge

  Seven requirements, mostly hands-on. Safety comes first and applies throughout: the right equipment and clothing, a farm shop plan, warning symbols, and the safety data sheets for what you use (1). Then two of four tool jobs (3), one of three jobs on an engine-powered machine (4), a visit to an implement dealer (5), and one maintenance procedure explained step by step (6).

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• Cybersecurity Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, and the one that matters most is easy to throw away: 4(f) asks you to list your own cyber attack surface, and two later options are exactly the work of acting on that list, though the badge never connects them. Requirement 5(c) offers nine options and needs three, several of which are the same evening. One option needs the system owner's permission and has a legal edge. Two of the four cryptography routes need another person to take part.

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• Architecture Merit Badge

  Five requirements. Requirement 1 is a tour of your community with a sketch, and research into a historical achievement. Requirement 2 is one discussion of sustainable architecture. Requirement 3 is ONE of three: meet an architect to see a model and drawings, meet one at a construction site, or interview a possible client. Requirement 4 is a scaled floor plan of a room you measure, and 5 is careers.

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• Automotive Maintenance Merit Badge

  Twelve requirements, and you need access to a car or truck and its owner's manual. Safety and registration; general maintenance checks; the dashboard; tires; engine; cooling; fuel; ignition and electrical systems; drive train; brakes; TWO of four projects (vehicle costs, cleaning and waxing, changing a tire, or an oil change); and automotive careers.

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• Aviation Merit Badge

  Five requirements. Requirement 1 is eight explanations of aircraft and flight, one with a model aircraft. Requirement 2 is ONE thing to build and fly, requirement 3 is TWO flight operations from five, and requirement 4 is ONE visit from four. Requirement 5 is pilot certificates, the instrument rating, Aviation Exploring or Civil Air Patrol, and a career.

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