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Passing a skill on to somebody else.

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• Life Rank

  Eight requirements, two six-month clocks that run side by side rather than end to end, three hours of service that have to be conservation-related, and the only other place in the whole rank ladder that asks a Scout to teach.

  Scouts BSA Ranks Boards of Review Conservation Merit Badges Rank Requirements Service Project Teaching

• Paul Bunyan Award

  The step beyond the Totin' Chip: know the hazards and first aid for woods tools, earn the Totin' Chip and help someone else earn it, learn nine tools and use four, then spend at least two supervised hours on a conservation project with them.

  Awards and Recognitions Awards Conservation Outdoors Requirements Safety Teaching

• Orienteering Merit Badge

  Ten requirements, and the long pole is requirement 7: three orienteering events run by other people, one of them cross-country, each needing a written report with the master map and control sheet from that day. Keep them on the day or the report cannot be written. Requirement 9 can be folded into requirement 8. The badge says so itself.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements Teaching

• Landscape Architecture Merit Badge

  Five requirements, three of which need permission from somebody who does not know you yet: a landscape architect for the design plan in requirement 1, the appropriate authority for the site in requirement 4, and a counselor or nursery plus an audience for requirement 3. Requirement 4(b) asks where water stands for a longer period, which is not visible on a dry day, and requirement 4(a) tells you to copy your drawing twice before marking it, which is easy to read past and impossible to undo.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Requirements Teaching

• Fire Safety Merit Badge

  Ten requirements in forty parts. Many are demonstrations, from a fire extinguisher and fire blanket to a match, flint and steel, a charcoal fire, a campfire and a camp stove. Your family is part of it: candle safety, a home fire-safety inspection with an adult, and an escape plan and home fire drill. You also teach a fire safety skill to other Scouts, and requirement 10 is a fire station visit or career research.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Outdoors Requirements Safety Teaching

• Disabilities Awareness Merit Badge

  Seven requirements, and requirement 4 prints the same four places under both of its options, so the choice is not where you go but what you look for: physical access, or how a place accommodates invisible disabilities. Only one of the two needs a member of staff to stop and talk to you. Requirement 5 hides a whole requirement above its menu, and its most research heavy option ends with a presentation nobody notices in the final clause.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Requirements Special Needs Teaching

• Archaeology Merit Badge

  Eleven requirements, of which nine are desk work and the last two cannot be done without a qualified archaeologist or instructor agreeing to work with you. The definition of who counts is buried in a note under requirement 10(b) and is far wider than the word archaeologist suggests. Requirement 4 is one line of text asking for twenty five answers, requirement 7 hides a week long wait inside its cheapest option, and requirements 2 and 3 are the vocabulary that requirements 10 and 4 are marked in.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Requirements Teaching

• American Cultures Merit Badge

  Five requirements, and the sentence that governs the first three is not one of them: an unnumbered note above requirement 1 tells you to choose three groups, one of them your own, and use them for requirements 1, 2 and 3. That choice also decides whether requirement 1 is possible, because four of its five options need access to a community and only one does not. Requirement 4 then asks about a different three, on a different list of categories.

  Elective Merit Badges Citizenship Merit Badges Requirements Teaching

• American Indian Culture Merit Badge

  Five requirements. Identify the cultural areas (1), research one tribe, group or nation across fifteen subjects (2), learn ten terms in a language, ten place names and five leaders (3), describe the settlers' encounter and eight things adopted from American Indians, and learn a game and teach and lead it with a Scout group (4). Then ONE of a museum visit, in person or virtual, or a contemporary American Indian gathering (5).

  Elective Merit Badges Culture Merit Badges Requirements Teaching