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• Programming Merit Badge

  Six requirements, and the fifth is three working programs in three different languages and three different development environments, with everything that decides whether a program passes stated once in the paragraph above the parts rather than in any of them. The three are chosen with the counselor's guidance, and "write or modify" allows modifying an existing program, which is a much smaller job than it first reads as.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Requirements Technology

• Inventing Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, two of which quietly need an overnight camping trip with your troop to have already happened: one wants a patent number from gear you have used, the other wants improvements to a product you have used, and they can very reasonably be the same item. The prototype at requirement 7 needs the counselor's approval first, stated in a note at the end of the requirement, and requirement 6 asks a Scout to talk to potential users before designing anything rather than after.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Requirements Technology

• Game Design Merit Badge

  Eight requirements that need other people eight separate times: four play sessions at requirement 4, three playtests across requirement 6, and a blind test at requirement 7 which must use players who have not seen the game before. The prototype needs the counselor's approval first, stated in an unlettered note, and the game design notebook has to be kept as the work happens rather than written up afterwards.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Requirements Technology

• 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.

  Elective Merit Badges Health Merit Badges Requirements Technology

• Digital Technology Merit Badge

  Nine requirements, and the one that takes the longest hides its own condition in the sentence above the options: each of the three projects chosen at requirement 6 has to be copied to a backup device. The badge also asks for a parent or guardian's permission five separate times, and two of the five routes at requirement 8 are visits to real places rather than desk work.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Requirements Safety Technology

• Artificial Intelligence Merit Badge

  Eight requirements that look like desk work, three of which are appointments: two counselor-led games and an approval that has to come before the project starts. The badge has no pamphlet, so both games come from the counselor rather than from anything a Scout can look up, and requirements 2 and 3 ask the same five questions about artificial intelligence and about automation, which is a trap for anyone who has not separated the two ideas.

  Elective Merit Badges Merit Badges Requirements Technology

• 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