Overview: The First Aid merit badge teaches scouts the skills necessary to provide assistance, should they witness a medical emergency. First aid is typically one of the first Eagle-required badges most scouts earn , and for good reason.
Having a detailed knowledge of first aid will make future activities in Scouting much safer! Overall Difficulty: 5. The First Aid badge can usually be completed during troop or Summer camp classes.
Although First Aid has a total of 14 requirements, most of these are knowledge-based and require minimal research. This can typically only be done during an official CPR certification course. Overview: Earning any of these badges will undoubtedly test your physical fitness and endurance.
Swimming will likely be the easiest badge to earn , as it is often offered as a class during longer summer camps. Overall Difficulty: 4, 9, and 9, respectively. You can click here to see a full comparison between earning Swimming, Hiking, and Cycling. Hardest Requirement: Requirement 3 for the Swimming merit badge has you demonstrating various strokes for yards. The hardest requirement for Hiking will be to complete a mile hike. Cooking teaches you proper nutrition, food storage, and culinary safety skills — along with how to cook a camp menu, of course.
Cooking is often the first Eagle-required merit badge that scouts earn by themselves, without the help of troop classes or events. Overall Difficulty: 7. You also must learn and understand the answers to many food-safety knowledge requirements. Overview: A good mix of activities and knowledge requirements, the Camping merit badge will teach scouts outdoor ethics, camp safety, and proper trek planning.
Overall Difficulty: 6. After that, earning this badge will be all about gaining more camping knowledge and experience. Overview: When given the option to earn either Emergency Preparedness or Lifesaving, most scouts earn Emergency Preparedness , as EPrep can be completed individually and teaches the skills necessary to prevent and respond to different types of crises.
Most Lifesaving requirements must be completed in a pool with qualified lifeguard supervision. In earning Lifesaving, a scout will learn how to handle different types of aquatic emergencies. Overall Difficulty: 5 and 6. EPrep mainly consists of straightforward knowledge requirements but requires a scout to earn their First Aid merit badge beforehand. For Lifesaving, a scout must demonstrate various swimming and rescue techniques in the water.
Be warned, Lifesaving is more difficult to earn than the Swimming merit badge! He may earn these awards until his 18th birthday. An Eagle Scout board of review may occur, without special approval, within three months after the 18th birthday. Local councils must preapprove those held three to six months afterward. To initiate approval, the candidate, his parent or guardian, the unit leader, or a unit committee member attaches to the application a statement explaining the delay.
Consult the Guide to Advancement, topic 8. If you have a permanent physical or mental disability, or a disability expected to last more than two years, or beyond age 18, you may become an Eagle Scout by qualifying for as many required merit badges as you can and qualifying for alternative merit badges for the rest. If you seek to become an Eagle Scout under this procedure, you must submit a special application to your local council service center.
Your application must be approved by your council advancement committee before you can work on alternative merit badges. A Scout, Venturer, or Sea Scout with a disability may also work toward rank advancement after he is 18 years of age if he meets the guidelines outlined in section 10 of the Guide to Advancement. Blanks in this worksheets table appear when we do not have a worksheet for the badge that includes these requirements.
Be active in your troop for a period of at least six months as a Life Scout. Tell how you have done your duty to God, how you have lived the Scout Oath and Scout Law in your everyday life, and how your understanding of the Scout Oath and Scout Law will guide your life in the future.
Name of Merit Badge: Date Earned: 1. Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, instructor, webmaster, or outdoor ethics guide 11 Venturing crew President, vice president, secretary, treasurer, den chief, historian, guide, quartermaster, chaplain aide, or outdoor ethics guide Sea Scout ship.
There have been confirmed Boy Scouts who have earned all the merit badges. The first Boy Scout to do so was Stephen Porter in Schulze in The 3 simplest merit badges that any scout can earn are Art, Fingerprinting and Photography.
These badges require few supplies and can be quickly completed in an afternoon. There are no exceptions. For example, Scoutmasters must register as merit badge counselors and be approved for any badge they wish to counsel or sign off in their troop. It is acceptable for a counselor registered in one council to approve merit badges for Scouts in another.
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