Merit Badges Archives - Aaron On Scouting

This New Hampshire council camp has gone to the cows

October 28, 2025 0

For the past three years, T.L. Storer Scout Reservation, a Spirit of Adventure Council camp, has invited more than Scouts to its property.

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Scouting America launches merit badges in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence

October 15, 2025 1

Scouting America’s merit badge program continues to expand, this time with the launch of two badges aimed at giving Scouts some of the skills to be successful in our constantly evolving digital world.

Scouter shares the gift of music with troop bugler

October 8, 2025 1

Dennis Wagner’s bugle was relegated to sitting on a shelf – still in its box – at his parents’ home. Later, it got moved into his garage. Until he met Mariano Atanassov.

Two new merit badge concepts join the Scouts BSA Test Lab

September 10, 2025 8

As promised, the Scouts BSA Test Lab is growing! Two exciting new concepts are now available for Scouts to explore and provide feedback on. A Sewing and Needlework merit badge and a Physics merit badge

Scouting can help youth find a career in this field that desperately needs workers

September 3, 2025 0

Earning one or more of these merit badges could be a Scout’s first step into a rewarding — and highly paying — career in shipbuilding.

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Why the Multisport merit badge was the perfect outdoors activity for these Scouts

August 12, 2025 0

For three Scouts from Troop 737 in Evergreen, Colorado, the Multisport merit badge arrived at just the right time.

Ohio council invests in skilled trade education at camp

July 23, 2025 0

The Dan Beard Council is building a 10,000-square-foot facility at Camp Friedlander in Loveland, Ohio.

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Is this the best merit badge for new Scouts BSA members?

July 17, 2025 12

Just as it was important to introduce Cub Scouts to camping without frightening them off, it is also important to introduce Scouts BSA members to the merit badge program without making it seem intimidating or unachievable.

In case you missed it: Every merit badge pamphlet is now available for free online

July 9, 2025 4

Almost as soon as it began, Scouting America’s merit badge program began to evolve to better meet the needs of the Scouts of the time. Now, the latest evolution of the program is here: All merit badge pamphlets are available as free PDFs on the official Scouting America Merit Badge Hub.

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Here’s the reason behind those major Chemistry merit badge updates

June 9, 2025 1

Chemistry, one of the original 57 merit badges offered when the organization was founded in 1911 and one of the 11 that have used the same logo continuously since then, has a whole new set of requirements.