Click a merit badge name below for the current requirements. Right click on a workbook name to save or print the optional workbooks. Workbooks can help Scouts organize notes, listen actively, and document their work. These workbooks can help you but you still need to read the merit badge pamphlet. The work space provided for each requirement should be used by the Scout to make notes for discussing the item with his counselor, not for providing the full and complete answers. Each Scout must do each requirement.
Notes:
- Each workbook contains an attachment with important excerpts from the ‘Guide To Advancement’, No. 33088, which should be reviewed by the Scout, his parents, and the Merit Badge Counselor
- A Scout is expected to meet the requirements exactly as stated – no more and no less.
- Scouts STARTING a merit badge must use the CURRENT Boy Scout Requirements
- Once a Scout has started a merit badge, he can continue to work on those requirements even if new requirements are published. The Scout must choose whether to complete the full set of new requirements or the full set of old requirements. A Scout cannot pick and choose from both sets. If he chooses to use the new requirements, he can, of course, use the work he has done on any of the old requirements, if the requirement is unchanged, or only had editorial changes which don't actually change the actual requirement. For those Scouts who are using the older requirements because they've already started in the badge, the older requirements are accessible by links on the current pages
- If a merit badge pamphlet is updated during the year, a Scout can choose to use either full set of old requirements or new requirements in the pamphlet. Those will show an effective date of the following year (i.e. a pamphlet issued in June of 2008 will say "2009 requirements"). Once the Boy Scout Requirements are updated, all Scouts starting the merit badge must use the new requirements.
- If a BLANK appears in the lists below, it indicates that revisions to the workbook is pending, due to revised requirements.
- You can also download an entire ZIP file of the current worksheets in DOC and/or PDF formats Keep in mind these are BIG files.
Most of the workbooks listed below were originally developed by Craig Lincoln. The current versions were reformatted, edited and revised by Paul Wolf, and reflect the current requirements.
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Page updated on: March 30, 2012
