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Policies & Procedures

Merit Badges

Merit Badge Cards

To earn a merit badge you must have a merit badge card. The merit badge card is typically the only record of your work on a particular badge. You can request a card from the Advancement Chairperson or a Merit Badge Counselor.

The normal blue merit badge card has 3 perforated areas that are intended for the MB counselor, applicant (Scout), and the Application for merit badge (Advancement Chairperson).

Once you have completed the work for your badge you must make sure that the card is completely filled out and is signed by the merit badge counselor in both areas. Once signed by the MB counselor you need to turn in the “Application for Merit Badge” portion of the card into the Advancement Chairperson. You need to remember to keep the Applicant’s portion for your records in case there is a problem.

Scouts Merit Badge Policy

  1. Scouts wanting to earn a merit badge can obtain a list of merit badge counselors from the website or the advancement chairman. There is also a list of district merit badge counselors available at the Scout office.
  2. The Scout needs to contact the appropriate merit badge counselor, and ask if that merit badge counselor is willing and able to work with them.
  3. A Scout who wants to work on a merit badge must first obtain a blue merit badge card from the Scoutmaster or the Advancement chairman, and complete the information on the front, so a unit leader can sign it.
  4. The Scout is to work with the Merit Badge Counselor on that merit badge.
  5. Upon completion of the merit badge, the Scout should retain his portion of the blue merit badge card until the badge is received.
  6. Failure to follow these requirements may result in the Merit Badge not be accepted by the Advancement Coordinator.

Summer Camp Merit Badge Cards

Summer camp merit badge cards are not perforated and are typically white. They will be signed and handed out to the Scouts for their merit badge classes at camp. Once camp is over the merit badge cards will be given to the Advancement Chairperson. The completed cards will be entered into TroopMaster system and the incomplete cards will be given back to the Scouts for completion. Once the Scout has completed the remaining tasks the card should be turned back in to the Advancement chair. Once again the merit badge card is the only record for the work that the Scout has completed.

It is recommended that a copy be made of the card before it is handed back in for the Scout record.

 

Merit Badge Counselors Policy

  1. Need to have gone to merit badge training class, offered at Roundtable meetings the first Thursday of each month.
  2. A Scouter can be a merit badge counselor for no more than six merit badges, and of those six, only three can be Eagle required.
  3. In order for a merit badge counselor to work with their own child, at least one other
    Scout must be present, two-deep leadership must be maintained and another adult must initial the requirements as having been met.
  4. In the case of incomplete merit badges, such as those from Bartle, only the
    Scoutmaster or his/her designee can sign off on that merit badge as being complete.
  5. A merit badge counselor who wants to offer a class needs to coordinate this with the Scoutmaster. The merit badge class cannot interfere with regular Troop program and two-deep leadership must be maintained at all times.
  6. Merit badges that do not meet this criteria may not be accepted as valid by the Troop.

Merit Badge Patches

Merit badge patches will be presented at the next court of honor following the submission of the completed card to the Advancement chair. If you miss the COH then they will be available at a regular meeting for pickup. If a merit badge is out of stock you will receive the badge card during the COH and the patch once it is available. If you do not receive your merit badge within a couple weeks of the COH please contact the Advancement Chair.
 

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