Earn a total of 21 merit badges; including 13 Eagle Required merit badges from the following:

Eagle Required:

First Aid

Citizenship in the Community

Citizenship in the Nation

Citizenship in the World

Communication

Cooking

Personal Fitness

Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving

Environmental Science OR Sustainability

Personal Management

Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling

Camping

Family Life

The following are all the Merit Badges currently offered by the Boy Scouts of America:

1. American Business

2. American Cultures

3. American Heritage

4. American Labor

5. Animal Science

6. Archaeology

7. Archery

8. Architecture

9. Art

10. Astronomy

11. Athletics

12. Automotive Maintenance

13. Aviation

14. Backpacking

15. Basketry

16. Bird Study

17. Bugling

18. Camping

19. Canoeing

20. Chemistry

21. Chess

22. Cinematography

23. Citizenship in the Community

24. Citizenship in the Nation

25. Citizenship in the World

26. Climbing

27. Coin Collecting

28. Collections

29. Communication

30. Composite Materials

31. Cooking

32. Crime Prevention

33. Cycling

34. Dentistry

35. Digital Technology

36. Disabilities Awareness

37. Dog Care

38. Drafting

39. Electricity

40. Electronics

41. Emergency Preparedness

42. Energy

43. Engineering

44. Entrepreneurship

45. Environmental Science

46. Family Life

47. Farm Mechanics

48. Fingerprinting

49. Fire Safety

50. First Aid

51. Fish and Wildlife Management

52. Fishing

53. Fly Fishing

54. Forestry

55. Game Design

56. Gardening

57. Genealogy

58. Geocaching

59. Geology

60. Golf

61. Graphic Arts

62. Hiking

63. Home Repairs

64. Horsemanship

65. Indian Lore

66. Insect Study

67. Inventing

68. Journalism

69. Kayaking

70. Landscape Architecture

71. Law

72. Leatherwork

73. Lifesaving

74. Mammal Study

75. Medicine

76. Metalwork

77. Mining in Society

78. Model Design and Building

79. Motorboating

80. Moviemaking

81. Music

82. Nature

83. Nuclear Science

84. Oceanography

85. Orienteering

86. Painting

87. Personal Fitness

88. Personal Management

89. Pets

90. Photography

91. Pioneering

92. Plant Science

93. Plumbing

94. Pottery

95. Programming

96. Public Health

97. Public Speaking

98. Pulp and Paper

99. Radio

100. Railroading

101. Reading

102. Reptile and Amphibian Study

103. Rifle Shooting

104. Robotics

105. Rowing

106. Safety

107. Salesmanship

108. Scouting Heritage

109. Scholarship

110. Scuba Diving

111. Sculpture

112. Search & Rescue

113. Shotgun Shooting

114. Skating

115. Small-Boat Sailing

116. Snow Sports

117. Soil and Water Conservation

118. Space Exploration

119. Sports

120. Stamp Collecting

121. Surveying

122. Sustainability

123. Swimming

124. Textile

125. Theater

126. Traffic Safety

127. Truck Transportation

128. Veterinary Medicine

129. Water Sports

130. Weather

131. Welding

132. Whitewater

133. Wilderness Survival

134. Wood Carving

135. Woodwork

For access to the Merit Badge Counselors list go to the MB Counselors List tab in the Private Site section. Follow the login instruction. This will give you access to the most up to date Merit Badge Counselors available in Potawatomi Area Council. Remember to work with approved Counselors.

Follow the link below to find out which merit badges that Counselors need special qualifications or certifications in order to be an approved Counselor for:

http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/guidetoadvancement/themeritbadgeprogram.aspx

From time to time merit badge clinics and summer camps have individuals helping either teaching skills or testing the scouts for merit badges. This is allowed under BSA National guidelines, where it is not allowed is the signing off as approved on the blue card. This part can only be done by a trained and approved merit badge counselor. It is up to the attendees to ensure proper practices are being followed.

Here is an example: Scout attends a merit badge clinic and the merit badge counselor has some of his friends help with the requirements but they are not trained or approved to be counselors, this is allowed. The helpers are now signing off that the individual requirements are being completed, this is not allowed, helpers are to let approved counselors know the requirement has been fulfilled and that person signs as approved. The individual who is the actual counselor signs off as merit badge completed, keeps his copy and returns the remaining 2 blue card portions to the scout, this part is correct.

Merit badge clinics in our Council, Potawatomi Area Council, need approval through the Council office and the Council Advancement committee. Also if poor practices are being displayed during the merit badge clinic there is a form that can be filled out and submitted to our Council office to help this from not happening again. The form is found below.

Proper practices are taught during the training of merit badge counselors.
If you would like to be trained as a merit badge counselor contact Ed Marek:  ph:(262) 327-2776 or epmarek@wi.rr.com

BSA Guide to Advancement is an important resource every Scout, Parent and adult Leader should know about.  This guide covers all topics related to advancement including, Ranks Scout through Eagle, Merit Badges to Scouts with Disabilities.

2015 BSA Guide to Advancement:  http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/33088.pdf

If you have further questions contact your local Boy Scout Council or your District Advancement Chair.

Potawatomi Area Council:

Ed Marek
Boy Scout Advancement Chair:
phone:  (262) 327-2776
email:  epmarek@wi.rr.com

Check out this link for detailed information on all merit badges:

http://boyslife.org/merit-badges/