Scouts! Earning Merit Badges is Fun!

The Boy Scouts of America has 136 merit badges you can earn to learn new skills and advance your scouting career.  Troop 401 has a great stable of merit badge counselors who will work with you to complete the badges.  Many are experts in their field and great enthusiasts for their topic!

The list of counselors is shown under "Who's Who"  (note: this list is downloaded from Scoutbook and kept current there).  There's also a full list of badges.

Please contact Mrs. Beal or Mrs. Rizzo to connect you with the counselor in Scoutbook, find the right person or identify counselors for badges not listed.

Here are a couple of tips:

For each merit badge there is:
*A pamphlet of background material - we have many of these in our library - ask your SPL!
*A list of requirements (online and in the book)

We have a library of merit badge pamphlets you can borrow, you can also buy them online or get the e-book at http://www.scoutstuff.org

Here’s a helpful link to the merit badge requirements:
http://www.scouting.org/meritbadges.aspx

TIPS:
*  You can make notes in Scoutbook for each merit badge you are working on, including saving photos.

*  You can work on as many merit badges as you'd like and they do not expire
*  Take photos and video as you complete requirements as a way to show your counselor what you’ve done
*  Come to our three “Advancement nights” to meet counselors.  

*  Mark your calendars to attend Merit Badge University (Jan 2025) to start merit badges - some can be completed in a single day.

*  Attend a summer camp complete merit badges throughout the week.

Questions? Please contact Mrs. Beal or Mrs. Rizzo via e-mail in Scoutbook  Good luck and have fun!