Merit Badges requiring prior approval
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Almost half of the Boy Scout Merit Badges require prior counselor approval for certain requirements. Most do not: " Any Boy Scout may earn any merit badge at any time." - Boy Scout Requriements p. 22.
| Merit Badges Requiring Prior Approval for Certain Requirements | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Heritage #2b, 2c, 2d, 5a, 5 | American Labor #2, 5c, 5d | Art #2a, 2b, 4 | Astronomy #9 | |
| Athletics #6b | Backpacking #11b | Citizenship in the Community #4b, 5, 7c | Citizenship in the Nation #6 | |
| Communications #5c | Computers #6e, #7c, 7d | Crime Prevention #7b | Disabilities Awareness #5a | |
| Emergency Preparedness #8b, 9a | Engineering #1 | Environmental Science #3e3 | First Aid #6c | |
| Forestry #5 | Geology #4a, 5c | Golf #8 | Graphic Arts #4a | |
| Home Repairs #2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | Indian Lore #2b | Journalism #3b, 3c | Mammal Study #5 | |
| Medicine #10 | Metalwork #5b, 3c3a | Model Design and Building #1, 3, 4a, 4c | Oceanography #8a, 8c | |
| Painting #3 | Personal Fitness #7 | Pets #1 | Photography #4a, 4b | |
| Pioneering #10 | Public Health #5, 7 | Pulp and Paper #7 | Radio #8 | |
| Safety #2a | Salesmanship #3 | Scholarship #4b | Sculpture #2c | |
| Small-Boat Sailing #6c | Soil and Water Conservation #7f | Sports #5 | Surveying #2 | |
| Weather #9a, 9b | Woodwork #6d | |||
