Merit Badges
Boy Scout Handbook pages 185-193. An Introduction to all the Merit Badges offered by the BSA can be found at
http://www.meritbadge.com/mb/
Merit Badge Pamphlets and their issue dates can be found at http://www.meritbadge.com/info/revision.htm
Depending on your Merit Badge
Counselors preference.
Merit Badge Worksheets can be found in both Microsoft Word (doc) or Adobe reader (PDF) at
http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/
Merit_Badge_Worksheets
also U.S. Scouting Service Project worksheets can be found in both Microsoft Word (doc) or Adobe reader (PDF) at http://www.usscouts.org/mb/wkbks/list.asp
For the 15 Required Merit Badges for Eagle check out the black side bar to the right.
For current 2010 Boy Scout Merit Badges graphics. * = revised 2010
At the present moment, there are 110 Elective Merit Badges:
| American Business | Landscape Architecture |
| American Cultures | Law |
| American Heritage | Leatherwork |
| American Labor | Mammal Study |
| Animal Science | Medicine |
| Archaeology | Metalwork |
| Archery | * Model Design & Building |
| * Architecture | Motorboating |
| Art | * Music |
| * Astronomy | Nature |
| Athletics | * Nuclear Science |
| Automotive Maintenance | Oceanography |
| Aviation | Orienteering |
| Backpacking | Painting |
| Basketry | Pets |
| Bird Study | Photography |
| Bugling | Pioneering |
| Canoeing | Plant Science |
| Chemistry | Plumbing |
| Cinematography | Pottery |
| Climbing | Public Health |
| Coin Collecting | Public Speaking |
| Collections | Pulp and Paper |
| Composite Materials | Radio |
| Computers | Railroading |
| Cooking | Reading |
| Crime Prevention | Reptile & Amphibian Study |
| Dentistry | Rifle Shooting |
| Disabilities Awareness | Rowing |
| Dog Care | Safety |
| Drafting | Salesmanship |
| Electricity | Scholarship |
| Electronics | Scouting Heritage |
| Energy | Scuba Diving |
| Engineering | Sculpture |
| Entrepreneurship | Shotgun Shooting |
| Farm Mechanics | Skating |
| Fingerprinting | Small-Boat Sailing |
| Fire Safety | Snow Sports |
| Fish & Wildlife Management | * Soil & Water Conservation |
| Fishing | Space Exploration |
| Fly Fishing | Sports |
| Forestry | Stamp Collecting |
| Gardening | Surveying |
| Genealogy | Textile |
| Geocaching | Theater |
| Geology | Tracking |
| Golf | Traffic Safety |
| Graphic Arts | Truck Transportation |
| Home Repairs | Veterinary Medicine |
| * Horsemanship | Water Sports |
| Indian Lore | Weather |
| Insect Study | Whitewater |
| Inventing | Wilderness Survival |
| Journalism | Wood Carving |
| Woodwork |