Merit Badges

See below for the Merit Badge Offerings and Pre-Requisites. View the Program Catalog for how the programs are broken up. Click here for Eagles Nest program

Advancement

Merit Badges

Use the schedule for Scouts to see which merit badges they would like to work toward during their week at Many Point. Merit Badges that have grey boxes overlap multiple merit badge sessions.

Swim Lessons is not a merit badge, but is very beneficial for Scouts that need help working on their swimming ability.

BSA Lifeguard is a certification that can be taken by adult leaders as well. Arrange training time with your camps Aquatics Director on Sunday.

First Class Adventure works toward many of the requirements in Tenderfoot, First Class, and Second Class. For more information, click here.

Program Registration

Parents and Scouts should give their unit’s camping coordinator their program requests. Scouts will get into whichever merit badges they request. Once your unit has a campsite reservation, program request can be made by the camping coordinator through Black Pug Scouting Event software.

Troop Advancement

As learned during our 2020 summer, units doing merit badges together was enjoyed and is returning in 2021. Badges will take around 4 hours to complete.

Older Scout Programs and Merit Badges

Scouts registered in older Scout programs may miss a day or two merit badges. They can make up missed requirements during free time or in-site unit time. Scouts accepted into Tier 2 older Scout programs will not be able to participate in any of the Merit Badge sessions.

Age/ Grade Requirements

To help manage merit badge class sizes, we’ve added a grade requirement to certain merit badges.

Independent Study Merit Badges

Some badges can be worked on outside of the merit badge time. Scouts are required to meet a minimum of twice during the week with a merit badge counselor. The Scout receives a document with the tasks necessary to earn the badge independently. Merit badge counselors are available by appointment. All requirements are due before lunch on Friday.

Merit Badges

Archaeology
Archery
Art
Astronomy
Basketry
¹³Camping
Canoeing
Chemistry
Chess
¹³Citizenship in the Nation
Climbing
¹³Cooking
¹³Communications
¹²Cycling
¹³Emergency Preparedness
¹Environmental Science
Fingerprinting
¹³First Aid
Fish & Wildlife Management

Fishing
⁴Forestry
Game Design
Geocaching
⁴Geology
¹⁴Hiking
Indian Lore
³⁴Insect Study
²Kayaking
Leatherwork
¹³Lifesaving
Mammal Study
⁴Nature
⁴Orienteering
¹Personal Fitness

Pioneering
Pottery
Radio
³⁴Reptile & Amphibian Study
Rifle Shooting
Rowing
²SCUBA Diving
³Search & Rescue
Shotgun Shooting
Signs, Signals, & Codes
Small Boat Sailing
Soil and Water Conservation
Sports
¹³Swimming
²Water Sports
Weather
³Wilderness Survival
Woodcarving

¹ Eagle Scout required merit badge
² Only available through the Flintlock programs
³ Pre-requisite needed to pass before camp to ensure completion
⁴ Merit Badge is offered only as an independent study, where Scout works on their own time during the week and has periodic meetings with merit badge counselor.

Pre-Requisites

Merit Badge	Req Scout must complete outside	Extensive practice	Difficulty
Archeology	None	8, 9	Moderate
Archery	None	2, 5	Difficult
Art	None	4 (Need painting clothes)	Easier
Astronomy	None	4, 6, 8	Difficult
Basketry (w/ Leatherwork)	None	Material Costs~$19.50	Easier
Camping	9a	None	Moderate
Canoeing	None	None	Difficult
Chemistry	None	None	Moderate
Chess	None	None	Moderate
Citizenship in the Nation (going into 9th grade)	2,3,6,8	None	Difficult
Climbing (going into 7th grade)	None	None	Moderate
Cooking (going into 8th grade)	4,5,6	None	Moderate
Communications	2,3,4,5,6	8	Easier
Cycling	None	7b	Difficult
Emergency Preparedness	1,2c,6c,8b	7	Difficult
Environmental Science	None	4	Moderate
Fingerprinting	None	None	Easier
First Aid (going into 7th grade)	1,5	None	Moderate
Fish & Wildlife Management	None	7c	Moderate
Fishing	None	9,10 (Bring Fishing Pole)	Easier
Forestry	None	1	Moderate
Game Design	None	5,6,7	Moderate
Geocaching	None	9	Moderate
Geology	None	None	Difficult
Hiking	None	4,5,6	Difficult
Indian Lore	None	Possible Material Costs	Easier
Insect Study	9	5	Difficult
Kayaking	None	None	Easier
Leatherwork(w/ Basketry)	None	Material Costs ~$5.00* (Leather kits)	Easier
Lifesaving	2a	2b,6,8,9,11,12,13,14,15,16	Difficult
Mammal Study (w/ Fish & Wildlife)	None	None	Easier
Nature	None	4	Difficult
Orienteering	None	7,8,9,10	Difficult
Personal Fitness (going into 9th grade)	1,6,7,8	None	Difficult
Photography	None	4,5,7	Moderate
Pioneering	2a None	10	Difficult
Pottery	None	5 (Need painting clothes)	Moderate
Radio	None	9b	Difficult
Reptile & Amphibian Study	8	9	Moderate
Rifle Shooting	None	1,2	Difficult
Rowing	2	4,5	Moderate
SCUBA Diving	None	None	Difficult
Search and Rescue	4,6a	9	Moderate
Shotgun Shooting (going into 8th grade)	None	Ammunition ~$10.00 – $25.00*	Difficult
Signs, Signals, and Codes	None	7	Moderate
Small Boat Sailing	None	None	Difficult
Swimming	2	3,6	Moderate
Water Sports	None	5	Difficult
Weather	None	None	Moderate
Wilderness Survival	5	8	Moderate
Woodcarving	None	Material Costs ~$3.50*	Moderate
BSA Lifeguard	None	Most Everything	Difficult

First Class Adventure will work on Scout 4ab, 5, Tenderfoot 4ab, 5abc, 7a, 8, Second Class 1b, 2bcdfg, 3abcd, 4, 6abcd, 8a and First Class 1b, 3bcd, 5a, 7abc requirements. Troop leaders must sign off their requirements. Troops are requested to send adult leaders to help with the First Class Adventure program which makes it easy to sign off their Scouts’ requirements. First Class Aquatics will cover Tenderfoot 5a, Second Class 5acd, First Class 5bcd, 6bcde, 7c

*Material costs are approximate and depend on specific projects selected.

**Difficulty Levels are subjective and are provided only as a guide