Introducing the 100th Anniversary Historical Merit Badge Program!

We are pleased to introduce the Historical Merit Badge program and release supporting materials for the program, which includes four returning merit badges—Signaling, Tracking, Carpentry, and Pathfinding.

With the Historical Merit Badge program, we hope to capitalize on the excitement of the Boy Scouts of America’s 100th Anniversary year. The goal of this program is to help stimulate Boy Scout advancement by adding a limited advancement opportunity; to help today’s Scouts understand what the world might have been like for Scouts in 1910; to make advancement more fun and exciting, and popular to earn; and, to provide unique program opportunities for council and district activities that go beyond traditional program themes.

The BSA Web site will have detailed information about the program for volunteers. Materials include a program announcement/flier, program overview, implementation guide, scans of the original merit badge pamphlets, and supplemental fliers that give the original requirements more meaning and relevancy. See www.scouting.org/BoyScouts/AdvancementandAwards/MeritBadges.aspx.
Thank You Danny Kuhlmann!

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"The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it."
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Founder of the Boy Scouts