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Finding MB Opportunities - How To Begin Merit Badges

Jun 02, 2021
Hey guys Matt guys I'm hearing from the video and today is going to be about how to get started with

merit

badges

so this is a little different from my usual video but I think it's good for scouts to understand how to get started properly with

merit

badges

. especially if you are a new scout, some discount stars are merit badges and memory pandas are rewards earned by members of the Boy Scouts of America or Scouts BSA, now based on activities within the study area by completing a list of requirements updated periodically. and as you can see in the background, it shows a lot of these merit badges, there are over a hundred and thirty-five and a lot to choose from, but the reason why you earn these merit badges well in the first place is that they are an opportunity to learn. new skills which is always good and you should take every opportunity to learn new things and new skills such as sports, crafts, science, commerce, business and future careers and are discussed as you earn these merit badges;
finding mb opportunities   how to begin merit badges
There are more than one hundred and thirty-five to choose from. and you can choose interesting topics that you want to understand also if you don't know, convince yourself that they are necessary to advance in rank, so you will have to do them eventually, but I do them in my free time because many of them are actually very interesting. So how do you get started with merit badges? How do you start progressing on a merit badge or advance your requirements for a merit badge? Well, first of all, you need to have a topic in mind to learn about if you are interested in the board games you might want to make. the game design merit badge or the chess merit badge, if you are more of a non-tech person, you can go into digital technology or programming, as long as you have a topic in mind to think about You probably also want a buddy to work online with.
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You like a Scout buddy or an adult leader to help you. You also need a counselor to teach you the merit badge material. They also need an understanding of the topic and an understanding of the workload that is expected of You must complete the Maiar badge and again, before we delve further into this, I have a lot of questions about Eagle Scout merit badges for Eagle Scout and what badges of merit required our Eagle, so the second one for Eagle Scout says you need 21 merit badges. with 13 of them being Eagle, but not many people know exactly what that means, so basically Eagle will assign minor badges which are those with a positive side around them that you need for Eagle;
finding mb opportunities   how to begin merit badges
However, not all merit badges on the positive side are required for Eagle and those that are Not are acquired with Eagle, as normal merit badges have a green border around them like the edge of the chest, so merit badges required by Eagle are much more difficult than normal merit badges and also require a lot of responsibility, which is why they are necessary. for Eagle Scout because you have to be very responsible also with the Eagle card merit badges, there are 17 Eagle badges, but a scout only needs 13 to get Eagle Scout, which is the required amount, so let's just get that out of the way before to focus on initial merit.
finding mb opportunities   how to begin merit badges
There are no regular non-Eagle specific badges to earn, but there is a specific amount to advance in rank and one last thing, expand your horizons and try new things, don't feel constantly limited by the many options, so if you feel like I need to earn as many merit badges to advance, do what you think you can handle at the time or do what you think is fun. I started out doing simple things like chests and scholarships, which are very simple merit badges, but how did I get them started right? First, here are some tips for starting a merit badge.
Have a theme in mind, like I said before, you don't want a theme that's just a throw away and just a bit boring, have a theme in mind. It feels interesting to understand that it is the counselors' job to help meet the requirements and guide the explorer and understand the topic. The counselor shouldn't do everything for you, it shouldn't be like a classroom or just talking to you and you. just write things down or give you all the answers, that's not what it's supposed to be, they're supposed to help you understand the topic and get approval from the unit leader or your unit or leader to start a badge merit and I'll explain it to you in a second. and read the requirements for a badge before you start so you understand what the badge is about, and while you work, print out workbooks to organize your answers so that every time you meet with your counselor to explain things, you have your notes right in front of you, so this is all good for tips on starting a merit badge, so let's see, I understand the job of a councilman well, how do you get approval from a unit leader?
The mayor of Edge requires an explorer to present a blue card first. Before you consider a councilman, the blue cards look like this, that's why they're called a blue card and you give your application to your unit leader and they sign it for the merit badge you're trying to complete. Now not all troops use these. Specifically what I mean is that some troops are using the Scout book as a way to track their progress in my experience when some of my advisors are actually part of my troop and have access to the Scout book some of the merit badges I have and I don't need a blue card as you can update everything through the Scout book and you can follow my progress here and approve everything without even having to touch a blue card, so to try to do things efficiently a setup of troops will be a little easier because you don't need to go through all the hassle of getting a blue card.
Some people may not agree with me in saying that they need a blue card, but in my personal experience I have not needed a blue card for everyone. my merit badges if I can get them approved through the Scout book, so yes, although the blue cards are the official ones, I guess you could say register for a merit badge, you don't have to have them all the time, you can also register officially your progress in the Scout book, then what we just mentioned the merit badge program, you need to get an approved and signed blue card.
Actually, ironically, this is white because of the way they put it here, but it's usually blue and it's very specific. Very long and specific article on different topics. Now I'm just going to touch on a couple of them because I think they're very important to understand and I'm not going to go over all of them because look how incredibly small this scroll bar is. I'm not going to read this in full, but if you want to read it in full to learn more things related to merit badges, I'll put the link in the description, so

finding

mayor badge

opportunities

is also a question I've been asked. a lot on my channel, first of all, I think there are three categories that your troop can give you or your district can give you or the council can give you different merit badge

opportunities

.
Now these are the three levels based on how to scale the The opportunities are, of course, your troop is within your troop, your district is confined within your district and the councils and your council, what does this actually mean? So, in your troop, you can ask your Scoutmaster if there are adult leaders in the troop who are registered. Merit Badge Counselors, if you don't know exactly where to start, get a little confused and who to ask, go to your SPO or your Scoutmaster to see if there are any registered merit badge counselors and then you can see what I just said. listen to four.
If you have a specific merit badge in mind, ask your troop advisors if they are registered for that merit badge. Also an older Scout could help teach that mayor badge to make the experience more fun, for example when I was teaching art to my troop, my counselor. was walking us through this and then I got up as I was already in the group at this time and taught my troop how to get the different requirements and gave examples so an older Scout could also help the counselor as a way of provide I guess a more inclusive experience for the troop or their advisor can provide presentations.
I know when I was doing the backpacking merit badge, my counselor was giving us hands-on demonstrations on what to pack, what to take on backpacking trips, things like that so that those Are there merit badge opportunities for soldiers? What about district merit badge opportunities? Well, these are things that districts could offer called merit badges. Colleges or districts might offer roundtables designed to teach merit badges every month and I haven't been to any of these, but I've also heard of mayoral badge fairs, which are literally a fair for earning merit badges. , so when I went to my first mayor badge college I got one of the hardest Eagle card merit badges in one day, which is environmental science and a lot of people have asking me how did you get that merit badge in one day, you know.
It's supposed to be very difficult, well it is, but if you have the right place in mind and choose wisely which merit badges to make, it can become very difficult. Basically, you can do them in the most efficient way if you choose the right things. What I mean by that is that if someone offers, say, the cooking merit badge for something, but also offers the chess merit badge, well, the chess merit badge. The badge could also be very very interesting for you, it's probably best to go with the kitchen mayor for now to start because of how hard a merit badge is for him and it requires ego, so that's another good tip when choose a merit badge.
Make sure you love his options if you are given some and finally how to get merit badge opportunities at the board level. One of the council's options could offer merit badges at summer or winter camps I have been to at the Central Florida Council. Allen OG is always a host. big summer camp events and winter camp events, except of course this summer where they're actually planning on doing it online. Councils could also offer large college merit badge events, where there are many districts combined into one college merit badge event. I don't know if I've ever been to one of those big ones, but I know there are a few like that and recently my council has offered online merit badge classes and if you're an avid viewer of my channel, you know I already made a video. about this and if you don't know what I'm talking about with the online merit badge classes, I'll put a link in the description that explains how I do it with the council mayor badge opportunities.
I've been to summer camp and I've also been attending online merit badges, so these are just a lot of examples of mayor lot opportunities you can get at three different levels, troop district and council, for what mayor badges are actually a very important topic to think about, like I said before, you can learn about sports crafts. Science changes business and future careers as you earn these merit badges and like I said before, there are over a hundred and thirty-five of them. I'm going to cover the basic small steps you need to take to complete a merit badge. first an overview of how the process works, like I said before, pick a topic.
I can't tell you how many classes I've attended where the kids seem so disinterested and disengaged because they're just at it. to be in this, they don't even know about the topic and they don't even want to learn about it, they're just sitting there so you pick a topic that you're interested in have a buddy scout system have a scout work alongside you to make it exciting or if it's just you, make sure you have an adult leader when you meet with your counselor, that's another thing to meet with your counselor, you need to have some type of contact with them, whether that's in real life, make sure you have both Deep rules for communicating with your bear compatibility advice.
You can call them via email and that's especially important during quarantine times, for example my dad is mentoring a couple of kids on his merit badges via email. requirements to do which brings us to the next thing which is showing your stuff so that the requirements are really checked when you show up to a meeting when you show up to review what you have your counselor can teach you new subjects teach you things about the badge or can show them the work that you have completed and getting things approved and then finally getting the badge and all this is that getting the badge is based onthe requirements that you have met and that they have met.
His counselor approved and passed him, so this is just a basic description of how the process to earn a merit badge goes. There are some exceptions where a merit badge takes longer or maybe you started a merit badge and then never finished it. and then a few months later you worked on it again and got it done, of course you'll probably have to verify that you have the mayor badge open to complete it, there are just a few exceptions, sometimes of course a lot of mayor. Badges may be harder to complete than others and take more time, but that's just part of the experience of earning the merit badge and just to show you how many merit badges there are, I'll start scrolling down here as much as I can.
See, some of these have that white outline I was talking about, which means they were re-acquired by Eagle. There are seventeen of them, but you only need 13 to become evil. The rest of these are just free choices for you and what you want to do. what you are interested in as long as you find a counselor and can meet with them and meet the requirements the possibilities are endless as to what you can achieve so here is one thing I sell that I saw would be Important Young Member does not mean one-on-one with an adult according to this guide to safe exploration.
You should always follow the two deep rule, where you have two Scouts or one adult. There with the Scout bring a friend, like a friend, parent, guardian, someone there when you meet with your counselor to approve things and also group instructions. Sometimes it is desirable for merit badges to be taught in group settings because if you are teaching. your marriage with everyone everyone is having the full experience here is one thing I think should be addressed a partial completion is not bad it just makes me say you only completed a small part and not completely if you like entering an event and not finishing the badge mayor during that event, you can change councilor to another local council councilor in your area, just make sure that is also approved and you will be able to continue working on the merit badge so midterms do not expire except for the 18th birthday of the explorers.
So like I said before, if you started another badge at the

begin

ning of a year and then stopped and never completed it, that's partial, but you can always work on it later and finish it when it's actually merit badges like life. . save or prepare for emergencies, where you first need another merit badge, but if you are going to a camp of some kind, other requirements may be met during camp, so if you are starting to earn a merit badge at camp, you will want See what prerequisites that is, requirements to do beforehand. I had to do it because the last thing you want is to pay money to go to summer camp and have a good time and then come back and see that you only got a partial merit badge because you forgot to do a prerequisite before going there, so The prerequisites must be met so that you always get the full badge and earn it, and one last thing, once you get it, it is earned.
I've had a couple questions that say: What if I get? My merit badge is not approved after I finish it or what happens if it is taken away? The Scout who earned a merit badge from a registered and approved counselor and fully met the requirements, has the merit badge and you know you only give it to them as an advancement and it's on record and you can't take a badge off. of merit. Same with rank advancement, you can't take away a rank in Scouting, so once you've earned it and it's in the records, then I've got it, thanks for watching my video on how to start merit badges.
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