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The history of merit badges in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has been tracked by categorizing them into a series of merit badge types.In addition to the Boy Scouts of America, many other Scouting and Scouting-like organizations around the world, such as Pathfinders, Baden-Powell Scouts and Royal Rangers, issue merit badges or their equivalent; though they are sometimes called honors or ...
Discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) This is a list of merit badges formerly offered by the Boy Scouts of America. In some cases, the entire subject has been dropped from the merit badge roster. In others, the merit badge's name has been changed, with or without significant revision to the badge's requirements.
Merit badges are awards earned by members of the Boy Scouts of America, based on activities within the area of study by completing a list of periodically updated requirements. [1] The purpose of the merit badge program is to allow Scouts to examine subjects to determine if they would like to further pursue them as a career or vocation.
In 1911, 57 merit badges were issued by the Boy Scouts of America. Many of them exist to this day and are listed below in green. [1] Many of the others have been discontinued or reintroduced with different names. Of the discontinued original merit badges, four were offered in 2010 as part of the Boy Scouts of America centennial.
William T. Hornaday Gold Medal (1975–2019) and BSA Distinguished Conservationist (2020-present) List from National Council Office, Year Based on Year Approved (2/10/2021) 1982 – John F. Shanklin – for over 35 years conservation service with the National Park Service. He was a forest inspector with the Civilian Conservation Corps for nine ...
The World Conservation Award is issued by many of the national Scout associations affiliated to the World Organization of the Scout Movement, and was created in conjunction with the World Wide Fund for Nature, partially in response to the rise in popularity of Green Scouting, at some time prior to 1977. Different countries have set different ...
The author of the Merit Badge Field Guide, Fred Duersch, Jr. is an established expert on the topic of this article – the history of Boy Scout Merit Badges, his work in this field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications such as the ISCA. The book itself is a notable source for the subject of this article, utilized by ...
52,160 (2018) [ 1 ] 2,537,633 (total 2018) Scouting portal. Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Scouts BSA program by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Since its inception in 1911, only four percent of Scouts have earned this rank after a lengthy review process. [ 2 ] The Eagle Scout rank has been earned by over 2.5 million youth.