Merit Badge & Advancement Information
** An Introduction To Merit Badges **
General Advancement Requirements
Important information you need to know
Merit Badge Pamphlet Revision Dates
Individual Merit Badges
(The names of Eagle required badges are in bold)
American Business, American Culture, American Heritage, American Labor, Animal Science, Archaeology, Archery, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Athletics, Auto Mechanics, and Aviation.
Backpacking, Basketry, and Bird Study.
Camping, Canoeing, Chemistry, Cinematography, Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship in the World, Climbing, Coin Collecting, Collections, Communications, Composite Materials, Computers, Cooking, Crime Prevention, and Cycling.
Dentistry, Disabilities Awareness, Dog Care, and Drafting.
Electricity, Electronics, Emergency Preparedness, Energy, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Environmental Science.
Family Life, Farm Mechanics, Fingerprinting, Fire Safety, First Aid, Fish and Wildlife Management, Fishing, Fly Fishing and Forestry.
Gardening, Genealogy, Geology, Golf, and Graphic Arts.
Hiking, Home Repairs, and Horsemanship.
Indian Lore, and Insect Study.
Landscape Architecture, Law, Leatherwork, and Lifesaving.
Mammal Study, Medicine, Metalwork, Model Design and Building, Motorboating, and Music.
Nature, and Nuclear Science.
Oceanography, and Orienteering.
Painting, Personal Fitness, Personal Management, Pets, Photography, Pioneering, Plant Science, Plumbing, Pottery, Public Health, Public Speaking, and Pulp and Paper.
Radio, Railroading, Reading, Reptile and Amphibian Study, Rifle Shooting, and Rowing.
Safety, Salesmanship, Scholarship, Sculpture, Shotgun Shooting, Skating, Small-Boat Sailing, Snow Sports, Soil and Water Conservation, Space Exploration, Sports, Stamp Collecting, Surveying, and Swimming.
Textile, Theater, Traffic Safety, and Truck Transportation.
Water Sports, Weather, Whitewater, Wilderness Survival, Wood Carving, and Woodwork.