What's That Badge
This is one of the best-known methods of the Scouting movement. When he founded the Scouting movement in the early 1900s, Robert Baden-Powell encouraged every Scout to learn the art of living out-of-doors. He believed a young person able to take care of himself while doing this would have the confidence to meet life’s other challenges, too.
What is Camping?
A little boy comes running to you with a bloody nose. You should tell him to sit upright and lean in this direction while pinching his nostrils.
What/Where is forward?
In this event, your patrol has a limited time to look at a tray of random objects and must use this specific type of memory to list as many items as possible after they are covered up.
What is short-term memory?
A simple, flat binding knot used to secure a line or rope around an object
Is it a knot?
What is a square knot?
This is the minimum number of total merit badges required to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout.
What is 21?
In earning the merit badge, Scouts will learn about and use an important technique that is used by law enforcement officers, along with other materials like matching dental records and DNA sampling, to help identify amnesia victims, missing persons, abducted children, and others.
What is Fingerprinting?
If a little boy is coughing loudly and gasping after swallowing a small toy, he is choking. You should perform abdominal thrusts, which are called?
What is the heimlich?
To build your rescue stretcher, your patrol doesn't need ropes or tape; instead, you fold the fabric over the two poles so that this force, caused by the patient's own body weight, locks the tarp layers tightly in place.
What is friction?
An ancient and essential "end-of-line" loop knot that creates a secure, fixed-size loop at the end of a rope.
Is it a knot?
What is a bowline knot?
To earn the Eagle rank, a Scout must serve in a troop leadership position for at least 6 months after earning this specific rank.
What is Life?
Scouts will begin their work on this merit badge by learning about the properties of this, how to use simple tools, and the basic techniques. Then they will practice using these tools and techniques before concentrating on the more intricate skills of one of four options.
What is Metalwork?
While pioneering, a little boy drops a heavy log on his leg, causing a deep gash that is bleeding heavily. After direct pressure fails to stop the bleeding, you must apply this medical device high and tight above the wound to stop the blood flow.
What is a tourniquet?
To win the fire building event, your patrol needs to strategically stack your wood. You will likely use this cone-shaped style named after a traditional Native American dwelling.
What is a teepee?
A thin a flexible knot made of cord, thread or wire that is used to bind thing together.
Is it not a knot?
Bonus: What is this a description of? (Exclude the word knot.)
This famous American astronaut and first man on the moon was also an Eagle Scout.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
What would summer camp be without this. “Reveille” in the morning and “Taps” in the evening? Camp and this go together.
What is Bugling?
While at winter camp, a little boy's fingers become numb, stiff, and turn a pale, glossy white. He has frostbite. You should warm the area using this specific method, while taking care never to rub or massage the frozen skin.
What is warm water?
To safely pull a heavy log in this event without the rope slipping, your patrol should tie this specific hitch, which combines a timber hitch with one or more half hitches.
What is the killick hitch/timber hitch?
A fundamental scouting and bushcraft technique used to bind three poles or spars together at the top to form a self-standing structure.
Is it a knot?
What is a tripod lashing/knot?
True or False: An Eagle Service Project can be done for a commercial business or a private individual.
What is False?
What is Inventing?
A little boy is stung by a wasp and rapidly develops hives, trouble breathing, and a swollen throat. He is experiencing anaphylaxis. You must immediately administer his EpiPen by pressing it firmly into this specific muscle group on his body.
What is the outer thigh?
When estimating the height of a tree without tools, Scouts often use the "Stick Method" or this anatomical method that requires a patrol member to walk away until their partner can see their feet and head inside a right triangle.
What is the Felling Method?
A quick temporary loop used to attach a lever or spike (a marlinspike) to a rope so you can pull or hoist heavy items.
Is it a knot?
What is the marlinspike hitch?
While most merit badges require a Scout to earn specific badges, the Emergency Preparedness badge allows a Scout to completely bypass it if they choose to earn this one instead.
What is lifesaving?