Merit Badges
Ranks and Advancements
Scout Skills
Traditions
Camping
100

This merit badge is required for Eagle Scout and teaches budgeting, saving, and investing.

What is Personal Management?


100

This is the highest rank a Scout can earn.

What is Eagle Scout?


100

The Scout motto is these two words.

What is Be Prepared?


100

The Scout slogan encourages members to do this daily.

What is Do a Good Turn?


100

This essential item goes under your sleeping bag to provide cushioning and insulation from the ground.

What is a sleeping pad?

200

This outdoor cooking-focused badge became Eagle-required again in 2014.

What is Cooking?


200

A Scout must earn this minimum number of merit badges to become an Eagle Scout.

What is 21?


200

Scouts shake hands using this hand instead of the right.

What is the left hand?


200

The three raised fingers in the Scout sign represent these.

What are the three parts of the Scout Oath?


200

This principle reminds campers to pack out everything they bring in.

What is Leave No Trace?


300

This lifesaving badge requires demonstrating CPR and rescue techniques in the water.

What is Lifesaving?


300

This required leadership and service project is completed for the Eagle rank.

What is an Eagle Scout Service Project?


300

This knot is commonly used to join two ropes of equal thickness.

What is the square knot?


300

This large international Scout gathering happens every four years.

What is the World Scout Jamboree?


300

This type of campsite is reached only by hiking in, not by driving.

What is a backcountry campsite?


400

This Eagle-required badge focuses on citizenship at the national level.

What is Citizenship in the Nation?


400

Tenderfoot, Second Class, and this rank come before First Class.

What is Scout?


400

This method of fire building is shaped like a cone and is good for quick flames.

What is a teepee fire?

400

The Scout Law has this many points.

What is 12?


400

This tool is commonly used to put tent stakes into the ground.

What is a mallet?


500

This badge, introduced in 2010, covers robotics design, programming, and engineering principles.

What is Robotics?

500

This is the honor society of Scouting focused on camping and cheerful service.

What is Order of the Arrow?

500

This lashing is used to bind two poles together at a right angle for building camp gadgets.

What is the square lashing?

500

This organization coordinates the global Scout movement.

What is the World Organization of the Scout Movement?

500

This triangle-shaped method of hanging food protects it from bears while camping.

What is the bear bag (or bear hang method)?

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