Merit badge

I became an Eagle Scout at 14 and then I eventually started teaching at Scout Camp.

It wasn't until I think I was maybe in my 20s when I actually started teaching Merit Badges outside of like, you know, Wilderness Survival, Pioneer.

So I started teaching the Space Exploration Merit Badges.

Like, I know how to do this because they didn't have an instructor.

And then I went through the principles of propulsion and let's talk about astronauts.

drilling, and camp life can be taught.

The different tests, also, which the girl must pass in the striving for the different merit badges, all tend to efficiency.

In the military drilling,

the instant attention to a command, prompt obedience to a given signal, repeated time after time, fixes the habit of alertness.

For helpfulness, she must present a tenderfoot scout trained by herself, present to the scout officers proof of some definite service to her community.

For thrift, she must earn at least one dollar and start a savings account.

Second-class scouts may earn all merit badges except the golden eaglet, which may be awarded

to first-class scouts.

map-making, military drilling, and camp life can be taught.

The different tests, also, which the girl must pass in the striving for the different merit badges, all tend to efficiency.

In the military drilling, the instant attention to a command, prompt

obedience to a given signal, repeated time after time, fixes the habit of

And so will you.

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the value of girl scout training is shown in the war work they accomplished in connection with the red cross the war garden commission the food administration the liberty loans and the thrift campaigns the americanization work and the labor replacement work by which these young girls released older women from home duties for war work of various kinds none of these activities were new to the girl scouts for there are scout merit badges to be won for first aid artist athletics automobile driving aviation bird study seamanship child care clerk civics cook invalid cookery cyclist dairy electricity, farmer, gardener, personal health, laundress, marksmanship, music, naturalist, needlewoman, horsemanship, home nursing, housekeeping, interpreter, pathfinder, pioneer, photography, scribe, signaling, swimmer, telegraphy.

All second-class scouts may compete for any or all of them.

While on these hikes, signaling, map-making, military drilling, and camp life can be taught.

The different tests, also, which the girl must pass in the striving for the different merit badges, all tend to efficiency.

In the military

drilling, the instant attention to a command, prompt obedience to a given signal, repeated time after time, fixes the habit of alertness.

For helpfulness, she must present a tenderfoot scout trained by herself, present to the scout officers proof of some definite service to her community.

For thrift, she must earn at least one dollar and start a savings account.

Second-class scouts may earn all merit badges

except the golden eaglet, which may be awarded to first-class scouts.