Due to the extremely high demand of merit badge sessions all registrations are final and cannot be swapped out for different classes.

Each class is $25.00 and have varying stipulations on classes sizes. Refunds will only be issued to classes that have to be cancelled in the unlikely circumstances that we cannot find a replacement counselor or reschedule the class.

Each month a Scout participates they will recieve a themed
patch in the mail: 

September- Eagle Bound (Patches will be mailed mid October as they are not yet in) 
October- Scouting Essentials 
November-The Great Indoors 

Please realize that when a class opens it does fill up very quickly so when you are ready to register please work quickly. If you leave an unfinished registration open too long the class can fill up before you have completed your submission! We will continue to add classes as we are able to find people to staff them.

As requested by many troops and merit badge counselors Eagle required merit badges will be offered for youth who are First Class rank and above. 

Each merit bade counselor will host their classes on their own timeline and their own virtual platform (Zoom, Ring Central, Google Classroom, etc.), enabling the counselor to be the “host” of their class. Invitation links and prerequisite information will be sent to you from your individual merit badge counselor prior to the start of class. Please watch for that information. Also, we have attached a list of classes with class days and times.

Please Remember:

Before registering for a merit badge class, Scouts should talk with his/her Scoutmaster to receive approval before working ahead. This approval does not need to be submitted to us.

Keep your confirmation e-mail! This includes important information about retrieving your Scout’s blue card after the completion of the course! You will be able to retrieve your own blue cards. It is your Scout’s responsibility to share this information with the Troop so that he/she is credited with their advancement.

As a reminder, Scouting’s Barriers to Abuse (https://www.scouting.org/health-and-safety/gss/gss01/#a) prohibits any one-on-one contact between an adult leader and youth members – in person, online, through a web conference, over the phone, via text, or in any other form. Electronic communication between adults and youth should always include another registered leader or parent. We believe our existing policy is the best way to protect youth and volunteers, and we do not believe recording online meetings would provide any additional material benefit. To the contrary, recording calls would increase personal risk as call recording is subject to various legal requirements under U.S. law and the laws of individual states, some of which require all parties to a call consent to recording. Considering those potential regulatory risks and the effect of BSA’s existing policies, we are not authorizing the recording of online meetings.

Please review the following Internet Safety Guidelines with your Scout prior to class:

• Keep online conversations with everyone in public places, not in email.
• Do not give anyone online your real last name, phone numbers at home or school, your parents’ workplaces, or the name or location of your school or home address unless you have your parents’ permission first. Never give your password to anyone but a parent or other adult in your family.
• If someone sends or shows you email or any type of direct message/wall post with sayings that make you feel uncomfortable, trust your instincts. You are probably right to be wary. Do not respond. Tell a parent or trusted adult what happened.
• If somebody tells you to keep what’s going on between the two of you secret, tell a parent or guardian.
• Be careful to whom you talk. Anyone who starts talking about subjects that make you feel uncomfortable is probably an adult posing as a kid.
• Pay attention if someone tells you things that don’t fit together. If one time an online “friend” says he or she is 12, and another time says he or she is 14. That is a warning that this person is lying and may be an adult posing as a kid.
• Unless you talk to a parent about it first, never talk to anybody by phone if you know that person only online. If someone asks you to call—even if it’s collect or a toll-free, 800 number—that’s a warning. That person can get your phone number this way, either from a phone bill or from caller ID.
• Never agree to meet someone you have met only online at any place off-line, in the real world.
• Watch out if someone online starts talking about hacking, or breaking into other people’s or companies’ computer systems; phreaking (the “ph” sounds like an “f”), the illegal use of long-distance services or cellular phones; or viruses (online programs that destroy or damage data when other people download these onto their computers).
• Promise your parent or an adult family member and yourself that you will honor any rules about how much time you are allowed to spend online and what you do and where you go while you are online.

Other Website Resources:

Youth protection guidelines: https://www.scouting.org/training/youth-protection/

Social Medica Guidelines: https://scoutingwire.org/social-media-guidelines/