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9/28/2024: Orienteering

Rank Requirements

Orienteering Skill Development

10/5/2024: First Aid

Red Cross CPR

Rank Requirements (Tenderfoot, First and Second Class)

First Aid Merit Badge

Disabilities Awareness Merit Badge

11/2/2024: Bushcraft

Rank Requirements (Tenderfoot, First and Second Class)

Basketry Merit Badge

Pioneering Merit Badge

12/7/2024: Fire & Steel

Totin Chip and Fireman Chit

Paul Bunyon Award

2/15/2025: First Aid

Red Cross First Aid

Rank Requirements (Tenderfoot, First and Second Class)

First Aid MB

Health Care Professionals MB

3/8/2025: Fire & Steel

Totin Chip and Fireman Chit

Paul Bunyon Award

4/26/2025: First Aid/ EMS

Red Cross Wilderness First Aid

Rank Requirements

First Aid MB

E-Prep MB

Prerequisties 

First Aid:

2. Preparing for First Aid Emergencies. Do the following:
   (b) Using checklists provided in the First Aid Merit Badge pamphlet or ones approved by your counselor, do the following:
        1. Assemble a personal first-aid kit for hiking and backpacking. Demonstrate the proper use of each item in your first-aid kit to your counselor.

14. With guidance from your counselor, develop a plan to teach a first-aid skill or topic using the EDGE method. Discuss your skill, topic, and plan with your counselor, and then teach your skill or topic to your family or to one or more Scouts.

Disability Awareness:

2.  Visit an agency that works with people with physical, mental, emotional, or educational disabilities. Collect and read information about the agency's activities. Learn about opportunities its members have for training, employment, and education. Discuss what you have learned with your counselor.

Paul Bunyon Award

Earned and have the Totin Chip cert.

Healthcare Professionals:

9. With approval of your counselor and parents/ guardian, serve as a volunteer at a health related event or facility in your community (e.g. blood drive, health fair, blood pressure screening event). Report to your counselor what you did and learned from the experience.

Emergency Preparedness:

1. Earn the First Aid merit badge

3. Planning for Family Emergencies. Do the following:

  (a) At a family meeting, discuss the situations on the chart you created for requirement 2b and make emergency plans for sheltering-in-place and for evacuation of your home. Discuss your family meeting and plans with your counselor.

  (b) Develop and practice a plan of escape for your family in case of fire in your home. Draw a floor plan with escape routes and a map with a safe meeting place. Discuss your family's home escape plan with your counselor.

  (c) Using a checklist in the Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge pamphlet or one approved by your counselor, prepare or inspect a family disaster kit for sheltering-in-place and for evacuation of your home. Review the needs and uses of the items in a kit with your counselor.
 

8. National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command System (ICS). Do the following:

   (b) Find out how your community and its leaders work to manage and to train for disasters. Discuss this information with your counselor, using the information you learned from requirement 1b.

9. Emergency Service. Do the following:

   (c) Using a checklist in this pamphlet or one approved by your counselor, prepare or inspect a personal emergency service pack for a mobilization call. Explain the needs and uses of the contents to your counselor.