Introducing the 100th Anniversary Historical Merit Badge Program

Carpentry	Pathfinding	Signaling	Tracking (originally called Stalking)

We are pleased to introduce the Historical Merit Badge program and release supporting materials for the program, which includes four returning merit badges—Signaling, Tracking, Carpentry, and Pathfinding.

With the Historical Merit Badge program, we hope to capitalize on the excitement of the Boy Scouts of America’s 100^th Anniversary year. The goal of this program is to help stimulate Boy Scout advancement by adding a limited advancement opportunity; to help today’s Scouts understand what the world might have been like for Scouts in 1910; to make advancement more fun and exciting, and popular to earn; and, to provide unique program opportunities for council and district activities that go beyond traditional program themes.

The BSA Web site will have detailed information about the program for volunteers. Materials include a program announcement/flier, program overview, implementation guide, scans of the original merit badge pamphlets, and supplemental fliers that give the original requirements more meaning and relevancy. See www.scouting.org/BoyScouts/AdvancementandAwards/MeritBadges.aspx.