Pies: The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts both offer merit badges in dog care

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VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE THROUGH THE MERIT BADGE PROGRAM OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

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A new merit badge for the Boy Scouts

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Fitness Measures Among Boy Scouts Completing the Personal Fitness Merit Badge

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NOAA hosts Boy Scouts of America oceanography merit badge events

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Proposed Scouts BSA (formerly Boy Scouts) optics/photonics merit badge

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The Scout Motto of the Scout movement is, in English, "Be Prepared", with most international branches of the group using a close translation of that phrase. These mottoes have been used by millions of Scouts around the world since 1907. Most of the member organizations of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) share the same mottoes. Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the UK Boy Scouts Association, coined the phrase based on his own initials, and described it as encouraging "a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty".

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Merit badges are awards earned by members of Scouting America, based on activities within the area of study by completing a list of periodically updated requirements. The purpose of the merit badge program is to allow Scouts to examine subjects to determine if they would like to further pursue them as a career or vocation. The program also introduces Scouts to life skills such as contacting an adult they had not met before, arranging a meeting, and demonstrating their skills, similar to a job or college interview. The merit badge award is represented by a circular patch with an image representing the badge's topic. The patches for the Eagle Scout-required merit badges are distinguishable by…

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The history of merit badges in Scouting America has been tracked by categorizing them into a series of merit badge types. In addition to Scouting America, many other Scouting and Scouting-like organizations around the world, such as Pathfinders, Baden-Powell Scouts and Royal Rangers, issue merit badges or their equivalent; though they are sometimes called honors or proficiency badges. Other organizations, such as fire brigades, issue badges or awards that they refer to as merit badges, but that is in some respects different from the badges awarded by Scouting America. Merit badges has been an integral part of the Scouting program since the start of the movement in the United Kingdom on Augu…

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