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Merit Badge Index

The Merit Badge Index is a Google Gadget that can be added to a page on your own website or to your home page on the Google website. It can be customized with information about merit badge opportunities in your community and/or troop.
Merit Badge Index

Merit Badge Information

In addition to the District Merit Badge Day, there are additional merit badge opportunities for area scouts.  
  • Merit badges are routinely offered at Council summer camps
  • There are at least two other merit badge events within a 1-2 hour drive of Columbus
  • There are local organizations, e.g. COSI, AEP, Columbus Zoo that offer merit badge programs in their areas of specialty.
Worthington Scouts' merit badge page has information about these other opportunities, but this information has been a challenge to organize.  Please browse the merit badge page.  It's random, but hopefully interesting and useful.  

If you're looking for resources about a specific merit badge, use the Merit Badge Index at left.  Each merit badge has an entry with
  • Brief excerpts from the badge requirements to give you some idea of what the badge is about
  • A link to the complete/official requirements for the badge at MeritBadge.org
  • A list of any local opportunities/advisors giving instruction in the particular merit badge.
At this point, the index is far from complete.  If
  • You know of merit badge instructions that should be included in the index
  • Your troop or crew has an advisor willing to give a merit badge instruction to scouts from other units
please drop me a note.  I'll be happy to add your information and/or corrections to the index.  -- AWM
Configuration/Localization

The index can be added to your own website and localized with merit badge information appropriate for your community or troop.  Localization information is contained in two XML files that can be hosted from your troop website.  The localization files are specified by user preferences that are set from this configuration panel on the Google website:
Configuration Panel

The XML files contain entries that look like this:
and render like this:
Camp Falling Rock Summer Camp
Offered in summer camp program.
For more information see the Camp Falling Rock Merit Badge Page. Additional information is at the Council Website.

The XML files can be in a password protected area. The index will still work, but it won't display any resource information unless the reader knows the proper passwords.   The XML file used to add the Worthington Community information can be downloaded from