Instead of us all proposing individual new merit badges on the site, how about a total revamp of the system. I believe that Merit Badges should be categorized: Careers; Hobbies; Sports & Physical Fitness; Scoutcraft (or something like that). In particular, we should be encouraging youth to explore careers through merit badge work. We have hundreds of careers that aren't even covered by a merit badge. In a revamp, a boy earns, say, 10 career-oriented badges, 5 hobby merit badges, 3 physical fitness, and say 5 Scoutcraft for Eagle Rank. In any event, the natural outcome of revamping would be that many more careers an hobbies or recreational merit badges could be added.
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