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Game Design Merit Badge
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Since so many boys are interested in video game design, I think we should offer a merit badge based on this career. This could include storyboarding, graphic design, animation, illustration, testing, and marketing. Many colleges offer this as a major, so finding merit badge counselors should not be a problem.
Idea # 553Boy Scouting
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8/10/09

From: Bob Scott, Innovation Team Coordinator

Proposals for new merit badges should be initated via email to meritbadge@scouting.org. By return email the submitter will received additional information on how to complete the submission process.
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awetterer 8 months ago
This seems like it would be a great edition, even if it is simply because video game creation involves graphic design, computer programming, etc... skills that many jobs now are moving towards and will continue to move towards.
pcowan 8 months ago
How do we submit new ideas to the Program Content committee?
Glenn Overby 6 months ago
I would take this a half-step further, and create a Games merit badge. In addition to the excellent ideas set forth for the video games proposal, we should remember that games are a window to diverse cultures (some board games go back over a thousand years), a form of sport for the mind instead of the body (two "games", chess and contract bridge, are recognized by the International Olympic Committee as sports; two others, draughts and go, are at the step below), and exactly the kind of lifelong activity that we have traditionally encouraged with many of the merit badges throughout our history.
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