Question on the National Outdoor Challenge Award: Requirement 5 states, "The troop earned at least one outdoors-related merit badge per Scout." You then have to submit your number of registered, not just active, Scouts and the grand total of outdoor-related merit badges earned. Some people say that means that each registered Scout in the Troop has to earn an outdoor-related merit badge during the year under consideration. Others say this means that the Troop as a whole has to earn a number of outdoor-related merit badges equal to or greater than the number of registered Scouts. Which is it? If it's the former, how do you handle Scouts who are injured and unable to complete the merit badges or Scouts who have become inactive during the year but whom you're actively recruiting to come back to Scouting? If those injured/inactive Scouts have to earn the merit badges, then the whole Troop becomes ineligible and all the other Scouts are punished due to circumstances beyond their control.
Thanks for your guidance.
Kirk
