A poll about merit badges

[spork]

If the national office decided to add 1 merit badge to the required list, what would you want it to be?

[slontwovvy]

Definitely Cooking. The most useful and applicable of the options. Cooking is something everyone should learn to do properly.

[spork]

I agree with you completely.

[FScouter]

I voted for cooking, but there's a lot to be said for pioneering too. How many people do you know that can splice a rope? Maybe that's not something one does every day, but if you can do it, you're a step ahead of the rest of the pack.

[k9gold-scout]

Cooking and Hiking at one time were both required merit badges.

[eagle90]

I have always thought Cooking should be a required badge. In your lifetime, you may never have to save a life, or use environmental science,but at one point or another you will have to cook a meal, whether it is in college, as a single, as a young married man, or later in life after the death of a spouse. In our troop we put a lot of emphasis on the proper cooking of meals.

[evmori]

Cooking. Hiking is now an "or" required merit badge.

 

Learning how to cook is important. In my Troop on camping trips, we require the patrols to cook. We attend a patrol cooking summer camp so this is reinforced the entire year.

 

Ed Mori

Scoutmaster

Troop 1

[smaster101]

I voted for cooking, but if I had another choice it would be wilderness survival. This has always been a popular badge with our boys, and with a knowledgeable counselor they can they can learn a lot of important skills.