Robotics Merit Badge

[Bryan Herbst]

Originally Posted by chessking132

I would support this 100 hundred percent. I am a camp counselor and would be willing to encourage my camp to pick up the merit badge.

Matthew Simpson
Team 75 Alumni

The problem that I have with this is that camps usually don't run merit badges quite the way I would like/expect, and most camps probably wouldn't have the equipment necessary for some requirements.

The latter is fine because they can just have pre/post requirements for those taking the badge.

However, at camp, most merit badges (in my experience) are mostly you show up, you get the badge. Only at summer camp do I see a bunch of 14 year olds earning the Nuclear Science merit badge. Unsurprisingly, none of them actually learned much about nuclear science, other than that you can model a nuclear reactor with brownies, ice cream, twizzlers, and pretzels.