Exploration / Signs, Signals, and Codes
Merit badges · Outdoor Skills · 2027
Draft: may still change
- Class size
- 18
- Fee
- No extra fee
- Ages
- All Scouts
- Merit badges
- Exploration and Signs, Signals, and Codes
When it meets
Offered 2 times each week. Pick one.
- Session 1Monday to Thursday, 9:00 to 10:15Add to my plan: Session 1
- Session 4Monday to Thursday, 3:00 to 4:15Add to my plan: Session 4
Getting ready
Do at home
Requirement 5b. This can't be done at camp. The Scout finishes it with a merit badge counselor in your council, before or after camp. Camp records everything the Scout completes here.
Read the Exploration merit badge requirements and the Signs, Signals, and Codes merit badge requirements on scouting.org.
About the badges
Exploration
Scouts discover the history and importance of exploration, study real explorers who made their mark in the wild or in a lab, then plan, prepare for, and go on an expedition of their own.
Signs, Signals, and Codes
Scouts explore the ways people send messages without speaking, from Morse code and semaphore flags to trail signs and American Sign Language.
Signing up
Your unit leader registers each Scout for classes in MyCouncil when your week's registration opens in late April. Classes fill up, so list a second and third choice for each session.
