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Official Requirements & Fillable Workbook · 2026 Edition
Architecture asks you to look at buildings the way an architect does — why this material, why this shape, why here. Requirement 4 is the one that takes real care: an accurately scaled floor plan of a room you know, drawn at a quarter inch to the foot. Measure twice. Requirement 3 needs an architect, so arrange that early.
Every requirement for the Architecture merit badge, word for word as published, with room to write under each one on the printed worksheet.
Do the following:
In following the Leave No Trace Seven Principles and the Outdoor Code, Scouts pledge to "Travel and camp on durable surfaces" and to "Leave what you find" and to "Be conservation-minded." Discuss the following with your counselor:
Do ONE of the following:
Measure a room such as one where you live or where your troop meets. Make an accurately scaled drawing of the room's floor plan showing walls, doors, closets, windows, and any built-in furniture or cabinets. Neatly label your drawing with the following: your name, the date, what room you drew, and the scale of the drawing. (Drawing scale: ¼ inch = 1 foot)
Find out about three career opportunities in architecture. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you.
Scouting America last revised the Architecture requirements in 2015. That is the badge, not this sheet — an older year does not mean the worksheet is out of date.
This worksheet was checked against https://www.scouting.org/merit-badges/architecture/ in Aug 2026 and reproduces the requirements word for word. Both dates are printed on the sheet, so a copy in a binder can always be placed in time.
Requirement text is © Scouting America, reproduced verbatim. The worksheet layout and design are original to this project.
Archaeology is the study of people through what they left behind — and its first lesson is that context matters more than objects. A pot dug up and pocketed tells you almost nothing; the same pot recorded in place tells you who lived there and when. Requirements 10 and 11 both need a qualified archaeologist, so line that up early.
Archery is mostly done on a range, under a certified instructor. Requirement 5 is where the badge is won or lost: you pick recurve/longbow or compound, learn the 11 Steps of Shooting, and then post a qualifying score. Bring this sheet to the range and record scores as you shoot — reconstructing an end from memory afterward does not work.
Art is a doing badge with a vocabulary attached. Requirements 2 and 3 give you the language — the elements of art and the principles of design — and requirement 4 makes you render the same subject four different ways, which teaches more about a medium than any amount of reading. Keep your work: your counselor will want to see it.
Artificial Intelligence is one of the newest badges, and it has no pamphlet — Scouting America built it around a chatbot called Scoutly instead. Two requirements (2d and 4b) are games you play with your counselor, so they cannot be done alone at a desk. The ethics requirement asks you to write your own guidelines for using AI, which is the most useful thing on this sheet.
