Happy New Year! New Eagle Required Cooking Merit Badge Goes Live

Happy 2014! Today marks the beginning of several new changes from the BSA.

The Cooking merit badge is now required in order to earn the rank of Eagle Scout. In addition, Scouts may choose to work on a set of updated requirements released today.

Those that already earned the Cooking MB can now count this merit badge toward their Eagle rank.  Scouts may choose to work on the old or new requirements during 2013-2014.  Starting in 2015, all Scouts that start the Cooking MB must use the current requirements.

Instead of 12 Eagle required merit badges now there are 13.  The total number required for Eagle Scout remains at 21. This means instead of 9 electives the Scout only needs 8.

1. First Aid
2. Citizenship in the Community
3. Citizenship in the Nation
4. Citizenship in the World
5. Communication
6. Personal Fitness
7. Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving
8. Environmental Science OR Sustainability
9. Personal Management
10. Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling
11. Camping
12. Family Life
13. Cooking

See the new cooking merit badge requirements now!
 

Always in the Cloud.  Always up to date.  Scoutbook has you covered.

Because Scoutbook is cloud based, all these updates are automatically available to you and your Troop right now.  Our entire system has already been updated so your Scouts can start tracking these new requirements starting today.

Those Scouts who already started the Cooking MB can continue working on the same requirements.  If your Scouts start work on the Cooking MB they will see the new requirements in Scoutbook.  All percent complete calculations for rank advancement will automatically reflect these changes for Star, Life and Eagle Scout ranks.
 

New Features Coming in 2014

Scoutbook is excited about all the new features we have planned to bring you in 2014.  Here are a few:

1. ScoutNET Internet Advancement integration
2. ScoutNET Internet Rechartering
3. Calendaring and Events
4. Messaging
5. Journey to Excellence (JTE) scorecard tracking
6. Custom Awards
7. Scout Accounts and Finances
8. Den, Patrol, Pack and Troop web pages (scoutbook.com/yourtroop)
9. Personal pages (scoutbook.com/yourpage)
10. Varsity and Venturing support
11. Patrol Method Features - All positions of responsibility will be able to do something on Scoutbook (help take attendance, Patrol leaders help mark off advancement, help keep website up to date, help manage troop gear, library, help creating photo galleries and slideshows, writing stories and logs, etc.)

Let us know what else you would like to see in 2014 by posting to our New Feature Requests Forum board.