Earn your Engineering Merit Badge Online
Thank you for your interest in the Engineering Merit Badge. This online resource will present all the information needed to earn the merit badge.
The future is now! Whether it is improving personal electronics, developing health care solutions, creating automated vehicles, protecting the environment or sending people to Mars, engineers are using math and science to create a better tomorrow. Earning the Engineering Merit Badge will give Scouts a better understanding of how engineers work and how to apply the engineering process to daily problems.
Instructions:
Watch introductory video here
Send us an email to let us know you’re starting: safersim@uiowa.edu. Use “EMB-Starting” as subject line and include your unit, council, and district.
Download the Engineering Merit Badge Workbook to complete as you go along.
The series of videos below will guide you through the process of earning the merit badge:
- Requirement 1
- Requirement 2
- Requirement 3
- Requirement 4
- Interview with an Engineer - Scouts join discussion for 30 minutes
- Choose the date and time that work best for you and click the link to register
- You will need to choose the meeting you wish to attend on the registration page
- Requirement 5
- Requirement 6
- Requirement 7
- Requirement 8
- Requirement 9
Completion:
Send an email to safersim@uiowa.edu with “EMB-Complete” in subject line and attach completed workbook.
A completed Blue Card will be emailed to you upon completion.
Please allow for a couple of weeks for us to review the workbooks and get back to you.
Additional Resources:
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Questions:
Contact safersim@uiowa.edu with subject line “EMB-Question”.