Earn your Traffic Safety Merit Badge Online
The SAFER-Sim grant which had funded the administration of this effort ends at the end of September, so please make every effort to complete the requirement before then. The Traffic Safety Merit Badge is planned to continue through the Driving Safety Research Institute at the University of Iowa. Check back for more details on how to earn the Traffic Safety Merit Badge after September 30th.
Thank you for your interest in the Traffic Safety Merit Badge. This online resource will present all the information needed to earn the merit badge.
Staying safe in traffic wherever you live is getting more difficult all the time, as more and more people take to the road. Earning the Traffic Safety merit badge will give Scouts some crucial tools to stay safer when driving a car on a highway, riding a bike across town, or jogging across a busy street.
Instructions:
Watch introductory video here
Send us an email to let us know you’re starting: safersim@uiowa.edu. Use “TSMB-Starting” as subject line and include your unit, council, and district.
Download the Traffic Safety 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
- Requirement 5
- Scheduled Discussion (5b) - Scouts join to discuss either the old requirement (traffic safety websites they found) or the new requirement (personal traffic safety pledge)
- 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
Completion:
Send an email to safersim@uiowa.edu with “TSMB-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 “TSMB-Question”.