Information for Scouts
To begin work on a merit badge, please follow these steps:

1. Ask your Scoutmaster (Mr. Tucker) for a merit badge card.
2. Check the list of merit badge counselors for our troop, and see if there is a counselor for the badge you wish to work on.  Click here to download the list.   Phone numbers and email addresses for the counselors are posted on the closed portion of our web site.  If you do not remember how to get there, contact Tom Farmer at thomaslfarmer@hotmail.com.
3. Contact the counselor, and follow his or her instructions for completing the badge.
4. If there is not a counselor listed, you will need to go to the council website and locate a counselor from another troop (Greater St. Louis Area Council of the BSA). You can find more counselors at the St. Louis Area Merit Badge Counselors Directory

Information for Parents
Not all the merit badges are listed, and of those listed, many do not currently have a parent volunteer from our troop.  If you see a badge for which you would be willing to be a counselor, please call Sheila Jones at 636-458-5645.  There is a simple volunteer form to fill out.  As a counselor, your responsibilities would include "okaying" the Scout to get started; telling him what you will need to see when he is finished, i.e. the merit badge work pages, or a short video, etc., and then approving the badge completion.  Unless you wish to do so, you will not be requested to present a badge workshop at a meeting.

Information for Counselors
If you have any questions, please contact Shiela Jones: 636-458-5645 or Jsrchjones@charter.net.  I will call you once a year to be sure that you wish to continue as a merit badge counselor.  In the interim, if any of your information changes (phone, email, etc.), please let me know.  We appreciate your willingness to help the boys.  If you are helping the troop to do a badge, please consider any ways that you can utilize the knowledge and experience of older Scouts that have previously earned the badge.  When possible, try to have an older Scout present some of the material or do a demonstration.

See the Links page for more merit badge resources.