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Merit Badges
- Legend to identify Merit Badges
- 1910 British Merit Badges
- Square 1911 - 33
- Wide Crimped 1934 & 35
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Narrow Tan Crimped 1936 - 42
- Tan Heavyweight Cloth with Silk Embroidery and Printed Back 1936 - 37
- Tan Heavyweight Cloth with Silk Embroidery and Plain Back 1937 - 38
- Tan Lightweight Cloth with Silk Embroidery and Plain Back 1938 - 39
- Tan Lightweight Cloth with Cotton Continuous Loop Embroidery and Plain Back 1939 - 42
- Tan Lightweight Cloth with Cotton Lockstitch Embroidery and Plain Back 1939 - 42
- Blue Background 1942 - 46
- Wartime 1942 - 46
- Khaki Narrow Crimped 1946 - 59
- Green Twill Gauze Back 1960 - 68
- Fully Embroidered Merrowed Edge 1960 - 72
- Unprinted Plastic Back 1972 - 01
- Printed Plastic Back 2002 - Current
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Merit Badge Paper
- Merit Badge Applications
- Merit Badge Cards
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Merit Badge Pamphlets
- Type 1 White Cover - Rectangle Drawing On Cover
- Type 2 White Cover 5-375" x 8" Title at Top
- Type 3A Tan Cover - 200 Fifth Avenue
- Type 3B Tan Cover - 2 line address New York City
- Type 3C Tan Cover - 2 line address New York N.Y.
- Type 3D Tan Cover - 1 line address New York N.Y.
- Type 4 Standing Scout Cover
- Type 5A War Cover
- Type 5B Red and White
- Type 6 Photo-Red Cover
- Type 7 Full Photo Cover or Bulls-eye Cover
- Type 8 Full Photo - Green Stripe Cover
- Type 9 Full Photo - Red Stripe Cover
- Type 10A Blue Stripe - Logo above bottom blue stripe - FDL centered
- Type 10B - Blue Stripe in bottom of photo area. FDL to left of text
- Special Covers
- Boy Craft Helps
- Merit Badge Counselor's Guides
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Youth Position
- Junior Assistant Scoutmaster
- Senior Patrol Leader
- Assistant Senior Patrol Leader
- Patrol Leader
- Assistant Patrol Leader
- Troop Guide
- Scribe
- Quartermaster
- Instructor
- Chaplain Aide
- Den Chief
- Librarian
- Musician
- Webmaster
- Bugler
- Troop Historian
- Troop Representative
- Unit Representative
- Leadership Corps
- Honor Guard
- Leave No Trace Trainer
- Outdoor Ethics Guide
- Patrol Medallions
Fig. 1: DisAwa-H5-Front
- Embroidery: Rayon thread
- Border: Merrowed
Fig. 2: DisAwa-H5-Reverse
- Back: Molded plastic
Fig. 3: DisAwa-H5-mve1-front
- Minor variation: Yellow border
Fig. 4: DisAwa-H5-mve1-reverse
- Back: Molded plastic
Item Name: Disabilities Awareness 1993 - 2002
Item ID: DisAwa-H5
Collector Rating: 1
Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge
Requirements September 1993 until January 2006
1. Visit an agency that works with physically, mentally, emotionally, or educationally disabled people. Collect publications about the agency's activities on behalf of its members. Learn what is being done through training, employment, and education of their members.
2. Speak with a person with a disability or read an article or book by or about a person with a disability and report to your counselor what you learned about that person's experiences in dealing with a disability.
3. Spend fifteen hours within a three-month period in one of the following ways:
(a) Visit a Cub Scout pack or Boy Scout troop that works with disabilities. Learn about their activities, assist the leaders, and work with the members of the group.
(b) Enlist the help of your unit leader and the parents or guardians of someone with a disabling condition and invite the disabled individual to join your troop, team, or post. Help him or her become a participating member.
4. Locate and study literature about the accessibility of nonaccessibility of public and private places to disabled individuals. Observe and discuss with your counselor the accessibility or nonaccessibility for disabled people in the following:
(a) Five places with good accessibility.
(b) Five places with poor accessibility.
(c) Your school, church, synagogue, or mosque.
(d) Your Scout camping site.
5. Display in a public place the material you have collected for the other requirements of this merit badge so that others canbe made more aware of citizens with disabilities.
6. Make a commitment to your merit badge counselor as to what you will do in the future for people with disabling conditions, Discuss how your awareness has changed as a result of what you learned.