New UK Scout Badges

The UK Scouts have a bunch of new activity badge updates this year - 40 of them. This is an effort to revamp the program to reflect activities of today's youth.

The BSA has been updating some merit badge requirements every year, with Composite Materials being a recent new addition. Friends of mine in Idaho just made skateboards for that badge this winter. Hopefully, we'll soon find some more new badges available on this side of the puddle.

You can see the list of UK badges at the UK Scouting site and a few interesting looking ones are:

Parascending

Street Sports

Caver

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