Spring-O Orienteering Merit Badge Plan here (new draft for 2027)
This plan includes our Merit Badge plan and adaptations for Summer Camp. It has links to download the visual aids and other teaching suggestions. This is free to use.
Orienteering Merit Badge (worksheet)
We share our maps! https://www.centraltexasspringo.org/orienteering-maps/
Orienteering beginner poster here
Below are some direct downloads for your convenience.
Requirement 1: First Aid. Teaching aid HERE
Requirement 2: What Orienteering Is. We use a large poster printed on corrugated plastic. (Older version)
Requirement 3: The Compass (new poster printable here)
Requirement 4: The Map
Requirement 5: Pace Count
Requirement 6: Control Descriptions and Orienteering Strategies (poster)
Requirement 7: Actually go Orienteering, 3 times and write up a report on how it went, how to do better. (Go to our Annual Spring-O or check the local Orienteering club)
Requirement 8: Setting your own course. If you are in our local area, use this base map and set a course at the Northeast Metro Park in Pflugerville. Or use a google map as a base map.
Requirement 9: Officiate at an event (run the starting area, finish area, score punch cards)
Requirement 10: Teach Orienteering Techniques