Artificial Intelligence Merit Badge
Explore AI concepts, automation, ethics, practical projects, and career paths while working with your counselor.
What this badge covers
Scouts work through the course requirements in order, review key ideas, and prepare to explain what they learned with real examples during counselor review.
Badge summary
Artificial Intelligence Merit Badge helps Scouts explore how AI and automation already shape daily life, school, and work. Scouts learn core concepts, think through ethical questions, practice communicating with AI tools, and apply what they learn in hands-on projects or teaching activities while building a grounded understanding of this fast-changing field.
What Scouts should be ready to do
- Learn how the badge topic affects everyday life and modern technology.
- Practice safe, responsible, and ethical use of digital tools and information.
- Work through guided activities in sequence and save your progress by course.
- Prepare to discuss your work with a merit badge counselor.
Ready to begin?
Start the guided merit badge path and work through each requirement in order.