Digital Technology Merit Badge
Learn digital safety, data storage, networks, programming, internet security, and hands-on projects with spreadsheets, graphics, and web design to earn this merit badge.
What you'll do
- Digital Safety Awareness View the Personal Safety Awareness “Digital Safety” video (with your parent or guardian’s permission).
- 2. Computing Past & Future Give a brief history of the changes in digital technology over time.
- 3. How Digital Data Works Explain to your counselor how text, sound, and pictures are digitized for storage.
- 4. Software & Security Explain what a program or software application or “app” is and how a computer uses a CPU and memory to execute it.
At a glance
- Requirements
- 9
- Category
- Physical Science
- Eagle Required
- No
- Updated
- March 29, 2026