Inventing Merit Badge
Learn to define inventing, study famous inventors, explore intellectual property, design prototypes, and create your own invention to earn this merit badge.
What you'll do
- What Inventing Does In your own words, define inventing.
- Choose Your Research Path With your parent or guardian’s permission and counselor’s approval, interview an adult who has invented a useful item or …
- Intellectual Property & Patents Define the term intellectual property.
- Inventions That Should Be Shared Discuss with your counselor the types of inventions that are appropriate to share with others, and explain why.
At a glance
- Requirements
- 9
- Category
- Professions
- Eagle Required
- No
- Updated
- January 10, 2026