Quickest Merit Badge - How To Get The Fingerprinting Merit Badge

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

This was the quickest merit badge I have completed so far. Check this out to see the most difficult merit badge kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWOkh6CHdrGVZsU

[@BlueWhaleLord]

Are you going to Roundtable again this month to finish a merit badge?

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

I plan on it!

[@malagu4ever856]

How many badges have you earned at Roundtable?

[@totallyridiculoustrailers5520]

This was really helpful. Thanks!

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

I am glad you like it. What videos would you like to see next?

[@totallyridiculoustrailers5520]

@@EagleScoutMacGuzman You should do a video on the hardest merit badge in your opinion

[@scl1332]

Thanks dude I'm trying to get my second palm and I'm just trying to cram in as many easy simple ones to do to fill it up. This really helped

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Try the ones that you can do from School work like Scholarship, Reading, Music, Art, Chemistry, American Cultures, American Heritage, Indian Lore, Athletics, etc.

[@scl1332]

@@EagleScoutMacGuzman thanks I already got Chemistry and I’m working on wrapping up Art which will technically give me the needed amount of merit badges

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

If you have +15 you get all three types if palms (bronze, gold, silver)

[@scl1332]

@@EagleScoutMacGuzman ya I was gonna get to 31 merit badges which would take me up the 2nd palm i don’t feel like getting any more than that. I’m at 26 officially awarded rn 5 underway

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Cam C good luck

[@vmexplorer]

When I did this badge back in the 80's, I setup some time with our local Police station and about 10 of us made half-day of it. We all did a bit of pre-work and I helped coordinate the presentation with our police officer. The benefit here was we learned from someone who is an expert in the field and we did it as a group. I was proud to have earned this badge and so were the other scouts that attended that day.

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Thanks for the feedback. My Troop taught this at a meeting last month. The MBC used this video and referred to it several times during the lesson. Proud Eagle Scout Mac Guzman moment 😊

[@ayaalexandra5828]

This looks like an easy merit badge

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Aya it look 4 times as long to make the video but it it a good mb.

[@sjufan2974]

Easiest merit badge and yet you were still able to make a great video, good job!

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Thanks 👍

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Since the MB class was so quick, I had to look up more information and film myself doing fingerprints. It was like earning the next level badge 😳

[@Kinetic_Toast]

I like how you can complete the fingerprint requirements using an ink pad/paper or pencil lead/tape

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Yeah I did not show how long it took to wash off the ink from my fingertips🤨

[@MariaGuzman]

Nice job bro!

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Thanks for watching

[@mollymccafee9052]

Hello macguzman

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

hello there Molly McCafee

[@DonMiguelYT]

That was a quick Merit Badge. Interesting topic too.

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Yes about 90 minutes in all. It took me longer to create the video.

[@baroquecrusader803]

I didn’t do the fingerprinting merit badge event at camp because I was going to do the mile swim (both were at the same time slot), I showed up for the mile swim 10 minutes late, no big deal, I get changed... but I show up at the gate for the pool the life guard tells me “sorry, the mile swim is only for swimmers (those who passed the swimmers test, but guess who didn’t make the cut..me!) so for the rest of the time I tried the swimmers test (around 15 minutes spent) but I failed, only making beginners, all of this was in front of the really athletic 11 year olds that could probably do a lap around a pool in 30 seconds, so you can imagine that I looked like some weakling to these superior aquatic gods before me, and I see some kids walk to their campsite with those fingerprinting papers, and I knew it was over, I head back to my site, but no one was there. Why? Because totin’ Chip classes were being held... on the other side of camp (20 min walk), most of my merit badge classes required me to walk the 20 min to and from the campsite, and at this point I was exhausted, so that’s how I could have gotten totin’ chip and fingerprinting, but alas, events failed to come in play

[@baroquecrusader803]

Oh yeah and on the exact same day, the trading post ran out of knifes, and like 20 kids lost their totin chip that night

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Commander Crispy fingerprinting is really simple and could be finished in an hour. Ask your SM for a Merit Badge Counselor. I did the Firem’n & Totin for my troop in June.

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Here is the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4e4coOre7ibiMk

[@baroquecrusader803]

Thanks!

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

No problem. We have a pool so my brother and I had lots of practice before completing the Swimming Merit badge. It was hard though. I see how it could be difficult for beginner swimmers. I have a video about it here on my other channel kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnXOlXqim9Z-fKs

[@PoeTheSquash]

90 minutes is a fast Merit Badge!

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Yes, it actually took much longer to research the video👍

[@imemes6620]

I did robotics merit badge in 20 mins

[@PoeTheSquash]

Kewl video. how many merit badges do you have now?

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

As if today, I have 17 completed badges. Also, I found out that the Eagle palms are now automatic when earned by your Eagle Board. So I hope to have at least 3 palms (+15 MBs). 😎

[@malagu4ever856]

@PoeTheSquash you know #macguzman has monthly status updates :P

[@asparagusoffice]

my PB is 37 minutes, unfortunately there's no leaderboard yet

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Now THATS a fast merit badge haha! As long as you had fun and earned the badge with a purpose thats whats important :) (hopefully your name will be spread across the fingerprinting leaderboard 😂)

[@asparagusoffice]

@@EagleScoutMacGuzman oddly enough, I remember a lot from it

[@Kids-Cook]

Identical twin brother has different fingerprints!

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Yes and all your fingers are different too. Test it by taking your own finger prints 👍

[@malagu4ever856]

@Kids Cook crazy right?

[@BlueWhaleLord]

Congrats on another badge. Short video bro. I guess if the badge took less than two hours, an 8 minutes video is appropriate.

[@EagleScoutMacGuzman]

Thanks for watching. I did not film anything at Scouting Roundtable where I earned the badge. So I recorded doing my own fingerprints using Maria’s “spy kit”😎