Communications

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COMMUNICATIONS

Merit Badge Requirements

Name: _________________________ Troop No. _______________

1) Develop a plan to teach a skill. Have your merit badge counselor approve the plan. Make teaching aids. Carry out your plan. With the counselor, check to see if the learner has learned.

2) Choose a product or service. Build a sales plan based on its good points. Try to "sell" the counselor on buying it from you. Talk with the counselor about how well you did in telling about the product or service and convincing the counselor to buy it.

3) Do the following:

A) Show how you would make a telephone call inviting an expert in the field of your choice to give a demonstration to your unit on that person’s area of expertise.

B) Show how to create an effective recorded message and how to leave a voice mail message.

4) Do the following:

A) Write a 5-minute speech. Give it at a meeting of a group

B) Show how to introduce a guest speaker.

5) Attend a town meeting where two or three points of view are being given. Listen and take notes. Make a report from your notes. Tell your troop or patrol what you heard.

6) Do ONE of the following:

A) Write to the editor of a magazine or your local newspaper to express your opinion or share information (on any subject you choose). Or, write to an individual or organization to request information (on any subject). Send your message by fax or electronic mail, if possible. Otherwise, mail a traditional paper letter.

B) Create a web page on the World Wide Web for yourself or to give information about your Scout troop, school, or other organization. Include at least one article and one photograph or illustration.

C) Use desktop publishing to produce a newsletter, brochure, flier, or other printed material for your Scout troop, school, chartered organization, or other group. Include at least one article and one photograph or illustration.

7) Prepare an autobiographical resume that you would use in applying for a job

8) Find out about careers in the field of communications. Choose one career and discuss with your counselor the qualifications and preparation needed for it.

Attn: If any requirements listed above differ from the requirements in the Communications Merit Badge Book, the requirements in the Communications Merit Badge Book are to be followed.

Requirement 1

The skill I have chosen to teach is: _______________________________________________________________________________

My plan that I have developed for this is: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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This has been approved by my counselor: ____YES____ NO (check one)

The teaching aids that I created and made were: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Along with my counselor, we checked to see if the student had learned. Did the student learn: Yes No. If yes, how can you tell:

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Requirement 2

The product or service I have chosen for this requirement is: __________________________________________________________

Build a sales plan based on its good points: ______________________________________________________________________

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How do you plan on trying to sell this to your counselor: _____________________________________________________________

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How well did you do in telling about the product or service and convincing your counselor to buy it: __________________________

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Requirement 3

If you were to call an expert to give a demonstration on their skill to your team, how would you do it and what would you say: ____________________________________________________________________

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Create a recorded message and list it here: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Describe how you would leave a recorded message: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Requirement 4

Write a 5-minute speech and give it at a meeting of a group. (Attach a copy of your speech to this worksheet).

The topic of my speech was: ____________________________________________________________________________

The place I gave my speech was: _________________________________________________________________________

Tell & show how you would introduce a guest speaker:_________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Requirement 5

The town meeting that I attended was: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Take notes on what you heard: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Make a report from your notes above: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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I have reported to my team what I heard:____ Yes ____No

Requirement 6

OPTION A

To whom did you write your letter? ______________________________________________________________________________

What was the subject you wrote them about? ______________________________________________________________________

How did you send your letter? ____FAX ____Electronic Mail ____Standard Mail

Attach a copy of your letter to this document to show your counselor.

OPTION B

What is the address of your web page that you created? ______________________________________________________________

Did you include all of the required information on your web page? _____________________________________________________

Print a copy of your main page and attach it to this document to show your counselor.

OPTION C

Using desktop publishing, what did you choose to create? ____________________________________________________________

Attach a copy of your final document to this document to show your counselor your work.

Requirement 7

On the following page you will find a commonly used autobiographical resume that you would use in applying for a job. Prepare the resume for a job you would apply for. When completed, attach the resume to this document and show it to your counselor.

Requirement 8

List a few of the careers in the field of communications that you found:

___________________________________ ___________________________________

Select a career that you found. List the qualifications and preparation needed for this career and discuss them with your counselor:

Career Selected: ____________________________________

Qualifications and preparation needed: ___________________________________________________________________________

[NAME]

[Street Address]

[City, State/Province Zip/Postal Code]

[(###) ###-####]

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OBJECTIVE: [This is where you would describe your objective]

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

[Company Name] Month, 19XX to Present

[City, State/Province]

[Position Held]. [Details of Position]

[Company Name] Month, 19XX to Present

[City, State/Province]

[Position Held]. [Details of Position]

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EDUCATION

[Institution Name] 19XX to 19XX

[City, State/Province]

[Degree/Achievement]

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ORGANIZATIONS

[Company/Institution Name] 19XX

[City, State/Province]

[Position Held]

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