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color=#0000ff size=2>The adults in Boy Scouts have a series of awards for
accomplishments they wear on their uniforms. Not exactly Merit Badges, but
similar. We have instructor patches, office badges, Wood Badge beads, Sliver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, etc. All these are more like what we do with adults in
the SCA.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Caelin on Andrede</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> ansteorra-bounces@lists.ansteorra.org
[mailto:ansteorra-bounces@lists.ansteorra.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>L
T<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 23, 2006 00:21 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Kingdom of
Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Ansteorra] Cookies and merit
badges<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Are there any Adult Merit Badge
Systems?<BR><BR>LDeerSlayer<BR><BR><B><I>Chris Backus
<cebackus@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">It's
interesting to me that the conversation has turned so much to children. <BR>Is
it because of the association of merit badges with Boy
Scouts?<BR><BR>Hawkins<BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Hillary
Greenslade" <HILLARYRG@YAHOO.COM><BR>To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc."
<ANSTEORRA@LISTS.ANSTEORRA.ORG><BR>Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 4:24
PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Cookies and merit badges<BR><BR><BR>>>
Jean Paul de Sens <JEANPAULDESENS@GMAIL.COM>wrote:<BR>>> What's wrong
with merit badges? What about the system is offensive <BR>>> and/or
wrong?<BR>>><BR>>> Jean Paul<BR>>><BR>> For children,
Ansteorra has the 'Rising Star', before children grow old <BR>> enough and
responsible<BR>> enough to obtain an 'Award of Arms', and for some that
comes in their <BR>> teens, not waiting till they<BR>> are 18yrs, for
which I'm thankful.<BR>><BR>> Some branches have created their own
internal children awards to encourage <BR>> the youth, till such<BR>>
time as they may earn a 'Rising Star'. Stargate has non-armigerous awards
<BR>> the 'Rook' for children,<BR>> and the 'Gatekeeper of Stargate' for
youths; where a scroll and insignia <BR>> are presented.<BR>>
Additionally, champions in the areas of 'Children's Champion', boffer and
<BR>> youth rapier, as well as<BR>> A&S Children's champions have
been recognized.<BR>><BR>> Cheers,
Hillary<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ansteorra
mailing
list<BR>Ansteorra@lists.ansteorra.org<BR>http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org<BR></JEANPAULDESENS@GMAIL.COM></ANSTEORRA@LISTS.ANSTEORRA.ORG></HILLARYRG@YAHOO.COM></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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