Description

This Digital Technology Merit Badge Pamphlet contains all the information Scouts need to work on and complete the requirements for the Digital Technology merit badge. While working on this badge, Scouts will:

• Earn their Cyber Chip
• Become familiar with digitized storage
• Learn the difference between lossy and lossless data
• Learn compression and digital devices and their uses
• Learn about computers, mobile devices, gaming consoles, and computer networks and purposes
• Investigate malware and the protection of digital devices and information
• Become familiar with terms such as copyright, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets
• Learn how to properly recycle digital technology