Scouting just released the list of most earned merit badges in 2024. OF the 138 possible badges, chess was the 19th most earned. If you take out the badges that are required for Eagle Scout and look at just the alternate badges, chess was the 5th most earned. ( the top 14 earned were all Eagle required)
That is awesome! Does anyone track how many scouts become USChess members and active tournament players?
I don’t think we’ve ever tried to track players who came to us from Scouting. We don’t do a lot of demographic/source tracking in general.
And scouting won’t share lists of kids that earn badges, for security and privacy reasons.