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One of the most important requirements that you'll do at the start of your scouting career is Scout Rank Requirement #6:
"With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent's Guide and earn the Cyber Chip Award for your grade."
To complete the first half of this requirement, you and your parent need to sit down and go through the pamphlet "How to Protect your Children from Child Abuse" that is affixed to the front of your Scout Handbook. There are exercises in that pamphlet that you should discuss with your parent. (If you don't have a copy of that pamphlet, it is also available here.)
The second half of this requirement says that you need to earn the Cyber Chip Award for your grade.
The Cyber Chip requirements for Grades 6-8 are available here, and the Cyber Chip requirements for Grades 9-12 are available here.
The first three or four (depending on your grade) requirements of the Cyber Chip must be completed at home with your family:
Cyber Chip Requirement 1: Read and sign the Level II Internet Safety Pledge:
I will think before I post.
I will respect other people online.
I will respect digital media ownership.
I won't meet face-to-face with anyone I meet in the digital world unless I have my parent's permission.
I will protect myself online.
Cyber Chip Requirement 2: Write and sign a personalized contract with your parent or guardian that outlines rules for using the computer and mobile devices, including what you can download, what you can post, and consequences for inappropriate use.
Cyber Chip Requirement 3: (only for grades 9-12) Discuss with your parents the benefits and potential dangers teenagers might experience when using social media. Give examples of each.
Cyber Chip Requirement 4: Watch the online internet safety videos appropriate to your grade level.
Grade 6-8: Friend or Fake, and at least two of these three videos: Post to be Private, Split Decisions, Two Kinds of Stupid
Grade 9-12: At least three of these four videos: Friend or Fake, Post to be Private, Split Decisions, Two Kinds of Stupid
Once you've done those things at home, you can come to your troop meeting and check in with your Scoutmaster. She'll give you someone to work with on for...
Cyber Chip Requirement 5: Use the EDGE method and the Student Project Kit to teach Internet safety rules, behavior, and “netiquette” to your troop or another patrol. You are encouraged to use any additional material and information you have researched.
When all of that is complete, you should let your Scoutmaster know, and you and she can discuss the last requirement...
Cyber Chip Requirement 6: Discuss with your unit leader the acceptable standards and practices for using allowed electronic devices such as phones and games at your meetings and other Scouting events.
She'll also confirm with you that you've completed Cyber Chip Requirements 1-4 and that you've discussed the "How to Protect your Children from Child Abuse" safety pamphlet with your parents.
At that point you can be signed off on this requirement!
If you have any questions about any of this, don't hesitate to ask your Patrol Leader for help or advice!