“Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.”The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948
Kevin mostly agrees. A badge is a receipt. It proves you paid, with the work, the struggle and the win.
“I want more than the receipt for what I paid.”Kevin Swinson
What you paid for is the night your test said the robots were guilty, and the morning you found out the test was broken. Keep the receipt anyway. Sew it on. It reminds you what you bought.
The work the track asks for, with something in it someone else can check.
One thing that went wrong, what you tried, and what finally worked. No struggle note, no badge.
One sentence, in your own words, of what you can do now that you couldn’t before camp.
One badge per camp at each level. The rim color tells the level; the picture tells what you did. Every patch here is a first draft, and campers are invited to design a better one.
Every patch above is a placeholder. Pick one and draw the patch you would want to sew on. The best design for each badge replaces the placeholder, with your credit under it.