Blue Card Manager

Blue Card Manager is an application you can use to create mastersheets for scout organizations. They can be used to monitor the merit badge progress for scout groups in order to award them.

This is a Metro-style app that can be quickly downloaded and installed from the Store on PCs running Windows 8, 8.1 and 10. It's actually optimized for touch-supported devices, since it has large buttons that you can easily tap.

Once launched, Blue Card Manager provides you with fours buttons for creating and opening mastersheets and merit badge templates. The first step is setting up a merit badge template.

This can be done by picking a badge name from the list, such as cycling, dentistry, electricity, drafting, emergency preparedness, farm mechanics, fingerprinting, first aid and first safety, as well as by setting requirements (up to 22).

Some requirement examples are listed to give you an idea of what to write. Next, you can save the merit badge template to file (.mbt format) by indicating the output directory and file name.

It's possible to create as many merit badge templates as you want (for each scout group), provided that you have enough disk space available. To build a mastersheet, you have to associate it with a merit badge template file.

Next, you can enter the name of each scout you wish to award, specify their unit type (like crew, troop or ship), unit number, and council. Optional fields can be filled for the scout's ID number (if you want to upload it to the developer's website), street address, city, and district.

After adding multiple scouts to the list, you can check their merit badges. It's possible to save the mastersheet to file to open it later and pick up where you left off, as well as to export data to TroopMaster or CSV file format.

All things considered, Blue Card Manager provides you with a comprehensive database for creating merit badge templates and mastersheets to award scouts from multiple groups.