Class Schedule - Youth

Animal Science / Mammal Study Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12

ATV Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Amount: $100.00 Seats Available: 8

Aviation (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Amount: $100.00 Seats Available: 10 For most of history, people have dreamed of flying, imagining how it would feel to soar through the sky like an eagle or hover in midair like a hummingbird, to float on unseen currents, free of Earth's constant tug, able to travel great distances and to rise above any obstacle. Today, through aviation, we can not only join the birds but also fly farther, faster, and higher than they ever could.

Basketry (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $15.00 Seats Available: 8 Basketry is a handy skill for a Scout. A basket can be a sturdy companion on campouts, carrying clothes snugly and efficiently, holding potatoes and corn for roasting over a campfire, or carrying the day's fishing catch back to camp for dinner. Baskets and basket-weaving projects also make great gifts for family and friends.

BSA Lifeguard Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU, W, TH, F Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (A) Minimum Age: 15 Amount: $20.00 Seats Available: 8

Camping (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Camping is one of the best-known methods of the Scouting movement. When he founded the Scouting movement in the early 1900s, Robert Baden-Powell encouraged every Scout to learn the art of living out-of-doors. He believed a young person able to take care of himself while camping would have the confidence to meet life's other challenges, too. Provide a letter from your Scoutmaster or a blue card verifying that you have completed these requirements. You may bring your camping gear, properly packed for a campout to your camp merit badge counselor to complete requirement 7b.

Chess (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 The USCF (United States Chess Federation) provided the primary contributing writers for the Merit Badge pamphlet. They will be helping to promote the badge through communications with the Chess delegate teams (similar to BSA’s National Committees and Boards) and e-mail blasts, plus website and “tournament news” announcements.

Citizenship in the World (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Scouts who earn the Citizenship in the World merit badge will discover that they are already citizens of the world. How good a world citizen each person is depends on his willingness to understand and appreciate the values, traditions, and concerns of people in other countries.

Complete Angler - Fish & Wildlife Management / Fishing / Fly Fishing Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU, W Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $25.00 Seats Available: 6

Cooking (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 The Cooking merit badge introduces principles of cooking that can be used both at home or in the outdoors. Scouts who earn this badge will learn about food safety, nutritional guidelines, meal planning, and methods of food preparation, and will review the variety of culinary (or cooking) careers available.

Environmental Science (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 While earning the Environmental Science merit badge, Scouts will get a taste of what it is like to be an environmental scientist, making observations and carrying out experiments to investigate the natural world.

Fire Safety (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 The ability to use fire safely is essential to human survival. By earning this merit badge, Scouts will learn to uses fire safely and responsibly, how to prevent home fires, and how to handle fire safely, as well as burn prevention, and camping safety.

First Aid (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 First aid — caring for injured or ill persons until they can receive professional medical care — is an important skill for every Scout. With some knowledge of first aid, a Scout can provide immediate care and help to someone who is hurt or who becomes ill. First aid can help prevent infection and serious loss of blood. It could even save a limb or a life.

Frontier Experience - Geology / Metalwork / Woodwork Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU, W, TH, F Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Amount: $45.00 Seats Available: 10

Motorboating (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 6 With the fun of operating a motor boat boat comes the responsibility for keeping that boat in first-class condition, knowing and obeying the nautical "rules of the road," and gaining the general knowledge and skills to operate a boat safely.

Pottery (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $5.00 Seats Available: 10 The Pottery merit badge provides an introduction to pottery making, enabling Scouts to gain skill and understanding from actually creating pottery. Completing the requirements will include hands-on production of a work of art, from start to finish.

Public Speaking (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 6 A lot happens during the course of every person's life and your ability to communicate your feelings and ideas is the best way to connect to the larger world. Even if you haven't stood at a podium on the stage and find the whole idea scary, sooner or later, someone is going to ask you to get up and say a few words. If you are prepared, it won't be scary. It can even be fun.

Rifle Shooting (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 12 Amount: $25.00 Seats Available: 12 Unless a rifle is handled incorrectly or recklessly, it is not dangerous. A rifle, like any other precision instrument, is manufactured to perform a specific task and can do so at no risk to the user or others. By earning this badge, Scouts can develop their shooting skills while learning safe practices.

Shotgun Shooting (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Amount: $25.00 Seats Available: 8 A shotgun is a precision instrument, designed to shoot a shot charge in a specific pattern to cover a designated area at a certain distance. Unlike a rifle, the bore of the shotgun is not rifled, so the shot emerging from the muzzle is not spinning.

Small-Boat Sailing (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 6 Sailing is one of the most enjoyable pastimes on the open water. The quiet and peacefulness of the water can provide a pleasant break from everyday life. However, smooth sailing requires paying careful attention to safety.

Soil & Water Conservation (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: M Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Conservation isn't just the responsibility of soil and plant scientists, hydrologists, wildlife managers, landowners, and the forest or mine owner alone. It is the duty of every person to learn more about the natural resources on which our lives depend so that we can help make sure that these resources are used intelligently and cared for properly.

Swimming (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 16 Swimming is a leisure activity, a competitive sport, and a basic survival skill. Scouts who earn this badge will learn about safety when swimming and diving, how swimming can contribute to overall fitness and health, and gain some basic competitive swimming skills

TRAILBLAZERS - New Scout Camper Program Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU, W, TH, F Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 50

Water Sports (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Amount: $20.00 Seats Available: 6 Water sports are a fun and exhilarating way to enjoy being outdoors while developing strength, coordination, and fitness. By developing experience with water sports and practicing good judgment, Scouts will gain skills that will serve them well for a lifetime and have extreme fun while they do.

Woodwork (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 Wood is an amazingly versatile, practical, yet beautiful material. A skilled craftsman can use wood to fashion just about anything. As a woodworker or carpenter, you will find no end of useful, valuable, and fun items you can make yourself, from wood.

ATV Time: 8:30AM Day: TU Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Amount: $100.00 Seats Available: 8

Communication (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 This clear and concise definition comes from the U.S. Department of Education: "Communication focuses on how people use messages to generate meanings within and across various contexts, cultures, channels, and media. The field of communication promotes the effective and ethical practice of human communication. Must be a First Class Scout.

Emergency Prepardness (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Scouts are often called upon to help because they know first aid and they know about the discipline and planning needed to react to an emergency situation. Earning this merit badge helps a Scout to be prepared by learning the actions that can be helpful and needed before, during, and after an emergency.

Fishing / Fly Fishing Casting (1/2 must register for both) Time: 8:30AM Days: TU, W Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 5

Kayaking (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TU Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 8

Leatherwork (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 Scouts who complete the requirements to earn the Leatherwork merit badge will explore leather's history and its endless uses. They will learn to make a useful leather item using the same types of raw materials that our ancestors used; be challenged to master skills like hand-stitching, lacing, and braiding.; and learn how to preserve and protect leather items so they will last a lifetime and beyond.

Nature (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 There is a very close connection between the soil, the plants, and all animal life, including people. Understanding this connection, and the impact we have upon it, is important to preserving the wilderness, as well as to our own well-being as members of the web of nature.

Photography (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Beyond capturing family memories, photography offers a chance to be creative. Many photographers use photography to express their creativity, using lighting, composition, depth, color, and content to make their photographs into more than snapshots. Good photographs tell us about a person, a news event, a product, a place, a scientific breakthrough, an endangered animal, or a time in history.

Pulp and Paper (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $5.00 Seats Available: 10 Here's an astonishing number to digest. Each person in the United States uses about 700 pounds of paper each year. Paper is everywhere in our lives. Every year in the United States, more than 2 billion individual books, 24 billion newspapers, and 350 million magazines are published on paper.

Search & Rescue (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TU Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 12

Signs, Signals, and Codes (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 American Sign Language (ASL) is the third most used language in the United States. The Signs, Signals, and Codes merit badge will cover Morse code, ASL, Braille, signaling, trail markings, and other nonverbal communications. Did you know that some of these have even saved people’s lives?

Weather (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Meteorology is the study of Earth's atmosphere and its weather and the ways in which temperature, wind, and moisture act together in the environment. In addition to learning how everyday weather is predicted, Scouts can learn about extreme weather such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes, and how to stay safe.

Animal Science / Mammal Study Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12

Archery (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: W, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 12 Amount: $15.00 Seats Available: 12 Archery is a fun way for Scouts to exercise minds as well as bodies, developing a steady hand, a good eye, and a disciplined mind. This merit badge can provide a thorough introduction to those who are new to the bow and arrow—but even for the experienced archer, earning the badge can help to increase the understanding and appreciation of archery.

Basketry (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $15.00 Seats Available: 8 Basketry is a handy skill for a Scout. A basket can be a sturdy companion on campouts, carrying clothes snugly and efficiently, holding potatoes and corn for roasting over a campfire, or carrying the day's fishing catch back to camp for dinner. Baskets and basket-weaving projects also make great gifts for family and friends.

Camping (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Camping is one of the best-known methods of the Scouting movement. When he founded the Scouting movement in the early 1900s, Robert Baden-Powell encouraged every Scout to learn the art of living out-of-doors. He believed a young person able to take care of himself while camping would have the confidence to meet life's other challenges, too. Provide a letter from your Scoutmaster or a blue card verifying that you have completed these requirements. You may bring your camping gear, properly packed for a campout to your camp merit badge counselor to complete requirement 7b.

Canoeing (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: W, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 For several centuries, the canoe was a primary method of travel for explorers and settlers. Today, it remains an important part of the wilderness experience and an enjoyable leisure activity that teaches communication, teamwork, and physical fitness. Must pass BSA Swimmer test to qualify.

Chess (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 The USCF (United States Chess Federation) provided the primary contributing writers for the Merit Badge pamphlet. They will be helping to promote the badge through communications with the Chess delegate teams (similar to BSA’s National Committees and Boards) and e-mail blasts, plus website and “tournament news” announcements.

Citizenship in the World (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Scouts who earn the Citizenship in the World merit badge will discover that they are already citizens of the world. How good a world citizen each person is depends on his willingness to understand and appreciate the values, traditions, and concerns of people in other countries.

Cooking (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: W, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 The Cooking merit badge introduces principles of cooking that can be used both at home or in the outdoors. Scouts who earn this badge will learn about food safety, nutritional guidelines, meal planning, and methods of food preparation, and will review the variety of culinary (or cooking) careers available.

COPE Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 8

Environmental Science (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: W, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 While earning the Environmental Science merit badge, Scouts will get a taste of what it is like to be an environmental scientist, making observations and carrying out experiments to investigate the natural world.

Fire Safety (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 The ability to use fire safely is essential to human survival. By earning this merit badge, Scouts will learn to uses fire safely and responsibly, how to prevent home fires, and how to handle fire safely, as well as burn prevention, and camping safety.

First Aid (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 First aid — caring for injured or ill persons until they can receive professional medical care — is an important skill for every Scout. With some knowledge of first aid, a Scout can provide immediate care and help to someone who is hurt or who becomes ill. First aid can help prevent infection and serious loss of blood. It could even save a limb or a life.

Metalwork (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: W, TH, F Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Amount: $20.00 Seats Available: 6 Scouts will begin their work on this merit badge by learning about the properties of metal, how to use simple metalworking tools, and the basic metalworking techniques. Then they will practice using these tools and techniques before concentrating on the more intricate skills of one of four metalworking options.

Motorboating (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 6 With the fun of operating a motor boat boat comes the responsibility for keeping that boat in first-class condition, knowing and obeying the nautical "rules of the road," and gaining the general knowledge and skills to operate a boat safely.

Pottery (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $5.00 Seats Available: 10 The Pottery merit badge provides an introduction to pottery making, enabling Scouts to gain skill and understanding from actually creating pottery. Completing the requirements will include hands-on production of a work of art, from start to finish.

Public Speaking (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 6 A lot happens during the course of every person's life and your ability to communicate your feelings and ideas is the best way to connect to the larger world. Even if you haven't stood at a podium on the stage and find the whole idea scary, sooner or later, someone is going to ask you to get up and say a few words. If you are prepared, it won't be scary. It can even be fun.

Rifle Shooting (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: W, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 12 Amount: $25.00 Seats Available: 12 Unless a rifle is handled incorrectly or recklessly, it is not dangerous. A rifle, like any other precision instrument, is manufactured to perform a specific task and can do so at no risk to the user or others. By earning this badge, Scouts can develop their shooting skills while learning safe practices.

Soil & Water Conservation (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: W Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Conservation isn't just the responsibility of soil and plant scientists, hydrologists, wildlife managers, landowners, and the forest or mine owner alone. It is the duty of every person to learn more about the natural resources on which our lives depend so that we can help make sure that these resources are used intelligently and cared for properly.

Swimming (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: W, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 16 Swimming is a leisure activity, a competitive sport, and a basic survival skill. Scouts who earn this badge will learn about safety when swimming and diving, how swimming can contribute to overall fitness and health, and gain some basic competitive swimming skills

Water Sports (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: W, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Amount: $20.00 Seats Available: 6 Water sports are a fun and exhilarating way to enjoy being outdoors while developing strength, coordination, and fitness. By developing experience with water sports and practicing good judgment, Scouts will gain skills that will serve them well for a lifetime and have extreme fun while they do.

Whitewater (MB) Time: 8:30AM Days: W, TH, F Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 6 Canoeing or kayaking through whitewater rapids can be a thrilling experience. Safe whitewater fun requires each participant to understand the the equipment and techniques and to have a firm respect for the power of nature's waterways.

ATV Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Amount: $100.00 Seats Available: 8

Climbing MB (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 8 Climbing is not a sport that requires tremendous muscular strength; it demands mental toughness and the willingness to practice hard to master a set of skills. The adventure of climbing can also provide a new way to enjoy the outdoors. Must be First Class Scout.

Communication (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 This clear and concise definition comes from the U.S. Department of Education: "Communication focuses on how people use messages to generate meanings within and across various contexts, cultures, channels, and media. The field of communication promotes the effective and ethical practice of human communication. Must be a First Class Scout.

Emergency Prepardness (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Scouts are often called upon to help because they know first aid and they know about the discipline and planning needed to react to an emergency situation. Earning this merit badge helps a Scout to be prepared by learning the actions that can be helpful and needed before, during, and after an emergency.

Kayaking (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 8

Leatherwork (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 Scouts who complete the requirements to earn the Leatherwork merit badge will explore leather's history and its endless uses. They will learn to make a useful leather item using the same types of raw materials that our ancestors used; be challenged to master skills like hand-stitching, lacing, and braiding.; and learn how to preserve and protect leather items so they will last a lifetime and beyond.

Nature (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 There is a very close connection between the soil, the plants, and all animal life, including people. Understanding this connection, and the impact we have upon it, is important to preserving the wilderness, as well as to our own well-being as members of the web of nature.

Photography (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Beyond capturing family memories, photography offers a chance to be creative. Many photographers use photography to express their creativity, using lighting, composition, depth, color, and content to make their photographs into more than snapshots. Good photographs tell us about a person, a news event, a product, a place, a scientific breakthrough, an endangered animal, or a time in history.

Pulp and Paper (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $5.00 Seats Available: 10 Here's an astonishing number to digest. Each person in the United States uses about 700 pounds of paper each year. Paper is everywhere in our lives. Every year in the United States, more than 2 billion individual books, 24 billion newspapers, and 350 million magazines are published on paper.

Search & Rescue (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 12

Signs, Signals, and Codes (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 American Sign Language (ASL) is the third most used language in the United States. The Signs, Signals, and Codes merit badge will cover Morse code, ASL, Braille, signaling, trail markings, and other nonverbal communications. Did you know that some of these have even saved people’s lives?

Snorkeling, SUP & Kayaking Award Time: 8:30AM Days: TH, F Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 8

Weather (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Meteorology is the study of Earth's atmosphere and its weather and the ways in which temperature, wind, and moisture act together in the environment. In addition to learning how everyday weather is predicted, Scouts can learn about extreme weather such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes, and how to stay safe.

Architecture / Landscape Architecture Time: 8:30AM Day: F Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12

Basketry (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: F Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $15.00 Seats Available: 8 Basketry is a handy skill for a Scout. A basket can be a sturdy companion on campouts, carrying clothes snugly and efficiently, holding potatoes and corn for roasting over a campfire, or carrying the day's fishing catch back to camp for dinner. Baskets and basket-weaving projects also make great gifts for family and friends.

Camping (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: F Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Camping is one of the best-known methods of the Scouting movement. When he founded the Scouting movement in the early 1900s, Robert Baden-Powell encouraged every Scout to learn the art of living out-of-doors. He believed a young person able to take care of himself while camping would have the confidence to meet life's other challenges, too. Provide a letter from your Scoutmaster or a blue card verifying that you have completed these requirements. You may bring your camping gear, properly packed for a campout to your camp merit badge counselor to complete requirement 7b.

Citizenship in the World (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: F Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Scouts who earn the Citizenship in the World merit badge will discover that they are already citizens of the world. How good a world citizen each person is depends on his willingness to understand and appreciate the values, traditions, and concerns of people in other countries.

First Aid (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: F Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 First aid — caring for injured or ill persons until they can receive professional medical care — is an important skill for every Scout. With some knowledge of first aid, a Scout can provide immediate care and help to someone who is hurt or who becomes ill. First aid can help prevent infection and serious loss of blood. It could even save a limb or a life.

Fish & Wildlife Management (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: F Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Wildlife management is the science and art of managing the wildlife—both animals and fish—with which we share our planet. Maintaining the proper balance and the dynamics that go with it requires humankind's attention. We use this stewardship tool to help minimize or eradicate the possibility of extinction of any given species. We want our descendants to have the opportunity to experience the same animal diversity that we now enjoy.

Motorboating (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: F Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 6 With the fun of operating a motor boat boat comes the responsibility for keeping that boat in first-class condition, knowing and obeying the nautical "rules of the road," and gaining the general knowledge and skills to operate a boat safely.

Plant Science (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: F Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Plant scientists use their curiosity and knowledge to develop questions about the world of plants. Then they try to answer those questions with further observations and experiments in the laboratory and in the field. To earn this merit badge, Scouts will explore three of the most important plant science specialties: agronomy, horticulture, and field botany.

Pottery (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: F Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $5.00 Seats Available: 10 The Pottery merit badge provides an introduction to pottery making, enabling Scouts to gain skill and understanding from actually creating pottery. Completing the requirements will include hands-on production of a work of art, from start to finish.

Public Speaking (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: F Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 6 A lot happens during the course of every person's life and your ability to communicate your feelings and ideas is the best way to connect to the larger world. Even if you haven't stood at a podium on the stage and find the whole idea scary, sooner or later, someone is going to ask you to get up and say a few words. If you are prepared, it won't be scary. It can even be fun.

Scouting Heritage (MB) Time: 8:30AM Day: F Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12

Archery (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 12 Amount: $15.00 Seats Available: 12 Archery is a fun way for Scouts to exercise minds as well as bodies, developing a steady hand, a good eye, and a disciplined mind. This merit badge can provide a thorough introduction to those who are new to the bow and arrow—but even for the experienced archer, earning the badge can help to increase the understanding and appreciation of archery.

Athletics (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Being involved in an athletic endeavor is not only a way to have fun, but it also is one of the best ways for a person to maintain a healthy and strong body, living up to the promise each Scout makes "to keep myself physically strong. Requirement 3 must be completed with a registered Athletics merit badge counselor outside camp. To complete the badge during camp you must provide a signed blue card indicating you have previously completed this requirement.

Canoeing (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 For several centuries, the canoe was a primary method of travel for explorers and settlers. Today, it remains an important part of the wilderness experience and an enjoyable leisure activity that teaches communication, teamwork, and physical fitness. Must pass BSA Swimmer test to qualify.

Chemistry (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Chemistry explores how substances react with each other, how they change, how certain forces connect molecules, and how molecules are made are all parts of chemistry. Stretch your imagination to envision molecules that cannot be seen—but can be proven to exist—and you become a chemist.

Citizenship in the Nation (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $5.00 Seats Available: 10 As Scouts fulfill the requirements for this merit badge, they will learn how to become active citizens are aware of and grateful for their liberties and rights, to participate in their governments and protect their freedom, helping to defend their country and standing up for individual rights on behalf of all its citizens. Must be First Class Scout.

Communication (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 This clear and concise definition comes from the U.S. Department of Education: "Communication focuses on how people use messages to generate meanings within and across various contexts, cultures, channels, and media. The field of communication promotes the effective and ethical practice of human communication. Must be a First Class Scout.

Environmental Science (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 While earning the Environmental Science merit badge, Scouts will get a taste of what it is like to be an environmental scientist, making observations and carrying out experiments to investigate the natural world.

First Aid (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 First aid — caring for injured or ill persons until they can receive professional medical care — is an important skill for every Scout. With some knowledge of first aid, a Scout can provide immediate care and help to someone who is hurt or who becomes ill. First aid can help prevent infection and serious loss of blood. It could even save a limb or a life.

Fishing / Fly Fishing Merit Badges (2/2 must register for both) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $20.00 Seats Available: 5

Forestry (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 In working through the Forestry merit badge requirements, Scouts will explore the remarkable complexity of a forest and identify many species of trees and plants and the roles they play in a forest's life cycle.They will also discover some of the resources forests provide to humans and come to understand that people have a very large part to play in sustaining the health of forests.

Game Design (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10

Geocaching (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 The word geocache is a combination of "geo," which means "earth," and "cache," which means "a hiding place." Geocaching describes a hiding place on planet Earth - a hiding place you can find using a GPS unit. A GPS (Global Positioning System) unit is an electronic tool that shows you where to go based on information it gets from satellites in space.

Lifesaving (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 10 No Boy Scout will ignore a plea for help. However, the desire to help is of little use unless one knows how to give the proper aid. The main purpose of the Lifesaving merit badge is to prepare Scouts to assist those involved in water accidents, teaching them the basic knowledge of rescue techniques, the skills to perform them, and the judgment to know when and how to act so that they can be prepared for emergencies.

Model Design and Building (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $5.00 Seats Available: 10 Model making, the art of creating copies of objects that are either smaller or larger than the objects they represent, is not only an enjoyable and educational hobby: it is widely used in the professional world for such things as creating special effects for movies, developing plans for buildings, and designing automobiles and airplanes.

Moviemaking (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Moviemaking includes the fundamentals of producing motion pictures, including the use of effective light, accurate focus, careful composition (or arrangement), and appropriate camera movement to tell stories. In earning the badge, Scouts will also learn to develop a story and describe other pre- and post-production processes necessary for making a quality motion picture.

Music (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 The history of music is rich and exciting. Through the ages, new music has been created by people who learned from tradition, then explored and innovated. All the great music has not yet been written. Today, the possibilities for creating new music are limitless.

Orienteering (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Orienteering, the use of map and compass to find locations and plan a journey, has been a vital skill for humans for thousands of years. Orienteering is also a recognized sport at the Olympic Games, and thousands of people participate in the sport each year in local clubs and competitions.

Pioneering (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Pioneering—the knowledge of ropes, knots, and splices along with the ability to build rustic structures by lashing together poles and spars—is among the oldest of Scouting's skills. Practicing rope use and completing projects with lashings also allow Scouts to connect with past generations, ancestors who used many of these skills as they sailed the open seas and lived in America's forests and prairies.

Reptile & Amphibian Study (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Boys always have been interested in snakes, turtles, lizards, and alligators, as well as frogs and salamanders. Developing knowledge about these captivating creatures leads to an appreciation for all native wildlife; understanding the life cycle of a reptile or amphibian and keeping one as a pet can be a good introduction to natural history; and knowing about venomous species can help Scouts to be prepared to help in case of an emergency.

Shotgun Shooting (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Amount: $25.00 Seats Available: 8 A shotgun is a precision instrument, designed to shoot a shot charge in a specific pattern to cover a designated area at a certain distance. Unlike a rifle, the bore of the shotgun is not rifled, so the shot emerging from the muzzle is not spinning.

Small-Boat Sailing (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 6 Sailing is one of the most enjoyable pastimes on the open water. The quiet and peacefulness of the water can provide a pleasant break from everyday life. However, smooth sailing requires paying careful attention to safety.

Space Exploration (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $6.00 Seats Available: 12 Space is mysterious. We explore space for many reasons, not least because we don't know what is out there, it is vast, and humans are full of curiosity. Each time we send explorers into space, we learn something we didn't know before. We discover a little more of what is there.Purchase of model rocket kit from Terading Post. Cost range $15-$25

TRAILBLAZERS - First Aid (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 First aid — caring for injured or ill persons until they can receive professional medical care — is an important skill for every Scout. With some knowledge of first aid, a Scout can provide immediate care and help to someone who is hurt or who becomes ill. First aid can help prevent infection and serious loss of blood. It could even save a limb or a life.

TRAILBLAZERS - Leatherwork (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 12 Scouts who complete the requirements to earn the Leatherwork merit badge will explore leather's history and its endless uses. They will learn to make a useful leather item using the same types of raw materials that our ancestors used; be challenged to master skills like hand-stitching, lacing, and braiding.; and learn how to preserve and protect leather items so they will last a lifetime and beyond.

TRAILBLAZERS - Swimming (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 25 Swimming is a leisure activity, a competitive sport, and a basic survival skill. Scouts who earn this badge will learn about safety when swimming and diving, how swimming can contribute to overall fitness and health, and gain some basic competitive swimming skills

Welding (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Amount: $15.00 Seats Available: 6 Participants MUST have long sleeve shirts, long pants and Closed toe shoes, no synthetic clothing.

Wood Carving (MB) Time: 1:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 As with any art, wood carving involves learning the basics of design, along with material selection and tools and techniques, as well as wood-carving safety. The requirements of the Wood Carving merit badge introduce Scouts to an enjoyable hobby and that can become a lifetime activity. Must have Totin' Chip

Citizenship in the Nation (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $5.00 Seats Available: 10 As Scouts fulfill the requirements for this merit badge, they will learn how to become active citizens are aware of and grateful for their liberties and rights, to participate in their governments and protect their freedom, helping to defend their country and standing up for individual rights on behalf of all its citizens. Must be First Class Scout.

Electricity (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 8 Electricity is a powerful and fascinating force of nature. As early as 600 BC, observers of the physical world suspected that electricity existed but did not have a name for it. In fact, real progress in unraveling the mystery of electricity has come only within the last 250 years.

Forestry (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 In working through the Forestry merit badge requirements, Scouts will explore the remarkable complexity of a forest and identify many species of trees and plants and the roles they play in a forest's life cycle.They will also discover some of the resources forests provide to humans and come to understand that people have a very large part to play in sustaining the health of forests.

Geocaching (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 The word geocache is a combination of "geo," which means "earth," and "cache," which means "a hiding place." Geocaching describes a hiding place on planet Earth - a hiding place you can find using a GPS unit. A GPS (Global Positioning System) unit is an electronic tool that shows you where to go based on information it gets from satellites in space.

Indian Lore (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 Far different from the stereotypes or common images that are portrayed on film, on television, and in many books and stories, American Indians have many different cultures, languages, religions, styles of dress, and ways of life. To learn about these different groups is to take an exciting journey of discovery in which you will meet some of America's most fascinating peoples.

Motorboating (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 6 With the fun of operating a motor boat boat comes the responsibility for keeping that boat in first-class condition, knowing and obeying the nautical "rules of the road," and gaining the general knowledge and skills to operate a boat safely.

Moviemaking (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Moviemaking includes the fundamentals of producing motion pictures, including the use of effective light, accurate focus, careful composition (or arrangement), and appropriate camera movement to tell stories. In earning the badge, Scouts will also learn to develop a story and describe other pre- and post-production processes necessary for making a quality motion picture.

Music (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 The history of music is rich and exciting. Through the ages, new music has been created by people who learned from tradition, then explored and innovated. All the great music has not yet been written. Today, the possibilities for creating new music are limitless.

Oceanography (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 The oceans cover more than 70 percent of our planet and are the dominant feature of Earth. Wherever you live, the oceans influence the weather, the soil, the air, and the geography of your community. To study the oceans is to study Earth itself.

Public Health (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 The field of public health deals with maintaining and monitoring the health of communities, and with the detection, cure, and prevention of health risks and diseases. Although public health is generally seen as a community-oriented service, it actually starts with the individual. From a single individual to the family unit to the smallest isolated rural town to the worldwide global community, one person can influence the health of many.

Signs, Signals, and Codes (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 American Sign Language (ASL) is the third most used language in the United States. The Signs, Signals, and Codes merit badge will cover Morse code, ASL, Braille, signaling, trail markings, and other nonverbal communications. Did you know that some of these have even saved people’s lives?

Sports (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Millions of people participate in sports every year. For some the appeal is the close friendships that come with being part of a team. Some revel in the joy of victory and lessons of defeat. For some, the personal fitness is so important that exercise becomes a daily need. And still others desire the feeling of achievement, that feeling of measurable improvement that comes with dedication to a sport.

Standup Paddle Board Award Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 4

TRAILBLAZERS - Indian Lore (MB) Time: 1:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 12 Far different from the stereotypes or common images that are portrayed on film, on television, and in many books and stories, American Indians have many different cultures, languages, religions, styles of dress, and ways of life. To learn about these different groups is to take an exciting journey of discovery in which you will meet some of America's most fascinating peoples.

Athletics (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Being involved in an athletic endeavor is not only a way to have fun, but it also is one of the best ways for a person to maintain a healthy and strong body, living up to the promise each Scout makes "to keep myself physically strong. Requirement 3 must be completed with a registered Athletics merit badge counselor outside camp. To complete the badge during camp you must provide a signed blue card indicating you have previously completed this requirement.

Chemistry (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Chemistry explores how substances react with each other, how they change, how certain forces connect molecules, and how molecules are made are all parts of chemistry. Stretch your imagination to envision molecules that cannot be seen—but can be proven to exist—and you become a chemist.

Citizenship in the Nation (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $5.00 Seats Available: 10 As Scouts fulfill the requirements for this merit badge, they will learn how to become active citizens are aware of and grateful for their liberties and rights, to participate in their governments and protect their freedom, helping to defend their country and standing up for individual rights on behalf of all its citizens. Must be First Class Scout.

Emergency Prepardness (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Scouts are often called upon to help because they know first aid and they know about the discipline and planning needed to react to an emergency situation. Earning this merit badge helps a Scout to be prepared by learning the actions that can be helpful and needed before, during, and after an emergency.

Environmental Science (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 While earning the Environmental Science merit badge, Scouts will get a taste of what it is like to be an environmental scientist, making observations and carrying out experiments to investigate the natural world.

First Aid (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 First aid — caring for injured or ill persons until they can receive professional medical care — is an important skill for every Scout. With some knowledge of first aid, a Scout can provide immediate care and help to someone who is hurt or who becomes ill. First aid can help prevent infection and serious loss of blood. It could even save a limb or a life.

Game Design (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10

Geocaching (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 The word geocache is a combination of "geo," which means "earth," and "cache," which means "a hiding place." Geocaching describes a hiding place on planet Earth - a hiding place you can find using a GPS unit. A GPS (Global Positioning System) unit is an electronic tool that shows you where to go based on information it gets from satellites in space.

Lifesaving (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 10 No Boy Scout will ignore a plea for help. However, the desire to help is of little use unless one knows how to give the proper aid. The main purpose of the Lifesaving merit badge is to prepare Scouts to assist those involved in water accidents, teaching them the basic knowledge of rescue techniques, the skills to perform them, and the judgment to know when and how to act so that they can be prepared for emergencies.

Model Design and Building (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $5.00 Seats Available: 10 Model making, the art of creating copies of objects that are either smaller or larger than the objects they represent, is not only an enjoyable and educational hobby: it is widely used in the professional world for such things as creating special effects for movies, developing plans for buildings, and designing automobiles and airplanes.

Moviemaking (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Moviemaking includes the fundamentals of producing motion pictures, including the use of effective light, accurate focus, careful composition (or arrangement), and appropriate camera movement to tell stories. In earning the badge, Scouts will also learn to develop a story and describe other pre- and post-production processes necessary for making a quality motion picture.

Music (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 The history of music is rich and exciting. Through the ages, new music has been created by people who learned from tradition, then explored and innovated. All the great music has not yet been written. Today, the possibilities for creating new music are limitless.

Oceanography (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 The oceans cover more than 70 percent of our planet and are the dominant feature of Earth. Wherever you live, the oceans influence the weather, the soil, the air, and the geography of your community. To study the oceans is to study Earth itself.

Orienteering (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Orienteering, the use of map and compass to find locations and plan a journey, has been a vital skill for humans for thousands of years. Orienteering is also a recognized sport at the Olympic Games, and thousands of people participate in the sport each year in local clubs and competitions.

Pioneering (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Pioneering—the knowledge of ropes, knots, and splices along with the ability to build rustic structures by lashing together poles and spars—is among the oldest of Scouting's skills. Practicing rope use and completing projects with lashings also allow Scouts to connect with past generations, ancestors who used many of these skills as they sailed the open seas and lived in America's forests and prairies.

Reptile & Amphibian Study (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Boys always have been interested in snakes, turtles, lizards, and alligators, as well as frogs and salamanders. Developing knowledge about these captivating creatures leads to an appreciation for all native wildlife; understanding the life cycle of a reptile or amphibian and keeping one as a pet can be a good introduction to natural history; and knowing about venomous species can help Scouts to be prepared to help in case of an emergency.

Space Exploration (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $6.00 Seats Available: 12 Space is mysterious. We explore space for many reasons, not least because we don't know what is out there, it is vast, and humans are full of curiosity. Each time we send explorers into space, we learn something we didn't know before. We discover a little more of what is there.Purchase of model rocket kit from Terading Post. Cost range $15-$25

TRAILBLAZERS - First Aid (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 First aid — caring for injured or ill persons until they can receive professional medical care — is an important skill for every Scout. With some knowledge of first aid, a Scout can provide immediate care and help to someone who is hurt or who becomes ill. First aid can help prevent infection and serious loss of blood. It could even save a limb or a life.

TRAILBLAZERS - Leatherwork (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 12 Scouts who complete the requirements to earn the Leatherwork merit badge will explore leather's history and its endless uses. They will learn to make a useful leather item using the same types of raw materials that our ancestors used; be challenged to master skills like hand-stitching, lacing, and braiding.; and learn how to preserve and protect leather items so they will last a lifetime and beyond.

TRAILBLAZERS - Swimming (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 25 Swimming is a leisure activity, a competitive sport, and a basic survival skill. Scouts who earn this badge will learn about safety when swimming and diving, how swimming can contribute to overall fitness and health, and gain some basic competitive swimming skills

Welding (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU, TH Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Amount: $15.00 Seats Available: 6 Participants MUST have long sleeve shirts, long pants and Closed toe shoes, no synthetic clothing.

Wood Carving (MB) Time: 3:30PM Days: M, TU Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 As with any art, wood carving involves learning the basics of design, along with material selection and tools and techniques, as well as wood-carving safety. The requirements of the Wood Carving merit badge introduce Scouts to an enjoyable hobby and that can become a lifetime activity. Must have Totin' Chip

Electricity (MB) Time: 3:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 8 Electricity is a powerful and fascinating force of nature. As early as 600 BC, observers of the physical world suspected that electricity existed but did not have a name for it. In fact, real progress in unraveling the mystery of electricity has come only within the last 250 years.

Indian Lore (MB) Time: 3:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 10 Far different from the stereotypes or common images that are portrayed on film, on television, and in many books and stories, American Indians have many different cultures, languages, religions, styles of dress, and ways of life. To learn about these different groups is to take an exciting journey of discovery in which you will meet some of America's most fascinating peoples.

Sports (MB) Time: 3:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 12 Millions of people participate in sports every year. For some the appeal is the close friendships that come with being part of a team. Some revel in the joy of victory and lessons of defeat. For some, the personal fitness is so important that exercise becomes a daily need. And still others desire the feeling of achievement, that feeling of measurable improvement that comes with dedication to a sport.

TRAILBLAZERS - Indian Lore (MB) Time: 3:30PM Day: TH Available To: Youth (Y) Amount: $10.00 Seats Available: 12 Far different from the stereotypes or common images that are portrayed on film, on television, and in many books and stories, American Indians have many different cultures, languages, religions, styles of dress, and ways of life. To learn about these different groups is to take an exciting journey of discovery in which you will meet some of America's most fascinating peoples.