Merit Badge Midway & Troop Campout

We will be camping at the Scout Hut this Friday night and then going over to the Merit Badge Midway at Western Carolina University. All Scouts attending the Midway will need to review the available merit badge classes being offered at this event, select the merit badges that interest them, and print up the merit badge worksheets. We will pick up breakfast from a restaurant on our way to Cullowhee and have lunch there as well. Bring your own food for dinner Friday night and money for Saturday. Twenty dollars should cover the admission to the Midway and leave six dollars a piece for the two meals on Saturday.

The available Merit Badge Classes are:

Architecture 9:00-12:00
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/2/28/Architecture.pdf)
Astronomy 9:00-12:00
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/f/f9/Astronomy.pdf)
Bird Study 11:00-12:30 & 2:00-3:30
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/2/29/Bird_Study.pdf)
Citizenship in the Nation 12:30-2:30
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/2/20/Citizenship_in_the_Nation.pdf)
Citizenship in the World 10:00-12:00 & 1:00-3:00
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/0/09/Citizenship_in_the_World.pdf)
Climbing 9:00-12:00
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/e/e3/Climbing.pdf)
Coin Collecting 9:00-10:30 & 10:30-12:00 & 1:00-2:30
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/0/04/Coin_Collecting.pdf)
Computers 1:00-2:30
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/3/34/Computers.pdf)
Crime Prevention TBA
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/0/07/Crime_Prevention.pdf)
Electricity 10:30-12:30 & 1:30-3:30
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/0/07/Crime_Prevention.pdf)
Emergency Preparedness 10:30-1200 & 1:30-3:00 (http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/2/26/Emergency_Preparedness.pdf)
Environmental Science 9:00-3:30
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/3/3a/Environmental_Science.pdf)
Fingerprinting 9:00-10:30 & 10:30-12:00 & 1:00-2:30
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/6/61/Fingerprinting.pdf)
First Aid 9:00-4:00 (Bring homemade 1st aid kit.)
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/9/98/First_Aid.pdf)
Fishing 1:00-2:30
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/2/2e/Fishing.pdf)
Geology 9:00-12:00
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/e/ea/Geology.pdf)
Horsemanship 12:00-2:00 & 2:00-4:00
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/d/d5/Horsemanship.pdf)
Indian Lore 9:30-12:00 & 1:00-3:30
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/c/c1/Indian_Lore.pdf)
Photography 10:30-12:30
( http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/b/bf/Photography.pdf)
Pioneering 9:30-4:00
( http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/3/3c/Pioneering.pdf)
Reading and Scholarship 11:00-11:30 & 11:30-12:00
( http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/5/56/Reading.pdf) & (http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/b/bf/Scholarship.pdf)
Scout Heritage 1:00-3:00
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/2/20/Scouting_Heritage.pdf)
Soil & Water Conservation 9:00-11:00 & 12:30-2:30
( http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/4/49/Soil_and_Water_Conservation.pdf)
Stamp Collecting 10:00-12:00 & 1:00-3:00
( http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/8/80/Stamp_Collecting.pdf)
Surveying 1:00-4:00
( http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/3/39/Surveying.pdf)
Swim Test 8:30-9:30 *required for Swimming merit badge
( http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/BSA_Swim_Test)
Swimming 9:30-12:00
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/d/db/Swimming.pdf)
Traffic Safety TBA
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/d/da/Traffic_Safety.pdf)
Wilderness Survival 10:00-12:00 & 12:30-2:30
(http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/0/0a/Wilderness_Survival.pdf)

Our first Arrowmen!

This past weekend our first troop members completed their ordeal and were inducted into the Order of the Arrow. This was a huge honor for those who were elected and it was an honor for me to participate in the workday with them and to attend the induction ceremony. While these were the first three from our troop to be inducted into the OA, I look forward to seeing additional scouts and adults elected to be a part of this organization. If you are not aware of the goals of the OA, it is a brotherhood of cheerful service. In order to be elected a scout must be at least first class and is required to complete 15 nights camping, one of which must be a long term camping trip under the auspices of the BSA.

Congratulations to Nick Abbott, Chris Skinner and Rob Hawk!