Re: Merit badge "overnighter"?
Dave Loomis (dloomis@NH.ULTRANET.COM)
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 12:43:10 -0500
Win Quakenbush wrote:
>
> Hello, the list!
>
> We have just finished a district weekend "merit badge college", with many
> different badges offered in a Friday-Saturday timeframe.
>
> This raises the question - have any of you done a "merit badge
> overnighter" within your troop, where the scouts come in Friday night,
> leave Saturday, and knock out one merit badge? Please let me emphasize, I
> am _not_ interested in becoming a merit badge mill, or doing less than
> 100% of the MB requirements.
Win,
Our district recently did an Aviation Merit Badge Camporee, where with
the cooperation of 6-8 private pilots, the local airfield and airbase
(ANG) and lots of volunteers about 210 scouts received the required
training to earn the Aviation Merit Badge, under the Young Eagle
Program. Nothing was watered down or ommitted. If the scout's parents
declined to sign a permission slip for the orientation flight, no small
task in and of itself, the boy was advised of the alternates to this
requirements, and given the necessary paperwork indicating partial
completion of the badge requirements. More specific details can be
gotten from NHAVIATOR@AOL.COM, the mover and shaker for the camporee.
We also had frequent flybys by a Pitts biplane, and a C-47/DC-3 in WW
II colors. Although there were many modern aircraft being used, we had
a few L-4 and L-5 WW II liason planes and some of the scouts even got to
take their ride in a Stearman biplane!
Dave
ADC/Advancement Chair
Historic District
Daniel Webster Council
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