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Alpha Phi Omega is a national co-ed service fraternity founded in 1925 on the principles of Scouting. Keeping with our Scouting heritage and spirit of service, the chapter hosts youth achievement days every year. We hope to continue these traditions and bring more university resources together. At each of our workshops, boys will try and complete as many requirements for their badge of choice as possible during the allotted time, while still giving each requirement the time it deserves.

As in the past, we will also be offering free adult training.



EVERY SCOUT DESERVES A TRAINED LEADER

The Hawkeye Area Council - Leader Education And Development team is offering a variety of adult leader educational sessions during this event.  This is an opportunity to learn something new that will improve your unit - and, it doesn’t cost you any extra time or money since you will be here for your Scouts anyway.

Order: Class topic, Class instructor, Registration title



Morning sessions:



Dillons Furrow - Kieran Leopold

Kieran will discuss his research of the old military highway here in Iowa and will present the hiking guide that he created for a multi-day Scouting adventure which follows the highway. For this course, please sign up under the advanced camping course option.



Helping Scouts with special needs - Charity Stoffer & Kris Kenny

Charity and Kris are passionate about helping young people with special needs have a full Scouting experience.  They will share information about some of the tools and techniques they have found helpful for the youth, the family and the unit



Commissioner Basics, Bruce Dolde

This is basic training for new commissioners - Unit Commissioners, Roundtable Commissioners, Administrative Commissioners

Afternoon Sessions:

 

Please register adults for sessions just as you would register Scouts. Sessions are identified as "ADULT" under prerequisites.

Registration fee is $12.00 per Scout per class and the deadline to register is February 29rd. e.g. If a student takes Energy in the morning, and chemistry in the afternoon, that is a total of $24. If a student just takes a whole day class, like First Aid, that only costs $12. Sessions are marked on the event as 0 for all day, 1 for morning, and 2 for the afternoon.

This year, the option is available to make payments for this event online. Please see the section on payment instructions for further information on this. While the option to submit payment for event registration is available online, the option to submit payment via mail in check is also available, with more information provided below.

 

A brother of Alpha Phi Omega or a community member will be teaching each badge. APO will also be providing the blue cards for each workshop. Merit Badge University will be held on Saturday, March 7th.



The day will go as follows:

8:30-9:00 AM Registration

9 AM – 12 Scout Classes 

12 noon – 1 PM Lunch**

1 PM – 4 PM Scout Class



**PLEASE NOTE: Scouts are responsible for lunch on their own, and will be released directly from class. Please make appropriate arrangements for meeting as a troop in advance. A list of area eating establishments will be made available when you check-in at the event. There will also be facilities available to sit and eat if your troop chooses to bring lunch, but there is to be no food or drink in the University buildings. If your troop will be traveling to Iowa City the night before or staying the night after and would like a recommendation for a hotel, please contact us. 

In order to sign up for our event you first need to click on enter registration system, by clicking on that a new page will appear that will show all of the events that are available. In the upper right hand of the new page there is the option to register new users. If you are new to the website you must sign up as a troop leader, in order to register your scouts. Once you are registered in the system you can sign up for the event. The event is entitled MBU at the University of Iowa.

In addition to filling out your information here, please follow the link attached below to the SignMeUp.com page for this event. This page is what the University of Iowa allows for its student organizations to use to collect payments online. Please follow the link below and fill out the form with identical registration information indicated on this form. This is how we will be tracking payments for the event.

Link: https://www.signmeup.com/site/reg/register.aspx?fid=JP2VWG7 



If you have any questions on the form, please email Collin Sindt at apo@uiowa.edu.

 

Registration fee is $12.00 per scout per class and the deadline is February 29th. e.g. If a student takes Energy in the morning, and Chemistry in the afternoon, that is a total of $24. If a student just takes a whole day class, like First Aid, that only costs $12. Sessions are marked on the event as 0 for all day, 1 for morning, and 2 for the afternoon. The fee includes all supplies needed for the classes and a participation patch for each Scout. Registrations after February 29rth will inquire a $5 late fee for a total of $17 per class.

Please note that the Model Design and Building badge has an additional cost of $3 per scout to cover the additional material costs required for the badge.

We have been fortunate to not have to change prices for this event for the last 10 years, but unfortunately the time has come to increase our registration fee. This will allow us to continue to provide the same quality of event content for scouts, and ensure that we are able to provide the same level of campership opportunities to scouts that we have in previous years with the proceeds from the event. 

If your prefered method of payment is via mail in check:

Make checks payable to: Alpha Phi Omega, Omicron Chapter.

 

Even though registration for classes is done via meritbadge.info, all registrees must also proceed to the signmeup.com link and complete the corresponding form. This is how APO Omicron will be tracking payments for the event this year. This is where you will have the option to complete your payment online, however if you prefer to mail in a check please still fill out the corresponding information on how many scouts you are registering and the corresponding check amount we will receive. We will then cross reference this with the registration information on meritbadge.info.



Please send the payment to:

Hunter Foubert, APO Omicron VP of Finance

307 South Linn Street, Apt 306

Iowa City, Iowa 52240

**Check still MUST be made out to Alpha Phi Omega, Omicron Chapter