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Merit Badge Tech

Flags at 8:30

First Session from 9:00-12:00am.

Lunch from 11:30 to 1:00

Second Session from 1:00-4:00pm.

All merit badge counselors are CTC staff, former students, Scouters or advisory board members.

Cost:

Cost will be $10.00 per scout and $5.00 for parents who want lunch. There is no charge for adult volunteers. There is no reduction for only attending half the day.  Payment will need to be made to 'Merit Badge Tech' for the event.

Lunch:

Lunch will be provided. Vegetarian or special dietary lunches are the responsibility of the Scout and his parent or guardian.

Overview:

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  All boys age 11-17 are welcome to attend.  Some badges have age requirements and some also have safety requirements for attire (for example Welding).  Some badges should be done by older scouts only, like Personal Management, because the subject matter may be hard for younger scouts.  Please use your best judgement when signing your scout up for merit badges.

  
  


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  Each scout will have the opportunity to work on two different merit badges. The approach this year is for the scout to complete prerequisites prior to Merit Badge Tech so they can complete the merit badge that day. Some of them will not be able to be completed in one day and will require follow up work. A complete list of those requirements is online at http://meritbadge.info/mbn/.

  
  


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  Merit badge reports will be sent to the Scoutmasters after the event. Scouts do not need to bring Blue Cards with them!

  
  


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  Registration online is mandatory.  Registered attendees will get a special patch!

  
  


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  This day is intended to have the scout complete two merit badges while learning a little about CTC and its programs. Scouts need to download, print and bring with them the merit badge worksheets from http://www.usscouts.org/ for badges they are going to work on. Pre Req have to be completed ahead of time.

  
  

Registration will open January 11th, 2014 and close March 3rd, 2014.



Online registration is mandatory.  Payment must be received within one week of your registration or your spots may be freed up for other scouts.  There are a limited number of seats in each classroom and we want to fill them up with scouts who want to learn and finish the badge.



Check back to see if spots have opened up.



We would like to avoid giving out partials.  Please remind your scouts to do their pre-requisites ahead of time to set them up for success.





Check in will be done after flags at each scout's first class to avoid the lone registration lines in the past.  Helpers will be on site to direct scouts to their first room if they need help.

We would like to have a second adult in every classroom for Merit Badge Tech.  This assistant will help with paperwork, crowd control and whatever the merit badge counselor needs help with.  Please contact Deb Lannen, lannen@charter.net, if you are able to assist during one or both sessions.  If you have a preference for assisting with a particular merit badge, please indicate that in the email.

Some badges are in combination sessions.  If you register for one of these badges you must register for the other one as well.  For example, if a scout picks "Architecture" for the AM-A&D session they need to select "Drafting" for the AM-A&D session.  Both badges will be taught in the same 3 hour block.  If the scout took another combination session in the PM they could earn 4 badges at MB Tech (assuming they do all the prerequisite work).  Badges that are taught together have their own special sessions listed for either AM or PM using an abbreviation of the badges taught.  You must register for the other badge, even if the scout has the badge already.  This is so we do not end up with different scouts signed up for different badges in the same combination session.  Some of the badges take more time than others so each of the combination badges will be done on their own schedule in the 3 hour time block.

TBAISD Career-Tech Center, 880 Parsons Road, Traverse City, MI 49686.  CTC is on the east end of Parsons Rd a short drive from 3 mile road on the south side of Parsons.

Some Merit Badges will be held off site (indicated in the classroom field for those badges). Transportation will NOT be provided to remote locations.  Remote sites will be a short drive from the Career Tech Center.