Class Schedule - Youth

DK - Communication (MB) Time: 9:30AM Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: Unlimited 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.

Durt (FSR Staff) - Orienteering (MB) Time: 9:30AM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (A) Seats Available: Unlimited 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.

MR - First Aid (MB) Time: 9:30AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: Unlimited 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.

PB (FSR) - First Aid (MB) Time: 9:30AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 16 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.

Shawn (FSR) - Archery (MB) Time: 9:30AM Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 3 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.

Simon (FSR Staff) - Basketry (MB) Time: 9:30AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 16 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.

GG - Swimming (MB) Time: 9:45AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: Unlimited 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

DK - Citizenship in Society (MB) Time: 10:00AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 11 Seats Available: Unlimited

Durt (FSR Staff) - Camping (MB) Time: 10:00AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 16 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.

Simon (FSR Staff) - Chess (MB) Time: 10:00AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 15 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.

Theo (FSR Staff) - Soil & Water Conservation (MB) Time: 10:00AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 16 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.

MR - Space Exploration (MB) Time: 10:15AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: Unlimited 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.

Shawn (FSR) - Archery (MB) Time: 10:15AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 4 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.

Durt (FSR Staff) - Orienteering (MB) Time: 10:30AM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (A) Seats Available: Unlimited 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.

PB (FSR) - First Aid (MB) Time: 10:30AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 16 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.

Simon (FSR Staff) - Leatherwork (MB) Time: 10:30AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 16 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.

Theo (FSR Staff) - Mammal Study (MB) Time: 10:30AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 15 A mammal may weigh as little as 1/12 ounce, as do some shrews, or as much as 150 tons, like the blue whale. It may spring, waddle, swim, or even fly. But if it has milk for its young, has hair of some kind, is relatively intelligent, and has warm blood, then it is a mammal.

DK - Public Speaking (MB) Time: 10:45AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 11 Seats Available: Unlimited 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.

FSR Staff - Lifesaving (MB) Time: 10:45AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 11 Seats Available: 3 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.

Simon (FSR Staff) - Basketry (MB) Time: 10:45AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 15 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.

FSR Staff - Swimming (MB) Time: 11:00AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 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

Shawn (FSR Staff) - Archery (MB) Time: 11:00AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 3 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.

Theo (FSR Staff) - Environmental Science (MB) Time: 11:00AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 14 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.

Durt (FSR Staff) - Camping (MB) Time: 11:15AM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (A) Seats Available: Unlimited 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.

MR - Emergency Prepardness (MB) Time: 11:15AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: Unlimited 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.

Simon (FSR Staff) - Chess (MB) Time: 11:15AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 16 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.

Theo (FSR Staff) - Soil & Water Conservation (MB) Time: 11:30AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 16 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.

Simon (FSR Staff) - Leatherwork (MB) Time: 11:45AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 16 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.

Theo (FSR Staff) - Mammal Study (MB) Time: 11:45AM Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 10 Seats Available: 16 A mammal may weigh as little as 1/12 ounce, as do some shrews, or as much as 150 tons, like the blue whale. It may spring, waddle, swim, or even fly. But if it has milk for its young, has hair of some kind, is relatively intelligent, and has warm blood, then it is a mammal.