Class Schedule - Youth

First Aid (MB) Time: 9:00AM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 11 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: 4 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.

Railroading (MB) Time: 9:00AM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 11 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: 13 By earning this badge, Scouts can learn about the history of railroading, its place in modern society, careers in railroading, and hobbies related to railroading.

Communication (MB) Time: 9:00AM Days: M, TU, W Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 11 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: 1 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.

Citizenship in the World (MB) Time: 10:30AM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 13 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: 10 Scouts who earn the Citizenship in the World merit badge will discover that they are already citizens of the world. How good a world citizen each person is depends on his willingness to understand and appreciate the values, traditions, and concerns of people in other countries.

Communication (MB) Time: 10:30AM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 11 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: 9 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.

Emergency Prepardness (MB) Time: 10:30AM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 11 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: None 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.

Engineering (MB) Time: 10:30AM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 11 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: 15 Engineers use both science and technology to turn ideas into reality, devising all sorts of things, ranging from a tiny, low-cost battery for your cell phone to a gigantic dam across the mighty Yangtze River in China.

Photography (MB) Time: 10:30AM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 11 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: 15 Beyond capturing family memories, photography offers a chance to be creative. Many photographers use photography to express their creativity, using lighting, composition, depth, color, and content to make their photographs into more than snapshots. Good photographs tell us about a person, a news event, a product, a place, a scientific breakthrough, an endangered animal, or a time in history.

American Cultures (MB) Time: 10:30AM Days: M, TU, W Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 11 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: 12 The United States is a nation of immigrants. Every person came to America from somewhere else—or their ancestors did—and understanding these various cultural backgrounds can help Scouts to live in harmony with others in our varied and increasingly multicultural society.

Citizenship in the Community (MB) Time: 1:00PM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 11 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: 9 A nation is a patchwork of communities that differ from each other and may be governed differently. But regardless of how local communities differ, they all have one point in common: In the United States, local government means self-government. Good citizens help to make decisions about their community through their elected local officials.

Entrepreneurship (MB) Time: 1:00PM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 11 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: 15 By earning the Entrepreneurship merit badge, Scouts will learn about identifying opportunities, creating and evaluating business ideas, and exploring the feasibility (how doable it is) of an idea for a new business. They will also have the chance to fit everything together as they start and run their own business ventures.

Personal Management (MB) Time: 1:00PM Available To: Youth (Y), Adult (Youth Only Event) (A) Minimum Age: 14 Amount: $70.00 Seats Available: 4 Personal management is about mapping a plan for your life that will involve setting short-range and long-range goals and investigating different ways to reach those goals. Education, training, and experience all help make your goals become a reality. To achieve your goals, you will choose the best path and make a commitment to it, while remaining flexible enough to deal with changes and new opportunities.