Class Schedule - Youth

Automotive Maintenance - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Seats Available: 3 Modern automobiles are important to many aspects of American life. Those who service automobiles must understand each principle, and how these principles interact to provide smooth, efficient performance. Owners of cars also benefit by understanding how their vehicles operate. This enables them to understand why certain periodic maintenance is required to keep their vehicles in tip-top shape.

Chess - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 14 The game of chess has been played for hundreds of years, and your Scouts will enjoy learning more about this “Game of Kings.”

Communication - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1, 2 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 11 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."

Disability Awareness - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 6 Look around at the Scouts in your unit, the members of your sports teams, and the kids in your class - you will see that each person has their own personalities, distinct interests and ideas, different physical features, and different strengths and needs.

Energy - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None Saving, producing, and using energy wisely will be critical to America's future. If we are to leave future generations with a world in which they can live as well or better than we have, Scouts and other potential leaders of tomorrow must begin the hard work of understanding energy and the vital role it will play.

Entrepreneurship - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None 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.

Fingerprinting - T90 MBC / Traffic Safety - T90 MBC Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 3

Fish & Wildlife Management - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1, 2 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 1 Scouts taking this class will learn more about sound conservation & management practices. Participants will also explore the professional opportunities related to this field.

Fishing - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1, 2 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None Scouts will learn to catch, clean, and cook a fish in this class. Participants will also review Pennsylvania fishing regulations and learn about fishing lines, lures, & knots.

Graphic Arts - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None The field of graphic arts includes many kinds of work in the printing and publishing industries. Graphic arts professionals are involved in the creation of all kinds of printed communication, from business cards to books to billboards. The scope of printing communications is huge.

Leatherwork - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 8 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.

Photography - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1, 2 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None 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.

Pioneering - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1, 2 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None Pioneering—the knowledge of ropes, knots, and splices along with the ability to build rustic structures by lashing together poles and spars—is among the oldest of Scouting's skills. Practicing rope use and completing projects with lashings also allow Scouts to connect with past generations, ancestors who used many of these skills as they sailed the open seas and lived in America's forests and prairies.

Public Speaking - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 7 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.

Radio - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1, 2 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 7 Radio is a way to send information, or communications, from one place to another. Broadcasting includes both one-way radio (a person hears the information but can't reply) as well as two-way radio (where the same person can both receive and send messages).Prerequisites: none. Scouts must be at least age 14.

Rifle Shooting - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1, 2 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None Unless a rifle is handled incorrectly or recklessly, it is not dangerous. A rifle, like any other precision instrument, is manufactured to perform a specific task and can do so at no risk to the user or others. By earning this badge, Scouts can develop their shooting skills while learning safe practices.

Rifle Shooting - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1, 3 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 5 Unless a rifle is handled incorrectly or recklessly, it is not dangerous. A rifle, like any other precision instrument, is manufactured to perform a specific task and can do so at no risk to the user or others. By earning this badge, Scouts can develop their shooting skills while learning safe practices.

Salesmanship - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 By studying salesmanship, Scouts can learn self-confidence, motivation, friendliness, and the persistence necessary to overcome obstacles and solve problems. Sales can offer a challenging and rewarding career for those who enjoy interacting with people from all walks of life.

Scholarship - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 Working on the Scholarship merit badge provides Scouts with a great opportunity to become more successful in school. They will learn how to improve their skills in the classroom, develop good study habits, and master techniques for writing reports and taking tests.

Shotgun Shooting - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1, 2 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None A shotgun is a precision instrument, designed to shoot a shot charge in a specific pattern to cover a designated area at a certain distance. Unlike a rifle, the bore of the shotgun is not rifled, so the shot emerging from the muzzle is not spinning. Prerequisites: Scouts must be at least age 13 or older or with counselor pre-approval. Contact Mr Sam for pre-approval. Do not bring firearm or ammunition.

Shotgun Shooting - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1, 3 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Seats Available: 1 A shotgun is a precision instrument, designed to shoot a shot charge in a specific pattern to cover a designated area at a certain distance. Unlike a rifle, the bore of the shotgun is not rifled, so the shot emerging from the muzzle is not spinning. Prerequisites: Scouts must be at least age 13 or older or with counselor pre-approval. Contact Mr Sam for pre-approval. Do not bring firearm or ammunition.

Swimming - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 1 (7:00PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None 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.

Automotive Maintenance - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Seats Available: 7 Modern automobiles are important to many aspects of American life. Those who service automobiles must understand each principle, and how these principles interact to provide smooth, efficient performance. Owners of cars also benefit by understanding how their vehicles operate. This enables them to understand why certain periodic maintenance is required to keep their vehicles in tip-top shape.

Chemistry - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2, 3 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 12 Seats Available: 10 Scouts taking this class will learn more about chemical safety and storage, chemicals for commercial and industrial use, responsibilities to the environment, and careers in chemistry. Scouts will also have the hands-on opportunity to participate in fun laboratory experiments.

Citizenship in the Nation - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None As Scouts fulfill the requirements for this merit badge, they will learn how to become active citizens who are aware of and grateful for their liberties and rights. They will understand the need to participate in their governments and protect their freedom, helping to defend their country and standing up for individual rights on behalf of all its citizens.

Citizenship in the World - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Seats Available: 13 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.

Electricity - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None Electricity is a powerful and fascinating force of nature. As early as 600 BC, observers of the physical world suspected that electricity existed but did not have a name for it. In fact, real progress in unraveling the mystery of electricity has come only within the last 250 years.

Entrepreneurship - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None 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.

Farm Mechanics - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 4 From the mattock and hoe to the horse and mule, the cotton gin and reaper, the tractor and air seeder—this is the story of farm equipment. Today, most farms are mechanized and farmers can do most of their own maintenance work and make the adjustments needed on their many intricate farm implements.Prerequisites: - Req 1b, and 1d bring drawing and MSDS sheets to class.- Bring two tools, if you can, to be used for req. 3 a, c, d; OR do 3b and bring proof (before and after pictures would be ideal).- Bring the merit badge worksheet.

Fire Safety - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None The ability to use fire safely is essential to human survival. By earning this merit badge, Scouts will learn to uses fire safely and responsibly, how to prevent home fires, and how to handle fire safely, as well as burn prevention, and camping safety.

Indian Lore - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 1 Far different from the stereotypes or common images that are portrayed on film, on television, and in many books and stories, American Indians have many different cultures, languages, religions, styles of dress, and ways of life. To learn about these different groups is to take an exciting journey of discovery in which you will meet some of America's most fascinating peoples.

Law - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 5 Earning this merit badge enables a Scout to learn about the history and kinds of laws, the purpose and methods of law enforcement, consumer protection agencies, emerging law, and careers in the legal profession.

Mammal Study - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 5 Participants will discover the characteristics that distinguish mammals from the rest of the animal kingdom. Scouts will also research specific species and execute a conservation project.

Signs, Signals and Codes - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None Every day we use some form of signs and codes from speaking, to road signs, to emojis. Codes have been around since the dawn of time and remain to this day. Scouts will learn how different signs and codes to learn how to communicate, and even create their own.

Welding - T90 MBC Time Block(s): 2 (8:30AM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Seats Available: 6 Prerequisites: none. Scouts must be at least age 14. Fire-resistant clothing (no torn jeans) and shoes are required.

Automotive Maintenance - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Seats Available: 9 Modern automobiles are important to many aspects of American life. Those who service automobiles must understand each principle, and how these principles interact to provide smooth, efficient performance. Owners of cars also benefit by understanding how their vehicles operate. This enables them to understand why certain periodic maintenance is required to keep their vehicles in tip-top shape.

Bird Study - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None Birds are among the most fascinating creatures on Earth. Many are beautifully colored. Others are accomplished singers. Many of the most important discoveries about birds and how they live have been made by amateur birders. In pursuing this hobby, a Scout might someday make a valuable contribution to our understanding of the natural world.

Citizenship in the Nation - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 9 As Scouts fulfill the requirements for this merit badge, they will learn how to become active citizens who are aware of and grateful for their liberties and rights. They will understand the need to participate in their governments and protect their freedom, helping to defend their country and standing up for individual rights on behalf of all its citizens.

Citizenship in the World - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Seats Available: 6 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 - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3, 4 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 18 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."

Engineering - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None 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.

Entrepreneurship - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None 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.

Fire Safety - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None The ability to use fire safely is essential to human survival. By earning this merit badge, Scouts will learn to uses fire safely and responsibly, how to prevent home fires, and how to handle fire safely, as well as burn prevention, and camping safety.

Game Design - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None

Geocaching - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 4 This class proves more than any other that, as technology advances, so do a Scout’s techniques. We strongly recommend that a Scout procure and become familiar with his own GPS unit prior to attempting to earn this merit badge.Prerequisites: - Requirements 8 and 9. Please provide documentation.- Be able to use a map and compass,- be familiar with leave no trace- with a parents permission set up a user account at www.geocaching.com and complete Requirement #7.- Please bring a GPS unit if you have one or can borrow one from your unit. If you do not have access to one let us know at time of registration. Smart phones with GPScapability are acceptable. Requirements 8 and 9 will need to be completed prior to arrival or after the event. Please provide documentation.

Indian Lore - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None Far different from the stereotypes or common images that are portrayed on film, on television, and in many books and stories, American Indians have many different cultures, languages, religions, styles of dress, and ways of life. To learn about these different groups is to take an exciting journey of discovery in which you will meet some of America's most fascinating peoples.

Insect Study - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 2 In earning the Insect Study merit badge, Scouts will glance into the strange and fascinating world of the insect. There, they will meet tiny creatures with tremendous strength and speed, see insects that undergo startling changes in habits and form as they grow, and learn how insects see, hear, taste, smell, and feel the world around them.

Mammal Study - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None Participants will discover the characteristics that distinguish mammals from the rest of the animal kingdom. Scouts will also research specific species and execute a conservation project.

Plumbing - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3, 4 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 13 Seats Available: 3 Plumbing, including pipe fitting, is an important and well-paid occupation. The industry is quite broad. It covers installations and repairs in homes, commercial properties, and factories. Plumbing pipelines are used for water supply, waste drainage, natural-gas heating, and many other purposes.

Robotics - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3, 4 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None Earning the Robotics merit badge requires a Scout to understand how robots move (actuators), sense the environment (sensors), and understand what to do (programming); he should demonstrate robot design in building a robot. You should help ensure that the Scout has sufficiently explored the field of robotics to understand what it is about, and to discover whether this may be a field of interest for him as a career.

Signs, Signals and Codes - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None Every day we use some form of signs and codes from speaking, to road signs, to emojis. Codes have been around since the dawn of time and remain to this day. Scouts will learn how different signs and codes to learn how to communicate, and even create their own.

Welding - T90 MBC Time Block(s): 3 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Seats Available: 5 Prerequisites: none. Scouts must be at least age 14. Fire-resistant clothing (no torn jeans) and shoes are required.

Wilderness Survival - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3, 4 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 1 Anyone who wanders the woods should know how to survive if lost, and this class will impart that knowledge.

Wood Carving - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 3, 4 (1:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 2 As with any art, wood carving involves learning the basics of design, along with material selection and tools and techniques, as well as wood-carving safety. The requirements of the Wood Carving merit badge introduce Scouts to an enjoyable hobby and that can become a lifetime activity.

Art - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None This merit badge concentrates on two-dimensional art, specifically drawing and painting in various media, including an introduction to design applications in the fields of graphic arts and industrial design, history and design principles, and how these fields relate to fine art.

Automotive Maintenance - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Seats Available: 5 Modern automobiles are important to many aspects of American life. Those who service automobiles must understand each principle, and how these principles interact to provide smooth, efficient performance. Owners of cars also benefit by understanding how their vehicles operate. This enables them to understand why certain periodic maintenance is required to keep their vehicles in tip-top shape.

Chess - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 9 The game of chess has been played for hundreds of years, and your Scouts will enjoy learning more about this “Game of Kings.”

Disability Awareness - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 6 Look around at the Scouts in your unit, the members of your sports teams, and the kids in your class - you will see that each person has their own personalities, distinct interests and ideas, different physical features, and different strengths and needs.

Engineering - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 5 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.

Entrepreneurship - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None 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.

Fingerprinting - T90 MBC / Traffic Safety - T90 MBC Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None

Game Design - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None

Graphic Arts - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: None The field of graphic arts includes many kinds of work in the printing and publishing industries. Graphic arts professionals are involved in the creation of all kinds of printed communication, from business cards to books to billboards. The scope of printing communications is huge.

Leatherwork - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 4 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.

Public Speaking - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 10 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.

Scholarship - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 8 Working on the Scholarship merit badge provides Scouts with a great opportunity to become more successful in school. They will learn how to improve their skills in the classroom, develop good study habits, and master techniques for writing reports and taking tests.

Scouting Heritage - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 1

Weather - T90 MBC (MB) Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Seats Available: 2 This introduction to meteorology will help a Scout to better understand weather phenomenon. Participants will also learn about the precautions to take in storms.

Welding - T90 MBC Time Block(s): 4 (6:30PM) Available To: Youth (Y) Minimum Age: 14 Seats Available: 4 Prerequisites: none. Scouts must be at least age 14. Fire-resistant clothing (no torn jeans) and shoes are required.