Summer Camp Merit Badge Choices

Attached you’ll find a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet corresponding to your patrol.  Those are the merit badges available to your patrol for summer camp, and the schedule for each of those.  Also attached is the activity/MB descriptions.

Please look this over, talk it over with your patrol buddies, and determine which classes you want to take and when.   This way you may coordinate time slots with your friends and then sign up accordingly.  We are still building the web page logic to implement the sign up so be patient.  It will be released soon.

One note, not every MB or activity offered by the camp is included in every patrol’s choices.  This is due to age restrictions from the camp and in some cases past experience.  For example, TFC’s do not do well with Horsemanship Merit badge, although they may want to do a horse trail ride.  I left the MB off of their list, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future to earn this badge.  Another example is mountain biking and mountain boarding, I consistently see more than one boy at camp being transported to the ER for a broken arm or other injury due to these activities.  They are a ton of fun, but with our distance from Plano and our limited resources to get to/from an ER clinic I don’t want to take that risk.

If all works out as planned we will all be going whitewater rafting on Thursday afternoon.  The TFC’s will go on the Nantahala River and the rest will go on the Ocoee.  Don’t worry about choosing this option, it will be set up for you.

The Afternoon sessions are a bit unique, there are some classes that are designated for the afternoon time period and last one or two days only.  Other’s marked “open Program” are on a come as you want basis, meaning that you may show up and do the merit badge without signing up.  I prefer that you sign up though so that your schedule is known and intentional.  There are also open water activities in the afternoon so you may swim, canoe, etc. if you want, but you can’t just sit around and do nothing (that frequently leads to trouble).

Each spreadsheet presents the data in two different views.  It’s the same classes and schedule, just displayed differently so that hopefully everyone can pick a view they understand better.