OTHER SCOUT ACTIVITIES
We can work with you to align activities with your scout merit badge requirements. You can book directly with us for a customized program at a date/time convenient for your troop.
Battlin’ Bots: A real engineering activity, build “Battlin’ Bots using motors, wood, metal, and found materials. Work in teams of two to brainstorm a design, solve problems, hook up power, and remote control your bot in a safety-shielded arena. When bots are ready, they can battle each other, two at a time. Repair your bot and battle again. This activity may need an extra half hour. $26/scout
Kites and the Atmosphere: Learn about the atmosphere, how the wind and air currents work, and how kites have been used historically for weather forecasting. Program includes hands-on building and decorating a take-home kite. Weather permitting we may try flying them before you leave. $20/scout
Electronics Explorer: Scouts will learn about electricity and magnetism to understand basic DC electronics concepts such as circuits, current and voltage, resistance, inductance, capacitance, and the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves). They will explore ways that electronics and radio waves affect our lives and are used for communication, space science, medicine, entertainment, etc. Students will use the Elenco Electronics Playground kit, model EP-50, to build several beginner circuits to light up LEDs and make various frequencies of sound. Scouts may keep the electronics kits at end of the activity. $22/scout
(Limited time, until Dec 30, 2024, this course and the Elenco kit is free to scouts and youth groups.)
Advanced Radio Electronics Build: Build and take home an FM music radio as you explore the basic components and functions of radio electronics and direct current circuitry. Topics covered include soldering safety, basic electronics parts and their functions, and elementary radio circuitry. Price includes an Elenco FM radio kit and 14-page instructional booklet. For ages 12 and up who have already taken a basic soldering electronics course. Allow 3 hours. $44/scout
Amateur Radio License Course: This ONLINE ham radio class will get older scouts ready to take the Ham Radio TECHNICIAN license exam, the FIRST of three radio certification levels. We give online and in-person FCC radio exams, too! Topics range from the science of radio electronics to the FCC rules governing the radio spectrum. Amateur radio (or “ham radio”) is used by people all over the world to communicate over radio waves. Some people use ham radio for emergency preparedness, to provide communications support for community events, also to report on severe weather and natural disasters. They can even use ham radio to contact crew members on the International Space Station! For ages 12 and up who have already taken the basic radio activity or “First Contact” activity. Allow 12 hours over multiple days. We can schedule a scouts-only course for 8 or more, in-person or online, or individual scouts may enroll in any of the online Ham Radio courses at a discount. $45/scout
(FREE until Feb 15, 2025 for scouts and a free radio for those who follow through with a license course and get their FCC radio license.)