Boy Scout Merit Badge Day in January Saturday, January 11, 2014

Boy Scout Merit Badge Day in January Saturday, January 11, 2014 On Saturday, January 11, 2014 a limited number of Jayhawk Area Council Boy Scouts will have the rare opportunity, to complete part or all of the requirements, for one merit badge, in a class/seminar setting, with an expert in the field of the merit badge, and to earn three community service hours on the same day. The event is Merit Badge Day in January from 12:00 noon to 8:45pm, January 10. Merit Badge Day classes will be held at First Lutheran Church, 1234 SW Fairlawn, Topeka. Merit Badge Day will be in conjunction with Jayhawk Council’s Cub Scout Night at the Museum from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, that evening, at the Kansas Museum of History. Merit Badge options this year will include your choice of Art, Citizenship in the Community, or Indian Lore. See attached pages for list of each respective merit badge requirement along with other important details to help you with planning and expectations. Merit Badge Day in January and earning community service hours at Tiger Night at the Museum is a package deal. The Indian Lore Merit Badge Day class will be from 12:00 noon to 5:00pm. The Art and Citizenship in the Community Classes are scheduled from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. Between 5:00pm and 5:45pm participants will eat supper and move to the Kansas Museum of History. Troops must provide transportation from the church to the museum. From 5:45pm to 8:45pm participants will be involved in preparing to share and sharing the information learned while completing the merit badge requirements with Tiger Cub Scouts, their families and others at Tiger Night at the Museum. The merit badge blue cards and community service hour certificates will be distributed at 8:30pm at the museum. It may be necessary to limit registration, so register early. Register online through the Jayhawk Council website www.jayhawkcouncil.org or use this form and pay fees at the Council Office. Pre-registration and fees are required no later than 12:00 noon, Tuesday, January 10, 2012-this is noon following Monday evening Troop Meetings and is a firm deadline in order to give class counselors time to collect and prepare materials. The registration fees are:    

$12.00 for Boy Scouts registering for the Art Merit Badge Class, includes art supplies and supper meal $8.00 for Boy Scouts registering for the Citizenship Merit Badge Class, includes supper meal $20.00 for Boy Scouts registering for the Indian Lore Merit Badge Class, the additional fee for this class covers the cost of several kits of materials required for the completion of the merit badge and includes supper meal $6.00 for Adults accompanying Boy Scouts to the Merit Badge Classes, includes supper meal. Each Troop registering Boy Scouts for Merit Badge Day must have at least one adult leader or parent or guardian register to accompany one or more Troop Scouts.

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Merit Badge Day in January Registration Form Registration Deadline: 12:00 noon, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 Merit Badge Day in January is Saturday, January 12, 2013 from 12:00pm to 8:45pm at Topeka’s First Lutheran Church, 1234 SW Fairlawn, 12 noon to 5:30pm and the Kansas Museum of History, 6425 SW 6th, 5:45 to 8:45pm. Troop # ___________________ Troop Leader Name _______________________________________________________ Phone: H _________________ W ________________ e-mail Address: _______________________________________ Address _______________________________________ City _____________________ Zip ______________________ Boy Scout Name Reg Fee: ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________

Merit Badge Choice-Check One $12.00 $8.00 $20.00 Art___, Citizen/Community___, Indian Lore___ Art___, Citizen/Community___, Indian Lore___ Art___, Citizen/Community___, Indian Lore___

Reg Fee $8,$12,or$20 _________ _________ _________

Adult Leader Name

Merit Badge Choice-Check One

______________________________________________ ______________________________________________ Please mail one check to: Merit Badge Day in January Jayhawk Area Council, BSA 1020 SE Monroe, Topeka, KS 66612

Art___, Citizen/Community___, Indian Lore___ Art___, Citizen/Community___, Indian Lore___ Fee Total

Reg Fee $6.00 each _________ _________ _________

Please make check payable to: Jayhawk Area Council, BSA

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Merit Badge Day January – Event Code: 091

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Requirements for the Art Merit Badge: Boy Scouts selecting the Art Merit Badge Class will complete all requirements in class and will be expected to host art activities for Tigers participating at Tiger Night at the Museum, to earn three Community Service hours, for service to the Kansas History Center. The Art Class is scheduled from 1:00pm to 5:00pm.

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Tell a story with a picture or pictures or using a 3-D rendering. Do ONE of the following. a. Design something useful. Make a sketch or model of your design and get your counselor's approval before you proceed. Then create a promotional piece for the item using a picture or pictures. b. Design a logo. Share your design with your counselor and explain the significance of your logo. Then, with your parent's permission and your counselor's approval, put your logo on Scout equipment, furniture, ceramics, or fabric. Render a subject of your choice in FOUR of these ways: a. Pen and ink, f. Tempera, b. Watercolors, g. Acrylics, c. Pencil, h. Charcoal d. Pastels, i. Computer drawing or painting e. Oil paints, With your parent's permission and your counselor's approval, visit a museum, art exhibit, art gallery, artists' co-op, or artist's workshop. Find out about the art displayed or created there. Discuss what you learn with your counselor. Find out about three career opportunities in art. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you. BSA Advancement ID#: 21, Source: Boy Scout Requirements, #33215, revised 2008

Note: Visit http://meritbadge.org for a complete list of Merit Badge requirements, a list of topical links for resource information, and copies of learning worksheets, which can be used to document completion of requirements, and specifically pre-requisites. Most Scouts and Scouters will agree that the best method of earning a merit badge is with a merit badge counselor that you can interact with face to face. However, sometimes merit badge instruction in a class like atmosphere to a dozen or more Scouts at a time fits busy modern lifestyles. In a class it can become difficult for the merit badge counselor to verify completion of requirements, especially for requirements that are supposed to be discussed or told about. For example, if twenty Scouts were attending a merit badge class, it would take a lot of time if the counselor asked each of them, one after another, to explain a requirement. By filling out learning worksheets, Scouts can demonstrate their understanding of each of the requirements. It could be considered adding to the requirements to ask a Scout to write something down that the requirements say only needs to be discussed or explained. Scouts and leaders must choose how to comply with BSA policies. Merit Badge Day January Coordinator’s Note: Scouts considering registering for merit badges at Merit Badge Day January are invited to visit with Scouts who have attended this event in previous years. The merit badge counselors for each of the merit badges are experts in their field and offer a wealth of experience. They are guaranteed to share information Scouts can apply to daily living and future careers.

For questions about Merit Badge Day in January - contact the Jayhawk Area Council Office 354-8541.

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CITIZENSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY, 2005 requirements Boy Scouts selecting the Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge Class will complete partial requirements in the Merit Badge Day in January class, led by Merit Badge Counselor Gary Elsbernd. Requirements 1, 2, and 6 will be completed in class. Scouts are encouraged to come to the classes with documentation of having completed requirements 3, 4, and 5 as prerequisites. The counselor will discuss completion of requirements 7 – which includes 8 hours of service to a charitable organization and 8 – the development and staging of a public presentation following the class. Mr Elsbernd has agreed to work with Scouts following the class to complete the badge requirements. In addition, the Boy Scouts participating in the Citizenship Class will be expected to host various activities for Tigers participating at Tiger Night at the Museum, to earn three Community Service hours, for service to the Kansas Museum of History. The Citizenship in the Community Class is scheduled from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. 1.

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Discuss with your counselor what citizenship in the community means and what it takes to be a good citizen in your community. Discuss the rights, duties, and obligations of citizenship, and explain how you can demonstrate good citizenship in your community, Scouting unit, place of worship, or school. Do the following: a. on a map of your community, locate and point out the following: 1. Chief government buildings such as your city hall, county courthouse, and public works/services facility 2. Fire station, police station, and hospital nearest your home 3. Historical or other interesting points b. Chart the organization of your local or state government. Show the top offices and tell whether they are elected or appointed. Do the following: a. Attend a city or town council or school board meeting, or a municipal; county, or state court session. b. Choose one of the issues discussed at the meeting where a difference of opinions was expressed, and explain to your counselor why you agree with one opinion more than you do another one. Choose an issue that is important to the citizens of your community; then do the following: a. Find out which branch of local government is responsible for this issue. b. With your counselor's and a parent's approval, interview one person from the branch of government you identified in requirement 4a. Ask what is being done about this issue and how young people can help. c. Share what you have learned with your counselor. With the approval of your counselor and a parent, watch a movie that shows how the actions of one individual or group of individuals can have a positive effect on a community. Discuss with your counselor what you learned from the movie about what it means to be a valuable and concerned member of the community. List some of the services (such as the library, recreation center, public transportation, and public safety) your community provides that are funded by taxpayers. Tell your counselor why these services are important to your community. Do the following: a. Choose a charitable organization outside of Scouting that interests you and brings people in your community together to work for the good of your community. b. Using a variety of resources (including newspapers, fliers and other literature, the Internet, volunteers, and employees of the organization), find out more about this organization. c. With your counselor's and your parent's approval, contact the organization and find out what young people can do to help. While working on this merit badge, volunteer at least eight hours of your time for the organization. After your volunteer experience is over, discuss what you have learned with counselor. Develop a public presentation (such as a video, slide show, speech, digital presentation, or photo exhibit) about important and unique aspects of your community. Include information about the history, cultures, and ethnic groups of your community; its best features and popular places where people gather; and the challenges it faces. Stage your presentation in front of your merit badge counselor or a group, such as your patrol or a class at school.

BSA Advancement ID#: 002, Source: Boy Scout Requirements, #33215, revised 2008 For questions about Merit Badge Day in January - contact the Jayhawk Area Council Office 354-8541.

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INDIAN LORE

Register early for this merit badge. Boy Scouts selecting the Indian Lore Merit Badge Class will be expected to obtain an American Indian history booklet from Mike Ballard, the Indian Lore Merit Badge Class Counselor, and to read the booklet prior to January 12, 2013 in order to complete all requirements in class. For Merit Badge Day in January Boy Scouts will complete the bolded requirements in the merit badge class. To earn three Community Service hours, for service to the Kansas Museum of History, Scouts will be expected to show their crafts, demonstrate the games and share the songs with Tigers participating at Tiger Night at the Museum. The American Indian history booklet will be available at Shawnee District Roundtables or arrangements can be made for Mr Ballard to deliver books to Troop Meetings or to the Scout Office for pick-up there. The Indian Lore Merit Badge Day class will be from 12:00 noon to 5:00pm. 1.

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Give the history of one American Indian tribe, group, or nation that lives or has lived near you. Visit it, if possible. Tell about traditional dwellings, way of life, tribal government, religious beliefs, family and clan relationships, language, clothing styles, arts and crafts, food preparation, means of getting around, games, customs in warfare, where members of the group now live, and how they live. Do TWO of the following. Focus on a specific group or tribe. a. Make an item of clothing worn by members of the tribe. b. Make and decorate three items approved by your counselor used by the tribe. c. Make an authentic model of a dwelling used by any Indian tribe, group, or nation. d. Visit a museum to see Indian artifacts. Discuss them with your counselor. Identify at least ten artifacts by tribe or nation, their shape, size, and use. Do ONE of the following: a. Learn three games played by a group or tribe. Teach and lead one game with a Scout group. b. Learn and show how a tribe traditionally cooked or prepared food. Make three food items. c. Give a demonstration showing how a specific Indian group traditionally hunted, fished, or trapped. Do ONE of the following: a. Write or briefly describe how life would have been different for the European settlers if there had been no Indians to meet them when they came to this continent. b. Sing two songs in an Indian language. Explain their meaning. c. Learn in an Indian language at least twenty-five common terms and their meanings. d. Show twenty-five signs in Indian sign language. Include those that will help you ask for water, food, and where the path or road leads. e. Learn in English (or in the language you commonly speak at home or in the troop) an Indian story of at least three hundred words, or any number off shorter ones adding up to three hundred words. Tell the story or stories at a Scout meeting or campfire. f. Write or tell about eight things adopted by others from American Indians. g. Learn twenty-five Indian place-names. Tell their origins and meanings. h. Name five well-known American Indian leaders, either from the past or people of today. Give their tribes or nations. Describe what they did or do now that makes them notable. i. Learn about the Iroquois Confederacy, including how and why it was formed. Tell about its governing system, and its importance to the framers of our Constitution of the United States.

BSA Advancement ID#: 64, Source: Boy Scout Requirements, #33215, revised 2008

Community Service Hours Boy Scouts who, between 5:45pm and 8:45pm, help with set up for Tiger Night at the Museum and share information learned in Merit Badge Day in January classes with Tiger Cub Scouts attending Tiger Night at the Museum between 6:30pm and 8:30pm, and help clean-up until 8:45pm will earn three Community Service hours, for service to the Kansas Museum of History. The merit badge blue cards and community service hour certificates will be distributed beginning at 8:30pm after clean-up at the museum. For questions about Merit Badge Day in January - contact the Jayhawk Area Council Office 354-8541.

An additional merit badge

Scouting Heritage Merit Badge offered at Boy Scout Merit Badge Day in January Saturday, January 11, 2014 – 1:00pm, First Lutheran Church Register online at jayhawkcouncil.org Scouting Heritage Merit Badge, created in 2010 the year of BSA’s 100th Anniversary Celebration, was offered at Merit Badge Day in January for the first time in 2013. Scouts registering for the Scouting Heritage Merit Badge are required prior to attending Merit Badge Day in January to do the following: ____1. purchase the Scouting Heritage Merit Badge Book, (two Scouts from the same Troop could share one Scouting Heritage Merit Badge Book). ____2. read the Scouting Heritage Merit Badge Book. ____3. print the Scouting Heritage Merit Badge Workbook (from www.MeritBadge.org). Each Scout participating in the class must have his own workbook pages printed from the internet. ____4. make notes on the workbook pages for discussing the merit badge requirement with your counselor during the January class – notes do not have to be full and complete answers. ____5. unless the Scout has attended either a BSA National Jamboree, a World Scout jamboree, or a National BSA high-adventure base, the Scout must no later than one month-30 days prior to the January class, e-mail the National Scouting Museum in Irving, Texas specifically – [email protected] –or [email protected] to request the Scouting Heritage Merit Badge packet offered by the Scouting museum and bring the packet to the January class. See http://www.bsamuseum.org/ ____6. learn about the history of the unit where you are a BSA member and interview two people associated with your Troop. Note the requirements for the interviews – one person from the past and one from the present and the requirements for the report for Requirement 5. The report should be created prior to and briefly shared with your counselor at the January class; but, can be presented after the January class. ____7. bring your collection for Requirement 6 to show and tell your counselor about each item in your collection. ____8. prepare a game to show to your counselor for the merit badge requirement 7. Depending on the number of games prepared, some games from the Scouting Heritage Merit Badge class will be shared with Cub Scouts at Cub Scout Night at the Museum, perhaps on a rotating basis. Since Cub Scout Night at the Museum is an indoor event only indoor games can be shared with Cubs at the Museum. Outdoor games can be prepared and shown to your counselor to meet the requirement. ____9. interview three people over the age of 40 who were Scouts and be prepared to share what you learned with your counselor. This list of 9 points is a checklist of tasks to complete before and bring with you to the January class. The list is explanation supplemental to, not additions to, the Scouting Heritage Merit Badge requirements.