2016 Personal Fitness Merit Badge Opportunity

The Granite Park Stake will be offering the Personal Fitness Merit Badge on Saturday February 20th, 2016 at 9:00 AM.  The location will be the Granite Park Stake Center at 601 Mansfield Ave (Approximately 3100 South).  The cost per scout is 1 can of food for the St. Paul's Episcopal foot pantry.

Water Filtration and Purification

I just published a new article on Water Filtration and Purification to help you and your scout prepare.  You can find it by clicking here.

Mt Nebo Stake, Payson Utah 2015 Pow Wow

The Mt Nebo Stake in Payson Utah is offering a free merit badge Pow-wow on August 13 & 27, 2015. Scouts can earn three merit badges.  For more information click here.

Aviation Merit Badge at Heber Airport

Earlier today I took my scout to the Heber Valley Airport where the Commemorative Air Force Utah Wing offers an Aviation Merit Badge class.   This class was very well done and I would highly advise any scout wishing to get the Aviation Merit badge to get it from here.  The cost is $10 per scout for the class, or $20 per scout if you want to spend the night and camp out near the air field.  For more information click here.

2015 Hurricane High School Merit Badge Classes

The BSA Zion District (St. George area) is offering several free merit badge classes each month. These classes are held at Hurricane High School from 7:00 - 8:30 P.M.  For more information click here.

Tooele Valley View Stake Center 2015 Pow-Wow - part 2

Registration is now open for the Tooele Valley View Stake Center 2015 Pow-wow that will be held on Saturday August 29th.  Registration cost is $15.00 per scout and your scout can earn up to 6 merit badges from the list of 21 that they are offering. For more information click here.

There will be two posts of this entry so that I can add all of the merit badges to the labels.

Tooele Valley View Stake Center 2015 Pow-Wow

Registration is now open for the Tooele Valley View Stake Center 2015 Pow-wow that will be held on Saturday August 29th.  Registration cost is $15.00 per scout and your scout can earn up to 6 merit badges from the list of 21 that they are offering. For more information click here.

There will be two posts of this entry so that I can add all of the merit badges to the labels.

Building a Fire Starting Kit for Scouts

Over the weekend I put together and documented my version of a Fire Starting Kit for scouts that fits in an Altoids can, weighs 125 grams (~4.45 ounces), and costs about $10.00 plus the cost of the Altoids. You can read the full document in my scout supplies section here.

Cottonwood Heights Merit Badge Classes

The Cottonwood Heights Parks and Recreation Service Area is offering three merit badge classes.  Classes cost around $10-15 a piece. For more information click here.

Brighton Ski Resort Snow Sports Merit Badge Assessment

We have just started a new Merit Badge program. The Scouts need to be good, strong, intermediate skiers or boarders and understand the merit badge pamphlet and workbook BEFORE they come to the assessment.

Assessment classes are held on Thursday nights and Saturday afternoon by appointment only.

For more information on the Scout Program, please call the Sliding Academy and talk with Kathy Miner 801-532-4731 ext. 247 or click here.