Personal Finance Merit Badge - (E)

Started: 10/09/12
Completed 12/09/12

Okay, the Personal Management badge is really hard and long...but it's an Eagle Badge so that is probably why.  Anyway, you have to come up with  something you want to buy and a goal for how to get it. The thing I wanted to buy is a bigger TV and the goal was to save $25 a month. When I discussed it with my family and we decided to change it to $50 a month so it could be purchased in a year. The reason its long is you have track your predicted expenses, actual expenses predicted income, actual income for 13 weeks.

Computer Merit Badge

Started: 10/5/12
Completed: 10/21/12


This was an interesting merit badge. It says to give a short history of the computer so we had to rent a movie and watch it but the movie was kind of cool. We used the internet to find a lot of information about computers and even how the internet works.  Explaining the way computers store text, sound, pictures, video files was difficult. It was written in 1967, however, it will be discontinued at the 2013 Jamboree which we didn't realize until after we started it.  I started this blog as an option for this Merit Badge.

Surveying Merit Badge

Began: Sept 30, 2012

Finished: Oct 14, 2012

This is a neat Merit Badge. There are two different kind of surveying equipment that I used. One was called a rod and level and the other was a total station. With the rod and level you take a really long pole and put it on each (4) point. This measured the relative elevation of each point.  With the total station, you could move it sideways and up and down. We sighted magnetic north and set that to 0 for the first point. We then sighted to point two, moved the total station to point two and measured back to point one and then measured to point three. We did this again until we had measured all 5 points. Drawing our site to scale was hard.  My favorite part was using the equipment... not all the math and paper work. 

New from the top...

Scout Oath and Law
So now they're changing the Scout Oaths to one common oath, even though the Cub Scouts and Venturer's  have had there own oath. Cub Scouts and Venturer's will also now memorize the Boy Scout Oath and Scout Law. Venturing will change over by early 2014 and Cub Scouts by Mid-2015

Eagle Changes
They are adding new Eagle required merit badges and they are Cooking and Sustainability Merit Badges. Cooking used to be an Eagle required badge but then it lost its' status but now it's coming back by 2014.

New Merit Badges
They're coming out with new merit badges and you want to know the requirements right? Well I'm sorry to tell you I don't know the requirements either because they're ALL TO BE DECIDED!!! Sorry. But here they are:

Game Design
Sustainability
Programming
Digital Technology (will replace Computers)
Animation
Signs, Signals, and Codes
Multi-Media
Computer-Aided Design
Advanced Computing

Popcorn! Oh Popcorn

Popcorn! Get your Popcorn online at Trailsend.com or if you like make a silver or gold military donation and send  popcorn over seas to the troops! So far it's been pretty hard selling popcorn. I've done a total of 7 hours selling over the period of 4 popcorn outings. My goal is $650, however, I'm at $550 SO be sure to stock up on popcorn.  Maybe it's because I am not a cute Bear anymore... Those Tigers have it easy!

World Post Day

World Post day (repost from postcrossing)

Actually, in some countries you can even get free goodies (like free postage!) so be sure to check the website for the post offices of your country (hint: if you don't know the link you can find it in your country page in Postcrossing).

Tomorrow is World Post Day, did you know? It's celebrated every year, on the 9th of October and it commemorates the founding of the UPU (Universal Postal Union) in 1874 in Bern, Switzerland Capital.

So across the world, post offices will be celebrating this special day in many different ways. This includes: special philatelic exhibitions, free entrance in postal museums, introducing new products and services, special cancellation marks, seminars, workshops and more!
Let us know your findings in the comments of this post, and we'll keep it updated for others to see!
So, go out, buy some postcards or some nice letter paper and write to all your friends and family; remind them that the post is a very important part of our lives.

Court of Honor

October 7th: Court of Honor

Okay, so I progressed from Scout rank all the way to 1st Class scout.  The rank advancement goes Scout, Tenderfoot, 2nd Class Scout, 1st Class Scout, Life Scout, Star Scout, and then Eagle scout. I did a lot of this when I was at camp and did the road to 1st Class program there. Plus, I have been on every outing with the Troop since I joined. 

The rank advancement wasn't all that hard but some of the Merit Badges were really hard.  I hiked and biked 220 miles this summer to earn those two Merit Badges. I also earned Horsemanship, Geo-caching, Genealogy, Chemistry, Reading, Railroading and Citizenship in the Community.  Altogether, I have already earned 3 required Eagle Merit Badges. I am working on Person Finance right now and with that I will well on my way to Life Scout.    

Rank Advancement

Merit Badges