2024 Merit Badge Day at The Toro Company

Saturday, March 2, 2024

8111 Lyndale Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55420

Event Info:

Registration opens at 8:00am. The opening ceremony will start at 8:45am. The event will finish at 3:30pm.

Participants will have a chance to work on a variety of Merit Badges. Some Merit Badges will take the full day, while others will only be half day events (AM and/or PM). Participants can choose to either work on one full day badge, or two different half day badges.

Please sign up only one Scout at a time. That will make registration run much more efficiently the day of the event.

Please register using the Scout's name, not the parent's name as this will allow us to track the Scouts who are actually attending the classes. 

When registering, you will be asked for the age and gender of the Scout.  We are asking for this information solely to ensure that the Scout meets the minimum age requirement set by the instructor for their merit badge course and to make sure that we have adequate adult supervision based on the gender makeup of the course.   

Lunch will be provided to all participants who sign up for either an all-day MB, or a morning MB - Please select the Free Ticket Option for Cold Cut Sandwich, Turkey Sandwich or Vegetarian option when registering for Full Day or Half Day AM merit badge sessions.

Parents, Siblings and Half Day PM merit badge session participants may purchase a lunch for $10.00 plus taxes and fees.   

Check-in for afternoon only Scouts will be at 12:30 to 12:45pm.

Participants should come prepared with the pre-requisites listed for each merit badge completed (if any are listed for that badge or emailed by the instructor to the Scout in advance). Failure to do so may mean that the Scout only receives a partial, and will need to finish the MB at a later date. WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THIS!

Scouts should also have a blue card pre-signed by their Scoutmaster for the MB's they are taking, as well as a copy of the MB handbook for those MB's as well. Scouts should make sure that they read the MB book for their MB's prior to the event.

Scouts should wear their Class A Scout Uniform to this event.

Please park in the main parking lot on Lyndale Ave, just south of American Blvd, and then enter by the main doors next to the flag poles.

If parents would like to stay for the day you are welcome to wait in a designated room. There are vending machines available there as well as bathrooms. Please stay in that room and do not wander around the building.

Parents are NOT allowed to sit in the rooms with their Scouts while MB classes are going on.

Due to difficulties in the past, there will be NO REFUNDS for this event.

Classes:

10 classes in total – Half-day and Full-day offerings

Half-day offerings (max class size) – offered in both AM and PM sessions:

Citizenship in the Nation (10)

• 14 Years of age or older
• Pre-requisites: Requirements #6 and #8 (Counselor will contact scout via email prior to Toro Merit Badge Day to discuss)

Citizenship in the World (10)

• 14 Years of age or older

Drafting (10)

Engineering (10)

Full-day offerings:

Communications (6)

• 14 Years of age or older
• Pre-requisites: Requirements #5 and #6  (Counselor will contact scout via email prior to Toro Merit Badge Day to discuss)

Game Design (10)

Farm Mechanics (10)

• 14 Years of age or older

First Aid (10)

• 13 Years of age or older
• Pre-requisites: Complete requirement #5 (must bring first aid kit to show counselor).
• $15 additional fee to cover cost of course materials

Metalworking (6)

• 14 Years of age or older

Wood Carving (8)

Scout should have read through all merit badge requirements, completed all prework, and be ready to discuss requirements with counselor, as well as have all pre-requisites work completed prior to Toro Merit Badge Day.

Individual registering for event must provide contact/email information for Scout(s) and for Legal guardians during the registration process.

Counselors will be reaching out to scouts for pre-requisition work, and this is needed to abide by BSA communication requirements.