October 9-13, 2017

Don't sleep your week away, come to Camp Belzer and learn a new skill and earn a few merit badges.

Who: The Scout attending the Fall Break Merit Badge Camp will earn the following merit badges:  Personal Management, Environmental Science, Fire Safety, Emergency Preparedness, 1st Aid, Search and Rescue, Pioneering, Sustainability, Citizenship in the World, Oceanography.

Cost: You may register to attend an individual day or two at $40 per day. Or you can sign-up for all five days at a discounted rate of $125!  Bring a Lunch! You may bring snacks and drinks and wear a Scout uniform (Scout t-shirt).

When:

Registration/drop off: Begins at 8:30 am
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Pick up: between 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: Belzer Scout Camp, 6102 Boy Scout Road, Indianapolis, IN  46226

• Leather gloves suitable for working with rope
• clothes for working outdoors appropriate for the expected weather.

Personal Management

1. Read Pioneering MB booklet cover to cover and bring it to the workshop.
2. Be able to tie without help the seven First Class knots (square, clove hitch, two half hitches, taut line hitch, bowline, timber hitch, sheet bend)
3. Be familiar with the First Class lashings (square, diagonal, shear)
4. Come prepared with a project idea (requirement #10). Present to counselor a sketch of your project complete with outline dimensions.

Sustainability / Citizenship in the World

Bring a laptop computer with the ability to get on the internet. Sustainability candidates need to know that the pre-requisites are hard and family time is needed.

BOY SCOUT CERT TRAINING PROGRAM (First Aid, Emergency Preparedness, First Aid, Search & Rescue) - This is a 4-day course, must attend Monday-Thursday)
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program is a community volunteer program for emergency management. When disaster strikes, these volunteers fill in the response gap of the first responders. Numerically, there are not enough first responders should a major disaster strike. CERT members are trained and certified under Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security to help bridge that gap and expand the chances of survival to many more until first responders arrive. Please read Community Emergency Response Team Basic Training Participant Manual.

Fire Safety - #6, 7, 9, 10, 11
Emergency Preparedness - #1, 2b, 2c, 3, 4, 8b, 9
First Aid - #1, 2d, 3b, 3c, 7
Search & Rescue - #3c 7, 10