2020 STEM Merit Badge Day Sponsored by Michigan State University Engineering Department

Saturday, March 21, 2020
8:30 am -2:30 pm

Registration is 8:30 am-9:15 am
Program begins promptly at 9:15 am and ends at 2:30 pm

Michigan State University Engineering Building,
428 S. Shaw Ln.  East Lansing, MI 48824 
(parking available across the street on Shaw lane)

$15 per Scout/Venturer
Dress Code: Field Uniform (Class A)
Pizza will be provided for lunch

Scouts will have the opportunity to earn a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) merit badge at Michigan State University on campus from college students, University professors and career professionals!   

Important Registration Information:

• Absolutely No walk-in registrations will be available due to MSU policies
• All Class registrations are final and Scouts cannot be moved to other sessions or swapped with other Scouts
• Scouts will be able to sign up for only one merit badge session.
• Programming Merit Badge requires a prerequisite and has an age limitation please read before registering!
• Per MSU policy, every youth participate/adult staying for the event will need to have a parent complete and sign MSU forms (parent/guardian consent, medical, media release, pick up drop off form) by Sunday, March 1st or they will not be allowed on campus. Forms can be scanned and e-mailed to Corrie.Groth@Scouting.org or mailed to 137 S. Marketplace Blvd. Lansing, MI 48915 C/o Corrie Groth
• Scouts do not need to bring a “blue card” to this event! Our BSA online system will produce all completed cards and partials. See below for details.
• Scouts need to secure unit leader approval for this event.
•  Upon completion of the online registration, you will receive a confirmation email.  You MUST save this email to retrieve your Scout's blue card from this event.

Merit Badge Offerings: 

Robotics – Limited to 24 Scouts
There are no prerequisites for this merit badge. The class will be taught by Robert Watson, College of Engineering. Mr. Watson is a Mechanical Engineer from Michigan State University and the Robotics Coordinator for the Recruitment and K-12 Outreach Office. 

Engineering-Limited to 30 Scouts
There are no prerequisites for this merit badge. The class will be taught by Engineers without Borders (EWB)-MSU Student Chapter. 

Composite Materials – Limited to 24 Scouts
There are no prerequisites for this merit badge. The class will be taught by Professor Andre Lee of the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department.

Chemistry Merit Badge- Limited to 30 Scouts
There are no prerequisites for this merit badge. The class will be taught by the Environmental Engineering Student Society.

Programming Merit Badge- Limited to 15 Scouts and Scouts must be at least 14 years of age
Prerequisite: A. Show your Counselor your current, up -to-date Cyber Chip. No scout can participate without their Cyber Chip.  This class will be taught by the MSU Women in Computing Student organization.

Adult Learning
While your Scouts are busy learning about STEM we will be offering some adult information as well. Adult Learning: At 9:30 am we will have a FREE session for parents who are interested in learning more about the Eagle Scout process! This course will be taught by Chief Okemos District Assistant District Commissioner Paul Wimberly. You do not need to pre-register. 

Please check out MSU's Future Engineer's Page for more information on STEM, engineering, robotics, and more opportunities at Michigan State University!

https://www.egr.msu.edu/future-engineer/

https://www.egr.msu.edu/future-engineer/summer-programs

Please contact Corrie.Groth@Scouting.org with any questions. If your questions are requirement related they may be forwarded to one of the instructors of for response! 

Blue Card Information:

We will use the online registration system to produce all completed blue cards and partials for this year's MSU merit badge day.  How this works: 

1. Scout completes the badge (or partially completes) 

2. The counselor submits his class roster with all completed Scouts and partials earned to our event coordinator at the close of the March 21st event.

3. Event coordinator inputs data to the registration system (where you signed up your Scout(s) to attend this event)  Blue card sheets will be signed by event coordinator.

4. Beginning April 1, this is the process to retrieve the Blue Cards and partial sheets for your Scouts that attended the MSU MB Day.

When you enrolled your Scout(s) online you received a confirmation email from the registration system upon completion of the process.  This email provided you a link to use to go back in the system and pull information about your registration +  pull the Blue cards and reports.  Click this link to go back into your individual registration.
You are now on a page that says “ MSU Engineering Merit Badge Day  in the upper left.  Right below this are 4 tabs-  Contact, Participants, Payments, and More.  Select the “More” drop down.  One of the options on the “More” drop down is reports.

Select “Reports”.  You will see options and descriptions for several reports.  Scroll down to “Blue Cards-Merit Badge College” or "Badges- Incomplete".   Your Scout(s) info will be in one or both of these places.
You will then be able to select preview report and download and print the blue cards and/or partials for all Scouts you registered and attended the college.

Please note that you will need to provide the PDF or printed completion sheet to your unit leader for final approval. (They will NOT have access to these reports unless you provide them with the same confirmation link that you received upon registration)

If you have problems accessing the information, email jean.moreau@scouting.org

Please provide the Scouts name, unit # and merit badge(s)

Upon completion of the online registration, you will receive a confirmation email.  You MUST save this email to retrieve your Scout's blue card from this event.