Aviation Trails District Merit Badge University

Penn State Beaver Campus (General Classroom Building)

December 5, 2026 - 7:00am to 6:00pm

$15 per Scout for the day

REGISTRATION WILL OPEN AT 7:00AM ON OCTOBER 1, 2026

Event Schedule

7am to 7:45am - Check-In

7:45am to 8am - Opening Ceremony

8am to 10pm - Morning Merit Badge Session #1

10am to 12pm - Morning Merit Badge Session #2

12pm to 1pm - Lunch (Please remember to bring your own lunch, as we will not have anything there for youth and adults to eat.)

1pm to 3pm - Afternoon Merit Badge Session #1

3pm to 5pm - Afternoon Merit Badge Session #2

5pm to 6pm - Clean Up (All participants, both youth and adult, are required to help with cleaning up and putting the classrooms back the way they were before we entered)

Merit Badges - List of badges (badges may change depending on counselor availablitiy.)     *- Eagle required

Required paperwork and prerequisites are listed in the Leader's Guide.  A signed prerequisite form and signed merit badge "blue card" (linked to counselor in Scoutbook) should also come with the Scout.

American Heritage

Animation FULL

Archaeology (available all day in lobby)

Artificial Intelligence FULL

Aviation (this is an all-day class AND includes a field trip to the USAF 911th Air Wing at the Pittsburgh Airport) FULL

*Citizenship in the Community FULL

*Citizenship in the Nation

Collections

*Cooking 

Cybersecurity 

Digital Technology

Disabilities Awareness

*Emergency Preparedness

*Family Life FULL

*First Aid (this is an all-day class) 

Gardening (available all day in lobby)

Heath Care Professions

Insect Study (available all day in lobby)

Mining in Society

Music

Oceanography (available all day in lobby)

*Personal Management FULL

Reading

Salesmanship

Scouting Heritage

*Sustainability FULL

Theater