UT Martin Merit Badge Workshop

Hosted by UT Martin School of Engineering and West TN Area Council

Saturday, January 20, 2024

UT Martin Campus

Registration opens December 1st. We will be doing all registrations online www.westtnscouts.org. Please register as a troop if possible.  It helps with the paperwork.  Multi councils will be attending this event.  Registration closes January 14th at midnight. Instructions for obtaining a parking pass will be sent out once registration has closed. Parking passes are free to obtain.

Scouts will be asked to follow the buddy system.

Schedule:

• 8:00 am     Registration begins, University Center, Watkins Auditorium
• 8:20 am     Potential guest speaker Dr. Yancy Freeman UT Martin Chancellor
• 8:30 am     Registration closes
• 8:40 am     Opening Ceremony
• 9:00 am     Classes Begin (Scouts will be taken to classrooms)
• 12:00 pm   Lunch –Bring your own
• 1:00 pm     Classes Resume
• 3:30 pm     Classes end (return to Watkins Auditorium for dismissal and pickup)

Notes:

• Parking available in University Center lot building 16, marked on the map on the reverse side of this page. 
• Orienteering, Veterinary Medicine, Landscape Architecture, Animal Science, Farm Mechanics will include time spent doing outdoor activities- Dress for the Field!  Emergency Preparedness I the past has spent some time outside as well.
• Questions, contact Chris Winschel, 731-819-3721, winschel.chris@gmail.com. 
• Veterinary Medicine, Animal Science and Farm Mechanics is on far side of campus.  If those going don’t mind driving those without rides to that site. Scouts and Leaders from these merit badges  don’t come back at Lunch time.  Please take it with you.
• Cost $15.00 per Scout.
• Campus Tour-  9:00 am. For Adults. I still need at least 2 adult leaders per classroom.  One male and one female.   This will be a walking tour around campus.