2023 National Jamboree

8:00AM-5:00PM: Pulp & Paper Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Conservation Trail Headquarters Tent
Come walk the shady trail and learn how the management of resources affects us. As a bonus you can earn the merit badge in about an hour.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Forestry Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Boulder Cove
Learn your way in the woods and identify different types and species of trees. Understand how forest management and expertise affects affects us and the world we live in. In two sessions that include field work, you will earn the merit badge.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Climbing Activity
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Boulder Cove
Learn about the climbing equipment and how to safelyclimb boulders, walls and how to safely rapel down to safety.
Due to equipment limitations weight limits apply: 50 pounds minimum, 250 pounds maximum.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Orienteering Activities
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Boulder Cove
Begin learning how to get around and use orienteering tools. In the process earn req 7a of the merit badge

8:00AM-5:00PM: Various Geocaching Activities Through the Jamboree
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Entire National Jamboree 2023, 2550 Jack Furst Dr, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
Use your phone’s GPS to search for hidden (and not so hidden) locations and containers for clues about the Jamboree, Scouting, the Summit, its history and features, and our sustainable future. Can you find them all? Come visit us and Frank’s Little Treehouse TB Hotel.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Wood Carving Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Boulder Cove
With a little patience, you can earn the merit badge. Learn tool safety, create two carvings in one or two sessions you will have the merit badge.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Family Life Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Action Point
Thoughtful communication and teamwork are essential foundations of a happy family. Earning the Eagle-required Family Life merit badge will help you to discover the roles you play and patterns you exhibit within your home. Hopefully bringing your family closer together along the way! Come by the Family Life tent in Action Point (sponsored by Vanguard International Scouting Association), complete some requirements and learn how to complete the badge…at your home with your family!

8:00AM-5:00PM: Fly Fishing Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Fish Camp
At Fish Camp we offer a variety of experiences in fishing. Most popular is the fish dock. Almost a 100% chance of landing a fish. Three type of poles will be used, ice, spin and cane. Fly-Fishing area will present the cast with a fly and to catch a fish. Backyard Bass gives all comers a chance to learn of hone their casting skills. Merit Badge will give partials on the fishing and fly-fishing merit badges. Fishing will cover knots and catch a fish, fly-fishing will cover knots, fly tying, 30 foot cast and catch a fish. Regardless of the badges, it is just a good time.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Fishing Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Fish Camp

8:00AM-5:00PM: Sculpture Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Outside Tillerson
Jamie Lester, the artist who created many of the large bronze Summit sculptures (and the West Virginia state quarter) is staffing the Sculpture Merit Badge tent at Jambo23! Lester specializes in bronze monument sculpture and fine artwork. Scouts will do Statue Scavenger Hunt, and complete Sculpture MB requirements invluding Clay modeling. Epic sticker giveaways and sales of Love Hope Artwork are also available daily. Stop by to see schedule of Live Clay demos each day.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Collections Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Tillerson Building, Action Point, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
Take your collection to the next level! Whether you collect comic books, Pokémon or patches, stop by Collections to discover how collecting can be an educational and financially rewarding pastime. Scouts can earn the entire badge at the station, or scan QR codes to complete in camp. Scouts completing the badge earn a FREE PATCH!

8:00AM-5:00PM: Find the Trident inside the U.S. Coast Guard DC Water Trainer
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Military Exhibits

8:00AM-5:00PM: Surveying Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Legacy Village
Surveying MB open 8am – 5 pm. We are located in Legacy Village at the far west end. We have cool green frisbees!!! Challenge coins are given for scouts who compete the MB! Complete MB takes about 3 hours.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Chemistry Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | STEM Quest, 481 Action Point, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
Explore chemistry in multiple interactive sessions, and work with professional chemists. Explore the amazing variety of polymer chemistry while making your own neckerchief slide. Drop-by experiments will allow you to investigate the science behind extraction, separation, surface modifications, and more. Using different items to create and explore. Open during program hours.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Mining in Society Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | STEM Quest, 481 Action Point, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
Journey to the middle of your mobile! Discover how mining is absolutely critical to every aspect of your daily life – including your cell phone. Take the mobile mineral challenge, explore the wide range of mining careers and even try your hand at driving a mining haul truck or loader simulator! Scouts can go through 7 different stations to learn about the history of Mining. By completing all 7 – Scouts can earn the Merit Badge!

8:00AM-5:00PM: Robotics Merit Badge
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | STEM Quest, 481 Action Point, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
Work on the Robotics Merit Badge! Build a system to meet the challenge presented to Scouts! Test your skills at programming a virtual robot and find out about how you can get involved in competitive robotics!

8:00AM-5:00PM: Radio Engineering
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | STEM Quest, 481 Action Point, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
Exhibit #1: Listen to an AM signal with a hardwater-built radio
AM broadcasting is radio broadcasting using amplitude (AM) transmissions. It was the first method developed for making audio radio transmissions, and is still used worldwide primarily for medium waves (also known as “AM band”) transmissions, but also on the long wave and shortwave radio bands. Compared to FM or digital transmissions, AM transmissions are less expensive to transmit and can be sent over long distances, however they are much more susceptible to interference, and often have lower audio fidelity. Thus, AM broadcasters tend to specialize in spoken-word formats, such as talk radio, all news and sports, with music formats primarily for FM and digital stations.
We will build an AM Radio receiver by creating a custom circuit consisting of capacitors, diodes transistors, resistors, an inductor, antenna, and headphones.

Exhibit #2: Listen to a “HAM” radio broadcast
Amateur Radio (ham radio) is a popular hobby and service that brings people, electronics and communication together. People use ham radio to talk across town, around the world, or even into spaces, all without the Internet or cell phones. It’s fun, social, educational, and can be a lifeline during times of need.
Demonstrate tuning a shortwave reciever

Exhibit #3: Listen to an FM Signal with a software built radio
Every time that we listen to the music on the car radio above between 80-110 MHz, our radio receiver performed a demodulation of a Frequency Modulated (FM) signal. Frequency modulation changes the frequency of a transmitted signal over time to reflect the data being transmitted. In the diagram we show an example of x(t) that we want to transmit at a high frequency. To do that, we use FM to change the frequency of the carrier wave to increase/decrease with our radio signals x(t). Notice how when the x(t) wave is above the green increases and how when it’s below, it decreases.
We will build a FM radio receiver in the GNU Radio Companion to listen to our local FM radio stations. To do this, plug your RTL-SDR USB peripheral into your computer’s USB port. This USB stick reads the information from the radio antenna, amplifies and filters the radio waves, and then passes the data to the computer for processing.

Exhibit #4: Focus Photons with a Parabolic Dish
As their name suggests, satellite dishes catch electromagnetic signals from satellites that transmit your favorite movies, sports matches, or whatever other programmed you like to watch. You can think of these signals as arriving from space in the shape of parallel rays. When these rays hit the satellite they are reflected, just like light is reflected by the mirror. The shape of the dish ensures that, if the incoming rays are parallel to the axis of symmetry of the dish, then they all meet at a single point once they have been reflected. This point is called the focus (or the focal point) of the satellite dish. A receiver placed at the focal point will pick up the information from all the rays entering the dish at the same time.
Demonstrate focusing light under the parabolic dishes.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Liquid Nitrogen Demonstrations
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | STEM Quest, 481 Action Point, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
What’s cooler than cool? Liquid nitrogen! Learn all about the states of matter and what happens when we heat things up and cool things down with our super cool liquid nitrogen. Come see us make clouds and what happens when pressure builds to the breaking point. Discuss temperature, pressure, change in material, land rupture. Each demo is approximately 30 minutes each.

8:00AM-5:00PM: JamboWarrior Obstacle Course
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Performance Park Village- AT&T Summit Stadium
JamboWarrior is a competitive obstacle course race designed just for 2023 National Jamboree and will challenge every Scouts mental and physical acuity through a series of challenges to crawl, run, jump, slide and carry through and across the most challenging inflatables. The competition will be fierce and those that are up to the challenge and survive will become a JamboWarrior! Get a participation token and be in the competition and see who has the best time and compete for the Warrior medals. Come show your Scouting and Warrior spirit.
JamboWarrior allow for visitors access but will require we maintain youth and adult youth standards as per Jambo guidelines for units.
Youth: Must be at least 12 years of age by the first day of the Jamboree but has not reached their 18th birthday by the last day of the Jamboree.
Youth+: Must be at least 18 years of age by the first day of the Jamboree but has not reached their 21st birthday by the last day of the Jamboree
Unit Leaders, Scouts/Venturers, Jamboree Service Team

8:00AM-5:00PM: Shuttle Bus to Pools/Park/Bows/Barrels Loop
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Pools/Park/Bows/Barrels Loop

8:00AM-5:00PM: Navy SEAL Virtual Reality Experience
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | TBA
The U.S. Navy will showcase the Nimitz, a mobile, state-of the-art virtual reality experience that simulates an actual high-speed Navy SEAL mission.
The Nimitz is housed within an unfolding 18-wheeler that contains stations setup with Oculus Rift headset and SubPacs that boy scouts will be able to demo and replicate the experience of piloting a high-speed Navy Special Warfare Combatant Craft. Using a cutting-edge steering wheel and throttle system, boy scouts will receive a debrief session and performance grade after completing the Nimitz VR experience.
In addition to the virtual reality experience, current Navy officers will be on site to distribute Honor, Courage, Commitment, the Navy’s Core Values, pins and patches to scout who visit the Nimitz. The U.S. Navy will have the Nimitz virtual reality experience available for scouts during the Jamboree starting Wednesday, July 19 to Wednesday July 26, 2023.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Crime Scene Investigation
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Tillerson 119, Action Point, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
Pull out your magnifying glass and your focused attention to detail to solve this simulated crime scene, sponsored by our Explorer Post colleagues. May be unsettling to some visitors; not intended for those under age 12.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Underwater Robot/Submersible Program
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | TBA

8:00AM-5:00PM: Kazoo Quizzes
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | OYP Subcamp (D3) Training Tent, Delta Pass, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
A drop-by self-serve pop-quiz on the history of America’s most popular instruments. Learn by answering question! Open to all.
• Available during program hours on the quiz station outside the Subcamp D3 Training Tent and in notebook form at the Older Youth Program booths at Apex and FrontierQuest, Note: earn a sticker by turning completed answer-sheets in at the Subcamp D3 Chill Zone.

8:00AM-5:00PM: VESSI Merchandise Stations
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Tillerson Center Lobby, Action Point, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
Gear up with “hot swag and cool gear” featuring the Older Youth Program’s favorite axolotl! Sunglasses, Bucket Hats, Neckers, and a VESSI Plushie that doubles as a camp pillow! Limited quantities available.

8:00AM-5:00PM: TLDR (Tiny Library, Donate, Read!)
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | OYP Subcamp (D3) Chill Zone, Delta Pass, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
Take a book; leave a book; drop a tally; recommend to a friend! This tiny library is available to all scouts and scouters for book-borrowing throughout the jamboree. OYP Subcamp (D3) Chill Zone during program hours and 10a-5p Sunday.

8:00AM-4:00PM: Honoring Our Veterans at Alumni Adventure Complex
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Alumni Adventure Complex inside the NESA Exhibit.
Members of the Alumni Adventure Complex have been making Friendship Knots that include grommets from retired American flags that they have been collecting. Come the NESA Exhibit if you are a veteran or active serve member from any of the arm services. These will be given out on a first come first serve basis.

8:00AM-5:00PM- Master Woodcarver at NESA Exhibit in Scott Summit Center (Action Point)
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Scott Summit Center: NESA Exhibit
We are so very pleased to have our NESA Master Woodcarver Jim Schmitz return as an artist in residence during the 2023 National Scout Jamboree.

Jim Schmitz from Parsons, Kansas is an extremely talented artisan who will be at the NESA Exhibit in the Scott Summit Center in Action Point for his third onsite artistic creation.

His first creations, Scout Poles that were created in 2013 and 2017 will be on display in front of the Exhibits. Scouts, Scouters, and visitors alike will have an opportunity to participate in creating the next work art – an Eagle Scout Tableau. This activity is open throughout the Jamboree all day except Sunday, July 23rd.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Come and Play at the Alumni Adventure Complex
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Alumni Adventure Complex
Adjacent to the Alumni Adventure Complex, an area will be set-up for Scouts to enjoy outdoor games including Giant Jenga, Uno, Cornhole, Yard Yahtzee, Timber Tic-Tac-Toe, Puppet Drinker Games, Musical Trivia, a Scavenger Hurt, Jumbo Bingo, and various board games. We will also be demonstrating how to make Friendship bracelets.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Leather Branding at Alumni Adventure Complex
2023-07-25 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Alumni Adventure Complex
At this year’s National Jamboree, the Alumni Adventure Complex will be offering leather branding to any and all Jamboree participants, staff, and visitors who wish to participate. Our branding expert will be operating two, Liquid Propane (LP) forges, and assisting patrons will the physical branding of leather items (i.e., belts, boots, etc.). There will be a variety of brands to choose from, and most will measure 1.5” inch x 1.5” inch in size. Available brands include those from each of the four BSA High Adventure Bases, NESA, BSA Alumni, and the OA Alliance. Safety is of paramount importance to all of us, and will be strictly enforced. So, be sure to stop by and try out your branding skills at the Alumni Adventure Complex.
