2023 National Jamboree

1:00PM-4:00PM: Scouts of Color Group Hike Group Hike, hosted by the Scouts of Color Community Space
2023-07-22 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | Celebrating Humanity – Community Gathering
Let’s take a Hike! Get to know one another and form bonds with new friends as the Scouts of Color hike a Summit trail. This trail is mild (<5 miles) and take you through diverse terrain, offering a peaceful and scenic hiking experience.

1:00PM-3:00PM: Live Music at Rock Spot
2023-07-22 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Rock Spot

1:00PM-3:00PM: Inventing Merit Badge
2023-07-22 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Inventing Merit Badge Booth in Gateway Village
Unleash your inner inventor and bring your ideas to life! Join the United States Patent and Trademark Office in discovering the Inventing Merit Badge. Come design, create, and innovate while learning what it takes to change our world through inventing and entrepreneurship.
Create your own water device, your own LED Name Badge and, your own circuit. Exciting hands-on activities for all! Offering 4 different sessions each day, 9a, 11a, 1p, and 3p – open to the first 20 participants.

1:00PM-2:30PM: Ready, Aim, and Dry-Fire a Cannon!
2023-07-22 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Napoleon Cannon at the NPS Tent near Boulder Cover
Scouts can learn how to dry fire an 1862, 12-pound Napoleon Cannon at the NPS Tent near Boulder Cover (Conservation Trail trailhead). Demos daily and times are posted at the NPS Tent.

1:00PM: Leadership Heights- Dave Scott
2023-07-22 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Yamagata Ampitheater

1:00PM-2:00PM: Earning Your Alumni Award
2023-07-22 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | Alumni Adventure Complex inside the NESA Exhibit.
Come and learn how you could earn your Alumni Award Knot in just a few easy steps.

12:30PM-1:30PM: Scouting Doesn't End (for Adult Leaders)
2023-07-22 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Tillerson 108
Scouting doesn’t end. (1 hr) (For any interested adults) Get a hands-on feel for the Older Youth Programs of the BSA; find out what makes VESSI (Venturing, Explorers, Sea Scouts, and International Scouting) special, and learn how YOUR unit can benefit from the presence of Older Youth Programs in your council! Earn your training key by attendance at this lunch-and-learn program. FOR ADULT LEADERS.

8:00AM-5:00PM: Chemistry Merit Badge
2023-07-22 12:00 - 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.

12:00PM-5:00PM: Radio Engineering
2023-07-22 12:00 - 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.

12:30PM-5:00PM: Special Needs and Disabilities Challenge - Wheelchair Basketball (also earn some requirements towards Disabilities Awareness MB)
2023-07-22 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Action Point
Have fun learning and experiencing challenges to everyday living created by various disabilities while participating in activities typically encountered by Scouts in units, school, sports and community settings.
Complete a minimum of 12 challenges to earn a sticker or 16 challenges to earn a patch. Complete more to receive an additional prize.
Examples of activities include:
Wheelchair Basketball (open afternoons only)
Blind laser BB gun (open morning 20, 21, 24 & 28 only)
Navigate an obstacle course on crutches
Experience “invisible disabilities” in the Tent of Possibilities and Neurodiversity Tent

While experiencing the challenges, work your way through a majority of the Disabilities Awareness Merit Badge.
Adult Volunteers will have opportunities to earn legacy Special Needs Scouting patches!
The activity will be closed 12noon- 1pm each day in order to take a lunch break.

12:00PM-3:00PM: Goal Setting/Time Management
2023-07-22 12:00 - 15:00 UTC | OYP Subcamp (D3) Training Tent, Delta Pass, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
Discover established methods for improving your ability to effectively manage the events in your life in relation to time. Ages 14-20.

12:00PM-2:00PM: Theater Merit Badge
2023-07-22 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Legacy Village
Come explore the world of theater! The theater merit badge is an exciting program, exploring all different aspects of the performing arts: acting, writing, directing, set design, costume, design, props, lighting and more.Our counseling staff includes a Tony nominated Broadway producer, a New York City acting and directing coach, and a specialist in lighting design and technical components. The badge can be completed in three sessions with us. Prior experience in high school or middle school theater is helpful, but not mandatory.And we have neat stuff from Broadway and off Broadway to see! Come visit.

12:00PM: So You Want To Be An Environmental Engineer?
2023-07-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | STEM Quest, 481 Action Point, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
After receiving a Bachelor of Engineering in Environmental Engineering at the University of Florida, I began my career with an Engineering Consultant cleaning up hazardous waste and munition sites around the US and Pacific Ocean. This experience eventually led to joining the Walt Disney World Co. where I’ve served as the Environmental Compliance Manager for all theme park and resort operations for the past 35 years.

CANCELLED- C-17 Flyover
2023-07-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Entire National Jamboree 2023, 2550 Jack Furst Dr, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
The C-17 Globemaster III will be from the 167th Airlift Wing, Martinsburg, WV Air National Guard:
Pilot-in-Command: Maj Ryan Healy
First Pilot: Capt Max Vickerman
Loadmaster: SSgt Devin Brown

12:00PM-1:00PM: Community Lunch, hosted by the Scouts of Color Community Space
2023-07-22 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Celebrating Humanity – Community Gathering
Beat the heat! Have your lunch with the DEI Team! Bring your trail lunch and we’ll provide shade, ice cold water, and soft drinks! All are welcome.

12:00PM – 12:30PM: What is Lutheran Worship?
2023-07-22 12:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Duty To God & Country Community Space

11:30AM-1:00PM: Ready, Aim, and Dry-Fire a Cannon!
2023-07-22 11:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Napoleon Cannon at the NPS Tent near Boulder Cover

11:30AM: Live Sculpture Demonstration
2023-07-22 11:30 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Frontier Quest

11:30AM-11:45AM: Group Photo, hosted by the LGBTQ+ and Allied Scouts Community Space
2023-07-22 11:30 - 11:45 UTC | SBR Sign near the Scott Visitor Center, 2550 Jack Furst Dr, Glen Jean,, WV, 25846, United States
All LGBTQ+ and Allied Scouts are invited to join us for a group picture to document this historic Jamboree!

11:00AM-10:00PM: Chat-N-Chew Open For JST Staff
2023-07-22 11:00 - 22:00 UTC | Chat-N-Chew
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11:00AM-1:00PM: Inventing Merit Badge
2023-07-22 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Inventing Merit Badge Booth in Gateway Village

11:00AM-1:00PM: Archaeology Merit Badge
2023-07-22 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Archaeology Merit Badge Booth
Presented by Council of Virginia Archaeologists and Heart of Virginia Council BSA. Experience how Archaeologists study our past and preserve it for future generations. Scouts will earn the merit badge by participating in a 2-hour activity session.

11:00AM-1:00PM: Brownsea Island Closed for Private Event
2023-07-22 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Brownsea Island

11AM-1PM: David Bellavia Meet and Greet
2023-07-22 11:00 - 13:00 UTC | Tent L46 – Legacy Area, Loop Road, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
On Saturday July 22nd at 10am 1 of only 66 living recipients of our nations highest military honor, David Bellavia, will be speaking and presenting a Medal of Honor patch to scouts who attend at the Tillerson Building Scout Chat venue. David Bellavia is the only living recipient of the Medal of Honor from the war in Iraq. Following his message he will be at Medal of Honor Society tent signing the patches, taking photos, and helping Scouts earn the rare 2023 Medal of Honor Scout Jamboree patch. Speech from 10am-11am. Meet and Greet next door at Tent L46 from 11-1pm.

11:00AM-12:00PM: Lutheran Pickup Choir Practice
2023-07-22 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Duty To God & Country Community Space

11:00AM: The Future Starts Now; the Continuing Role and Responsibilities of Eagle Scouts
2023-07-22 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | Alumni Adventure Complex inside the NESA Exhibit.
This presentation is designed to reinforce the concept that there is no end to one’s Eagle Scout trail. Attendees will be briefed on avenues of continued service to Scouting available for Eagle Scouts of all ages. Emphasis will be placed on Eagle Scout participation in the BSA Alumni Association and its Affiliate and Affinity Groups.

10:30AM-12:30PM: OYP Training: Improve Your Marksmanship with Laser Simulators
2023-07-22 10:30 - 12:30 UTC | OYP Subcamp (D3) Training Tent, Delta Pass, Glen Jean, WV, 25846, United States
Through active instruction and coached practice using simulators, explore the five fundamentals of marksmanship for rifles and pistols. This is a certificate-bearing course; limited to 12 participants (ages 14-20) per offering

10:30AM-11:00AM: Group Photo, hosted by the Scouts of Color Community Space
2023-07-22 10:30 - 11:00 UTC | SBR Sign near the Scott Visitor Center, 2550 Jack Furst Dr, Glen Jean,, WV, 25846, United States
All Scouts of Color are invited to join us for a group picture to document this historic Jamboree!

10:00AM-4:00PM: Day Visitors Check In Open
2023-07-22 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | J.W. and Hazel Ruby West Virginia Welcome Center, 55 Hazel Ruby Lane, Mt Hope,, WV, 25880, United States
Visitor check-in is at the designated visitor parking area at the J.W. and Hazel Ruby Welcome Center. From there, you are transported to Summit Center on-site at the National Jamboree via shuttle buses. J.W. and Hazel Ruby Welcome Center is located at 55 Hazel Ruby Lane, Mt. Hope, WV 25880

PROHIBITED ITEMS
For the safety of the jamboree participants, staff, and visitors, the following items are not allowed to be brought into the jamboree:

1. Firearms of any kind
2. Ammunition
3. Sheath knives
4. Self-defense or restraining devices (e.g. pepper spray, mace)
5. Illegal drugs
6. Alcohol and tobacco products
7. Smoking, including with electronic devices, is prohibited on the shuttle buses and at the Jamboree
8. Large backpacks: backpacks must not exceed 13″ (33cm) x13″x11″ (28cm) inches (16 quarts/15 liters)
9. Coolers
10. Picnic baskets
11. Glass bottles
12. Drones, skateboards
13. Fireworks
14. Pets (Note service animals are allowed)

Strollers for infants must fold to board shuttle buses and are subject to search. Although permitted, strollers are discouraged, because walkways and paths are rough gravel and the terrain is hilly.

SHUTTLE INFORMATION
July 21-July 25: The shuttle drop-off and pick-up on-site at the Summit are at the Scott Visitor Center at the Jamboree. The last shuttle into the Jamboree is at 2:00 pm and the last shuttle back to the parking area is at 4:00 pm. All visitors must be in line for the shuttle by this time.

July 26: The shuttle drop-off and pick-up on-site at the Summit are at the Scott Visitor Center at the Jamboree. The last shuttle into the Jamboree is at 12:00pm and the last shuttle back to the parking area is at 2:00 pm. All visitors must be in line for the shuttle by this time.

REFUND POLICY
All sales are final. Review your selection carefully as no refunds will be issued for any reason including erroneous product selection or quantity; weather; change of schedule; change, suspension, or cancellation of activities; failure to arrive at the venue; failure of on-site transportation; close of venue; overbooking; wait times; or acts of God. We are not responsible for lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed tickets and are under no obligation, and in many instances, are not able, to replace the tickets.

10:00AM-12:00PM: Explore Jamboree, hosted by the Women in Scouting Community Space
2023-07-22 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Celebrating Humanity – Community Gathering
Here is a chance to meet women in scouting from all over the country and explore the Jamboree together. Gather up at the Women in Scouting space for the chance to explore with new friends.
