Be Aware and Be Prepared-
Join representatives from Xavier University for insight and awareness about preventing violent extremism. Learn how to recognize, report, and help prevent acts of violence or hate negatively impacting everyone in your community. Attend all 7 of the unique 20-minute sessions and earn the 2023 National Jamboree Prevention Partnership patch! (Made Possible by a grant from DHS Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Program)
Careers in Welding Trailer by the AWS-
Want to make sparks fly? Come explore career opportunities in welding, and try your hand at virtual reality welding. Enter to win a $1,000 scholarship! **On-site July 19-22.**
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.
Collections Merit Badge
*held in the Tillerson Center*
Communication Engineering:
How do all those signals get from one place to another? Find out here! Tune a ham radio receiver, build an FM radio receiver, amplify signals using parabolic receivers, and build a crystal radio. Complete tasks successfully and be entered into prize drawings
Crime Scene Investigation-
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.
DNA: Blueprint of Life
Learn how to extract DNA, construct a DNA model using origami, conduct an experiment to determine if the sunscreen we use every day is protecting our DNA, and more!”
Build electronic devices, learn to solder a flashing light Jamboree patch that you can take home. Conduct many other hands-on-activities to explore how electricity moves and how to safely power all kinds of devices. Learn techniques for simplifying the solving of engineering math problems, solution by scaling.”
Build electronic devices, learn to solder a flashing light Jamboree patch that you can take home, and conduct many other hands-on activities to explore how electricity moves, and how to safely power all kinds of devices. Learn about basic electronic circuitry, electronic components and technology career opportunities. Explore the relationship between engineering and humanity, and how new technologies can address global humanitarian needs.
Interact with professional engineers while exploring a model of a storm water treatment facility, converting energy between forms, competing to build the strongest bridge, making a tool from a rock, planning a building, and more! Explore the diverse world of engineering while completing requirements and competing for prizes.
Fingerprinting-
Since no two people’s fingerprints are the same – not even identical twins! – fingerprints are like having a personal ID card on your fingertips! Come see how fingerprinting is done, and learn how it can be used by police and investigators to solve crimes. Tillerson Center Lobby during program hours
Fishing-
Inventing Merit Badge by US Patent & Trademark Office-
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. Exciting hands-on activities for all!
K2BSA Amateur Radio-
Come learn about Amateur Radio and get on the air! Radio Merit Badge is being offered twice daily.
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.
Mining in Society Merit Badge-
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!
NASA is moving forward toward the human exploration of Mars; discover how through the Artemis program. Face design challenges. Celebrate the trailblazing Scout alum who explore the frontiers above. Encounter those pushing the boundaries of science and technology and learn how to join this journey.
“Physics Playground”-
“Can you violate the laws of physics and get on the “Most Wanted” leaderboard? You’ll need to build the fastest, most feature rich marble run roller coaster, configure a catapult to launch beans the furthest “over the Summit”, and more. Are you up to the challenge?
Activity #1: DaVinci & Pioneering Bridges + LN2-
“Explore design and strength engineering! Construct a DaVinci Bridge using large, wooden telephone poles – and nothing else – then walk across the self-supporting bridge. Create a small-scale pioneering bridge using rope and wooden spars. How many buckets of water will your bridge support? Design and build the tallest tower you can, then test its strength during a simulated earthquake.”
Activity #2: Oobleck–
Did you ever want to walk on water? Come explore the properties of non-newtonian fluids, and see if you really can.
Activity #3: Marble Run
Activity #4: Catapults & Newton’s Cradle
Experience programming at STEM Quest. Enter the Drone Cage to test your reflexes in the first ever Scout vs Drone competition. Then visit Code Stadium and challenge yourself to command drones, program robot vehicles for the fastest track time, and learn to convert sound into color.
Radio Merit Badge
K2BSA Merit Badge Activity – Radio Merit Badge offered twice daily.
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!
Scout Chat
Scouts can have the opportunity to talk with professional Guests while at National Jamboree.
Sculpture Merit Badge-
Visit Vandalia Bronze and Love Hope Arts in the Gateway. Scouts will do Statue Scavenger Hunt at Summit; complete Sculpture MB requirements through Clay or VR sculpture demo, experience VR Gallery tour, or create a VR sculpture and save it. Epic sticker giveaways and sales of Love Hope Artwork are also available daily. Stop by to see schedule of VR and Live Clay demos each day.
Come talk to people with some of the coolest jobs in STEM! Roller coaster designer, astronaut, nuclear physicist….you never know who’s going to be here! Learn what they do, and how you can do it too.
Sustainability Treehouse-
The Sustainability Treehouse is a living education center for visitors to the Summit Bechtel Reserve, not only providing information, but also immersing visitors in the concept of sustainability. Between the local timber used to build the structure, the rainwater recovery system or the wind and solar generated energy, the Sustainability Treehouse is not just a museum, it’s an adventure.
Sustainability has always been a part of the Boy Scouts of America, even if it hasn’t always been called such. With the rolling out of the Sustainability merit badge at the first-ever jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Reserve, and the opening of the Sustainability Treehouse, the BSA reaffirmed its commitment to leading the way in a world where resources are finite and our footprint continues to grow.
Sustainability Merit Badge-
The Sustainability Merit Badge and Green Careers Tent is full of hands-on activities about sustainable food, water, energy, transportation and buildings plus key info about waste stream, species decline and carbon capture. You can start working on your Sustainability Merit Badge and learn about exciting new Green Careers and Jobs.
US Army Corps of Engineers-
Explore environmental, construction and engineering projects! Fill a lock chamber without the barge crashing! Participate in a hands-on activity to manage flooding in a physical model. Explore how drones and other technology are utilized for surveying and mapping. See live, native fish that show the water quality in our streams.
Are you interested in welding? Come and leave your imprint by welding with Miller utilizing a simulator and a welding machine. You will learn the basics of welding and be able to complete a welding project utilizing different common weld techniques. On-site July 24-27