Saturdays January 7, February 4, March 3rd
This year the MBC at Tri-valley High School promises to be exciting. We will have access to their beautiful new building.
We have new merit badges and an inclement weather makeup date on Saturday, March 17 th . Most class size is limited to
25 scouts per session. A few badges are limited to 10 per session. There will definitely be a first come-first serve placement in the classes. After we receive the registration and determined class placement, we will send E-mail confirmations and list any prerequisites for merit badge completion. So please complete the email information as
requested. The prerequisite notifications are to ensure that all boys have an opportunity for completed merit badge at the end of MBC. The fee will be $10 per badge to cover the cost of the books and supplies for the badges. Please note
anyone taking photography merit badge: you must supply your own camera. Salesmanship: please make copies of of all pop corn sales materials for use in the badge activities. Music Merit Badge:save program from school concert and
have music teacher sign it. *Energy and Engineering are tentative merit badges. The merit badge books and worksheets will be distributed on January 7 th at the registration table.
Registration deadline: December 9 st , 2011. Registration after this date will be required to pay a $20 a merit badge
fee.
To register simply complete both sides of the registration form below and return it to:
Muskingum Valley Council BSA
743 Moorehead Avenue
Zanesville, Ohio 43701
NAME____________________________________________________________ Troop_____________
ADDRESS_____________________________________________________________________________
E-MAIL______________________________________________________________________________
PHONE_________________________________
TOTAL FEE AMOUNT ENCLOSED__________________
Date received in office_________________
Date e-mail sent________________

Please indicate on the line next to each badge 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd choice for the time slot. You may select up to 3 merit badge for each time slot.
9:15-10am 10:15-11am 11:15-12pm
Space Exploration____
Photography____
Radio____
Plumbing_____
Family Life_____
Coin Collecting_____
Weather_____
American Business_____
Salesmanship_____
Music_____
Genealogy_____
Citizen. Community_____
Communication_____
*Energy_____
*Engineering_____
Space Exploration______
Photography_____
Radio_____
Plumbing______
Family Life_____
Coin Collecting_____
Weather_____
American Business_____
Salesmanship_____
Music_____
Genealogy____
Citizen. Nation______
Communication_____
*Energy_____
*Engineering_____
Space Exploration______
Photography____
Radio_____
Plumbing_____
Family life _____
Coin Collecting____
Weather_____
American Business_____
Salesmanship_____
Music_____
Genealogy_____
Citizen. World_____
Communication_____
*Energy_____
*Engineering_____

Dear MBC Counselors:
Please let me start by expressing my gratitude to you for assisting with this year’s MBC. If you are like me weekends are my only time with family and friends and completing home projects. So giving up a couple Saturday mornings is a big deal.
To ensure that everything meets the requirements/standards of the national office for merit badge activities, I have attached some forms that need to be completed. Simply complete them, print them out and return them to me at the address below. Or you can scan the documents and E-mail them back to me. If you are already a registered counselor for the merit badge you will be teaching, please disregard these instructions. Also if you have not completed the on-line youth protection training in the last year, or if it will run out while we are doing MBC, I would like to ask that you please go on line and complete that. I did it recently and it only took me 17 minutes. Follow these directions; To take Youth
Protection training go to MyScouting.org and create an account. From the MyScouting.org portal, click on E-Learning and take the
Youth Protection training. Upon completion, you may print a certificate of completion to submit with a volunteer application or submit the completion certificate to the unit leader for processing at the local council.
I have also attached a copy of the flyer that went out to the scouts. As you can see MBC will be the first Saturday of each month starting in January and running thru March. We will have an inclement weather makeup date on Saturday March
17 th . So please mark your calendars appropriately. We will be in the Tri-Valley High School in Dresden. You can be there as early as 8 am am to set up. Opening ceremony will be at 9am and the scouts should be in their rooms by 9:15 for the first class. The last session ends at noon and we should be out of the building by 12:30pm. The Tri-Valley School
System, Principal Pottmyer and Craig Strohacker, the head of facilities and operations, have graciously donated the use of the building to us but there are a few stipulations. One of them is that we vacate the building by 12:30 and the other is that boys not leave a lot of cleaning for the janitors.
Again, thank you so much for your time and efforts. This letter really cannot express my gratitude to you.
Yours in scouting,
Janell Potts
5155 Heritage Dr
Nashport, Ohio 43830
740-454-0009 janellpotts@sbcglobal.net

Parents;
Have you ever wondered if there was any way you could help your troop just even a little bit without being the person to end up running the project or event? Or maybe as a new parent to the Boy Scouts you don’t quite understand why things are done so differently than in Cub Scouts?
Well, each Saturday morning during MBC, we will be offering free of charge informational sessions to help explain the expectations of the boy scout organization. These mini sessions (20 minutes) will cover everything from youth protection and the advancement process, to how to help out with fund raising for your son’s troop or how to assist with a troop activity. We will even discuss becoming a merit badge counselor. Such small efforts by a single parent can make a world of difference for a troop.
Look for hand outs at the registration table the morning of MBC for information about what is being offered that day. Then grab a cup of coffee and come have a seat. It is guarenteed to be enlightening.