Tomahawk District Merit Badge Fair registration packet · Tomahawk District Merit Badge Fair Saturday, March 31, 2012 Nativity bvm – ozone park, ny enter Church basement between

Tomahawk District

Merit Badge Fair Saturday, March 31, 2012

Nativity bvm – ozone park, ny enter Church basement between 91

st and 92

nd Streets on Rockaway Blvd.

Registration at 9:30 AM

Three group sessions: 10 AM, 11:45 AM and 1:45 PM

Instruction will be given for the following Merit Badges:

Crime Prevention, Emergency Preparedness, First Aid, Fingerprinting,

Fire Safety, Public Health, Traffic Safety

If attending and/or for more information contact:

Tomahawk District Dean of Merit Badges – Thomas Curry

718-849-3018 or [email protected]

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

Tomahawk District – Queens

Greater New York Councils

Thomas H. Curry, Esq. – Dean of Merit Badges

21 February, 2012

Dear Leader:

In order to help with paperwork and tracking for the 2012 Tomahawk District Public Safety Merit Badge

Fair, please use the following sign up sheets for your Troop. Each Merit Badge has its own sheet for a

specific session.

These badges will be offered each session: (10-11:30 AM; 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM; 1:45-3:30)

Crime Prevention, Fingerprinting, Traffic Safety, Fire Safety

These badges will be offered as a single session only:

Emergency Preparedness from 10 AM – 1:15 PM

First Aid from 10 AM – 1:15 PM

Public Health from 1:45 – 3:30 PM

With the exception of Fingerprinting and First Aid, all of the other badges will require the Scout to

complete requirements that will not be covered the day of the Merit Badge Fair. Those requirements

follow the sign up sheets.

There is also a general registration form for the event.

Please bring these sheets with you the day of the event and turn them in at registration at 9:30 AM.

Scouts will need to give the instructor their signed blue card and their tracking sheet (which is included

in this document). Each Scout must have a blue card signed by a unit leader and a tracking sheet for

each session they attend. You may use the attached blue card or any version you use with your Troop.

To assist with the amount of paperwork, please complete the blue cards with all information, including

the name of the Merit Badge and the Scout’s name.

There will be a 15 minute break between 11:30 and 11:45 AM and a 30 minute break between 1:15 and

1:45 PM. Light snacks and refreshments will be available for sale at the event.

Thank you and we look forward to a great event! If you have any questions, please contact me at

[email protected] or 718-849-3018.

thc

Tomahawk District Merit Badge Fair

Saturday, March 31, 2012

TROOP_______________________ COUNCIL_________________ DISTRICT______________

Leader Name_____________________ Phone______________ Email______________________

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Total Scouts Attending________________ Leaders___________

Tomahawk District Merit Badge Fair March 31, 2012 Tracking Sheet

SCOUT:___________________________________________Troop:__________ District________________Council________________

CRIME PREVENTION MERIT BADGE

� 1 � 2 � 3a � 3b � 3c � 4a � 4b � 5 � 6 a / b / c � 7 a / b � 8a � 8b � 8c

� 8d � 8e � 8f � 9a � 9b � 9c � 9d

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS MERIT BADGE

� 1 � 2a � 2b � 2c � 3a � 3b � 3c � 3d � 4 � 5 � 5 � 6a1 � 6a2 � 6a3

� 6a4 � 6b � 6c � 7 � 8a � 8b � 8c � 9 a / b / c

FIRE SAFETY MERIT BADGE

� 1a � 1b � 2 � 3 � 4a � 4b � 5 � 6a � 6b � 6c � 6d � 6e � 6f � 6g � 6h

� 7a � 7b � 7c � 8 � 9a � 9b � 10a � 10b � 10c � 10d � 11 � 12

FIRST AID MERIT BADGE

� 1 � 2a � 2b � 2c � 2d � 3a � 3b � 3c � 3d � 3e � 3f � 4a � 4b

� 5a � 5b � 5c � 5d � 5e � 5f � 5g � 5h � 5i � 5j � 6 a / b � 6 b / c � 7

FINGERPRINTING MERIT BADGE

� 1 � 2 � 3a � 3b � 3c � 4 � 5

PUBLIC HEALTH MERIT BADGE

� 1 � 2a � 2b � 2c � 3 � 4 � 5 a / b � 6a � 6b � 7 � 7a � 7b � 7c � 8

TRAFFIC SAFETY MERIT BADGE

� 1a � 1b � 1c � 1d � 2a � 2b � 3a � 3b � 3c � 3d � 4a � 4b � 4c � 4d

� 5 a / b / c /d

Tomahawk District Merit Badge Fair – March 31, 2012

Crime Prevention Merit Badge - Session: 10-11:30

Name__________________________ Troop_________ Council/District_________

� Complete � Partial




























Crime Prevention Merit Badge - Session: 11:45-1:15






























Crime Prevention Merit Badge - Session: 1:45-3:30






























Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge Session: 10-1:15






























Fingerprinting Merit Badge Session: 10-11:30






























Fingerprinting Merit Badge Session: 11:45-1:15






























Fingerprinting Merit Badge Session: 1:45-3:30






























First Aid Merit Badge Session: 10-1:15






























Public Health Merit Badge Session: 1:45-3:30






























Traffic Safety Merit Badge Session: 10-11:30






























Traffic Safety Merit Badge Session: 11:45-1:15






























Traffic Safety Merit Badge Session: 1:45-3:30






























Fire Safety Merit Badge Session: 10-11:30






























Fire Safety Merit Badge Session: 11:45-1:15






























Fire Safety Merit Badge Session: 1:45-3:30





























The following requirements will NOT be covered at the Merit Badge Fair. Scouts may bring their work

with them for these requirements to complete the requirement or work on it after to complete the badge:

Crime Prevention:

2. Prepare a notebook of newspaper and other clippings that addresses crime and crime prevention

efforts in your community.

4. After doing EACH of the following, discuss with your counselor what you have learned.

a. Inspect your neighborhood for opportunities that may lead to crime. Learn how to do a crime

prevention survey.

b. Using the checklist in this pamphlet, conduct a security survey of your home and discuss the

results with your family.

5. Teach your family or patrol members how to protect themselves from crime at home. at school, in

your community, and while traveling.

6. Help raise awareness about one school safety issue facing students by doing ONE of the following:

a. Create a poster for display on a school bulletin board.

b. With permission from school officials, create a page long public service announcement that

could be read over the public address system at school or posted on the school's Web site.

c. Make a presentation to a group such as a Cub Scout den that addresses the issue.

7. Do ONE of the following:

a. Assist in the planning and organization of a crime prevention program in your community such

as Neighborhood Watch, Community Watch, or Crime Stoppers. Explain how this program can

benefit your neighborhood.

b. With your parent's and counselor's approval, visit a jail or detention facility or a criminal court

hearing. Discuss your experience with your counselor.

Emergency Preparedness (Scouts can fulfill any of the requirements at any time and are not precluded

from completing requirements if they do not have First Aid Merit Badge):

1. Earn First Aid Merit Badge

2c. Meet with and teach your family how to get or build a kit, make a plan, and be informed for the

situations on the chart you created for requirement 2b. Complete a family plan. Then meet with your

counselor and report on your family meeting, discuss their responses, and share your family plan.

7. Take part in an emergency service project, either a real one or a practice drill, with a Scouting unit or

a community agency.

8. Do the following:

a. Prepare a written plan for mobilizing your troop when needed to do emergency service. If there

is already a plan, explain it. Tell your part in making it work.

b. Take part in at least one troop mobilization. Before the exercise, describe your part to your

counselor. Afterward, conduct an "after-action" lesson, discussing what you learned during the

exercise that required changes or adjustments to the plan.

c. Prepare a personal emergency service pack for a mobilization call. Prepare a family kit (suitcase

or waterproof box) for use by your family in case an emergency evacuation is needed. Explain

the needs and uses of the contents.


a. Using a safety checklist approved by your counselor, inspect your home for potential hazards.

Explain he hazards you find and how they can be corrected.

b. Review or develop a plan of escape for your family in case of fire in your home.

c. Develop an accident prevention program for five family activities outside the home (such as

taking a picnic or seeing a movie) that includes an analysis of possible hazards, a proposed plan

to correct those hazards, and the reasons for the corrections you propose.

Fire Safety: (weather permitting requirements 7, 9 and 10 will be covered outdoors)

6. Conduct a home safety survey with the help of an adult. Then do the following:

a. Draw a home fire-escape plan, create a home fire-drill schedule, and conduct a home fire drill.

b. Test a smoke alarm and demonstrate regular maintenance of a smoke alarm.

c. Explain what to do when you smell gas and when you smell smoke.

d. Explain how you would report a fire alarm.

e. Explain what fire safety equipment can be found in public buildings.

f. Explain who should use fire extinguishers and when these devices can be used.

g. Explain how to extinguish a grease pan fire.

h. Explain what fire safety precautions you should take when you are in a public building.

11. Visit a fire station. Identify the types of fire trucks. Find out about the fire prevention activities in

your community.

Public Health:

5. With your parent's and counselor's approval, do ONE of the following:

a. Visit a municipal wastewater treatment facility OR a solid-waste management operation in your

community. Describe how the facility safely treats and disposes of sewage or solid waste.

Describe how sewage and solid waste should be disposed of under wilderness camping

conditions.

b. Arrange to meet with the food service manager of a food service facility (such as a restaurant or

school cafeteria) and visit this establishment. Observe food preparation, handling, and storage,

and learn how the facility keeps foods from becoming contaminated. Find out what conditions

allow microorganisms to multiply in food and how conditions can be controlled to help prevent

the growth and dissemination of microorganisms. Learn how microorganisms in food can be

killed. Discuss what you learned with your counselor.

7. With your parent's and counselor's approval, visit your city, county, or state public health agency.

Discuss how the agency addresses the concerns raised in requirements 1 through 6 and how the services

provided by this agency affect your family. Then do the following:

a. Compare the four leading causes of mortality (death) in your community for any of the past five

years with the four leading causes of morbidity (incidence of disease) in your community.

Explain how the public health agency you visited is trying to reduce the mortality and morbidity

rates of these leading causes of illness and death.

b. Explain the role of the health agency you visited related to the outbreak of diseases.

c. Discuss the kinds of public assistance the agency is able to provide in case of disasters such as

floods, storms, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other acts of destruction. Your discussion can include

the cleanup necessary after a disaster occurs.

Traffic Safety:


a. Interview a traffic law enforcement officer in your community to identify what three traffic

safety problems the officer is most concerned about. Discuss with your merit badge counselor

possible ways to solve one of those problems.

b. Using the Internet (with your parent's permission), visit five Web sites that cover safe driving for

teenagers. As a group, discuss what you learn with your counselor and at least three other

teenagers.

c. Initiate and organize an activity or event to demonstrate the importance of traffic safety.

d. Accompanied by an adult and a buddy, pick a safe place to observe traffic at a controlled

intersection (traffic signal or stop sign) on three separate days and at three different times of the

day, for 30 minutes on each visit. At this intersection, survey (1) such violations as running a red

light or stop sign; or (2) seat belt usage. Count the number of violations or number of drivers not

wearing a seat belt. Record in general terms if the driver was young or old , male or female .

Keep track of the total number of vehicles observed so that you can determine the percentage of

compliance vs. violations. Discuss the findings with your merit badge counselor.

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