[Roundtable] Webelos Technology Badge opportunity

[Geoff Peacock]

I have been working with the USA College of Engineering to have them 
host Webelos Scouts to help them earn their Engineering Activity
Badge.  Below is the information I have for your planning purposes.
This is an after school activity and will last from 3 - 4:30 Feb 26.

Numbers in parenthesis relate to the new Webelos Activity Badge 
requirements.  

This is open to all Webelos in the Council.  Reservations are 
required and space is limited. Please make them ASAP.

Your contact for reservations is
Carroll Dougherty 
<doughert@jaguar1.usouthal.edu>



Geoff Peacock
605-4597
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Thanks, Geoff.  I think I have the beginnings of something worked out, 
and some tentative agreements from some of the other faculty to 
participate.  We're planning to hold this engineering scout workshop 
from 3 to 4:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 26.

I'm arranging 5-6 workshops:  a bridge workshop (#7) where the scouts 
will learn about different designs and design and test their own design 
with a computer program; an electrical workshop where they will discuss 
generation  of electricity (#5) and make a simple circuit (#6); an 
engineer's workshop where the scouts will be able to talk with several 
working engineers (#1); and 2 more workshops that my class will be 
designing (hopefully at least one of those 2 will do either #8 or #9; 
the other will satisfy one of the requirements from the scientist 
badge - I have to give my students some choices, but I'm going to 
emphasize the need for one of the engineer's activities).  There might 
be a 6th workshop to make polymers for the Girl Scout badge.

This is tentative, but I think it will work...  Please feel free to pass 
this on to the other scout troops you've been talking to.  I can be the 
contact for reservations, as we discussed last week.  I'm looking 
forward to making this work!

Carroll Dougherty


Dr. F. Carroll Dougherty				(251) 460-7458
Assistant Professor					(251) 460-6549 (fax)
Mechanical Engineering
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688

doughert@jaguar1.usouthal.edu