engineering and medicine

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Firefish
Life

Joined: 05 Jul 2004
Posts: 145
Location: Beaver, Pa
Posted: 05 Jul 2004 12:06 pm Post subject: engineering and
medicine

I am going to start the engineering and medicine merit badges,
any input on these? thanks in advance

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billie wackmon
Scout

Joined: 30 Jun 2004
Posts: 5

Posted: 05 Jul 2004 10:52 pm Post subject:

Nope, sorry
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optimist
Advancement Chairman

Joined: 27 Jun 2004
Posts: 122

Posted: 06 Jul 2004 02:25 pm Post subject:

I've found that the best way to handle merit badges in the
Professions category is to find a counselor who is actually in
that profession. While related professions will suffice,
actual doctors, dentists, and lawyers, etc, can give insites
that others will miss.

Unfortunately, being professionals, they often have very busy
schedules and it's hard to make room for things like teaching
merit badges. Be courteous, be prompt, and be prepared for all
your meetings with them.

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ScoutmasterBob
Counselor

Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Posts: 78
Location: Woods Cross, Utah
Posted: 09 Jul 2004 10:20 am Post subject:

My eleven year old scouts, recently completed the Medicine MB,
on of the things the did, was to help out at the local Blood
drive that was held at our church. They helped man the snack
table for the volunteers who gave blood. Made sure that the
crackers and juice were stocked. It was a very good activity
for them, a great success.

Props to my 11 year old scout leaders, they are great!
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Bob Torkelson
Scoutmaster Troop 538
www.wx5troop538.homestead.com
Live The Oath!

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Firefish
Life

Joined: 05 Jul 2004
Posts: 145
Location: Beaver, Pa
Posted: 10 Jul 2004 08:13 pm Post subject:

already have a coucilor who works in the ER my dad is a doctor
too, and my friends dad, and my other friends dad, etc.... I
know so many doctors its crazy. I planning on doing the same
thing just not the snack table. thanks for the input

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Firefish
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Joined: 05 Jul 2004
Posts: 145
Location: Beaver, Pa
Posted: 16 Jul 2004 08:56 am Post subject:

thanks for the input

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Kobalt
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Joined: 12 Jul 2004
Posts: 98
Location: Louisville, KY
Posted: 16 Jul 2004 05:13 pm Post subject:

Since engineering covers an extremely wide range of
professions, it would be wise to talk to more than one person.
My father, for example, is a biomedical engineer; his job
would be almost completely different from another engineer's.
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John Baunach
Troop 42
"If it were easy, it would have been done before." -Jeana
Yeager, co-pilot of Voyager

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Firefish
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Joined: 05 Jul 2004
Posts: 145
Location: Beaver, Pa
Posted: 17 Jul 2004 09:50 am Post subject:

One of my other friends dad is an environmental engineer. I
want to be a biotechnilogical engineer And I know a civil
engineer and a couple other engineers

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Kobalt
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Joined: 12 Jul 2004
Posts: 98
Location: Louisville, KY
Posted: 17 Jul 2004 10:06 am Post subject:

What does a biotechnical engineer do? I don't think I've heard
of them.
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John Baunach
Troop 42
"If it were easy, it would have been done before." -Jeana
Yeager, co-pilot of Voyager

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Firefish
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Joined: 05 Jul 2004
Posts: 145
Location: Beaver, Pa
Posted: 17 Jul 2004 03:12 pm Post subject:

They create new species by changing DNA and stuff like that

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Firefish
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Joined: 05 Jul 2004
Posts: 145
Location: Beaver, Pa
Posted: 18 Jul 2004 01:18 pm Post subject:

that doesnt do them justice I need some time to make a report
about them

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CAnderson1915
Scout

Joined: 02 Aug 2004
Posts: 1

Posted: 02 Aug 2004 03:33 pm Post subject:

I just got my Medicine merit badge a couple of days ago, and
to be quite honest it was one of the most difficult merit
badges I have ever completed. Since I am planning to go to
medical school sometime in the near future, I would reccomend
you doing this merit badge only if you are seriously
interested in the medical field. But hey, if you want to do
this one for fun, by all means pursue it.

As for the Engineering merit badge, I am almost completed with
that one. I would say most of these Professions merit badges
are created by zealots because they are somewhat difficult to
the untrained Scout.

Good Luck!
CAnderson1915

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cballman
Second Class

Joined: 27 Jul 2004
Posts: 18
Location: Nicholasville KY
Posted: 02 Aug 2004 09:52 pm Post subject: merit badge
counselors

If you have any trouble finding the right people to teach
merit badges than your troop needs to use the troop recourse
survey on this website. Yes by all means as we teach in
roundtable and other training opps. USE YOUR RESOURCES and
most of the time all you have to do is ask any professionals
and most of them will work with you and teach but most people
will not volunteer but will do anything if asked. So in trying
to help train just ask and the worst thing is that they can
say no but last time i looked there are more professionals at
anything that are just waiting to be asked
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Charlie Ballman
ASM Troop 41 Lexington KY

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Guneukitschik
Life

Joined: 02 Aug 2004
Posts: 162
Location: Waynesboro, PA
Posted: 09 Aug 2004 09:44 am Post subject:

Our Troop recently sponsored a Merit Badge Counselor training
session and Youth Protection Training. We invited the parents
of all the scouts... almost all of them signed up to be a
counselor. Some were just interested in the MB process. It is
amazing the resources that can be found within either your own
troop or another local troop. Perhaps try working together
with other local troops in your area to sponser a merit badge
counselor training. Now many councils have the Youth
Protection training online.
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Firefish
Life

Joined: 05 Jul 2004
Posts: 145
Location: Beaver, Pa
Posted: 09 Aug 2004 06:06 pm Post subject:

I have considerable knowledge about both feilds and I have so
many resources its uncanny my world consists of doctors,,
engineers, chemists, and biologists basically becuase most of
the adults I know well are one of the previous
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Peter Cahill
Troop 469
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[Mick Scouter]

I have a lot of good thoughts on the Engineer MB. Particularly where the boys are to compare the scout law to the engineering laws. WoW. I'll explain more later.

[circuitmonkey]

you might also find it handy to contact someone at a local community college or university. If you can navigate through websites pretty well, you might be able to find a few student engineering organizations that would be happy to organize a day for a few scouts to come to campus and cover all the materials related to that merit badge. Some ones to look for would be Theta Tau (Engineering Fraternity), Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society), SAE (society of automotive engineers), SPS (society of physics students). You could also try contacting someone in a local chapter of Alpha Phi Omega... since they are loosely associated with BSA im sure they wouldnt mind going a little out of their way to point you in the direction of someone who could help you with your merit badge.

And if you happen to live within southwest wisconsin, we are hosting a merit badge day for Chemistry, Engineering, and Electronics.

www.uwplatt.edu/org/apo/mbu