Merit Badge Midway
The Merit Badge Midway is located along Thomas Road and occupies the east end of the parking area. More than a hundred booths will fill the Merit Badge Midway. It will feature many exciting hands-on activities for Scouts. It is designed to stimulate their interest in a wide variety of merit badges, including Auto Mechanics, Disability Awareness, Electronics, Communications, Energy, Aviation, and Computers. Scouts will have an opportunity to practice many skills related to the merit badges. Scouts may meet some of the requirements of the badge(s) at the jamboree and then complete the requirements at home. By the same token, some merit badge work begun at home may be completed at the jamboree. The Merit Badge Midway is under the direction of the Program Group and, more specifically, the Merit Badge Midway chairman and director. They are responsible for securing organizations to participate as exhibitors. Booth coordinators utilize the counselor program by filling their booths with Scouters as well as qualified personnel assigned by participating organizations.
Merit badges being offered include:
- American Business
- American Heritage
- Archaeology
- Archery
- Architecture
- Art
- Astronomy
- Automotive Maintenance
- Aviation
- Backpacking
- Bird Study
- Camping
- Canoeing
- Chemistry
- Cinematography
- Citizenship in the Community
- Citizenship in the Nation
- Citizenship in the World
- Climbing
- Coin Collecting
- Collections
- Communication
- Composite Materials
- Computers
- Cooking
- Crime Prevention
- Dentistry
- Disabilities Awareness
- Dog Care
- Drafting
- Electricity
- Electronics
- Emergency Preparedness
- Energy
- Engineering
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental Science
- Family Life
- Fingerprinting
- Fire Safety
- First Aid
- Fish and Wildlife Management
- Fishing
- Fly-Fishing
- Forestry
- Genealogy
- Geology
- Golf
- Hiking
- Horsemanship
- Indian Lore
- Insect Study
- Inventing
- Landscape Architecture
- Law
- Leatherwork
- Lifesaving
- Mammal Study
- Medicine
- Metalwork
- Motorboating
- Music
- Nature
- Oceanography
- Orienteering
- Personal Fitness
- Pioneering
- Plant Science
- Plumbing
- Public Health
- Public Speaking
- Pulp and Paper
- Radio
- Railroading
- Reading
- Reptile and Amphibian Study
- Rifle Shooting
- Rowing
- Scouting Heritage
- Scuba Diving
- Sculpture
- Small-Boat Sailing
- Snow Sports
- Soil and Water Conservation
- Space Exploration
- Sports
- Stamp Collecting
- Surveying
- Swimming
- Traffic Safety
- Veterinary Medicine
- Weather
- Whitewater
- Wilderness Survival
- Wood Carving