Merit Badge Day at the Printing Museum - Sat, Feb 13, 2027

Full-day event giving scouts the opportunity to earn their Graphic Arts and Pulp & Paper merit badges through hands-on activity stations A full-day event giving scouts the opportunity to earn their Graphic Arts and Pulp & Paper merit badges. Advance registration is required; not open to the general public. The BSA Merit Badge Day is designed for scouts to meet all of the requirements of two merit badges in one day: Graphic Arts merit badge and the Pulp & Paper merit badge. During the course of the day, which runs from 9 am to 3 pm, teams of scouts will rotate between 10 stations covering every aspect of the printing and paper industries, from offset lithography and screen printing to digital design and how the paper industry manages and uses their forests. Each scout will have a chance to screen print their own t-shirt, run an offset press, grind pulp, make their own sheet of paper and letterpress print a card on an antique press. The day is filled with lots of hands-on activities and detailed presentations by industry experts and educators. The fee for the Merit Badge Day is $65 per scout and covers all of the activities to earn the two Merit Badges. Lunch, t-shirts, and snacks can be purchased the morning of the event. Merit Badge Day at the Printing Museum is definitely a not-to-miss event for scouts in Southern California! SPACE IS LIMITED. Our Merit Badge Days ofte fill up several months in advance, please don't wait to register!