Today a copy of Scouting (magazine) came in & as I was flipping thought I pick up on this article titled “Mother of Inventing” in the What’s New area. (article not online yet)
It tells the story of how there use to be an Inventing MB – that 10 scouts earned before it went away.
Inventing MB is back and this time the Scouts don’t have to “apply for and receive a U.S. patent on an invention.”
Looking though the requirements, there is some basic knowledge, but what interests me are things like:
- Choose a commercially available product that you have used on an overnight camping trip with your troop. Make recommendations for improving the product, and make a sketch that shows your recommendations.
- Build a working prototype of the item you invented for requirement 6*. Test and evaluate the invention – [including] cost, usefulness, marketability, appearance, and function. Describe how your original vision and expectations for your invention are similar or dissimilar to the prototype you built.
- Participate with a club or team (robotics team, science club, or engineering club) that builds a useful item.
I am thrilled that the Boy Scouts of America is working towards helping those involved in scouting to go though the process of solving problems in the world around them.
