Wente
This staff member teaches everybody to do the pump track every summer!
Who is Ben Chang?
This merit badge involves the basics of treating injuries and wounds.
What is First Aid?
A tool used for setting up a tent and helps to secure the tent to the ground.
What is a stake?
This park in California is known for its majestic waterfalls and two major rock formations: El Capitan and Half Dome.
What is Yosemite?
This 2-player game has each person start with 16 pieces on a checkered board with the objective of capturing the opponent's king.
What is chess?
Do this before entering the waterfront.
This badge requires the scout to learn about stars and planets beyond our own.
What is Astronomy?
The five types of food described by the MyPlate diagram, detailing how to have a balanced meal.
What are grains, fruits, vegetables, protein, and dairy?
This park was the first ever National Park in 1872, and it is known for it's geysers and hot springs.
What is Yellowstone?
This is a real-estate game involving 2-8 players, with the objective of bankrupting your opponents.
Fun fact: this game was created to educate people on the negative impact of private monopolies.
What is Monopoly?
Troop 203 has won this event two years in a row (technically).
What is the Wentathalon?
This is the newest merit badge, introduced in 2022, that requires scouts to learn about DEI.
What is Citizenship in Society?
A type of material that should not be worn on an outing.
What is cotton?
This park in south-central Oregon contains a lake that is contained inside of an ancient volcanic caldera.
What is Crater Lake?
This drawing game requires players to guess a word or phrase as fast as possible based on a quick sketch.
What is Pictionary?
This place is where people go when there is a fire drill.
Where is the Redwood Grove?
This badge involves learning about nonverbal systems of communication. (Hint: At Wente, one thing that is learned is a system called semaphore).
What is Signs, Signals, and Codes?
The three things that make up a "fire/combustion triangle".
What are oxygen, heat, and fuel?
This park is one of the largest cave systems in the world, with over 400 miles having been discovered so far.
What is Mammoth Cave?
This 2-player game is a turn-based strategy game played with small stones/beans/seeds on a board that has two rows of six "pockets".
What is mancala?
This person is NOT staff!!!
Who is Ari?
This is the only gold-bordered merit badge, which upon completion you are awarded one million USD.
What is Crime Prevention?
The standard depth for a cathole in the wilderness.
What is 6-8 inches?
Colin Kent won't stop talking about this National Park in Montana!!! 😡
What is Glacier?
This 2-6 player game involves guessing questions in 6 categories (Geography, Entertainment, History, Art and Literature, Science and Nature, and Sports and Leisure).
What is Trivial Pursuit?