The trades keep America going– from building homes and repairing our cars to electrifying our communities to plumbing pipes and growing crops. Explore these action-packed jobs with our new Scouting the Trades Merit Badge Series. Scouts 14 and over are invited to come to the new STEM Trades Building for a daylong merit badge session and pizza lunch. Scouts can complete both badges offered if they complete the pre-requisites in advance.

Woodwork

Wood is an amazingly versatile, practical, yet beautiful material. A skilled craftsman can use wood to fashion just about anything. As a woodworker or carpenter, you will find no end of useful, valuable, and fun items you can make yourself, from wood.

Engineering

Engineers use both science and technology to turn ideas into reality, devising all sorts of things, ranging from a tiny, low-cost battery for your cell phone to a gigantic dam across the mighty Yangtze River in China.