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I'm looking for outstanding MB counselors who teach the following badges: Communications Engineering Computers Composite Materials I'd like to publish articles about specific counselors who have novel approaches to teaching boys these 4 badges. These counselors would be people that Boy Scouts really flock to because their teaching methods make earning the badge fun, and the Boy Scouts also learn a great deal in the process. If you know of such counselors please e-mail me directly with their names and contact information for possible interviews. Thanks.

I'm looking for outstanding MB counselors who teach the following badges: Communications Engineering Computers Composite Materials I'd like to publish articles about specific counselors who have novel approaches to teaching boys these 4 badges. These counselors would be people that Boy Scouts really flock to because their teaching methods make earning the badge fun, and the Boy Scouts also learn a great deal in the process. If you know of such counselors please e-mail me directly with their names and contact information for possible interviews. Thanks.

Many Scouts start and finish merit badge requirements in a reasonable amount of time, others do not. Often, at summer camp, boys begin badges but return home with partial completions. Some of these partials have remained on our advancement records for more than a year. What can I do to make sure these Scouts complete the requirements?

Thanks for all your suggestions. Perhaps I should make myself more clear. Yes, we do ask each Scout at a Board of Review and SM Conference what they like about the troop, its programming, what they'd do differently, etc. And yes our older boys go through the troop program planning process each August. What I'd like is some sort of end of the program year quantitative analysis of what was a "hit" and what was a "dud." I've never attended a corporate training session (or Scouting one, for that matter) that I didn't have to fill out an evaluation sheet at the end of the program. This provides valuable information to the presenter in an anonymous manner. Young Scouts may be hesitant to voice their true feelings in face-to-face meetings with adults. Is anyone doing anything like this on paper? Maybe listing 20 to 30 activities and asking all the boys in the troop to rank their top 10 choices? Or listing all camp-out activities from the previous year and asking them to rank them on a 1-10 scale with 10 being "Super!" and 1 being "deadly dull"? Thanks for all the feedback. Hope you all have a great start to your '09-'10 Scouting year!

Does anyone have a template or form for a youth evaluation of the Scout troop's program? We'd like to ask our Scouts what they like about the troop program, what they don't like, and what they would change. Most of all, we'd like the Scouts to rate the troop's camp-out and high adventure programming over the past year and suggest ideas for future events. I realize this could be done in a brainstorming session with the TLC, but I'd like to have this on paper from every Scout in the unit with no names used.