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@qwazse Thank You! Our son was able to contact and make a meeting time with a Shoot and Start Your Engine councilor. (I love the fact that scouts make their own councilor contact calls & communications.) As person with a microbiology and dietetics background, I also love idea of the Let It Grow module. Our son had a pretty sizable set back this week and wants to try a new direction to re-motivate himself - hence exploring NOVA. He is nearing the end of his Eagle project and the last component was inside our local TechShop. Sadly, all of the TechShops in the US closed down immediately and permanently on Tuesday. Everyone must go through the trustees and submit oodles of paperwork to get anything back. We are hoping this is a lesson on how to deal constructively with 'bumps in the road' that eventually has a happy ending. Have a great weekend!

My son wants to take a break from standard merit badges (he has 92) and work on the NOVA modules. We reached out to our council but the person the gave us as a contact didn't know what the first steps should be. Here's is our questions: 1. Do they have to be done in a particular order? 2. Under the description for "Shoot" we also see "Let it Grow". Is Let it Grow a subgroup of Shoot or an alternative to Shoot? Most everything we see on NOVA talks about (4) modules - so we don't think Let It Grow is a 5th, right? Thanks!