Scout Programs

The Challenger Learning Center offers the several Cub Scout programs. Reservations can be made for groups of 10 scouts or more. Programs are 3 hours in length and can be completed on weekday afternoons, evenings or weekends.

Option 1: Challenger Learning Center location
$15/scout; 10 scout minimum

Option 2: Location of your choice – CLC staff comes to you
$15/scout; 10 scout minimum; $50 travel fee if location within 15 mile radius of the  Challenger Learning Center – additional charges may apply outside a 15 mile radius. *Travel cost not applicable to Tiger Adventure – Sky is the Limit as this program must be completed in our planetarium

Tiger Adventure – Sky is the Limit

Activities include:

Observe the night sky

• Look through and focus telescopes or binoculars
• Observe 2 constellations – name the stars and how the constellation got its name
• Create and name your own constellation
• Create a homemade constellation
• Research 2 jobs in astronomy
• Learn about 2 astronauts that were scouts
• Visit a planetarium.
• Share what you have learned with your den.

Wolf Adventure – Motor Away

Activities include:

• Create and fly three types of paper airplanes.   Hypothesize, test and record your data.
• Make a paper airplane catapult. Hypothesize, test and record your data.
• Make two different boats and sail them
• Create a car that moves under its own power.

Bear Adventure – Forensics

Activities include:

• Discuss forensics and how it is used to solve crimes
• Analyze your fingerprints
• Learn about chromatography and how used to solve crimes.
• Do an analysis of four different substances: salt, sugar, baking soda and cornstarch
• Make a show imprint
• Learn about two different jobs in forensic science.
• Learn how animals are used to gather important evidence.
• Share what you have learned with your den.
• Visit a sheriff’s office or police station in your town. This requirement will not be completed.

Bear Adventure – Make it Move

Activities include:

• Create an “exploding” craft stick reaction
• Make two simple pulleys and use them to move objects
• Make a lever form a spool and paint stirrer. Explore
• Draw a Rube-Goldberg- type machine with at least 6 steps.
• Construct a Rube-Goldberg machine to complete a task. Us at least two simiple machines and include four steps.

Bear Adventure – Robotics

Activities include:

• Identify six tasks performed by robots
• Learn about some instances where a robot could be used in place of a human. Research one of these robots.
• Build a robot hand. Show how it is like and different from a human hand.
• Build your own robot.
• Visit a place that uses robots. This task completed only if done at the Challenger Learning Center.

Bear Adventure – Super Science

Activities include:

• Make static electricity.
• Conduct a balloon or other static electricity investigation.
• Conduct one other static electricity investigation.
• Do a sink or float investigation.
• Do a color morphing investigation.
• Do a color layering investigation.
• Explain what you have learned to your den.

Astronomy Merit Badge

Activities include:

• Planetarium Tour
• Sky Motion
• 10 Constellations
• 8 Bright Stars
• Big Dipper Position
• The Milky Way
• The Solar System
• The 5 visible Planets
• Types of Telescopes
• Planet position over time
• Lunar Cycle
• Composition of the Sun
• The Color of Stars
  

Robotics Merit Badge

Activities include:

• Robot safety
• Robotics industry
• Design, build, program and test
• Demonstrate robot
• Robotics competition
• Robot careers

Space Exploration Merit Badge

Activities include:

• Build, launch, and recover a model rocket.
• Discover the basic principles of rocket science
• Learning about the history of the US Space Program
• Learning about satellites and how they operate