Merit Badge Workshop: Inventing

A three-hour merit badge workshop at MOSI takes scouts through the Inventing badge, which the Boy Scouts introduced in 2010 with support from the Lemelson-MIT Program. The requirements ask scouts to define inventing in their own words, consider how inventions have served people and learn the parts and types of patents. They also work toward a prototype of their own. MOSI's counselors are registered with the BSA and cover the hands-on portions. Any remaining requirements must be finished and signed off within a month. Program fees include a blank Blue Card and admission to the museum after the session.