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Aviation Badge Requirements:
- Define "aircraft." Describe some kinds and uses of aircraft today. Explain the operation of piston, turboprop, and jet engines.
- Explain how an airfoil generates lift, how the primary control surfaces (ailerons, elevators, and rudder) affect the airplane's attitude, and how a propeller produces thrust.
- Visit an aviation museum or attend an air show. Report on your impressions of the museum or show.
While at the Intrepid Museum Complex Scouts can: Visit our extensive aircraft collection on the flight deck and visit the “air” section of the Exploreum where you can be introduced to how jet engines work, how airfoils produce lift and how propellers produce thrust. |
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Citizenship in the Nation Badge Requirements:
- Visit a place that is listed as a National Historic Landmark or that is on the National Register of Historic Places. Tell your counselor what you learned about the landmark or site and what you found interesting about it.
- Choose a national monument that interests you. Using books, brochures, the Internet (with your parent's permission), and other resources, find out more about the monument. Tell your counselor what you learned, and explain why the monument is important to this country's citizens.
While at the Intrepid Museum Complex Scouts can: View “The Intrepid Story,” an eight-minute video of the history of Intrepid. It is a great way to start your experience at the ship. Intrepid became a National Historic Landmark in 1986. |
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Chemistry Badge Requirement:
- Describe how you would separate sand from water, table salt from water, oil from water, and gasoline from motor oil. Name the practical processes that require these kinds of separations.
While at the Intrepid Museum Complex Scouts can: Visit the “sea” area of the Exploreum and learn about how and why the desalination process (separating salt from water) occurred aboard the ship. |
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Disabilities Awareness Badge Requirements:
- Visit TWO of the following locations and take notes about the accessibility to people with disabilities. In your notes, give examples of five things that could be done to improve upon the site and five things about the site that make it friendly to people with disabilities. Discuss your observations with your counselor.
1. Your school
2. Your place of worship
3. Your Scout camping site
4. A public exhibit or attraction (such as a theater, museum, or park)
While at the Intrepid Museum Complex Scouts can: Discover how the USS Intrepid’s crewmembers moved between decks when the ship was in service. How has this changed since the ship became a museum? You may want to ask a tour guide, volunteer or someone at the Information desk how the ship has changed to accommodate people with physical disabilities. Don’t forget- October is Disability Awareness Month! |
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Model Design and Building Badge Requirements:
- Build a special-effects model of a fantasy spacecraft that might appear in a Hollywood science-fiction movie. Determine an appropriate scale for your design--one that makes practical sense. Include a cockpit or control area, living space, storage unit, engineering spaces, and propulsion systems. As you plan and build your model, do the following:
1. Study aircraft, submarines, and naval ships for design ideas.
2. Arrange and assemble the parts.
3. Sketch your completed model.
While at the Intrepid Museum Complex Scouts can: Examine the design elements of USS Intrepid, the A-12 Blackbird and USS Growler submarine. While you are on Intrepid visit the crew berthing areas, examine two models of Intrepid, view the Interactive Deck Plans next to the models, and visit the Exploreum where you can sit in the cockpits of the A-6 Intruder, Bell Helicopter or replica of the Gemini space capsule. |
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Space Exploration Badge Requirements:
1. Discuss with your counselor an unmanned space exploration mission and an early manned mission. Tell about each mission's major discoveries, its importance, and what we learned from it about the planets, moons, or regions of space explored.
2. Using magazine photographs, news clippings, and electronic articles (such as from the Internet), make a scrapbook about a current planetary mission.
3. Design an unmanned mission to another planet or moon that will return samples of its surface to Earth. Name the planet or moon your spacecraft will visit. Show how your design will cope with the conditions of the planet's or moon's environment.
While at the Intrepid Museum Complex Scouts can: View a replica of an early manned space capsule involved in NASA's Mercury missions and sit in the cockpit of a replica Gemini III Space Capsule. Discover the mission objectives of the Gemini space program which helped Americans prepare for traveling to the moon! Keep your eyes on Intrepid’s website for updates about the Enterprise (OV-101) arrival in New York City! |
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