Opportunities to Earn Merit Badges outside of the Troop

Here are some other opportunities to earn merit badges...You might be able to incorporate these merit badges into your summer family vacation trips!  My scout earned his Environmental Science merit badge at Cranbrook Institute in Bloomfield Hills, and his Scouting Heritage merit badge in Texas on a family vacation.  With a little research you can incorporate merit badges into family trips and associate a memory with the merit badge!

Earn the Mammal merit badge at John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids August 22
http://www.michiganscouting.org/News/stem-creaturefeature

Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Aviation Merit Badge and Space Exploration Merit Badge.
http://www.airzoo.org/page.php?page_id=359

Through the DNR:
http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10369_55920_55948-235529--,00.html

Henry Ford Museum
Entrepreneurship Merit Badge and Inventing Merit Badge
http://www.thehenryford.org/education/youth.aspx

Michigan Science Center, no workshops planned yet, check back later
http://www.mi-sci.org/educators-groups/scouts/

Cranbrook Institute of Science, no workshops planned yet, check back later
http://science.cranbrook.edu/find-program-event/scouts

Merit badge Tech day usually held in March in Traverse City

Lansing, MI
http://www.lansingmi.gov/merit_badges