The chemistry merit badge offered through the Boy Scouts of America makes multiple connections between chemistry concepts and environmental awareness.  Offering the badge to scouts in a local council as a service learning project at a predominantly undergraduate institution presents one with numerous opportunities to develop the offering of the badge as a form of public outreach.  We present the lessons learned in more than a decade of chemistry merit badge clinics, with emphasis on how environmental chemistry and awareness is incorporated in the process.

Connections between service learning, public outreach, environmental awareness and the Boy Scout chemistry merit badge

247th National Meeting (2014)

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