Boy Scouts of
America
Scouter – Boy
Scouts of America
Boy Scouts of America has been keeping me very busy between trained positions and events!
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Assistant Scout Master Troop 799 (Thousand Oaks) Conejo Valley Ventura County Council |
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Leave No Trace (Master)
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Woodbadge - WE4-57-19 - Quarter Master 2019
Awarded the District Award of Merit - 2016
STEM – (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics)
My STEM Booth at 2015 Camporee. Scouts racing each other in my micromouse maze in a mirrored configuration using remote controlled HEXBUG spiders. My maze is exact to the specifications for the APEC micromouse contests. I actually have two maze sections bolted together and then wall panels set as two identical mazes for this STEM contest. Surface is double sided black melamine. This was hand drilled not machine drilled so clips were added to the tops of the walls to help lock them in place. Ends of walls are tongue and groove.
See: 2014 APEC(28th) Micromouse Contest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGNxXqQgHYY
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· STEM (District
Co-Chair) 2014-2015 o
Boy Scouts o
Venturer Scouts · STEM Nova
Counselor · STEM Super
Nova Mentor |
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Merit Badge Counselor – (Merit Badges I am a counselor for.)
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Animation |
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Forestry |
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Backpacking |
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Game Design |
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Camping |
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Geology |
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Chess |
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Hiking |
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Computers |
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Model Design and
Building |
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Cooking |
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Movie Making |
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Cycling |
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Orienteering |
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Digital Technology |
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Programming |
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Electronics |
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Radio |
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Emergency Preparedness |
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Robotics |
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Environmental Science |
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Signs, Signals and
Codes |
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Family Life |
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Sustainability |
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First Aid |
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Woodwork |
Note: Silver bordered patches are Eagle related!
Windy Hollows 2017-2018
The following picture is from the October Halloween carnival in 2018."
Up until 2017 the troop supported the mens club by baking and selling the corn husks, then in 2017 they
decided they did not need us anymore. The costs involved for renting equipment etc. was not justifiable.
So I stepped up with yet another grandiose idea. How about a shooting gallery and they said yes.
I populated a blank carnival board that I had designed for a client and borrowing from their game, reworked
the code to make it better. Where they used dyed water in red, green, blue, and yellow in the tubes, I used clear water but
installed an aquarium airstone in the bottom. A clear acrylic bottom inside the tube and a configurable color using
fixed LED's. Shades of RGB, White and Amber allow many colors to be set. So Halloween colors are currently set.
These LED' reflect off the bubbles and side of the tube and refract through those same bubbles and the
side of the tube so they shine even in daytime. (Better late afternoon and especially at night!)
Eight pumps are installed
which four are used to fill and four are used to drain. Entire gallery is constructed using 1" PVC pipes that are painted
flourescent green. Totally dismantles into lots of small pieces except for the middle section which is the electronics
bay. Contains electronics, pumps etc.
The top of each tube a float switch to indicate a tube is full and thus a winner.
Emergency road lighting was hacked by me, the processor replaced and reprogrammed
with a winning sequence dance and wired to the game board. High power LED Florescent lighting is installed above each
station inside the canopy at the top, and down below extended in front of each targetting box.
Each box is pluggable
so that it can be taken offline and updated between carnivals. The target is actually two soda cans flattened and folded
to be a large surface and have strength. Target photos slide into this target surface. There I cheated. Printed grey scale
images on photo paper with my ink jet printer. Then by hand, using flourescent markers, recolored them. The grey scale
gave them depth and the flourescent color made them pop. The entire surface of the gallery is skinned using flourescent
cloth. As air vortex guns are used, a reactive linen is hung in front of a black backdrop thus misses can be scene where
they hit. Flourescent painted Big Foot footprints are distributed on the ground, which catch stray flourescent light and illuminate.
Though workers walking on them dirty them up. The top area is a running DVD running a slide show movie of the troops events
and running swamp land ambiance!
The cool thing about this project is that the gallery can be reskinned such as in pastels, with pastel lighting
so it can be an Easter scene, "Hunting Rabbits." Fourth of July, etc.
Carnival for October 2019 is fast approaching but not sure
if I will find the time to build at least one whack'a'ghost plug-in station. Reusing some Rev A wire harness
style boards from a slot machine progressive can be easily retasked to run a whack'a'ghost using large LED switches.
Little kids have a hard time firing the vortex guns. (Borrowing an idea from a university project I saw online, I)
Could even install an accelerometer mode in the mallet, with a switch on the unit, so if
an older kid or an adult trys to use the whacker instead of the vortex gun then they would have to contend with
smart ghosts seeing the mallet coming at themselves and thus duck!
Certifications
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First Aid – CPR Wilderness and Remote First Aid Administering Emergency Oxygen CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers Blood borne Pathogens Training Emergency Medical Response First Aid for Public Safety Personnel (Title 22) |
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Edge Trainer Wood Badge WE4-53-14 Leader Specific – Scoutmaster Climb on Safety This is Scouting Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills Safe Swim Defense Safety Afloat Training Hazardous Weather Trek Safely Youth Protection Training Leave No Trace (Master) Tread Lightly Virtus |
