Workshops available for scouts are included under the Upcoming Events page. They have been especially designed to encourage hands-on experiences with Museum artifacts as well as help to complete merit badge requirements.

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Eagle Scout Projects:

The Hutchings Museum has a variety of potential Eagle Scout projects.  We have a continuous need for field trip kits.  The Museum is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization whose goal is to help bring learning and natural history to life for the community and school groups that attend it.  One successful  way the Museum has found to help educate and bring learning to life for patrons is to do hands on projects that correlate to certain rooms in the museum.  At various community events and on field trips parents and teachers can choose to have their students etch a piece of rock art (petro glyphs), peck fossils out of a matrix, make a dream catcher, and or sew together a medicine bag. 

For example, the children who have found their own fossil discoveries appreciate the Fossil Room in the Museum even more than before their fossil pecking experience.  The fossil cupcakes, rock art plaques, and medicine bag kits take a lot of time for the Museum staff to make, and the Museum has limited staff hours due to its limited budget.  The Museum would not be able to continue to offer these hand on educational experiences without the help of volunteers making the project kits. 
These projects make for great Eagle Scout projects because an Eagle Scout will need to:

1.      Learn how to make the kits and the significance of each project to the Museum
2.      Seek donations for supplies.
3.      Gather supplies.
4.      Recruit and organize volunteers and a place for them to help him assemble the kits.
5.      Teach volunteers how to make kits and about their educational significance.
6.      Oversee that kits are made correctly.
7.      Return finished kits to the Museum to be enjoyed by many field trips.

Occasionally we have other needs such as painting rooms and helping with events and displays.