The Overnight in April was a journey into Space, all the way to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas. So we loaded up the Troop bus an headed on our journey to the Cosmosphere. Upon arriving we see a Rocket ship and we know that we have landed. When entering I notice a big black plane. It is called the Black Bird as it was used to spy on other countries to see what they were doing in regards to the space program, rockets or weaponry. As this jet plane flew at 80,000 feet. There is a lot of original Space artifacts in their museum as we learned from the tour, even an Apollo Space mission capsule. We also learned about the history and properties of rocket fuel at Dr. Goddards Lab. And we watched a movie about the Space program in the Digital Theater. In doing all of this the Scouts earned Engineering and Robotics Merit Badges.
But the highlight was when the scouts divided up into teams to build their robotic vehicle for the robotic battle. They fought in a double elimination tournament to see who made the best robotic vehicle. And the winning team won an autographed picture of the Astronaut that walked on the moon 3 times. That winning team included James Buehler, DJ Lee, and Drake Ogle. I also want to mention their were undefeated, that’s right they never lost. A big How How to them. But a Big HOW HOW to all the Scouts who went and lived up to the Scout Oath and Scout Law.

The scouts just returned from a trip to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS and I’m going to tell you all about it.
Once we arrived at the Cosmosphere, the scouts were told what we would get to do while we were there, and then we began the tour of the museum.
We got to see lots of things that they took into space for everyday use, as well as their space suits.
We also got to see a space rock, but unfortunately we couldn’t touch it. After the tour, we started working on the Robotics badge. We got to add parts to robot machines, and have battle rounds like “Battle Bots”. This was a lot of fun!
That evening, we got to sleep under an actual spaceship, which was really cool!
The next morning after breakfast, we finished battle rounds, worked on our Engineering badge and saw an IMAX movie, before we headed home.
This was definitely one of my favorite overnights.