Our council camp has been offering the Chess MB this summer. I’ve helped them with it the last 2 weeks - one becuase I was already there with the troop and the other as a special trip. Any other camps doing this and anyone going to help them out? Our camp needed help as the staff MB counselor was not very experienced with even playing chess formally.
Didn’t do any Chess MB teaching this summer, but in the spring and fall the Alamo Area Council (San Antonio, TX) holds a “Merit Badge University” at a local community college where approximately 1000 scouts show up to earn badges. I teach the chess badge each time.
How much time are you allotted to do it, and are you able to complete all the requirements? IF not which ones do you leave for the scouts to do later?