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Basic Meeting Plans are designed to have minimal supplies and still hit the GSUSA Requirements. Most meetings can be done in a 90 minute time frame.

Items needed:

• Playdough, clay, homemade playdough for each scout
• Make an Example Model to show the troop before the meeting starts. Ideas can be found with a short video.
• Extra paper for a racetrack or road map on the floor if there is extra time.
• Troop coloring supplies (markers, crayons, or colored pencils).

Manufacturing

Info Needed: Manufacturing is when we make items (products or goods) from materials and use people or machines to do it. In modern day, usually machines are used with human workers or computers operating the machines. The key to manufacturing is taking the steps needed to make an item and breaking them down into sections. Each machine or person is responsible to getting one part of making done and it moves on to the next machine or person. Eventually the item is complete but every person or machine only did a small part. This is called an assembly line.

Note to Leaders – You can learn more about manufacturing with a short video or a mini lesson.

(Requirement 1 Earned)

Do it Together!

Info Needed: Manufacturing takes a team effort, with or without machines.

Action Needed: Scouts recall what vehicles they made with playdough and break down the steps to make one of them in an assembly line. The troop assigns each scout a role in the assembly line and then puts it into practice. Make enough vehicles for the entire troop together. Ensure each vehicle is the same. Test them out, then discuss what went well and what they would do better the next time.

Fun Activity: Using their past experience in how the playdough/clay vehicles were made, the troop can figure out which steps to have at which station in their assembly line. Let them figure it out on their own to see how it works out. It’s okay if it isn’t the most efficient, only guide them to keep them on task and make sure they know all vehicles must be the same one.
Once they have a plan and stations in place, have them make the same number of vehicles (one for each scout) as they did on the first day. Time them. When they have finished, let them know what time it took and compare it to what time you gave the whole troop in the Daisy Automotive Design badge to make the same number of vehicles.
Test the vehicles. Do they hold together? Can they be played with?
Discuss what they did better than when they made them individually and what they would improve if they had to do an assembly line in the future.

(Requirements 2 & 3 Earned)

Note to Leaders – You can get ideas for playdough vehicles with a short video

Meeting End

If you have extra time, use extra paper to design a race track or road map on the floor for scouts to run their vehicles around on. If they were fantastic in their assembly line and finished way early, challenge them to make a whole town to drive through, including 3D buildings using extra playdough/clay or objects from the meeting room.

General Notes

Note to Leaders – No Basic Plan compiled by The Badge Archive will earn multiple badges in one level. Part of being budget friendly is not costing more than the price of one official GSUSA badge per meeting.

Some badges will take two meetings to finish. This helps scouts enjoy activities and keeps the troop budget in mind by only needing one GSUSA badge for every two meetings. Troops may choose to get a fun patch for one of the meetings if scouts want a badge/patch for every meeting. Scouts can earn the fun patch if they only attend one meeting and get a fun patch and the official badge if they go to both.

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