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The merit badge classes start promptly at 10am every day. Please arrive early to avoid delays in signing in. You may arrive as early as 9am.

The hotel address is:

Mission Inn Resort

10400 County Road 48
Howey-in-the-Hills, FL 34737

When you arrive, head to the conference center to check in at event registration. DO NOT go to the hotel front desk.

Items to bring with you: Notebook, Pen, Merit badge workbook printed out (feel free to start filling in the answers if you are ready to), water bottle (we will have water refill stations) & a cheerful smile.

Items not to bring with you: Knives, outside food, video games, headphones, walking sticks, firestarters, nothing that you wouldn't bring to school. Phones are allowed to be used ONLY for merit badge research. If scouts are seen to be using their phone during the class, it will be taken away and given back to the scout at lunch or at the end of the class.

We are not responsible for ANYTHING that the scouts bring with them. Please leave valuables at home and only bring items that are needed for the class.

Behavior: This event is being held during a professional environmental health conference. Scouts are expected to be on the best behavior and abide by the scout oath and law the entire time they are at the event. Any scout that is being disruptive to the class will be removed from the class and asked to leave. If your scout is not mature enough to be left at the event by themselves, please do not leave them there by themselves.

There will be no refunds for any reason.

Lunch: Lunch is NOT provided, however it can be pre-purchased from the hotel. We have arranged for special lunches for the scouts & adults. Lunch is each day from 12pm-1pm except Thursday when lunch is 1pm-3pm. You may bring your scout off site to eat but absolutely NO FOOD purchased offsite is allowed back in the conference area. Adults may stay in the restaurant and enjoy the buffet lunch from 12-2pm.

Kids meal (Scouts under 18 only): with a choice of Chicken Fingers or Hot Dog and a bag of chips for $14

Adults Meals: Unlimited buffet served from 12-2pm and includes: Chefs Choice Salad, Soup of the Day, One Entrée, Dessert, Iced Tea for $27

Lunch can be pre-purchased on our website by clicking here or you can bring cash with you the day of the class and pay for it at registration. Scout lunch must be ordered before the class starts that day.

All meal prices include tax and gratuity

PRE-ORDER YOUR LUNCH HERE

Uniforms: Please wear Class A uniform to the event. If adults do not have a Class A uniform please wear a Class B uniform (Unit Shirt).

Swimming Merit Badge: Please bring a bathing suit, sunscreen and a towel. Half of the class will be inside and the other half in the pool. To save time, please arrive in your bathing suit. You will be in the pool before you are in the classroom. Please bring a day pack to hold your personal items and clothing.

Insect Study Merit Badge: #9- Raise an insect through complete metamorphosis from its larval stage to its adult stage (e.g., raise a butterfly or moth from a caterpillar). Click here for instructions You can bring in pictures of your butterflies or you can do it after the class and email us your progress and we will email you the blue card when its complete.

If you did not have a chance to complete this requirement, we will have milkweed for sale from a local grower for $5 each. Milkweed is known for its quality to attract butterflies and will help you to complete this requirement. You may purchase these plants at registration. They will be available starting on Monday at the registration desk.

Responsibility of the leaders & parents: It is the leaders & parents responsibility to drop off and pick up their scout from the event and also to stay with them if they are not mature enough to conduct themselves with behavior expected of a scout. We will not be supervising the scouts once the class is over. It is the leaders responsibility to supervise scouts during lunch time. However the scouts will have their pre-ordered lunch from the hotel delivered to the classroom and they are allowed to eat only the food purchased at the hotel in the classroom. It is the leaders and parents responsibility to make sure that your scouts have the ability to purchase lunch. There is nothing to eat within walking distance so no scout should be allowed to leave by themselves during lunch. Please be within 15 minutes driving distance after 3pm each day. Some classes may end a little bit early. You are allowed to stay onsite and we have space for a limited number of adult leaders in some of the classes. Scouts will be allowed to use their phones to call their parents when it is getting close to the end of the class. Please advise scouts to always use the buddy system.

Volunteers: We are in need of a couple of adult leader volunteers for some of the classes. if you are interested in helping out, please contact FEHA Executive Director, Michael Crea at 941-378-0914 or email info@feha.org