Engineering Badge (Part Two) & Box Oven Cookies!

We finished our first year of Webelos by completing our Engineering Badge at our last Den Meeting of the school year this past Friday.  I honestly think that this was one of the boys favorite meetings.  Not that any of the boys actually told me that.  I'm strictly basing that statement on the fact that I heard a lot of laughter!  A big thank you to Eric's dad, Sean, for leading the meeting!

One of the requirements was that the boys had to make durable popsicle stick bridges. 
Eric and Connor made amazing suspension bridges and a most of the other boys made trestle bridges.

Then we decided to see how much weight each bridge could take.

I was really impressed with how the majority of the bridges held up to the weight of a
couple of bricks and two ten-pound weights!

For the gathering activity I had the boys break up into two teams of five to engineer a structure
made from dried spaghetti noodles and marshmallows.  I got the idea of of Pinterest.  The goal was to see
which team of scouts could build the taller tower.  I thought the boys would totally get into this activity,
but one team had more fun throwing the marshmallows at the opposing team!

Sean gave a Boeing Engineering Power Point to the boys.  Here he is discussing the
foundation of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. 

Jane brought her Box Oven and we made chocolate chip cookies in the garage.

Here's a close-up of the almost-done-cookies.  This was so fun for the boys to see this process!