We had many great successes in converting to summer camp online, however, we also made some mistakes in the mindset required to redesign a fully fledged physical summer camp and make it into a fully virtual immersive experience. We took all of the components of physical camp and made digital equivalents. This move worked fairly well for many items but where we had the least success is where we started with a real world activity and tried to convert it to the virtual environment. Our program is pretty straight forward to communicate: We have a three hour block of interactive online instruction with some additional time to work on groupwork or projects throughout the day, with social virtual experiences scheduled morning and evening to help recreate the camp experience.

• The Cluster Team: responsible for building groups of merit badges into cohesive themes and designing a project based curriculum around it.

Central to our TRICΔMP program would be the merit badge classes themselves and we spent a large amount of time and resources on designing the best possible program. Several components went into our decision making process and I’ll describe some of the biggest decisions and factors below.