Program Schedule

Below is our 2024 Program Schedule. Our staff is currently developing our 2025 Schedule.

Program Fees and Prerequisites are in this document!

The Basics

It took us 95 years, but new this year, there is one program schedule for the whole Reservation!

2025 merit badge class sign-up will open by mid-April, 2025. More details will be available by the beginning of 2025.

As we create more helpful tools and resources, we will post those here (check out our helpful planning worksheet below that you can give to your Scouts!).

Trailblazer

Trailblazer focuses on the requirements that Scouts need for Tenderfoot through First Class. The program is designed so that Scouts can have either the morning or the afternoon to focus on their fundamental skills, but still sign up for Merit Badges during the other part of the day. Trailblazer will be operating identically in East Camp and West Camp this year.

Trailblazer Program description and schedule (2023 version, 2024 is coming soon! Reach out to EastProgramDirector@makajawan.com & WestProgramDirector@makajawan.com if you have questions.

Merit Badge & Program Information

At Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan, we strive to make sure each Scout has the opportunity to learn the material presented during each badge’s instructional time, so the number of Scouts in each badge changes depending on the format of instruction, amount of available equipment, and content presented. Some programs may have material or additional fees beyond your Scout’s fee to attend camp, like activity kits, ammunition, or field trips. Many of our additional fee programs include supplies that your Scouts get to keep, such as our craft kits.

Our 2024 Program fees are noted in this document. (last revised 4/4/2024)

This is a helpful worksheet to get Scouts thinking about how they want to spend their week at camp! (Last revised 4/4/2024)

Older Scout Programs (for the Scouts who have ‘done everything’* at MSR)

The Pinnacle Challenge is an exciting, thought-provoking program throughout the week which pushes Scouts to think outside of the classroom. Have you ever built a raft with lashings and tried to actually row it on a lake? Scouts did that in 2023. Wanna do other cool Scout-y things that go beyond a badge? Then you have to take on the Pinnacle Challenge. This is a drop-in program that Scouts can participate in on any day of the week they choose. Listen to the messages in the dining hall for what exciting new challenge will be tackled that day!

The Coureur des Bois program is an adventure based activity for Scouts that have “done it all at Scout Camp.” Each week, the Scouts that participate will determine their own activities and schedule during camp. This is a weeklong program. Examples of our previous opportunities are presented on the Coureur des Bois page

The Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan Conservation Corps (formerly our Trail Boss program) is a skill-learning based program using Conservation as the method for learning project planning, implementation, all while helping to improve the camp we all love dearly. This program is designed for older Scouts that are not interested in taking Merit Badges at camp. Check out our 2023 flyer here!

*We have yet to have any Scout prove they have actually ‘done everything’ we offer, and encourage you to not speak in hyperbole unless it is true.