Youth Veterinarian Initiative
YVI Book Club & Merit Badge Program - Merit BadgesMerit Badges
Images above: Marion P. Thomas STEAM Academy students holding some of the merit badges they earned during the year.
YVI Book Club scholars earned merit badges for a variety of activities undertaken during the 2022-2023 academic year:
– submitting individual reading assignments
– working on reading assignments as a team
– drawing characters/personas in the books read
– participating in monthly joint Zoom calls
– reading books aloud to school mates
– attending YVI podcast sessions
– winning a Zoom call contest
We awarded a total of 400 badges to students at four participating schools over the course of the year!
See images of the badges awarded for accomplishing the above mentioned tasks for each book and podcast below.
