STEM Workbook & Submission Cover Pages

Suffolk County Council – BSA Nova Award and Supernova Award Program Submission Cover Pages (Important: Print this form out plus the Checklist/Workbook below for the award you working on. Use the Checklist/Workbook to record your progress. Upon completion ask your Nova Counselor or Supernova Mentor to sign you off using the Cover Pages and submit to your Advancement Chairperson of your Scouting unit, so they can process your award.

Download Sign Off & Cover pages here.

Award Checklist/Workbook

Here are checklists for the Nova Awards and workbooks for the Supernova Awards, as well as summaries of the existing badges in each program that support the Nova and Supernova Awards.  For all of the STEM awards, we recommend that each Scout keep a STEM loose leaf notebook/journal in which to record the details of his or her work on each award.  

Cub Scouts & Webelos Scouts
Summary of STEM Belt Loops, Pins, Activity Badges
Checklist for Nova Science Everywhere (updated as of March 2016)
Checklist for Nova Down and Dirty (updated as of March 2016)
Checklist for Nova Wild! (updated as of March 2016)
Checklist for Nova Out of this World (updated as of March 2016)
Checklist for Nova Tech Talk (updated as of March 2016)
Checklist for Nova Swing! (updated as of March 2016)
Checklist for Nova 1-2-3 Go! (updated as of March 2016)
CS - Dr. Luis Alvarez Supernova Workbook
WS - Dr. Charles Townes Supernova Workbook

Boy Scouts & Venturers
Summary of Merit Badges and Venturing Explorations

Boy Scouts 
Checklist for Nova Shoot! 
Checklist for Nova Start Your Engines 
Checklist for Nova Whoosh! 
Checklist for Nova Designed to Crunch
BS - Dr. Bernard Harris Supernova Workbook (.doc  .pdf)
BS - Thomas Edison Supernova Workbook (.doc  .pdf)

Venturers 
Checklist for Nova Launch!
Checklist for Nova Power Up
Checklist for Nova Hang On!
Checklist for Nova Numbers Don't Lie
Generic Venturing STEM Exploration Plan & Checklist
V - Dr. Sally Ride Supernova Workbook (.doc  .pdf)
V - Wright Brothers Supernova Workbook - Option 1 (.doc  .pdf)
V - Wright Brothers Supernova Workbook - Option 2 (.doc  .pdf)
V - Dr. Albert Einstein Workbook (.doc  .pdf)