Hello everybody and welcome back to the Communications Merit Badge series. Here is Emma’s story.

National Youth Leadership Training, also known as NYLT, is a great way to learn how to be a better leader. I got the opportunity to go to this amazing scout event. Even with COVID-19 going on it still has been really fun so far. NYLT is usually a week long, similar to summer camp, but because of COVID it has been broken up into two separate weekends. I have learned so much from this experience. A great example of an exercise they use is the spaghetti marshmallow challenge, it is where you get 18 minutes to build a self standing structure with only spaghetti noodles (uncooked), a marshmallow that has to be on the top, and tape. My group had a hard time thinking of something that would work, but we managed it.