Today we shipped Corwin off for a full day of Boy Scout merit badge camp — two four hour sessions. At the end he finished two badges, Eletronics and Engineering. Not that his parents could have helped with those. Although I did help a bit, the night before around 8PM when Corwin said to me, “hey, I need to study up on this, that, and the other thing for my merit badge camp [which starts at 7:30AM, but hey! no rush]”.
I didn’t get any report on much this bit of preparation served to help. Only that Corwin came home with his first electronic circut, with a transister, an LED, and a couple of resisters. He also achieved his life long dream of soldering. He noted that it was actually a bit harder than it looked.