Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 - 2:47 pm

Boy Scouts Troop 276 visits PUC center to earn Computer Merit Badge

An article published in the nwitimes, April 10, 2012
Jonathan Miano | The Times

The Boy Scouts of America Calumet Council Troop 276 from Lansing visited the Center for Innovation Through Visualization and Simulation on Monday at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond. The Scouts were earning their Computer Merit Badge.

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Brandon Meyers, a member of Boy Scouts of America Calumet Council Troop 276 in Lansing, interacts in a groundwater simulation model in a 3-D Immersive Virtual Reality System on Monday at the Center for Innovation Through Visualization and Simulation at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond. The trip will help the Scouts earn their Computer Merit Badges.

Boy Scouts from Calumet Council Troop 276 in Lansing, including Jack Downs, foreground, walk Monday through the Miner Cluster super computer at the Center for Innovation Through Visualization and Simulation at Purdue Unversity Calumet in Hammond.

Boy Scout Justin Meyers, from Calumet Council Troop 276 in Lansing, interacts in a model of the Purdue University main campus in a 3-D Immersive Virtual Reality System on Monday at the Center for Innovation Through Visualization and Simulation at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond.

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