Inventing MB

Supernova Award Merit Badge (www.scouting.org/STEM)

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Age Guide: G

Prerequisites: All scouts are asked to begin # 6 – thinking of an item to invent and be prepared to discuss it. Scouts who wish may also complete the advance work for or begin #’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 before the session.

Angelo Pitassi

Angelo A. Pitassi Jr. is the president and co-founder of HealthID Profile Inc., a company that makes tech-savvy and fashionable medical identification bracelets.

Pitassi, a native Rhode Islander and an alumnus from both the University of Rhode Island and Johnson and Wales University, was inspired to start the company after his son was diagnosed with diabetes.