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Garmin - Scout Hiker Badge

About Garmin..

Garmin is the World’s leading mobile navigation device company and a global manufacturer of in-car sat navs, portable navigation devices, handheld GPS units, and GPS products for the marine and outdoor sectors.

Garmin are proud to be sponsoring the Scout Hiker Badge. Garmin's GPS handhelds can be used to plan routes, locate positions and even find geocaches or hidden 'treasure'.

This is a great way to make an expedition even more exciting for Scouts. It also meets the requirements of the Scout Hiker Badge to demonstrate an awareness of technology.

Garmin’s partnership with the Scouts, sponsorship of the popular Hiker Badge and its involvement in the Big Adventure, provides an opportunity for thousands of children to discover more about their surroundings, get active and learn new skills in an educational and enjoyable way.

Garmin and the Scouts share a common mission – to provide children and their families with useful life skills and to aid leaders in providing these. Garmin believes that as GPS technology becomes more and more a part of everyday life, children should be able to experience how to use this form of navigation and how rewarding actually being in the great outdoors can be.

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