Badges

Photo: Anne Brataas, for Boreal Corps

Broadband Day on the Hill. The freshly gilded 4-horse quadriga sculpture entitled “The Progress of the State” proclaims the front entryway of the majestic Minnesota State Capitol. The Capitol was the site March 15 of a Boreal Corps civic engagement field trip. Boreal Corps editor and Lutsen resident Sammie Garrity traveled with her mother Linda Garrity to take part in the state's first ever "Broadband Day on the Hill." Sammie testified and spoke with legislators about the importance of broadband internet to rural areas, emphasizing that having reliable highspeed service such as that available in Cook County makes creating this Boreal Corps' online newspaper possible! Besides the Capitol visit, Boreal Corps field trip included a behind-the-scenes tour of the Minnesota History Center where we saw, among other things, an early map of Minnesota that didn't have Lake Superior on it!

Badge Certifications

At Boreal Corps, we're proud of what we know and can do and have mastered: we're making the internet hum with our insights, arguments, poetry, illustrations, maps, cartoons and more.

We earn certificate merit badges for digital achievements and place digital badge tokens on the web pages we build, or sew cloth badges onto our clothing or backpacks.