The Omaha Philatelic Society enthusiastically promotes the educational benefits of stamp collecting through our youth programs.
Scouting Programs
We provide philatelic materials and give presentations to the Boy Scouts in support of earning the Stamp Collecting Merit Badge. Four educational exhibit frames (shown below) specially designed to help scouts complete items in the Merit Badge Workbook are made available during Omaha Philatelic Society merit badge support events.
Free Stamps For Youths
All of our stamp shows include a youth table, where worldwide stamps are offered to young collectors for free.
Stamp show youth table loaded with free stamps
Educational exhibit frame illustrating definitive and special-purpose stamps, envelopes with cachets, first-day covers, perforation gauges, special-issue, and se-tenant stamps
A second educational exhibit frame addressing the basics of philately and safe storage and mounting of stamps, as well as commemorative and memorial stamps
A third educational frame showing pictorial cancels, special cancels, how to mount covers, post cards, souvenir sheets, perfins, and cut squares
A fourth educational frame displaying plate blocks, plate number coils, Cinderella stamps, cancelled-to-order (CTO) stamps, the transportation coil series, and black heritage stamps