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Well… as of this week, we now officially have a new scout in the family. I delivered to the council all of the new members of my Tiger den. Not to be outdone, the oldest also passed his BoR for First Class!
Last night was our annual Blue & Gold banquet for the pack. It was yet another successful B&G and better yet, I was rather removed from the event. Better only in the fact that the event was in good hands of several others and they simply didn’t need me to a large degree — I was able…
One of the things that I’ve prided myself on is the running of an efficient committee meeting. Part of that ability stems from having a meeting agenda BEFORE the meeting, but even better, using that same agenda for the meeting minutes.
Today was the final day of WashJam 2012. I was pretty impressed with how the whole thing went. It’s quite a feat to put on such an event of this size and I think the folks from the Pacific Harbors Council did an awesome job planning and pulling it off.
I captured this shot at WashJam 2012 where they were letting the boys build some 2 Liter Bottle Rockets and launch them themselves. I wanted to capture this for an idea on how to build my own set of launchers.
For scouts attending WashJam this next week, they will have an opportunity to be some of the first scouts to possibly earn the new Search and Rescue merit badge . Via the WashJam Facebook page, I learned yesterday that one of the requirements is for scouts to take and pass FEMA’s ICS-100 online training and exam…
While watching the meteor shower last night I had the opportunity to try out this free app on the iPad that I learned of via the Scouting Magazine Blog . This is an awesome little app. Simply hold the iPad up and point it towards a cluster of stars and it will tell gyou what your…
I love this place. This cabin has been in the family for many, many years and currently under the loving care of my wife’s brother. Years ago when my in-laws were still alive, we used to come up here nearly every weekend of the summer.
This has to be one of the coolest CSPs I’ve seen. Picked this up at the trading post at Camp Grizzly this year. Now I wonder what sort of patches I’ll be able to score at WashJam.
So… Just how can these two items be combined for DO cooking? Besides a storage compartment for your briquettes, chimney, and other accessories. I made a wonderful discovery today that is going to make using my DO here at the house a lot more convenient.
Who would have thought, 2 simple little fuzzy dice would have such an impact? Several months back on the Cub Scout Talk list on YahooGroups the topic came up about the scout law and how to teach Webelos scouts that element of the Arrow of Light.
I’ve been meaning to post about this training for a while now, but just now finally getting around to it. A couple of weeks ago our outgoing Cubmaster and I put on our first BALOO training. I have been wanting to do more training and finally discovered that if I want to do training, then…
file:///SDCard/BlackBerry/pictures/IMG00043-20120316-2017.jpg.rem Arrived at Camp Parsons for a weekend service project with the Troop. 6 scouts and 3 adults in all. Quickly setup the stove and warmed up some stew. All the scouts are now settled in for the night. Eager to see what tomorrow brings as we’ve been itching to get out camping for a…
I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now, so with the downtime today, it provided the perfect opportunity. During our Pinewood Derby in JanuaryI had created a manual version of Pinewood Derby Trivia cards that I used to quiz the scouts in between heats.
I’m looking forward to the end of April as I will be putting on BALOO training for 6-8 scouters from our Pack. I’ve been asked by the District Training Chair if I would be willing to open it up to other Packs, and I REALLY want to, however, I’m fearful to bite off more than…
Just a few weeks away and I’ve agreed to teach any of the three Merit Badges that I’m a counselor for. So… time to get prepped. This past weekend while attending the Chief Seattle Council’s Program and Training Conference (PTC), I sat in on the Merit Badge Counselor session.
This time as a trainer versus participant. It was a really enjoyable day and one that I look forward to doing again next year. I really questioned the idea of doing two sessions and in all honesty, I believe my second session did suffer.
This one should be easy… Get the yard signs available from your district. I’ve found the best way to get a neat appearance for unit info is to use a stencil and spray paint. Although, I have heard of others printing out their info on paper and then using packing tape to apply it to…
Very nice… Earlier this week I posted an entry on using Business Cards as a recruitment tool . Well, in that line of thought, BSA announced earlier today the availability of these Peer-to-peer recruitment cards that you can print yourself. They are simply a PDF that you can fill out with meeting details, and then either…
Without this one, what’s the point? Boys don’t join to sit in a school setting, they join to have fun! And if they’re not having fun, they won’t tell their friends about scouting. Boys love to share what is fun with their friends.
And the PWD cars always seem to do the trick. The boys see the cars and are immediately drawn to them dragging their parents with them. We have a open kit there too to explain to the boys how the cars start out, how they are built, and then raced.
In my mind, this is one of the more important ones. For people to know about your program, they first have to know that you exist. A couple of moms within the pack made this awesome banner that we’ve used at every opportunity — at the 4th of July parade, Riverfest, Back to School Resource Fair…
Unfortunately, we are not able to go in to the schools to talk to boys as its been set as a rule of the School District and prohibits it. However, what they do allow, we try to take every advantage of.
These have been incredibly handy. Vistaprint will allow you to create a set of 250 business cards for FREE. We used them for our Pack Family and Friends Picnic & BeltLoop Extravaganza. We provided each boy with 4 cards each and they were to hand them out at school inviting another boy and his family to…
I can’t say that we have the perfect recruitment plan, but we have a plan and we’re working it and it appears to be working. Perfect or not, I can share with you all what I believe was beneficial in our recruitment efforts this year.
Tonight I convinced the wife to be a guinea pig for me and test out a new dutch oven recipe for me. The recipe is pretty simple, I’ve seen variants of it everywhere, but this is the first time I’ve tried it.
I shamelessly snagged this idea from here. This is a GREAT project for Webelos scouts working on their Craftsman Activity Badge. All that is needed is a 1 foot piece of 1″x3″ pine and 4 ea 2″ drywall screws. Total cost per scout shouldn’t be more than about $1.00.
At the request of the Heiny family, to join in the celebration of Loren’s life , we were asked to do something as a family. So we decided to build stomp rockets. Not as high tech as some of the stuff Loren worked and played with, but appropriate for a 3 and 10 year old.
Was fortunate enough this evening to catch the “big show” at the national jamboree titled “A Shining Light Across America”. VERY cool that BSA provided a video feed that was broadcast by BYU TV as well as via uStreamTV. Of course, Twitter was active as was the PTC Media chat room.
