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Before this sub thread on jarts and dodge ball goes off into the bad place, let's end it and get back on topic.

Pioneering merit badge pamphlet, BSA handbook and BSA fieldbook would be good places to start to learn pioneering skills. Beyond that your Scouts will need some imagination to either envision the thing they are supposed to build - or imagination to turn the drawings/sketches they were given into the real thing. Definitely don't skip that station. Let the Scouts do their best and when they get to that station ask for examples or demonstration. Regardless, how well they do with their lashings, this will be way more memorable than sitting in a merit badge classroom.

1. Scout Handbook Woods Tools section has an OK discussion of lashings. The illustrations are inferior, and you have to parse out the meaning from each of the instructions. 2. The Pioneering Merit Badge pamphlet. 1993 version (1998 printing, if you can find it.) Here's a site https://scoutpioneering.com/older-pioneering-merit-badge-pamphlet/ 3. Practice. You tube videos might help. But, you'll find, there is the right way, the wrong way, and the Scout way 😜 4. Even if they do not have the confidence or ability, do not skip the town. Use their time there to go and ask

This is another stumble during the ugly dance we call chartering. Who's leading and who's following? Who's responsible? BSA needs to move away from a "membership" model and move toward a service fee model for using the BSA program. Or, BSA needs to take ownership and responsibility for the units.

Welcome to the forums. Interesting thread to resurrect. Any particular reason you did? Coincidentally, a discussion of audits came up in my unit recently. As you cite, many civic organizations have standards for when an audit should or must occur. One of the things we reminded ourselves during our discussion is that we are not "an organization" in the conventional sense. We are a subset of a larger organization, the Chartering Organization, in my case a Catholic parish. Our books, our funds, our bank account are not ours --- they're the parish's. It's not really for us to open

One of the reasons we use Scoutbook, is that if you set the RSVP and permission slip required, you can have a Scout manage this themselves. Also, the calendar now supports the Scribe, SPL, ASPL being calendar editors. It really is heading in the right direction on these sorts of items.

I have experienced many apps. I'd encourage you to use ScoutBook for roster and advancement. It has a nice interface and it's the official source. Calendar, communication, finances, etc. I'd be really tempted to use a combination of Google Documents and Facebook. ... OR as our troop did ... the scouts communicate with each other better than we could. Though I have not used ScoutBook much over the last year as my role has changed, I found it only useful for tracking roster, advancement and after-the-fact records (hiking, camping, etc) I'd strongly ... STRONGLY ... encourage fam

I cast my non-POA, non-master, non-e ballot for a mano a mano Tanc v Kosnoff face-off. I’ll buy the live streaming rights, take wagers and we’ll make bank. Venue and form of combat TBD. Stay tuned... By the way, “combat” is used broadly. It includes such things as checkers, one on one dodgeball, reflector oven baking, knots, impersonations, lawn darts, and etc.

Well. In some places. But in the wastelands of some districts, beyond the borders, where DE's and Commissioners fear to tread, the art of dodgeball is still practiced