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Don't know - I do know that the more lettering you put on the more they cost, but our pack flag is as old as our pack: 45+ years, so we've never had to buy one :-)
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Gunny,
Your council training committee needs to do some serious promotion and re-education.
"It is the goal of the BSA that every leader attend Wood Badge within two years of registering as an adult leader." (National Council web site)
Wood Badge used to be viewed as something for experienced Scouters. Wood Badge for the 21st Century is intended to be leadership training from which ALL leaders can benefit.
We have a local Pack that has FIVE Wood Badge trained leaders. Boy, are they going gangbusters! I'd love to see more Cub Leaders go, but we are still struggling with the mindset that it's a Boy Scout course, seven years into the 21st Century. I personally know a Cub Leader who was ostracized by the other leaders in her pack because she attended Wood Badge, and that's "a Boy Scout course, and not necessary for a Cub Scout Leader".
Our Council held three courses this year (including one in the winter - in Minnesota!) While they were not completely full, they all were well subscribed. Promotion is a big factor in getting people to sign up, but so is word of mouth. Leaders who talk about their Wood Badge experience to others are a greater factor in attendance than anything I know.
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Mine have pilled a little, but not as much as the regular pants. If its a big issue, you might want to invest in one of those little shavers that remove clothing pilling.
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At your local Scout Shop or download the form from:
http://www.scoutstuff.org/BSASupply/images/pdfs/70-381.pdf
Fax or mail to:
BSA
Supply Group
P.O. Box 65989
Charlotte, NC 28265-0989
Fax: 704-588-5822
Phone orders are not accepted for lettered flags.
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Actually, I don't think these aren't available from BSA supply any longer. You may be able to find them on eBay. They currently have some other old Scout molds available.
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Hi Dave!
The source for this monthly document is the Cub Scout Roundtable Guide. The guide is intended for use by Roundtable commissioners and staff members as the syllabus or plan for the monthly Cub Scout Leader Roundtable. The Pack Resource sheet is intended to be photocopied for distribution to the RT attendees, as a supplement to Program Helps. The edition currently listed on Scoutstuff:
is last year's but the 2007-2008 edition is available, because I have it already (I am our district Cub RT Commissioner).
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It's available on Scoutstuff:
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We use ScoutTrack for our pack. Most of the parents have computer access and are very good about entering acheivements, particularly if we send a reminder the week before the pack meeting
. However, ScoutTrack makes it very easy to do that. We send an e-mail using the interface on the web site, and it does the trick.The centralization of records, the ease of communication, and the reports are the features we find most attractive about this system.
In the dens where record keeping, or submission of advancements has been an issue, our solution has been for the den leader to delegate that job to a parent with that skill set. It's worked very well, particularly with ScoutTrack. We just give the den "advancement" person the rights to change all the den's records, and that usually takes care of the issue.
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You may also be interested in the "camp Health Officer" training available here as a self study module:
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I can't speak to your specific question, but you should know that each council has a licensed physician whose responsibility it is to oversee the medical care provided at camps, operated under the National Camp Standards.
The standards say:
"The council has engaged a physician licensed to practice
medicine
as a health supervisor to approve and oversee the health
care practices of this camp. Current written operating procedures
are approved annually by the licensed physician."
Your questions about protocols should be directed to the council camping director, who can put you in contact with the counci'ls health supervisor.
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The BSA calls this roadmap the "Traiing Continuum":
http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts/resources/18-390/
Note the link to the Boy Scout Leader Assessment tool:
www.scouting.org/boyscouts/training/start.jsp
This is an online "test" you can take to see how you're doing.
Here's a visual representation of the continuum:
http://www.northernstarbsa.org/Graphics/GIF/TrainingContinum.gif
You will also find the Units of Supplemental Training useful:
http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts/supplemental/index.html
Finally - take a look here:
This is my council's attempt to answer this question for leaders:
http://blank.nsbsa.org/Training/
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Corey - you want to get your hands on a copy of the Cub Scout leader Book. It has most of the policies and procedures you need to run a pack.
This is the national council web site about Cub Scouting:
http://www.scouting.org/nav/cs/l-main.html
Click on the resources for new leaders link.
This site - run by volunteer scouter is very helpful:
http://www.geocities.com/~pack215/
This site can also be helpful:
http://cubmaster.org/virtualcubscoutleaderbook.asp
Please give us some more specifics about your pack and what you can do to help.
Feel free to PM me if you'd like.
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The themes work well, when you're able to use them. They are not for everyone, though. The thing run the risk of losing is boy involvement in the pack meetings. If your dens aren't using the themese, then there is less for them to "do" as part of the pack meeting.
Pack meetings shouldn't just be boys and parents passively sitting, watching and being entertained. Pack meetings should *involve* the boys. Without the themes, then den leaders have to work harder to come up with skits, songs, demonstrations, etc.
Den leaders and parents like den meetings where they knock off a few requirements each week. It gets the parents off the hook for the advancement. It makes the den leader feel as if the meeting accomplshed something. But it doesn't prepare the Scouts to participate in the den meeting. That takes extra work on the den leaders part.
Use the themes as a way to give the Scouts something to DO at the meetings, even if it's just a couple games and a craft for a gathering activity. At least they'll be actively participating not passive.
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Elective 23A could be fulfilled by a Wolf Cub participating in a Pack Family Campout OR by the pack's participation in a Council overnight camp. This could be a Council Organized Family Camp, or a Resident Camp.
Elective 23F could ONLY be completed by participating in a council-run Resident Camping program, operated under the National Standards for Cub Scout/Boy Scout Resident Camps, #19-108.
See: Cub Scout Outdoor Program Guidelines for 2007, for more descriptions of Cub Scout Outdoor Program Opportunities.
http://www.thunderbsa.org/forms/CubScoutOutdoorGuidelines.pdf
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The BSA has a process, described in this unit of supplemental training:
http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts/supplemental/18-626/index.html
Basically, it consists of making a list of qualified candidates, approaching the most qualified one first, and if they accept, having him/her approved by the Chartered Organization.
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"infoscouter, I think that was exactcly what GNX guy was saying. Den Leaders wear the same den patch their scouts wear. Although, I've always seen that as standard practice, it seems to conflict with the specific reg that John-in-KC sited. I imagine that it must be specified somewhere as an exception."
Oh - I get it. DUH. I thought it was a reference to some "adult" den, for CMs, etc. Sorry - space cadet day, I guess.
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"What about in the Cub Scout program. Den Leaders wear the "Den 11" patch or the "Alligator" den patch? "
Huh? I've been involved in Cub Scouting for 17 years at a pack, district and council level. I have *never* seen an adult Cub Scouter wear a den patch to which s/he was not entitled (by virtue of being a den leader).
This must be a local practice of some sort.
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Yes, the Summertime Pack Award is worn pinned through the Outdoor Activity Award.
From the May-June 2006 issue of "Scouting":
Editor's note: The National Summertime Pack Award is another award Cub Scouts wear pinned on the center of the right pocket flap. If a Cub Scout earns both the Outdoor Activity Award and the National Summertime Pack Award, the activity award patch should be affixed to the pocket flap first. Then the National Summertime Pack Award pin should be pinned through the center of the patch. Subsequent summertime award pins and/or Outdoor Activity Award wolf track pins should also be affixed through the patch.)
Hope that answers the question.
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Oh - Amen, brother. I love the smell of woodsmoke on my clothes and hair. A couple weeks ago I helped with a special need LFL event. Made a small campfire to make s'mores for the kids. I was SO bummed when I had to take a bath for work, and wash the smell out of my hair.
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The one with the Gold Embroidery is the current one. See:http://www.scoutstuff.org/BSASupply/images/05NDC/images/00380.jpg
The silver embroidered version is available on eBay. Search for item #
110119550735.
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Yeah - the GTSS says"
"Pointing any type of firearm (including paintball, dye, or lasers) at any individual is unauthorized. However, law enforcement departments and agencies using firearms in standard officer/agent training may use their training agenda when accompanied with appropriate safety equipment in the Law Enforcement Venturing program."
So, I think the laser tag is out, too. However, have you taken them to a commercial climbing facility? They can climb, just not rapell to descend (That's per "Age Appropriate Guidelines for Scouting Activities".)
Since they liked orienteerin you could try geocaching or letter boxing.
You've got your troop visits coming up (you should start ASAP). Those will eat into some of your field trip dates, because you'll want to see several troops and maybe camp with a couple, so they have those to look forward to as well.
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I believe the BSA tightly controls appearances of actual Scouts and the use of uniforms in the media, particularly theatrical productions. If an official uniform is worn (such as in Down and Derby or Spiderman III) the BSA has given permission. The lawyers for the production company will have made sure, since they know that there are legal issues of trademarks and licensing involved.
Scouts who show up at things like the Today Show, are less likely to have been "cleared", due to the impromptu nature of the event.
The Destiny's Child example is one where someone got their hands on a used uniform and wore it as a "costume". The Insignia Guide states something to the effect that uniforms and insignia are for the use of registered members only. I believe the BSA's lawyers got involved here.
Read more about this: http://www.mninter.net/~blkeagle/celebs.htm
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Unfortunately, the syllabus and training materials have not been updated since the 2005 changes in the Tiger program. We use the videos, and power points as they are, and make a point of mentioning the changes. In particular, we talk about the blue shirts, and the Bobcat before Tiger switch.
There is a new set of training posters (which I have yet to get my hands on)
It is item #34876A - and has just been released in the last month.
The handouts for the position specific courses are pretty sketchy. The most important one is the Tiger Cub Den Meeting Planning form #33221: http://www.scouting.org/cubscouts/resources/33221/34-13.pdf
I find the planning exercise to be one of the most useful sections of the position specific training. Actually having the leaders use Program Helps and other resources to plan a meeting really gives them a sense of what they're supposed to be doing. With Tiger leaders I emphasize the fact that they should be doing this in conjunction with the host partner for that meeting.
The pack program planning chart is in the center of Program Helps, so having a separate one isn't essential.
Hope this helps - let me know if you have other questions. I am a Pack Trainer and our district's Cub Scout Training coordinator.
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Thursday - Archery instructor for LFL day camp for special needs students
Saturday - Archery range officer for a pack
June 1-3 Pack Graduation campout
June 23 Pack parade unit in local civic parade
June 30 District Day camp
July ? Visit to local velodrome for pack outing
August 12-18 Philmont! Where I will be helping teach the session on Cub Scout Roundtables.
oh yeah, some place in there my niece's baby shower (this makes me a great aunt 11 times!); my all-class HS reunion; my 30th college reunion; and my 28th wedding anniversary.
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Actually, the newest edition of the Cub Scout Leader book has a section on the National Parent Initiative. It lists over 100 different jobs parents can help with in a pack. See pages 5-4 through 5-8 of the newest (yellow covered) version.