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MoosetheItalianBlacksmith

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  1. Well there are schools Such as MCC that teach it and would be a great place to hit up either the teachers or the students to teach it. Then you can go to any machine shop or metal works place and ask staff if they are willing to teach. Near us we have GE aviation and Portsmouth Naval ship yard we can ask about it from. People are genrally more then willing to help out...and this is one of those feilds we need lots of people but not alot wanna do it now adays so for a chance ot pass on their craft most....i wont say all would be happy to help. There are also groups like guilds a
  2. Every one round here wears them over their left uniform pocket. A lot of people sleeves are for saying what you do and where you come from (Patrol council troop ect. position). And then the front of the uniform is for telling people who you are and what youve accomplished (Knots pins name tags, Recent event patches, OA ect.). I know some of its not regulation but thats how we do it up here and we like it. They are still wearing the same uniforms as everyone else.
  3. I really love the mentor pin thing its really a very special moment and a great time to thank the person that helped you get where you are today. I presented mine to a lady who has since passed away but was so powerful in our council (even though she was only a COR) that she was called the godmother of scouting in our area. She was good enough that if she said jump every boy and every adult including Council Executive said how high. Everybody loved her. Great lady and there was no such thing as a gray area with her....it was right or it was wrong. She had ever awarded imaginable in scouti
  4. Jay K there are welders all over the country you can hit up to be MBC's. they dont have to be formaly involved with a unit...and in fact it might be better if they arnt cause they wouldnt be registering with unit only. I myself plan on teaching it when it comes out because thats what im in school for.
  5. Jay K there are welders all over the country you can hit up to be MBC's. they dont have to be formaly involved with a unit...and in fact it might be better if they arnt cause they wouldnt be registering with unit only. I myself plan on teaching it when it comes out because thats what im in school for.
  6. Hey thats what im going to college for....it should be intresting People will really need to be carful of burns because my school is in the mindframe of saftey is number one priority (which it should be) but still its a rare day i dont come home with a burn of some kind. Id teach it....im glad their getiing some usful badges back and i kinda wish i could become a youth again just for a little while to do that badge. intrestlingly enough it was the blacksmithing in the metalwork meritbadge that made me want to be a blacksmith and welder.
  7. Neither my fianc or I said to do one on ones with everybody.....as weve always said if you can get a big enough group than well set up a special course for you.....they havent been to training for awhile.....we should have enough people. After we get the bulk trained then we can work with the one on one program or do it again when they have another group of people. People Love the way the IOLS is running and Scouting is about outing so there should be some camping involved. The point is to teach them basic skills that the scouts should know about outdoors and part of that is camping.
  8. Clear up a few things I am in college for welding and doing relatively well. But I still see friends as much as I did before and am really swamped with homework. My mother assumes that because she didnt see me talk with friend that means I didnt. Which as many people know is not always the case. As she mentioned homework takes me at least twice as long as anybody else therefore Would skip going to friends houses because there generally was work that needed to be done....but I also needed to relax once in awhile so Id take a break and then return to work later. Ive gone to friends houses a
  9. My parents made it real clear I had to get both done....and then left it as a choice to me on whether I was going to scouts or not. This taught me to be a little more self sufficient and make my own decisions. They never kept me from going to scouts but on a very rare occasion I made that decision on my own. It always felt so weird to not be there. And sometimes that strange-ness actually interrupted whatever I was doing and made it harder to do. So I didnt get a whole lot more done than if I had gone to scouts and did it after. But I think that really is the best way to go ab
  10. It amy be big....but man would it be worth it!! It would absolutly facinate everyone.
  11. The online Trainings bore me and I do every so often but when I teach the actual ones people have to come to I have as much class interaction and physical learning as I can. I also ask at the end of every class how I can make the class better for the next one and I implement those ideas. Every training we have done has been better than the last and people have always enjoyed coming to our trainings and learning new things and meeting new people. So there is a major difference between the online and physical trainings. But I have to agree that lecturing and quizzing are boring and not
  12. At no point was I bragging but merely making a point that its a typical reaction or this extreme situation. They talked about it because somebody brought it up and when not doing anything people tend to talk about lots of different things.after awhile the topic changed to something more scout related. On the other issue....some people do base opinions off of extreme situation and apparently your one of them. This would be one of those debatable issues because you got the people that think as you do and then those who think like I do because they realize all bets are off and people arent a
  13. Bevah that was a fascinating read and its not something I would typically read. But it supports conclusions I had come up with by comparing our culture to others. Amazing read.....Im gonna keep that article. "When we treat teens like adults, they almost immediately rise to the challenge." I can attest to that and have seen it in multiple time already....they teens that get babied are the ones that cause problems. Treat them as if they were an adult (as I have been treated for most of my life) and they will be an adult. Good read and I recommend everybody read it before sa
  14. Well I found out at our round table to day, while I listened to multiple adults including our DE talk about what exactly they would have done to the guy molesting the kids that I am actually not in an extreme. Not even remotely I was very subdued and in the middle compared to what every one of those Older Scouters were saying. And that was a very large group of people discussing that at the Round table not one was even close to as gentle with the guy as I was. Just food for thought that it isnt just young people that want to go beat the crap out of the guy....in fact the young m
  15. Theres a difference between getting physical for the sake of getting physical and doing it in extreme situations. The situation that was being discussed would constitute as an extreme situation and I know nobody would argue with that. I am not the only person on this forum alone that said that they would have gotten the kid out. And I know I am certainly not the only person in the world (on the contrary pretty much everybody does this) who will exaggerate ever so slightly so that it is made perfectly clear where they stand on a subject and they wont have to explain themselves as much.
  16. As you may be wondering why "Whenever any question arises pertaining to the suitability of "young adults" to serve as Scouters, several "young adults" regularly pipe up listing out their qualifications" This is because as the statement says they are talking about what young adults are capable and in capable of doing and if they are fit for doing different things. This being the case I do not think it unreasonable to give some examples of what young adults can and have done. Some adults have even gone back in their mind and told of what they were doing around that time. This is
  17. Engeneer61- Some food for thought (I meant to post earlier but I got rushed out of the house).... Im still in the Young adult age group and I have already been a JASM, ASM, and outdoor Coordinator (at which I was told I was the best they had had in a while). I sit on the Eagle board for my district; I am a District Trainer and becoming the Co-district Training Chair. I am a merit Badge Counselor, the highest trained person in my troop, and have recently become an ACM and have lead more than one outdoor activity. I was a Certified Lifeguard and Swim teacher and I have used my first aide
  18. Engenieer61.....your stereotyping of young adults is grossly negligent. I myself am 21 Given the situation in which you are talking about I know for a fact I would have on in and beat the crap out of those adults and gotten the kid out of there and I know many many young adults that would do the same. I even know kids that would have acted. What happened was a bad situation and the 28 year didnt handle it as appropriately as he should.....but at the very least he tried to stop it from happening in the future by reporting it. Young adults dont always have the experience in diff
  19. Well Im glad I didnt end up going too far for college because I would have tried to join a troop where ever I ended up. And we tell every one of our boys to think about looking into troops where ever they go in order to stay involved with scouting. The younger adults have a tendency to be able to connect with the boys better and be more up to date with the program as they just went through it. Im saying this generally as some leaders will put nose to grind stone and learn every little change since they left and some young adults just didnt pay attention. The young adults are a great
  20. This will be good a herd of scouts with beards like mine!!! I was jokingly asked if i was the inspiration for this ad campaign..... to the best of my knowladge i am not. BUT GO BEARDS !!!
  21. If their all in some form of formal wear that fine I have nothing against that.....I personally feel that because it is a BSA board the Members on it are representatives of the BSA and should be in full uniform. But if youre all going to wear suits and ties thats fine your still putting a good foot forward....its just not the foot id put forward. Id much rather go to an eagle board in a uniform than a suit and tie. Partly because Im not a dressy person and partly because Ive come to love the BSA uniform as a representative of the BSA. Another person made a good point they dont say the boy
  22. To me there is no question here.....where ever possible the board should be in full uniform. If they are worried about the boy being nervous around them then they do what we did in our district and make it a requirement for them to get their projects approved by us so they get to see us and learn who we are and it isnt as scary the next time they come up. And if they follow the program right there will be a member of the board that they were given as an advisor that they will be in contact with and should show up to some project stuff. After all that they have at least one person t
  23. I am a member of the Eagle board in my district and have been for a few years. We Always where our uniforms as something to be proud of and as a positive role model to the boys that are coming in front of us. We do have the occasional night where a member couldnt make it home from what they were doing or didnt have time to change. but a person every so often is unavoidable. We still have a very strong showing of uniform though. I belive that if you want to help out in direct contact with boys you need to be willing to have a uniform and wear it with pride....id like to see that f
  24. He was able to kind of explain that the project would have served the military/vetran community... and the head of our eagle board even made note of this as a vetran himself. There was a community that was being serviced there.....but the project as a whole just didnt leave you with the feeling of it and as individual parts seemed more focused on the boy himself.
  25. I have not picked any battles..Im merely stating where this will go. Years of history in many differnt feilds show us that. Only way I can see it not going that way is if they tighten it up or the districts and councils continue to maintain a standard that can be associated with an Eagle Scout project. Thus making sure it continues to be a worthwhile Endeavour. And in case you havent come across me on any other forums I am very direct and I will tell it to you like it is. I dont pull punches.
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