RememberSchiff
-
Content Count
7384 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
210
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Articles
Store
Posts posted by RememberSchiff
-
-
Upcoming Jana Marie Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) virtual courses.
Register:
https://janamariefoundation.org/bsa-qpr/
-
1
-
-
Found this Webinar BSA Renewal System Overview. Q&A starts at 33:00
-
2
-
-
21 hours ago, mrjohns2 said:
Everyone has different reasons for going to camp.
Brought back some camp memories...
"WHYY’s (PBS) arts and culture reporter Peter Crimmins first became interested in radio in the fourth grade, when he smuggled a contraband crystal-diode radio into the Boy Scout summer camp. Subsequent radio projects were more successful."
-
1
-
-
-
1
-
-
-
Seems to be discontinued in our Scout Shop. Found something similar (canvas, not felt) in Australian Scout Shop - Scout Canvas Drovers Hat.
https://scoutshop.com.au/products/scout-canvas-drovers-hat
https://barmahhats.com/product/1057-canvas-drover/
-
I'm not an expert but have read about FCC Low Power FM station licenses. Maybe?
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/low-power-fm-lpfm-radio
Many resource links here
Enabling FM radio on cellphones?
-
1
-
-
Back to @scoutldr point, is parent authorization obtained during this my.scouting transfer?
(I'm old)
-
Cinnaminson, NJ: Another example - scouts portraying victims in a mass casualty drill
During the (mass casualty) drill, which was designed to simulate a high-intensity emergency situation on NJ TRANSIT’s River LINE, the Boy Scouts pretended to be the victims of the staged transportation accident. The exercise aimed to test the response capabilities of local emergency services, including first responders, transit police, and medical personnel.
The drill scenario involved a mock collision between a car and a train, requiring a coordinated response from multiple agencies.
Troop 13's involvement provided a unique learning opportunity for the scouts, immersing them in the intricacies of emergency response protocols and the importance of preparedness in the face of unforeseen events. The Scouts, who even put on makeup to simulate injuries, were tasked with acting out various roles, ranging from the injured to the critically wounded. This setup provided a realistic challenge for the emergency responders, testing their ability to triage and manage a large amount of victims efficiently.
Sources:
-
1
-
-
CHICAGO, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- This March, in celebration of International Women's Day and Girl Scouts' 112th birthday, United is encouraging MileagePlus® members to donate miles to Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) to help fund life-changing experiences for Girl Scouts through travel.
United will match the first one million miles raised for GSUSA through Miles on a MissionSM, United's leading fundraising and crowdsourcing program, giving MileagePlus members a chance to use their miles for good. Travel is an essential part of many Girl Scouts' journeys as they are encouraged to explore, make global connections and cultivate skills they can use for the rest of their lives. More than 59,000 Girl Scouts traveled either domestically or internationally in 2023, with many troops funding their own adventures with money earned through the Girl Scout Cookie Program®.
"We are honored to be the featured partner for United's Miles on a Mission program this month," said Wendy Lou, Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Membership, GSUSA. "As we come to a close on our 2024 cookie season and many are figuring out creative ways to use their cookie proceeds, including travel, we hope this program can help them take their travel dreams even farther."
More at source:
-
1
-
-
03.12.2024 U.S. Army Garrison Benelux
Story by Sandra Wilson
Participation in girl troops has increased on Benelux installations. Girls attend the weekly meetings and campouts, just as the boy troops, where they find camaraderie and build upon skills and leadership. Additionally, the standards and merit badges that the girls achieve mirror those of the boy troops.
“Before we didn’t have the numbers to have our own girl troop so the youth that were involved had to meet with an online troop,” said Chris Stewart, scoutmaster of Troop 100 G in Brunssum.
“I came in a year and a half ago with absolutely no skills for camping or scouting,” said Kirstin Heist, scoutmaster of Troop 325 G at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Belgium. “I am learning with the scouts.”
....
Upcoming trips include camping on Omaha Beach in Normandy in April and taking a trip to Kenya in December. Campouts happen regularly throughout the year. Additionally, all the troops welcome an international mix of scouts and often partner with local national scouting groups to use their facilities or build skills together.
The benefit of living overseas not only offers scouts an international experience but also the chance to visit sites of historical significance. Seeing first-hand the memorial sites and the battle grounds of wars fought creates a more tangible learning environment for the scouts to bolster appreciation and respect.Scout salute,
Great article with photos
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/465947/scouts-bsa-expand-girl-troops-engage-skill-building
-
2
-
-
Prattville, AL:
The participants from BSA Troop 25 participated in a practice drill with the Prattville Fire Department (PFD) and Autauga County Emergency 911 Communication Center.
...
Members of the PFD Sergeant Zach Gibbons and Captain Kyle Brock began by discussing the Incident command structure for handling an emergency situation. Additional members of PFD assisted with individual instructions for the Scouts on how to shut off service to home water and electrical, as well as how to safely mark them in a disaster situation and inform responders upon arrival.
“This event is very important to help encourage youth to understand how the community operates together to respond to emergencies when they happen. The knowledge these scouts have learned here today will hopefully translate not only into a better prepared citizen, but also one that will step in to fulfill one of these responder roles in the future,” Gillespie said.
Members of the 911 center, Emily Herring and Caleb McGowin, were on hand to explain to the Scouts what the purpose and role 911 plays during an emergency and how the process initiates, with a call to the center from an impacted member of the community, to how it is dispatched to all the emergency services needed.
Once the Scouts were given the introductory information within both areas, a simulated emergency was initiated involving a tornado. The scouts were involved in receiving the call at the 911 center which started the exercise drill. Once the 911 process was completed the scouts then moved to the training aids at the rear of the fire station and executed the proper shutoff and shutdown procedures as needed.
I like how this merit badge class was put together not only content and actual facilities but also use of the Adult Association method.
-
1
-
-
34 minutes ago, InquisitiveScouter said:
OK, but I do not understand why that should matter...
Maybe it is old-school me. Apparently it doesn't matter to that Council and it works for them.
If Council asked me to volunteer for an adult-only Easter Egg Hunt, Costume contest fundraiser at OUR Camp, I would assume it was an April Fool Joke and hang up.
If Council asked me to volunteer for Family Easter Egg Hunt, I would be hiding milk chocolate bunny ears (eggs? real scouts eat ears! Arrrg!) on an orienteering course.
Different strokes for different folks ...YMMV,
-
It is not a family event, it is not a youth event.
-
I was not expecting UP arrows.
This event is contrary to my thinking of a council fundraising event, but it must be working, if this is their 6th year.
-
On 3/4/2024 at 5:02 AM, InquisitiveScouter said:
Scouting is for adults as well. Some, with good intentions perhaps, go overboard and neglect the primacy of our mission to youth... but I have seen adults who really blossom in the program.
"Sagamore Council is hosting Indiana's largest adult only Easter egg hunt next week. Registration is $25 and is open to the public but participates must be 18 years and older. In addition to over 50,000 eggs in the egg hunt, over 2,000 prizes will be given out. Guests can also enjoy food and drinks from seven vendors, live music, a costume contest, yard games, and more."
"Let’s have fun like the kids do!! The 6th Annual Scouting 4 Eggs Adult Easter Egg Hunt presented by Caterpillar is a GO! ...Over 1,000 prizes to be given out including a chance to win sports tickets/memorabilia, artwork, gift cards, big screen tv, and more amazing prizes.
We will have live music, a photo booth, Easter-inspired costume contest, Easter Bunny, yard games, and much more!
Glow sticks will be on sale to brighten up the night! FREE SMORES for everyone! The campfire rings will be back so bring a lawn chair if you want to enjoy sitting around the fires.
Since the event is being held at Scout Camp, no alcohol will be served/allowed at this event. The cost is $25 per person. Don’t forget your flashlight and closed toed shoes."
Sources:
-
2
-
-
@Scout368 welcome to scouter.com
-
03/09/2024: Interview with Scouts Canada CEO CEO Liam Burns
You’ve been on the job for almost a year now, what do you see as Scouts Canada’s most pressing challenges?
"The biggest thing that keeps me up at night is that scouting was in decline right up to COVID. Since then we’ve recovered strongly — last year we had 22 per cent growth, this year we’ll have about nine per cent growth — but nothing is fundamentally different. So logically we presume that growth curb will plateau and start to come down, and there’s no evidence the status quo is going to work, so the question is, what needs to change?
Another challenge is that our digital infrastructure is an absolute mess for all the sorts of reasons legacy organizations would give. At times it took four hours for someone to register their young person. Unless you’re getting a Taylor Swift ticket, that’s unacceptable.
We’ve just taken on a director of digital transformation, and we’re excited about what we can build, but it’s going to take millions in investment, so we’re starting to think about how we get permission for that from our governance and our members.
As far as diversity and inclusion, we’re an organization that has an awful lot of baggage. We just made an apology for the harm we caused Indigenous communities. When you talk to successful business leaders that have been scouts, they always talk about how scouting gave them a leg up, and if we’re doing that only for the more privileged families in Canada, that’s a moral hazard. So understanding our current demographics and how we change that is something we need to get much better at.
The last thing I’ll talk about is partnerships. There are so many amazing organizations out there dedicated to giving young people skills for life, so how can we have better relationships with other organizations and corporate entities? That’s something we need to figure out."
More at Source:
-
"The conference registration fee for the 2024 National Annual Meeting is $825 and includes a box lunch in the exhibit hall on Tuesday and Wednesday this year. Registration on site will be very limited due to cutoff dates with the hotel. Onsite registration fee will be $900 and will be limited."
*The cutoff date to register for the National Annual Meeting is Friday, March 29th.
No word if any meetings or sessions will be streamed via youtube.
-
2
-
-
Former scout, Abigail Sanford is a fish and wildlife biologist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"I am a fish and wildlife biologist with the Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office Central Coast Division, and I largely help analyze impacts to threatened and endangered species. I am the species lead for the San Joaquin kit fox and the blunt-nosed leopard lizard.
In high school, I knew I wanted to go to college, but had no idea what I wanted to study. When it came time to select a major, it was like staring at a blank wall hoping an answer would appear. So I spoke to one of my mentors at Scouts BSA (Boy Scouts of America). He gave me the advice to go into a major that would allow me to really explore and utilize my ‘jack-of-all-trades' skills. At the time, I knew that an environmental major could lead to a lot of different kinds of jobs like teaching, communications, and biology. So I chose it because I knew it would allow me to further explore what I really wanted to do rather than trying to figure it out while still in high school and not really having a lot of real-world experience yet.
It took me a while to figure out that I wanted to be a biologist. It was actually internships at the USFWS that were vital in helping me identify that I wanted to be a biologist and work at the Service."
Much more at Source:
https://www.fws.gov/story/2024-01/abigail-sanford-faces-fish-and-wildlife-service
-
2
-
-
15 hours ago, HashTagScouts said:
I was in Minneapolis a few months ago. Huge "office" there. I think they even had an indoor rock climbing facility.
Hinds is appropriate for PTC. Took Daniel Webster a while to realize Camp Carpenter was appropriate for their HQ as well.
Thanks you made my point better than I.
“Northern Star Council, Boy Scouts of America's headquarters is at our Base Camp … an urban camp facility located right in the Twin Cities, near historic Fort Snelling. We offer indoor and outdoor programs year-round for every type of youth and adult groups!
Base Camp is available for any type of youth group. We have program combinations that use some, or all, of our Base Camp activities including rock climbing, archery, high ropes course, space shuttle simulator, robotics, and biking! We also offer lock-in programs, birthday parties, and special events for groups.
It’s a HQ, it’s a Camp. It’s open to Scouts. It’s open to the community.
It’s the future of Council HQ’s? It’s financially self-sustaining?
Sources:
-
1
-
-
8 hours ago, RememberSchiff said:
MORE EXPENSIVE. I don't want to spend a dime on a new Council HQ while a camp is in need of maintenance or program upgrades. How many $million dream HQs were built and then sold (Maine comes to mind)
2004: "Boy Scouts, Banknorth officials, Cianbro and other members of the business community broke ground Monday (July 19) on the new 21,000-square-foot Scout Center, the cornerstone of the Pine Tree Council’s $4 million capital campaign. ...
When completed in 2005 the facility will include: a library, a tribute room, a visitor's center, a training room, a scout shop, an audio visual center, resources areas for each of the 10 districts of the Pine Tree Council as well as a lookout so that scouts can watch planes take off and land. (Modern I guess ~RS)
The Pine Tree Council serves more than 18,000 youths through its Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venturing, Learning for Life and Exploring programs in Central and Southern Maine..."
Source:
2016: "In 2005 they (Pine Tree Council) relocated their service center to Western Avenue in South Portland. However, the much larger facility was costing them $133,758 per year. Recently, they sold the building to a group of doctors (Also, former scouts!). This year Scout Executive, Eric Tarbox is happy to announce that they have a balanced budget."
Source:
https://www.scarboroughrotary.org/stories/pine-tree-council-ceo
Today: Pine Tree Council HQ, aka Service Center, is located at Camp William Hinds.
-
1
-
-
It was announced that Dr. Glenn Ault will chair the 2026 Jamboree Committee.
-
Fewer scouts today so councils merge for well you know the script. Seems mostly okay, then a NEW council headquarters building is needed.
MUCH LARGER than the two HQ's it is replacing which served more scouts back when. I mean if we need MORE ROOM to serve fewer scouts, can't we just use the scOUTing DOORS?
MORE MODERN - Internet? Indoor plumbing? Is Scouting now about Modern?
MORE EXPENSIVE. I don't want to spend a dime on a new Council HQ while a camp is in need of maintenance or program upgrades. How many $million dream HQs were built and then sold (Maine comes to mind)
NEW and Council owned, we are hiring an architect! Thrifty? Plenty of empty strip mall space.
Here is what got me going ST. Louis Council to build a new 25,000 sq ft council HQ.
My $0.02,
-
1
-
1
-
Planning for Neurodiverse Scouting
in Open Discussion - Program
Posted · Edited by RememberSchiff
Northern Star Council is offering this in-person conference, unsure about councils.
https://ablescouts.org/2024/03/11/planning-for-neurodiverse-scouting-mini-conference/