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This problem isn't unique to the 3 day weekend courses. I just heard yesterday from the SPL at my experimental course in 2000. He is now the course director for a 5 day course planned for August 2002 in the PA Dutch area. As of now his course is only half full and he is concerned that he'll have to cancel it if he doesn't meet the minimum enrollment. If you're interested in attending I'm sure that they would love to have you join.

Hooooooold everything! Who said anything about urbanizing the program or eliminating the 'outing' in Scouting? The outdoors continues to be an important setting to instill the values of the Scout Oath and Law. You have obviously been around a long time and have seen many changes during your Scouting career. You can probably list many more than I can--but how about Tiger Cubs? They didn't exist when I was a Cub. I started as a Bobcat, then moved on to Wolf. Remember the Lion rank before moving to Webelos? Well, Lions don't exist anymore. Over the years the program has been con

As I mentioned, my course was experimental and in part was designed to test different ways to present the new material to see which method was most effective. Staff feedback from the 8 experimental courses held throughout the country will be combined into the final version that will be rolled out in July. As a result, the course that I took is not the final version that will be rolled out in July. I would speak to someone in your local Council who is either trained as a staffer for the new course or takes it after July. They should be willing to share the information with you.

The Wood Badge course is changing significantly effective July 2001. The new course will focus on leadership skill development and is open to all Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Venture leaders. I took one of the experimental courses with the new program in August 2000 and thought it was great. I had never taken the previous Boy Scout Wood Badge, but I understand that much of the tradition is retained in the new one. Courses before July 2001 will use the old Boy Scout program, but those after will all be the new one. We did spend a few hours on outdoor skills and did an overnight with our patrol