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We've "failed" a scout for a BOR when the board looked at the date of last rank and realized it hadn't quite been 4 most or 6 mos etc. or that they hadn't actually been in their POR for long enough. or they really didn't have enough merit badges, or enough eagle required merit badges. or that they hadn't been on 10 outings or whatever. or that something in their book wasn't signed as completed even though the sm did the sm conference. GTA says SM conference doesn't have to be the last step, so BOR needs to check the book carefully for the things that they can enumerate to see they were d

This one is similar to http://www.eaglescout.org/finale/coh/template07.html this one http://www.eaglescout.org/finale/coh/template06.html we used one similar to the second for my oldest's eagle ceremony. All of his prior scoutmasters (4 different ones) were involved in some way, but the OA ceremony team did most of the ceremony including starting a ceremonial fire at the beginning. As a vigil member and member of the ceremony team for 6 years, he felt they were a huge part of who he was and a huge part of his Scouting career. So he chose it and that's what was done. He made

since people like to worry about breastfeeding and inappropriate attire/showing skin/what can the boys see kind of protectiveness, what would you do if a teenaged lady comes in to the scout meeting and the boys start oogling and eyeing her with interest? You'd tell them to treat her with respect and knock it off. Similarly if you go to the pool as a troop and someone's mom or sister comes to enjoy a swim at the same place, or if there is a woman as lifeguard or other staff at boy scout camp. sometime somewhere your scouts are going to see the female form in some not completely cover

My worry would be getting into and out of sleeping bag and tent. Wall tent with cots, probably doable. Smaller tents on a sleeping pad on the ground, might be horrible.

With the old belt loops we would write out the award card and then paperclip the belt loop to the back of the card keeping flat edges together. does that make sense?

Our district used to require a Statement of Faith if you weren't a member of a church. Then they were called on it as adding to the requirements and now they just follow the BSA application & requirements so parents do the letter of reference and that's it.

I'm old with old eyes and have my browser window up at 150-200% most of the time. On the my.scouting.org site if your screen is set too large, some of the stuff on the page won't show up at all. no scroll to the side or anything, just not there, cut off. So I have to make it 100% and then look for missing stuff. on training validation page, you highlight what you want to print, and use print preview, there isn't a print button.

Holding you, your whole troop, your scouts and their families in the light.

We have some webelos who crossed over before the end of their 5th grade year without Cyber Chip. They need to earn Cyber Chip in order to get Scout Badge. If they earn the Cyber Chip for their grade in school, isn't the 5th grade cyber chip curriculum linked to the blue cub scout Cyber Chip card with appropriate pledge on the back? But it has a spot for the cubmaster to sign off not unit leader. If we award the green Boy Scout Cyber Chip card, it is designed for the 6-12 grade and has different words in the pledge from that level of online curriculum. So What do you think, which

The summary listing of the requirements were available early, although there was some editing supposed to have happened before they were actually printed into the handbooks and there were the warnings that requirements were subject to change.. I haven't compared to see how large the differences, but a lot of packs held off on making plans until they could read it in the handbooks for themselves. And I don't blame them. Like the print of the requirement changes for boy scouts, there were more than one edition of that out on the interwebs for a while which can make it confusing until you actuall

Hey leather work is a merit badge and a lifelong hobby. It's not "just crafts".

I know a lot of DE's personally and their job depends on their fundraising numbers being high as possible, donations from businesses and Friends of Scouting being primary sources. The paperwork all says they do this other stuff too, but if you don't make your FOS goal you won't work for that council for very long.

Hold a special Saturday day at the park and crank out as much of the stuff as you can, then go til the last minute working to try to finish the rank send a list home with parents to see what they can accomplish. Cub Scouts move up to the next rank in BSA scoutnet records automatically on June 1st for traditional units. Packs could probably continue along to finish up a few stragglers up til the point you want to count the summertime activities for the NEXT rank. So maybe July 1st or some other date. Then graduate them to the next rank and give them the book, hat, necker and/or slid

The DE's primary job is fundraising and then getting new units and then growing membership Anything else like support for volunteers or units comes after that.

You going to Camp Raymond this summer?

If he wants to go do the SM specifics training and the IOLS overnight training, then hopefully the troop will accept him as an ASM. We have 18 year olds who don't have time with all the school stuff going on to go take those trainings. We register them as Unit college scouter reserve, and nobody ever asks them for a copy of their college id. You could also choose to register as unit scouter reserve if you don't like the college word in the title. We use those as positions for those adults who want to be registered, and do some stuff with the troop but who can't commit to being an asm and sh

http://scoutingmagazine.org/2016/04/survival-strategies-help-escape-forest-fire/ How to escape a forest fire. Suggestions like don't go where the fire danger is too high, see a forest fire and walk into the wind to get away from it, look for an area with no vegetation and stuff like that. Ends with this "In a situation where you cannot escape the flames and cannot make it to a safe location, your best option is to locate a trench or deep gulley. Dig a hole in the side, cover the opening with a tarp or blanket, and then crawl into the hole. Alternatively, dig a trench and lie down i

There is a reason why "well trained Eagle asm" was in quotes. Eagle 94 said himself that "he should know better and in fact does". But knowing and doing are two different things. Mentoring youth in the boy scout program doesn't come automatically. Parents need a new parent orientation of some kind. A reminder that they shouldn't do anything for a boy scout that they can instead just teach the boy to do for himself. Teach a man to fish and all that.

Unfortunately our current scoutmaster is a bit of a meddler himself. I'm always trying to figure out how to get him to help me move a table.

Our old scoutmaster had this thing that he did whenever the new parents were in the scout's hair too much. It was almost always "Hey Mr. xyz I need some help moving this table." and then he'd spend 10-15-30 minutes having the guy move the table all.over.the.place all the while talking about how the scouts are learning so much as they do thru the motions of doing yadda yadda yadda today without adult intrusion. We started to occasionally suggest that so and so needed to go move a table whenever they were being too involved in the youths activities. A few adults it had to also involve som

This is what is used and is referenced on our council Eagle scout page where scouts download their eagle packet and eagle project workbook. But it's a national form http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/58-709_WB.pdf

The date awarded for advancement in ranks and palms is considered as the date of the board of review. The next eagle palm has to be three months since the awarded date for the last eagle palm not just 3 months of service at some time after earning eagle. And scoutnet won't let you enter if it's 90 days but not 3 actual calendar months. We don't care so much about the eagle palm application being done or not done, but the BOR has to sign some kind of advancement form/internet advancement paperwork and date it. I don't believe it is adding to the requirements to ask for the Eagle Palm a

He's homeschooled so mom has always been in control.... ok I have to stop I'm being a little too judgmental and I have to face them tonight with calmness & sweetness and give clearheaded answers. Troop BOR member/chaplain says I've known scouts who missed Eagle by two days and we didn't change the date for that, why should we change the date for this which is an award not a rank.

yeah it is momma's goal, not the scout's goal.

He's earned his FIRST palm they are looking 2+ years into the future. He ages out in may 2018