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We have a race for sibling made cars and adult made cars. they must follow the same rules as the cubs, but we may not be as careful with the measurements, as they are racing for fun. we don't give trophies --We have 1,2,3 place ribbons and participant ribbons for all, and that costs us next to nothing. they pay for their own car kits. we raced adults first this year, so their cars were the test cars for the track to make sure everything was workin right and the scoring system was up ad functional. we only had one sibling car, so that one raced with the adults but got a 1st place ribbon as

Your number for the JTE/good turn for ameria site is the same unit number used for internet advancement id. so if your unit logs in to use internet advancement, you already have the number in your unit somewhere with somebody.

He has to be a member of the organization in order to earn an award within the organization. Make sure mom understands that. Eagle badge cannot be purchased without proof of Eagle (don't go there on the ebay thing) which includes step #1, verifty scout is registered. put it back to mom. make sure SCOUT understands that not being registered is the issue. and then move on.

test it out sending yourself a few messages and see if you like it. I think there are other places similar that teachers use but I can't remember the names.

If you are ok with not getting replies and just want to use it to send out bulk txt message advisories, you can sign up to use remind 101. it is a program set up so teachers can send txt messages to their class, but the teacher doesn't have to collect the student's phone numbers and the student's don't have the teacher's phone numbers. it kinds respects everyone's privacy, you set up a class at the website, call it whatever you want, OA blah blah chapter members then they give you a phone number. everyone who wants to get the txt messages, sends a txt to that phone number, and the

He wants to use it as an Eagle Required merit badge to earn Rank now? If so, then right now it's not Eagle Required, so it wouldn't count. It doesn't go into effect as an eagle req badge until 2014.

I can't find this on the website, but this was shared with me. note I'm not in this particular council but it references the BSA defending question. "If the National, BSA Board votes to make a change no chartered organization would be asked to accept any adult or youth member they did not want to allow in their unit. No unit will be forced to accept a gay youth or leader into their unit. =>The Boy Scouts will continue to legally defend every leader's and every chartered organization's right to choose who to allow in their unit. This includes continuing the cost of any settlement

most likely the LDS church has decided this will be ok cause they can just do their own multi unit events like they tend to do around here anyway. That they don't really spend all that much time co-mingling with the traditional units. And if they see other units with "unacceptable members" they'll just keep even further distance. if that makes sense?

Around here the LDS already barely put in an appearance at Camporees-- coming in late Friday, do a few activities and are gone often before the campfire program on Sat night. They go to their "own week" at summer camp or do their own summer camp separate from the council camps. We may see them at merit badge roundup or an occassional other district event. But they already see things as us vs them and they stay close to their "own kind" for scouting activities. I know that sounds horrible, but it is what it is. I do wonder if this will all be announced as if it's a done deal and then

Richard, Does your boss know that you vanity search your name on scouter forums and then come here to poke the volunteers? I really think you are like some of the hover parents we regularly lament in troop and pack meetings, and someone stupidly gave you an important job where being a hover parent is rewarded with a paycheck.

should have used the tiny url in the email you sent out too. yes, it's a small world and it got forwarded around a bit.

My husband and my almost 17 year old are both Ham radio operators. my almost 13 year hasn't pased his license test yet. They got into it in conjunction with my son's very first merit badge --radio--as a new boy scout, put on by a Ham Radio Explorer club at ScoutORama (scout fair) when my son was almost 11. They do some support for bicycle and foot races where the cell reception is non-existent; and were the "in case of emergency" plan on the troop's last canoe trip (down a canyon with no cell reception). They already requested those patches for their uniforms.

What was said by Pappadaddy is true. I know a lot of kids whose paretnts do.not.cook.at.all so they have no idea. Making a roast or pork chops etc is gourmet. soup or stew or chili that isn't from a can is outside of what they've had before except in a restaurant. They do not even know the various things they could cook, so encouraging cooking merit badge [with someone who knows what they are doing of course] and a troop easy to make real food type cookbook would do them wonders.

Looks like they were disabled and owned by former US military members (conveniently left out of the CNN report). So much for them saying it was all anonymous too. Quote: Two rocket launchers turned into the Los Angeles Police Department as part of the city's gun buyback event this week and displayed by the police chief and mayor did not have the capacity to fire. But the department will examine the origins of the weapons with the military, police said Friday. The two launchers--long metal tubes that were once capable of propelling rocket grenades--were turned in along with 2,037

Beavah said "Two patrols have been around for at least twenty years, probably longer." Those are permanent patrols--where the troop has decided certain names of patrols will live on forever. That's another subject IMHO. Sure we have those patrols. The Eagle patrol is the leadership patrol it changes every time there is elections, boys go in and out. And the other is the Pedro patrol--the venture patrol of older boys who have held leadership positions may already be eagles, and want to do higher adventure and are leaving the leadership to the a bit young boys--often it's the 16

We did have one mom who asked if we wanted her to fill it out in english and spanish? And her kid's doctor, knowing that she is from mexico, asked her if she wanted him to complete it all in spanish--especially the information about the kid's allergies and asthma treatment. I'm glad she said that english would be fine, cause if mom wasn't there and the kid headed off to summer camp with a form completed in spanish? We probably could have found someone to translate, but shouldn't medical information be primarily in the most common language of the land, english? or you are just asking for tr

Oh and if the signature page for parents is on a different page from what they sign, I don't think that makes it totally kosher of a legal document unless parents initial the page where it says "I hereby assign and grant to the local council and the Boy Scouts of America the right and permission to use and publish the photographs...." without a signature or initial on the page are you really agreeing to "I release the Boy Scouts of America, the local council, the activity coordinators, and all employees, volunteers, related parties, or other organizations associated with the acti

We have some parents who have used it --we try to update med forms at recharter in November/December, cause about half the troop don't go to week long summer camp in June, so recharter time we can get everyone to touch a med form. The feedback from their doctors is that they hate it. It is not easy to use at all if you print it out, maybe if my dr was filling it out in pdf form, but he's not. Doctors had a hard time figuring out what goes where, basic information about vaccinations there was too much room for it,a check for if they had the disease is sufficient, you don't need room fo

The online tour plan asks for names and info for all drivers on outings. you fill in name, address, etc if they aren't registered leaders as well as vehicle info. and it asks if their ypt is up to date. which implies that anyone driving on an outing should have Youth protection training, eh? So we are starting to ask everyone to do it.

Be very careful taking a scout with attitude, behavior, bullying issues and sending him off to be a den chief. That can be a recipe for cutting all ties with a local cub scout pack, when they think that young man represents your unit's best scouts.

They are finding for the voice of the scout survey emails that a. councils haven't been adding email addresses to the adult's scout net records at all or b. the email address was entered when they registereed their cub scout and well that son has aged out, so the email address is old and doesn't work. We were asked to verify all of our email addresses for youth and adults with our recharter. Our Troop doesn't collect email addresses for the youth if they are under 14, and that is the majority of our scouts. so we usually don't collect email addresses at all for youth. -

Perhaps Sort of a step by step process and a power point presentation on the council website. to become a registered leader in a unit(pack, troop, crew) with BSA 1. go to www.myscouting.org make an account, remember your user name and password. take youth protection training(ok so you gotta take venturing ypt if you are registering in a crew) 2. when correct, print the certificate. 3. go here http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/524-501.pdf complete an application and print 5. be sure to sign on page 4 & 5 and include your Social Security number and driver

Yeah Qwayze, some of our Pack parents are just a tiny bit older than your crew members! It's kinda scary.

Polaris that is too long, too many words. Most parents lately seem to reply/respond better to short messages like they'd read in a text message. so send a text that says Hey, Johnny scout's registration fees of $xx are due by Nov 29th. when can you pay? Dear scout family, Every year we have to re-register with Boy Scouts of America and make payment to them to continue in another year of scouting. Your son's rechartering fees/annual dues are $xx. They must be paid by Nov 29th or he will not be registered for 2013. If not paid, he will not be able to participate i