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I was a little curious to methodology as well. I would place Insect Study into science, not outdoor, for example.

Appeal for sure. Let your son work with his SM on what to say when he gets his opportunity. The use of "we" here, respectfully, needs to be "he" when he gets that opportunity. What you lay out on the experience of how he arrived at 2 being the optimal number of workers, how he had to coordinate the rotation, how he gave the training on what was going to be done, is all showing how he planned and lead the project. My advice is that he needs to hammer all of that home multiple times over when the subject of his project comes up. Not every EBOR will spend much time on the project, as ultimat

I'm with you- my point is that "necessary" depends on the users. Scoutmaster Basic and OLS- yes, I would agree the syllabus content pretty much someone who was truly engaged as a youth (that is, did just more than "check the boxes") should be able to skip that.

Not every Eagle will have served as SPL- heck, not even every Eagle will have served as a PL, or anything more than Troop Librarian- so no, Eagle has not necessarily prepared you for taking over as SM at age 18. Could you obtain knowledge necessary for being an SM/ASM on your own, without the position-specific training? Yes, you could, but not everyone knows where to begin, and as others have pointed out, your participation can be as much about sharing your perspective than your individual learning outcomes.

It may be idealistic, but I'd love to think that those participating in the "temporary crews" are learning some additional leadership skills that they can take back and use to help at the patrol level. sort of the same you hope for a kid who works camp staff, NYLT, etc.

Feeling hopeful for you both Hawkwin and Eagle94-1. My son had some experiences that were similar to yours, and discussions with the SM would become what I would term as "bullish". My son hates confrontation, and at the first sign that the conversation is turning to being heated, he will bow out. Personally, I would have been right there giving it back to the SM, but I appreciate my son didn't. My son stuck it out to finish off his Eagle rank in that troop, and then even ran for a term as SPL- that was his attempt to "be the guy" to try and turn things around as the senior leader. I was n

Experienced the idea of forming a crew out of a troop fail on 3 attempts in 5 years. Predominantly, the failure was lack of commitment on the part of the adults involved to facilitate it as a crew (ie- get others involved who were not already Scouts), and the makeup was Scouts who were really not interested in doing anything aside from fishing/loafing. That is to say, it really was nothing more than what these Scouts did in the troop, when they chose to participate. At the end of the day, whether it be a Venturing Crew, a Venture Patrol, a Senior Scouts patrol, or whatever name you put

Age is too often used as a discriminating factor. My son was 14, and yes he needed some coaching from me on being more clear on what he means or intends. All I can say is, I have had to do the same with 17 year olds as well. While you can’t do the presentation for him, you can certainly role play with him and give him guidance through that which would probably be the most invaluable help he will receive throughout this whole project 😀.

How you have explained the project idea sounds as though it validly is truly a project. Without knowing explicitly what your son discussed with the coordinator may indeed be the issue. When formulating the project idea and getting the approval to move ahead, the scout has to be able to explain it with enough detail to show that there is both value to the receiving organization/entity, AND how the scout is going to demonstrate leadership through the project. Just taking ones own Lego sets and donating them could just be as simple as "here's my giant bin of Lego bricks" - however, explaining

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I took my training through SOLO. The course was set up by a neighboring council, though my council also uses them (being they are based in New England I would presume).

https://www.scouting.org/health-and-safety/safety-moments/wilderness-first-aid/ Only required by BSA when going to a BSA High Adventure base. Other camps that have trek programs may require it as well, following the same guidelines. If you don't expect to be taking your group to any BSA HA, I would still say it's a good idea to have gone through the training, but paying to re-certify every two years may not be necessary.

Fred gives some very sound constructs here to be thinking about. and i agree with him on the "if any kid needs Scouting..." As much benefit that Scouting can have for a kid from a broken home, or who has issues socializing and benefits from being in a supportive group, the reality is we can only supplement, not replace, parenting these youth. The very first conversation(s) that need to take place here are with the parents of these other youth, and give the greater context that as a parent you have issue with this happening to your child, especially if it happened in one of their homes. Then

Collectively, the scouts in the unit did 1,000+ nights.

Not necessarily. I have never seen any summer camp that didn't require each unit to have at least two leaders of their own present. If your interpretation that summer camp itself is the activity, then all you would need is two adults in total on the property, regardless of the number of units. In closed door situations, always you should not be the only adult that is left alone with a Scout, and that has always been part of youth protection policy.

Except is is the troop SM that signs off that a scout is eligible for the vote. the local Lodge nor National OA has any idea whether the youth actually did it or not. Do you think an SM is going invalidate his/her own program?

The aim of the policy change was separate, but equal. Fully expect that is going to change, and probably in the not so distant future, but right now, that is the policy. The intent of many camps offering boy only weeks and girl only weeks is so that those units that desired to be same-gender, and not be linked, can have their summer camp program same gender as well. For some other camps, it may be entirely a matter of facility- not a lot of camps have female showerhouses on the same scale as male showerhouses, for example. There are also the YPT issues that will be in consideration. W

Bingo.

I'd tell him to show up at the first troop meeting following Ordeal wearing his sash with a huge grin...

With 11 Scouts total, I'm inclined to agree with the other suggestions here- scale back the level of POR titles. Rather than a PLC where only say 5 Scouts are meeting to discuss the month ahead, use "patrol corner" at a troop meeting to engage all the Scouts toward a decision. If you try too hard to fit a certain model, you could be over-complicating. Assume with 11 Scouts, if you have one patrol and then one PL, what would an SPL be doing that is above and beyond that which the PL is doing? Seems redundant. Not knowing anything about this Scout serving as SPL, perhaps part of the iss

If we take some of the commentary from various persons on the professional side, they cite that coed was happening anyway on the cub side, just not "officially". It's also happening on the Boy Scout side too, just not "officially". There are Troops today that charter Crews, and have the Crew right there at each meeting and each event. Just because you can't give an official transcript for an award doesn't mean the program isn't operating coed. The only thing that really changes is now you can actually charter the girls earlier than age 14. My feelings all along is that National was takin

Advancement not the main goal for sure, but I would give my $.02 that if advancement is being FORCED it isn't what you want, but if your son has figured out when/how to maximize his opportunities, and that leads to advancement say faster than his patrol mates who are not doing so, I have no issue with that. My son had the same opportunities as his patrol mates, but he is Eagle and a few are just getting to Star. Not my sons fault at all, he just didn't leave partial MBs for two years, and volunteered with his new SPL every term to help out with whatever was needed.

If the youth is also using it as teaching moments - for example, taking the new Scout patrol to the grocery store and showing them how to shop (buying store brand versus name brand to keep budget in check, how to figure out quantity to buy, etc) that becomes an Instructor POR, and does count for rank.

Get a three ring binder and some plastic photo sheets, and start setting up a memory book for him to display at his Eagle COH. You can include photos from events, any newspaper clippings, any leaflets from places visited, as well as wristbands or ticket stubs, etc.

Couldn't agree more. Almost as embarrassing to me as a troop that only car camps.