Character Connection - Citizenship

[Scouting4Ever 11]

Interested to see what you are doing for this months Character Connection for Citizenship at the Pack meeting.

[5yearscouter 52]

We are going to the city hall,

the Mayor is giving us a tour and discussion about what they do there

followed by a short pack meeting with a fancy flag ceremony

Unfortunately turn out will probably be low, because to meet with the Mayor, we have to be there by 5pm, and so many parents don't get off work til then.

 

Last year we went for a tour to the State Capitol, and arranged far enough ahead of time for most of the parents to take the afternoon off and get their kids out of school early, or arrange car pools for it. They did it because the local schools aren't taking kids for tours of the state capitol anymore due to budget cuts for fields trips. so parents were happy to get the opportunity to do it.

 

[mtnnybb 10]

Because we are in a smaller space this month we will talk about Citizenship and play voting games. Yes a sit down game!!!

 

We will have an election between candy bars Twix and Kit Kat.

Id like two of you to volunteer to be campaign mangers, one for each bar.

(wearing twix and kit kat t-shirts)

You will each lobby the boys to vote for your candidate and answer questions.

I will prepare you with talking points.

 

We will have several votes and the boys will also have to vote in the den for representatives.

We will have:

A sampling poll

A weighted vote by den population (house of rep)

An even vote by dens (senate)

A popular vote by secret ballot.

Each boy will get a Halloween size bar of the winning candidate.