Despite urging Council/District to return to patrol competition camporees, it seems hereabouts recruiting and advancement weekends are taking hold.
Council/District Webelos Family Weekends have been around for awhile but troop older scout attendance has been low. How to increase older scout attendance? Advancement, of course, is the answer. Hello Scout Advancement Weekend!
Here's an upcoming example from Gulf Stream Council
Scouts get a hands on experience while earning merit badg
In Mr. Q's warped world, incompletion = success.
Nobody needs to know that they know what they already know.
Everybody needs to know what it is that they don't already know.
I've named my open field compass course "tortured soul". Each control has a deck of cards with headings to each of the other controls (including the entry/exit control). Read the top card, set your compass, put the card on the bottom of the deck, proceed to the drawn control. Repeat until you have visited all controls,