AOL - Required - Outdoorsman (Camper in handbook)

Outdoorsman (Camper in handbook)

Complete Option A or Option B.
Requirement
Option A:
     1. With the help of your den leader or family, plan and participate in a campout.

     2. On arrival at the campout, with your den and den leader or family, determine where
to set up your tent. Demonstrate knowledge of what makes a good tent site and what
makes a bad one. Set up your tent without help from an adult.

     3. Once your tents are set up, discuss with your den or family what actions you should
take in the case of the following extreme weather events which could require you
to evacuate:
     A. Severe rainstorm causing flooding
     B. Severe thunderstorm with lightning or tornadoes
     C. Fire, earthquake, or other disaster that will require evacuation. Discuss what you
 have done to minimize as much danger as possible.
          Disaster survival when camping

     4. Show how to tie a bowline. Explain when this knot should be used and why. Teach it to
another Scout who is not a Webelos Scout.
                   The 6 Scout Knots

     5. Recite the Outdoor Code and the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids(at bottom) from memory.
Talk about how you can demonstrate them while you are working on your Arrow of
Light. After one outing, list the things you did to follow the Outdoor Code and Leave
No Trace.

Option B:
     1. With the help of your den leader or family, plan and participate in an outdoor activity.

     2. Discuss with your den or family what actions you should take in the case of the
following extreme weather events:
     A. Severe rainstorm causing flooding
     B. Severe thunderstorm with lightning or tornadoes
     C. Fire, earthquake, or other disaster that will require evacuation. Discuss what you
have done to minimize as much danger as possible.

     3.  Show how to tie a bowline. Explain when this knot should be used and why. Teach it to
another Scout who is not a Webelos Scout.

     4.  Recite the Outdoor Code and the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids from memory.
Talk about how you can demonstrate them while you are working on your Arrow of
Light. After one outing, list the things you did to follow the Outdoor Code and Leave
No Trace.

AOL - Required - Duty to God in Action

Duty to God in Action

This one is kind of inflexible and you'll have to figure out how to do it with your boys and their community. I was able to make most of it into a den meeting and then sent them off to do the act of service on their own with their parents

Complete requirements 1 and 2 and at least two others.
Requirement
     1. Discuss with your parent, guardian, den leader, or other caring adult what it means to
do your duty to God. Tell how you do your duty to God in your daily life.

     2. Under the direction of your parent, guardian, or religious or spiritual leader, do an
act of service for someone in your family, neighborhood, or community. Talk about
your service with your family. Tell your family how it related to doing your duty to God.

     3. Earn the religious emblem of your faith that is appropriate for your age, if you have
not done so already.

     4. With your parent, guardian, or religious or spiritual leader, discuss and make a plan
to do two things you think will help you better do your duty to God. Do these things for
a month.

     5. Discuss with your family how the Scout Oath and Scout Law relate to your beliefs
about duty to God.

     6. For at least a month, pray or reverently meditate each day as taught by your family or
faith community.

I'm going to be honest here, there isn't a lot of room in this pin to be clever or interesting, you pretty much have to do what is says, all the discuss and talk stuff we did in a den meeting, first mentioning that the scout oath and law are good staring places if they get stuck, then going around the table each person discussing each point briefly making one comment at least., we then did # 5, discussing each part of the scout oath and law,  referencing it back to the previous discussions. we went round robin till all the points had been covered.

They then picked 1 or 3,5,6 to do as homework.

AOL - Required - Building a Better World

Arrow of Light Required Adventures

Building a Better World

Complete the following requirements.
Requirement

Here is the Handout I made  Covering Requirements 1,2 and 3, be aware, I print every thing with the narrowest margins, so you might need to change your margins or reformat a little.

1. Explain the history of the United States flag. Show how to properly display the flag in public, and help lead a flag ceremony.
1. Flag History
2. Flag display folding, etc
3. Display Info graphic
4. See my handout
   
2. Learn about and describe your rights and duties as a citizen, and explain what it means to be loyal to your country.
1. See my handout
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3. Discuss in your Webelos den the term “rule of law,” and talk about how it applies to you in your everyday life.
1. See my handout 
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4. Meet with a government or community leader, and learn about his or her role in your community. Discuss with the leader an important issue facing your community.  
1. I'm going to email city politicians and see if anyone will come to a meeting for 15 min
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5. Show that you are an active leader by planning an activity for your den without your den leader’s help. Ask your den leader for approval first.
1. Here I'm going to divide my boys up into 2 groups, and have them each plan a game to play together.
2. As we have 2 "game" sessions during and after each meeting this will work out.
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6. Do at least one of these:

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           A. Learn about Scouting in another part of the world. With the help of your parent, 
                 guardian, or den leader, pick one country where Scouting exists, and research 
                 its Scouting program.
            (we are doing this one)

•              Here is the separate Handout I made(not the one above), with 9 different countries, so you can have each scout read one and then tell the "cool parts". If somebody wants to put together one page blurbs on other countries scouting I'll add them. They are all Excepts from #1 below, just reformatted to be easily handed out.

               More Resources:

   1.      Scouting around the world PDF

1.      This is probably enough, cut it up in pages and give each boy one country to read abotu and share a few "cool things" 

   2.      Quick video showing scouts from around the world and their symbol and uniform

   3.      Long video about scouts in syria (pretty sad) and moving to scout Australia

   4.      Short video about Scouting in the UK(only play till 3 min, then stop)

   5.      Rebuilding scouting in Afghanistan

   6.      World scout gathering video (made by scouts at international gathering)

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          B. Set up an exhibit at a pack meeting to share information about the World 
               Friendship Fund.
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          C. Under the supervision of your parent, guardian, or den leader, connect with a Scout 
               in another country during an event such as Jamboree-on-the-Air or 
               Jamboree-on-the-Internet or by other means
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          D. Learn about energy use in your community and in other parts of the world.
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          E. Identify one energy problem in your community, and find out what has caused it

Arrow Of Light Scout Reqs Page

ARROW OF LIGHT REQUIREMENTS
(EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 2016)
Rank advancement is awarded when each Scout has done the following:

1.  Be active in your Webelos den for at least six months since completing the fourth grade or for at least six months since becoming 10 years old.
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2.  Complete each of the four required adventures. (Specific requirements for theseadventures can be found in this addendum.)
1. • Building a Better World
2. • Duty to God in Action
3. • Outdoorsman (formerly Camper)—Option A (including a campout) OR Option B (including an outdoor activity)
4. • Scouting Adventure
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3. In addition to the four required adventures listed above, complete at least one elective adventure of your den’s or family’s choosing (for a total of at least five adventures).
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4.  With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide.
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5. Earn the Cyber Chip award for your age. (The Cyber Chip portion of this requirement may be waived by your parent or guardian if you do not have access to the internet.)

New cub scout requirements

For some reason the BSA Keeps moving around the online versions of the requirements
telling you instead to pick up a physical copy at the scout shop...

I dislike this so here are the last ones I've found, to make your life easier

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/cubscouts/pdf/tiger_Addendum.pdf

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/cubscouts/pdf/Wolf_Addendum.pdf

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/cubscouts/pdf/BEAR_Addendum.pdf

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/cubscouts/pdf/WEBELOS_AOL_Addendum.pdf

Activities that i just want to save for fun time, but not really for a badge

Growing crystals in a super saturated solution

Playing with Dry ice


I bought thise 6 packs for the boys to make ther own woggles
the shippign took liek a month from britain, and I took my wife to
figure out how to make them work, but i still think they are cool.

plaited (braided) mystery woggle (neckercheif slides)

Notes for my Pack on how I run Pinewood derby for a 100 plus pack 685 pflugerville tx.

I'm trying to put in place some documentation on how I run Pine wood derby for my pack with 100+ kids

This is all going to be pretty specific, I just want the notes to exist... but feel free to look them over.

They are going to start pretty basic and get ore detail as we go along


On the macro level pinewood breaks down to the following parts

Done ahead of time:

• Buying stuff ahead of time:
• Patches, Trophies and Ribbons, Decorations
• Getting the space reserved at the church
• Big room for track, 2nd room for snacks movies and the inspection on the night before derby, Talk to Rudy& Meluinda to get this nailed down early. I be we can just use the big hall where we meet at Immanuel for everything but movies.
• Planning and Recruiting.
• Get team leads from the leaders, get them volunteers, find out what budget they have, and let them goto town.
• Revising the Pinewood Rules if Needed
• Unless we do a rules simplification, this should be done already
• The only rule change we have planned is changing the settings on the race software, to make the rules appear more "fair".

Done on the day(Pick a team lead & assistant to do each of these and get out of their way, answer any questions year)

• Set up Tear down team -  Picks up the track, Sets up and Tears down the track, delivers the track back to storage  - Rudy did great at this
• Software Team - Charlie Hedlin has run this since i started
• Decorations Team
• Snack & movie room team
• Inspection team - Need to do more like 2 years ago, have someone blocking the doors until we are ready (or keep the doors closed) We got bum rushed while setting it up last year . I have all the stuff for this, rules, check-in forms, station notes for the assembly line and all the tools  & supplies.
• Race Ops Team (You ran this last year)
• Cleanup Team

Done after

I always write up a post Mortem doc, while everything is fresh in my mind, of the changes I want to make for next year.

Things you can start on now... or later....

Buying awards -

Patches from the studio (https://www.thestudio.com/) the nice thing about the studio is they will copy any patch you find on the internet... So start googling pine wood derby patches, and looking at pictures to get a feel for what you want... Get the budget from Doc, I got 100 patches because that's a big price break point. we usually have in the 90s of scouts, about 70-80 of which actually show up whole process 2-4 weeks usually (but plan for more)

Trophies and Ribbons, from crown trophy, (http://www.crowntrophy.com/store-122) pick the one you want on the website, contact the Austin office,  order them, drive over to pick up when ready. It can't get much easier than this one. I did this early and put them on the shelf fora month or two, just so it was out of my mind. (whole process, once they got the  ribbons for the new year in, ie 2017) about a month.

Recruiting.  Start picking your team leads & assistants whenever,  for the bulk of recruiting  i start late November. I'll dig up my form form last year and you can use that to know how many to recruit. I try to recruit people of differing ranks for each "on the day" job, so nobody has to work when their kids are racing. I also recruit enough so that when each person is out we have enough to get by...

ve enough to get by...