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The Pinewood Derby is the wood car racing event of the Cub Scout Program of the Boy Scouts of America. Pinewood derbies are often run by packs of the Cub Scouts program. With the help of adults, Cub Scouts build their own unpowered, unmanned miniature cars from wood, usually from kits containing a block of pine wood, plastic wheels, stickers with numbers, and metal axles.
Cub Scouts is a Scouting America program available to coeducational children from kindergarten through fifth grade (or 5 to 10 years of age) and their families. Its membership is the largest of the five main Scouting America divisions (Cub Scouting, Scouts BSA, Venturing, Exploring and Sea Scouting).
All Boy Scouts of America units are owned and operated by chartered organizations. Of the 42,822 units (Boy Scout troops, Cub Scout packs and Venturing crews) and 1,670,028 youth members in 2010: 65% of all youth members are chartered to faith-based organizations; 23.5% of all youth members are chartered to civic organizations
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The space derby was a racing event for Cub Scouts in the Boy Scouts of America that is similar to the pinewood derby car race. [1] Cub Scouts (the young-age division of the Boy Scouts) race miniature balsa wood gliders that are propelled by a rubber band and propeller. During the 1960s, this was also known as the "rocket derby".
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Year of Celebration is a recognition program with requirements for leadership, character, community service, achievement and the outdoors. Requirements are grouped for Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venturers, adult leaders and alumni. [15] Adventure Base 100 is a traveling exhibit featuring a museum, a ropes course and a surround theater. [16]
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