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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.
The raingutter regatta is a racing event for Cub Scouts in the Boy Scouts of America that is the sailboat equivalent of the pinewood derby. The sailboat kit consists of a seven-inch (178 mm) long balsa wood hull, a 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 -inch mast, plastic sail , plastic rudder , and metal keel .
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).
Some GSUSA troops compete against Cub Scout packs. Pioneer Clubs and the Lutheran Girl/Boy Pioneers call their races, Pine Car Derby. Royal Ambassadors have RA Racers or RA Racer Derby. [7] Royal Rangers's event, the Pinewood Derby, [7] use a different kit with an original style narrow wheel, adjustable screw axle and wooden dowel axle housing ...
Phil's wife Kim, the den mother of the local Cub Scout pack, gives a pinewood derby kit to each of the Cub Scouts. Although the boys are supposed to make their own cars from the kits, with appropriate adult supervision, the four dads obsessively take over the project, totally excluding the boys.
Silks for 2024 Kentucky Derby field The post position draw for the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby was held April 27, 2024 at Churchill Downs. Reach sports reporter Brooks Warren at bwarren ...
The most famous wood racing event is the Boy Scouts of America's annual Pinewood Derby which debuted in 1953. Entry is open to Cub Scouts. Entrants are supplied with a kit containing a wooden block out of which to carve the body, four plastic wheels, and four axle nails; or they may purchase their own commercially available kit.
The magazine's mascot is Scout the Maileagle, who answers readers' letters and is the subject of a comic strip. In 2018, the BSA announced a pending title change to reflect the addition of girls to Scouts BSA, the renamed program that now accepts scouts of both sexes. The title was changed to Scout Life beginning with the January 2021 issue.