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This course is an in-depth training program covering a variety of leadership ideas and skills. It is designed to simulate a month in the life of a Scouts BSA troop. It uses fun and hands-on learning sessions to teach leadership skills. The Scouts learn about service-based leadership as they undertake a patrol quest for the meaning of leadership ...
A meeting of the Cub Scouts at the Ida B. Wells Housing Project, Chicago (1942) The Cub Scout pack is sponsored by a community organization such as a business, service organization, school, labor group or religious institution. The chartered organization is responsible for selecting leadership, providing a meeting place and promoting a good ...
The Scouts learn teamwork by meeting and working together in a den of four to ten boys or girls under adult leadership. They learn and apply the ideals codified in the Scout Oath and the Scout Law through an advancement system using age-based ranks earned by completing required and elective adventures. Some advancement is done in the home and ...
Cub Scouts, often shortened to Cubs, are a section of Scouting operated by The Scout Association with a core age of eight to ten and a half years of age. [2] This section follows on from the Beaver Scouts (6–8 year olds) and precedes the Scout section (10½–14 year olds).
The Baden-Powell Scouts' Association operate a "Wolf Cub" program between Beavers and Scouts. Wolf Cub packs are themed on "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling, a friend of Baden-Powell. Wolf Cub packs are divided into Sixes, with each six being identified by a coloured triangular patch on the shoulder of the Cub's sleeve.
Advancement is one of the eight methods. Cub Scouts use activities call Adventures to earn promotion, following a three step process of: preparation, qualification, and recognition. [2] Cub Scouting is designed to function around the traditional school year with the goal of earning advancement by the end of the year.
Troop meeting activities can include training in Scout skills to planning camping trips or playing games. [11] Troops may plan outings and activities outside the troop meeting, potentially involving outdoor programs such as camping, backpacking, hiking, canoeing, rafting, climbing, caving, or rappelling. These outings are intended to allow ...
Cub Scouts is the Cub Scout section of Scouts Canada for children aged from 8 to 10. Originally the "Wolf Cubs," the program offers badges to youth members as a mark of achievement in an interest area. The badges are grouped into six activity areas as described in The Cub Book (Scouts Canada, 2005). While youth experience fun and excitement ...