 Welcome Webelos Scouts, Leaders and Parents! This page is for you. You can find everything you need to know about Troop 1001 here. This page is devoted to information specifically for Webelos looking for a troop to join when they earn the Arrow of Light.
Your contact at Troop 1001 is our recruiting coordinator, Clark Kinnaird.
For more information or to schedule any of the events below, click on the contacts link of our home page and email Clark Kinnaird or scoutmaster Hal Coon.
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
Visiting troops can be an overwhelming task, but you can benefit
from our experience. Our adult leaders are happy to visit your next Webelos Den
Meeting to talk with your parents about what things to look for in a troop. How
many should you visit? How do you keep track of the ones you have seen? All
troops claim to be "boy lead", but how can you tell which really are?
See below some helpful tips while looking:
WHAT TO
LOOK FOR IN A GOOD TROOP
The
following are taken from BSA Publication No. 18-251, 1995 Printing, entitled Are
You Delivering The Promise.
- Troop has earned
Quality Unit Award
- Scoutmaster has
completed basic training.
- Troop follows
traditional troop-meeting pattern, standard troop-meeting plan with two or
more skills training groups)
- Troop has a high ratio
of active adults to youth.
- Leaders regularly
attend roundtable.
- Troop meetings are
planned at Patrol Leaders' Council meetings.
- Woods Wisdom is used
in planning Troop program.
- A patrol for new
Scouts exists, with a Troop Guide and Assistant Scoutmaster.
- Troop adds at least
ten Scouts each year.
- Troop has an annual
minimum of twenty-five days and nights of camping.
- Troop attends a
council long-term camp.
- Leaders are proficient
in outdoor skills.
- Troop has at least
twenty-one Scouts.
- Troop has a program
for older Scouts.
Other volunteers based on experience have suggested that the above not be
applied rigidly as a test for a good Troop, noting that it is possible to find
a Troop that meets all of the above criteria, but still fails to use the patrol
method. Others have noted that in rural and some urban settings adding 10 new
Scouts in a year may not be realistic for a particular unit and not valid
criteria.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 September 2007 )
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
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Give your Webelos a ceremony to remember. Truly honor their Arrow of Light accomplishment, the greatest honor in Cub Scouting, by letting our Order of the Arrow team perform their ceremony in full American Indian regalia. Order of the Arrow is the honor society of scouting and Troop 1001 is happy to share our team to celebrate your accomplishments.
Even if Troop 1001 does not perform your crossover ceremony, please let us know in advance if your Scout will be joining Troop 1001. We want to have our troop leader representatives at the presentation of the Arrow of Light to welcome your Scout to our scouting family with a Troop 1001 neckerchief and troop patch.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 September 2007 )
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