Summertime Activities

This post was intended to be sent in May, but somehow never happened.  So now it's an FYI about what your scout either did earn this summer, or can set a goal to earn next summer!
From meritbadge.org:
The purpose of the National Summertime Award is to encourage packs to provide a year-round program by continuing to meet during the time periods when school is out of session for several weeks or months. If a pack is in a "year-round school" (or is part of a home-school association), the pack could earn the Summertime Pack Award by having a special pack activity during those breaks.
Boys who participate in three summertime pack events (one each in June, July, and August) are eligible to receive the National Summertime Award pin.
The pin is worn on the right pocket flap of the Cub Scout Uniform, pinned onto the Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award, if present. Multiple pins may be displayed for each year the award is earned.
Since the goal of the Summertime award is to have Packs continue the program through the summer, the summertime award scouts receive should match their current rank rather than the rank they are working on (ie, boys who have attained the rank of Tiger will receive the Tiger pin even though they are in a Wolf Den and working towards the Wolf rank).

Den and Pack ribbons

A pack can qualify for the National Summertime Pack Award certificate and streamer by planning and conducting three pack activities-one each in June, July, and August.
Dens with an average attendance of at least half their members at the three summer pack events will be eligible for a colorful den participation ribbon for the den flag or den doodle.

Cub Scout National Summertime Award Pins
Pin	Pin #	Level	Earned the summer after:
	14332	Tiger	attaining Tiger rank (Graduating 1st grade)
	14333	Wolf	attaining Wolf rank (Graduating 2nd grade)
	14334	Bear	attaining Bear rank (Graduating 3rd grade)
	14335	Webelos	attaining Webelos rank (Graduating 4th grade)

Cancelled recruiting event at Zaharis

Due to the nearly complete lack of response to the previous message about doing a recruiting event at the Zaharis Elementary Meet the Teacher night, the recruiting event has been cancelled.  I only received one response and, quite honestly, that day is busy enough for me that it works just fine to remove that event from the "To Do" list.  We may plan a later event and will keep you posted.  Please stay tuned....

Recruiting event at Zaharis Elementary on Monday, August 5th

Back to school time means it's time for our pack's annual recruiting event!  We will have a table set up in the multipurpose room at Zaharis Elementary from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Monday, August 5th and we need our scouts to help hand out flyers about Cub Scouts and help students find a Cub Scout pack closest to them if they're interested in attending.  This is an opportunity for each of the boys to pass off an achievement by inviting someone to attend scouts and for them to work on their public speaking skills too.  It also helps our Pack earn the Journey to Excellence Award. 

There are eight 20-minute time slots available, so we will put 2-3 scouts and one parent/leader in at each time.  If you know that one time works better for you than another, please let me know ASAP and I will try to accommodate that in the schedule.  Otherwise, times will be assigned.  Personally, I know I have school meetings from 7 a.m. until around 4 p.m. that day, so I need to get this schedule set up sooner than later so I can see if I need to go straight there from school or if I will be there later. 

Most of you will already be there, so we're asking for 20 more minutes of your time to help with this event.  Even if this is not your scout's school, we could still use your help and it's a good experience for your scout!

The time slots are:
4:25-4:45
4:40-5:00
4:55-5:15
5:10-5:30
5:25-5:45
5:40-6:00
5:55-6:15
6:10-6:30

Scout Camp options for families

There are several day camp options available to Cub Scouts.  For various reasons, our pack does not participate as a pack in the summer day camp at Heard Pueblo.  Scouts are welcome to register individually.

A couple of cooler weather options are Winter Day Camp (December 26-28 in 2013) and the new East Valley Day Camp (in March this year, date TBD for 2014).

If neither of these work for you, or if you would prefer as a family to be part of your scout's camping experience, here is another option in September:  http://www.campkaibab.com/    Registration opens this month.