BeaverNEIV152

Any one know how to sign up for staff for the 2007 World Jambo?

Course NE-IV-152 was held at Sinoquipe Scout Reservation in late May early June of 2004. Sinoquipe is part of the Mason-Dixon Council which is a very small part of Maryland and PA. I beleive our course was suppost to be earlier, but there were some staffing problems and it got put on hold and when we were given our course number it would have been right before 153, but we didn't hold the course till later.

My woodbadge expeirence was rather unique, being the youngest member of Troop 1 my council has ever had. I was 19 when I took thte course, am 20 now and hope to be beaded befor my 21st birthday. So having just left a Troop as a patrol member, getting comfortable in being an adult leader, and then being thrust back into a patrol was interesting. My patrol was also probally the most eclectic patrol there consisting of two Cubmasters, one Troop Committee Member, One Weblos Den Leader, one Venture Crew Leader, one District Exec, and myself an ASM. We had a very small course here in Mason-Dixon Council with 27 participents in 4 patrols. Through doing research in the Council i've concluded that in my council there are no antelpoes one buffalo, 2 bears, under a dozen owls, and a good group of foxes, eagles, bobwhites, and BEAVERS. NE-IV-152 was Mason-Dixon's third woodbadge and considering our last course was '99 it was the first 21st Century Course any of the staff had ever experienced. In fact the person slated to be SM disliked the new course so much he resigned as SM of Troop 1. All in all I place Woodbadge in the Top 4 Things I've ever done in Scouting allong with my Eagle, My Ordeal, and Philmont. Woodbadge has definatly renewed my intrest in Scouting and has caused me to examine my future, and strive to become a Scout Executive. I enjoyed every second of the course, and after the first weekend I came to the conclusion that I was never really in a "real" Patrol as a youth. The Patrol Spirit that Woodbadge fosters, is just so amazing and hard to describe. My only regret is that I wasn't aloowed t oplay Win All You Can, because I played it at the OA's National Leadership Seminar, and allready new the catch, but it was fun to be a spectator. In all i thought the Staff did an AMAZING job, and I can't wait to finish my ticket and join them.

Sinoquipe is far above a D camp. In fact your bashing of its first year camper program shocks me. The National Visitation Team made the comment of Sinoquipe's First Year Camper Program that it should be the model of the First Year Camper program for all outhe scout camps. The camp is very well ran and offers merit badges that very few camps in the MD-PA-VA region offer, including Horsemanship. The campsites are not too far away from the actions as there are program areas all throughout camp. Including past the farthest campsites. The lake is clean and fairly free of muck which is a natural phenomenon and should not be a complaint when its nothing the staff can stop. It seems to me that you were not very open when you visited Sinoquipe, and are not being very fair to it and its staff.