Sablanck

The girls who showed up to camporee joined two years prior and did cub scouting. After crossing over another boy troop in the district did joint events and taught the girls skills. My sons troop practices scout skills every meeting which is taught by multiple ASM's. They haven't taken home the district trophy since my son has joined. When I was a youth sea scout we were invited to a camporee event. Our ship in attendance was two girls and two guys. We won overall. I would say mostly because my father who was our skipper had been a boy scout and I myself had been a boy scout. Camporee is the same events over and over. We practiced all the typical scout skills. The scouts BSA girls above did the same thing. I will be honest and raw because frankly I dont care who I offend anymore within this organization. Truthfully the real issue with scouting isnt National, it isnt the youth. Its all the adult volunteer experts who come in and twist and warp the program because some how they are smarter than the folks in National office. They make up their own rules and dont bother even doing anything remotely close to what the expectation is.

I had a girl troop last weekend at the camporee I was a planner for. They were full uniformed, excellent attitudes and were within the top three scores on every event. They also knocked it out of the park on the other optional point items and took home top troop of the district for the event. Definitely a big thumbs up from me on girls in scouting.

My Eagle scout son and I were walking out of the local big box home repair store and stopped to buy some cookies. As we were purchasing my son asked the girls if any of them were going to give up selling cookies and join Boy Scouts. He has no issues with girls in scouting but I think the mom's there were not happy with the way he asked his question.

I have been handling this as its been happening. Currently we have a survey out to see what each district wants to do. I have heard from one. Waiting to hear from the other. I am one of those crazy scouters that handles communications and what not all day everyday.

I have been curious as to when OA will have to stop wearing all and any Native american clothing and use of artifacts real or implied. So to recap we had a planning meeting that was extremely productive last week. This morning an email was sent out by a WB person stating he has issues with some of the planning. This person now wants to have a meeting to address those issues yet has not attended any of the previous 3 or 4 planning meetings. Good times!!

Thanks I will inform all of the folks on my planning committee.

We have archery, tomahawk and atl atl at our camporee. Getting to shoot things and throw sharp blades at items probably keeps the youth happy. After reviewing the guide we cover the list they have.

We dont have a theme and each patrol is given an order of events so that it evenly spreads everyone out. There is no time limit nor do you have to participate. I need to go back and copy that YPT information down so I can put it in the leaders guide. As a youth I enjoyed camporee be cause I got a patch.

I cannot imagine a movie on the evening of arrival to camporee. We just have arrival, set up of camp, SPL meeting about tomorrows events. Scouter meeting about areas that need a little help and that is it. OA runs a Brotherhood event but they handle that and its optional. We run around 8 events and from what I have witnessed many patrols are completed late afternoon and kids are being kids. Sure the younger scouts take a bit longer due to their skill level. My only wish is that scouting would stop starting at 6 am. When my family camps we get up around 8 or 8:30.

Our planning committee is 4 folks. Me, another seasoned scouter and the two district DE's. We have it pretty streamlined and so far everyone has been happy. Simple guidelines: If you are an attending unit you come up with an event, run it score it and create a trophy for the winner. We have about 4-6 youth that are staff and they do what we ask. When we had a large planning committee it was a huge pain.

I mean I dont need the "experts" who walk up tell you how you are doing it wrong then walk off without being helpful. Seriously I have had responses of "I dont know, I just know what your doing is wrong or will not work" Not being helpful is my issue. Lets Apollo 13 this sucker. Tell me what we have that is working and how to make it better. Dont be the negative nellie.

Well the Ranger on the property we use dictates where he wants unit placement. This is my 3rd camporee to plan and its been in the same place. No returned surveys have indicated unhappiness at being close quartered. We usually spread the large units out and slip the smaller ones in between.

Hmm Unfortunately that is how ours is set up due to small camping property. When I was in a larger council with bigger properties the units were spread out and didnt have view of each other. Ahh the wooden toggle experts. I dont trust them either and they bring out my unscoutlike demeanor. Many I have dealt with are not there to help just to point out flaws. If you are not here to help you can pack up your tent and leave. I dont need "experts"

Ok so what is wrong with Camporees?

Fantastic thank you.