ChaplainTony

Thanks for the feedback, all. I do hope to keep a good camper to staff ratio. Unfortunately, I've been give 3 staff members to work with, plus possibly CITs. I think I'll end up asking SMs and ASMs to lend a hand. My recommendation to leaders is that they review the content we cover with the boys no sooner than a few hours after we teach it to make sure they retained it. Maybe I should write a letter to be handed out at check in... Sure wish they had given me more time to plan.

Fellow Scouters, I just accepted a job as the director of the first year camper program at D-Bar-A Scout Ranch in Michigan. I'm scheduled to go to National Camping School later this month at H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation. I am very excited by this opportunity and have a lot of ideas, but I'm curious, what do you, as leaders, see as the keys to a great first year camper program? What makes it successful? What makes it fun? What crazy ideas have you seen work at your camps that I probably haven't seen in my local camps? Thanks in advance! Chaplain Tony