A good provisional program

[shortridge]

 

Spun off: What makes a good provisional summer camp program? What qualities do your good provo SMs possess?

[loneranger]

1. Focus on Fun.

2. Scouts in charge.

3. Allow scouts unstructured, free time.

 

My son will not attend summer camp with his own troop where adults schedule every minute of a scout's day and often those activities are the same old stuff focused on T-SC-FC requirements. Boring.

[Stosh]

Most the boys that can't make the week of summer camp make arrangements to attend with a nearby troop. Our council camp has a provisional troop only the last week of the schedule. If they can't make it during either of those two weeks (1 with own troop, 1 with provo troop), then they need to dove-tail into another troop's program or miss out on summer camp.

 

The last time I had a boy that couldn't attend summer camp with the troop, he called up the Scout Office, found out what troops would be attending the week he could attend, called up a SM and went with that troop. Had a good time and made a lot of friends in the other troop.

 

Stosh

[John-in-KC]

What Stosh said.

 

My son, as a 17 year old and 18 year old, was already on camp staff at one of our two Scout Reservations. His summers were tightly scheduled with his staff job taking a huge chunk of his summer. He could not afford the time for a 10 day Scout Camp. A 7 day program was it; all or nothing.

 

He provisional'd with a Troop in our neighboring Council twice; had grand times both! He took his ASM training that second summer.