Court of Honor's

[Scoutmaster Ron]

Have you experienced dull COH's? How do you spark them up? The boy's just done seem to want to do skits. It seems they just call out the names come get your patch and move on.

 

[OldGreyEagle]

One of my Woodbadge Tickets was to develop a resource book for planning Courts of honor, if you send me your Email address, I'll send you the book, its 138 pages long

[saltheart]

Our troop also never found itself blessed with those of the "actor" personality. At least, not in a planned forum. Hence...no skits.

 

Now, what they did like to do was assist in the creating, editing, planning, and narrating of the (sometimes) audio (more often than not) video presentations that became more than just a slide or video show. They became background to the awards presentations that were going on.

 

It began with a couple of adult leaders who continuously took slide pictures at all Scout events, and turned them into slide shows eventually choreographed with music (and not always Beethoven, either). A few Scouts became interested in helping with the process, and then showed an interest in narration. Of course, said narration was "approved" by the adult leader in charge of such things to be absolutely sure of content and relevancy. (LOL...try to keep a Scout relevant when his motor mouth is full of enthusiasm.)

 

After a while, video cameras entered the mix, and before we knew it, the highlight of many a gathering, formal or not, COH or not, was this "presentation". Each presentation was edited to be as relevant as possible to the "earning" of the rank by this Scout or that. It could ensnare both serious and the not-so-serious moments of a Scouts career, and that of the troop. The events shown ranged from camping trips to fund raisers to regular meetings to summer camp and then some. And...the Scouts, at the prompting of the adults working with them, eventually caught on to the idea of bringing ancient history back into the mix for both troop related things, and Scout specific things...like an Eagle COH...where a sometimes not-so-delicate roast of the new Eagle was presented "after the awarding". It usually brought howls from everyone, including the newly elevated, both at Eagle COH's and regular COH's.

 

This came about over time, but it was, and still is I believe, something over which the entire troop shows a lot of enthusiasm to create, participate in, and watch.

 

No boring COH's in that troop.

 

[Scoutmaster Ron]

Tks OGE...I sent it to your personal e-mail thru Scouter

 

Salteart...tks for your idea I'm doing something like that but would need to convert it over to slides great idea to do at the COH folowing this years summer camp