2011 Cub Scout Day Camp Wrap Up

Fifteen Pack 1776 scouts had a great week at the 2011 All American Cub Scout Day Camp, held from June 20 - 24th, 2011 at Little Hills in San Ramon from 9 am to 3:30 pm. Once again Brian Wort and his volunteers directed a very well run camp. During the five days, the scouts rotated through various stations:

• Hiking - through Las Trampas hills, learned about poison oak
• Swimming (all 5 days) - if scout wanted to, could earned swimming pin, belt loop, or aquanaut
• Engineering - made a Wooden Basketball Game
• Crafts - made a Leather Bracelet
• Archery (2 days) - 2nd day shot at moving target/balloon, earned Archery Belt Loop
• Sports - Track and Field events such as potato shot put, long jump, hurdles
• Knots - learned square knot, 2 half-hitch, clove hitch, bowline rescue knot, figure eight stopper knot
• Engineering - made Marshmallow Shooters and practiced shooting with them too
• Sports - Water Games
• Unit Group Photos
• BB Guns (2 days) - earned BB Belt Loop
• Crafts - made Friendship bracelets
• Sports - Flag Football
• Engineering - made Wooden Beyblades
• Crafts - made Leather Key Chains
• Knife Safety - earned Whittling Chip
• Soap Carving (for Bears and Wolves) - carved Ivory soap into fish, tree, etc.
• Whittling - Webelos whittled small ax out of pine wood
• Sports - Multiple Obstacle Courses
• Cooking - cooked and ate Cinnamon Sugared Bread on a Stick
• Crafts - decorated picture frame
• Kim's Game - scout memory game
• Sports - Relay Races
• Patch design - Frontier theme for next year
• Skit Practice and tryouts

In addition, the scouts were entertained with four fabulous lunch-time shows:

• Rescue Dogs
• Magic Show
• Wildlife - saw kestrel, golden eagle, serval, porcupine
• Python Ron - saw hissing cockroach, lizards, bearded dragon, various monitor lizards, various snakes (even a 90 lb albino one!)

We had fifteen scouts attending:

• Shanay C
• Nicholas C
• Hayden C
• Joshua D
• Harrison E
• Adam G
• Matthew I
• Joshua K
• Andrew K
• Aidan L
• Emmett L
• Ethan M
• Jack P
• Benjamin R
• Austin S

We also had Jacob L and Nick C (from Montevideo going to Iron Horse) as our awesome and essential Junior Helpers who helped us take care of the boys in our unit. Joshua L assisted in various stations, such as Engineering and Crafts, as a Junior Helper, too.

Joe Ghatta and Ammy Pluth volunteered all day every day. Marianne Ghatta volunteered with the Tags on Monday and Tuesday, Grace Dagen volunteered on Thursday, and Ching Evans volunteered on Friday. I am so thankful to these parents to take time off work and spend their vacation time at Cub Scout Camp.

All of the 15 scouts above earned a All American Sports Patch and the BB Shooting Belt Loop.
Fourteen scouts earned the Archery Belt Loop and the Whittling Chip.

In addition, Joshua K and Jack P earned the Swimming Belt Loop and Harrison E earned both the Swmming Sports Pin and the Aquanaut Award.

It was a great week full of fun learning opportunities and classic scout activities. Looking forward to next year.

Susan Kim
Pack 1776 Day Camp Coordinator

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2011 Cub Scout Day Camp – All American Sports

Pack 1776,

Registration of 2011 Cub Scout Day Camp is now open. Early Bird sign up discounts is $165 before 4/19/2011 (that is $33/day!). Older siblings (junior helpers) can help. Younger siblings (tags) can attend. Details and registration information below.

Date: June 20 – 24th , 2011, Monday – Friday
Time: 9 am – 3:30 pm everyday, except Friday ends at 2 pm
Location: Little Hills Ranch in San Ramon, end of Bollinger Canyon Road (map)

Register early. This camp has filled up every year!!

What: A week long camp filled with sports, archery, swimming, knot tying, engineering work, whittling, BB guns, crafts, skits, songs, and daily entertainment shows with about 400 other scouts from our district. Scouts will be able to earn various badges.  More info here.  Go here to see what our scouts achieved last year.

Cost: $165 per scouts before 4/19/2011
$180 before 5/25/2011
$195 before 6/06/2011
$ 25 for TAGS

Who: Any scout from Tigers to Webelos II, using his Fall 2011 rank. If your scout will be an incoming Tiger (entering 1st grade) his adult needs to attend each day too. If your scout has graduated from 5th grade (entering 6th grade or above in Fall 2011 and at least 11 years old) he can volunteer as a Junior Helper for no charge. Jr. Helpers must attend one evening of training.

Volunteers: This camp is entirely organized and staffed by volunteers. Our pack must provide one adult volunteer for every six scouts attending. Adults attending all day for all the five days will receive a steep discount on the registration fee for one scout. Also, adults volunteering all week will be able to bring their potty-trained to pre-school age child to the TAG program for $25. Every adult that attends camp, even if for only half a day, needs to take the “Youth Protection Training”, needs to register as a volunteer, and fill out a medical form. Adult volunteers must attend one evening of training.

Registering for camp requires three steps:

1. Register at: http://www.bsa-mdsc.org/meridian/daycamp.php
2. Print, fill out, and sign the medical form. Attach a copy of BOTH sides of your scout’s insurance card.
3. Turn in a copy of your registration and your filled out medical form to me at home or at a Pack Meeting. There is so much paperwork, they are asking that each pack camp coordinator handle the paperwork for their own pack scouts. Every person at camp must register and turn in a medical form with a copy of his registration receipt.

Please feel free to email or call me with questions.

Thanks.

Susan Kim
Pack 1776 Day Camp Coordinator

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