Winter Camp SOLD OUT!
This inaugural program provides the Scouts with great
outdoor healthy activities throughout February Vacation including snowboarding,
skating and some creative uses of Scout outdoor skills like “Tracking the Yeti”
and Engineering the “Perfect Snow Ball Catapult.”
Merit Badge University
at Harvard has also SOLD OUT!
Participating Scouts have the opportunity to learn from
Harvard students and professionals in their field of interest for over 35
merit badges including Robotics, Oceanography, and Space Exploration.
Marketing Committee
Check out the three recent stories about the positive impact
of Scouting.
Voice of the Scout –
Positive Feedback from our Volunteers
"Voice of the Scout" is the
national Scouting feedback survey, our 2013 responses are in and tabulated.
Each Scout Family receives an e-mail survey twice a year. The e-mail is sent
from national council, and therefore all responses can be compared so councils
can learn from one another and best practices can evolve. While we still have a
long way to go we did score 100% (Highest in the country) for Cub Scout
Parents.
Development
Thanks to Amica Insurance for kicking off our Friends
of Scouting campaign with a leadership $35,000 annual contribution!
Capital
Improvements- An INNOVATIVE APPROACH
The campaign has raised $440,000 to date! And the
improvements are already underway! Check out the face
book photo album for additional pictures and comments from our volunteers.
The Capital Projects are FAR MORE than simply improvements
to camp that has been run down over the past 75 years. It is innovative
programming……
Ropes Course
One of the only High Course programs with an emphasis on
Team Building Activities. Entire troops and/or patrols (up 16 participants)
will be able to climb, belay and break through their own boundaries as they
work together to achieve goals.
Environmental Education
A series of program elements that will entertain and educate
youth and parents alike. Participants will dig around in the dirt and climb
into the trees to learn about eco-systems, soil, photosynthesis, geology and
bird flight patterns.
Open to Everyone
Starting this summer, due to popular demand, our growing Day
Camp programs will be open siblings and girls between 1st grade and
5th grade.
Cub Scout Canoeing
Each weekend the new van brings our Scouts and their
families down to the boat launch at the Neponset River for the only officially
sanctioned Cub Scout Open Water Canoe program in the country.
ScoutReach (urban
Scouting initiative)
Due to our highly successful Rewards program our ScoutReach
program boasts some of the highest retention rates in the country. All these
great enhancements are made available to our ScoutReach participants as they EARN
THEIR WAY through their good-Scout-like-behavior.
Welcoming Programs
The outdoors can seem intimidating but often folks just need
a guide. However, sometimes people (even parents) are embarrassed to ask for
help. Camp Sayre has 40 educational signs that allow parents the opportunity to
quickly understand a skill and actively participate with their child. The
posters range from how to tie a square knot, shoot a bow and arrow, build a
fire, and navigate by the stars.
More and more …..
For the past 12 months we have developed and launched a
dozen programs, we learn from our mistakes, make improvements, formalize the
procedure and try again. This process encourages all feedback and allows us to
innovate and involve everyone.
Strategic Plan
This whole project began with our Strategic Plan. Each year
our strategic Planning oversight committee reviews and updates the plan. They
are currently in the process of meeting and evaluating the 2013 progress. The
two links below contain the summary information.
http://bsaboston.doubleknot.com/document/strategic-plan/122793
2013
summary of Goals
Thanks for being involved and helping to revitalize Scouting
for families in Greater Boston!
Those Strategic Plan links don't work.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, sorry those links didn't work. They are also posted on the council website. Hope that helps.
ReplyDeletehttp://bsaboston.doubleknot.com/community-member/strategic-planning/39296