Cub Scout

Boy Scouts of America to hopefully learn some life skills. Because of the time that I joined in I would only be in the Cub Scouts for a period of one year before crossing over into the Boy Scouts. During both my time in both Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, I met my closest friends. Being a Boy Scouts allowed me to challenge myself to go outside of my comfort zone. These experiences helped me become a more responsible adult, such as taking leadership roles, taking risks, and mentoring younger scouts. While

Yorkville Cub Scout Pack 350 is a local chartered organization which provides the community with volunteer opportunities and Boy Scout lessons for local children. This organization provides age appropriate lessons on various scouting and life lessons, such as camping, sports, safety, religion, morals, respect, and survival. These lessons are taught through meetings which are organized by age group, focused solely on children who are aged First Grade through Fifth Grade. The organizational structure

presented Earth Rocks to Cub Scouts who were earning their Merit Badge. As I now reflect on the two sessions I taught that day, I wonder if I could have ever been truly prepared for them. I believed I had everything lined out and timed to take us right up to the time their session was over. However, that was not the case because the scouts knew a considerable amount more about the subject than I realized. I feel honored to have been able to work with such intelligent groups of scouts. During the first

summer of 2016, I worked as a counselor at Camp Cub World. The job didn’t pay too well, but it kept me busy and was a wonderful learning experience while having fun. The camp was built for Cub Scouts, or the little boys younger than fifth grade, and resided just downhill from the main Boy Scout camp, Friedlander. One of the attributes of Cub World that makes it unique is called Challenge Camp. Normally we would hold three or four day camp sessions for scouts, but for two weeks in July, we would bring

eventually joining Cub Scouts by myself, and working at it all the way from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade. Not only would I attend the weekly meetings just for my age group, but I also went to various events outside of the usual. Some of these that I remember are cleaning up around the parks and collecting food for the food drive. The food drive had always brought some odd memories because people never knew that we were allowed to help and collect food for the post office. Also in Cub Scouts, very few people

food so I can go to my next destination, scouts. I happen to be the oldest scout there, not only by age but by experience as well. Luckily I’m no longer in charge of them and I get to sit back and make sure they don’t do anything stupid to hurt themselves.

We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it. (100 words) Speed, control, freedom. These undeniably satisfactory feelings are difficult to acquire in one’s everyday life. Yet, through my adventures longboarding, I am able to get a whiff of such emotions. As I surf the concrete wave of the hoosier roads, I feel my longboard’s wheels whiz underneath me as if to tell me to go faster. Though I am reaching

was my time with the Cub Scouts. My time with the Cub Scouts was instrumental

I began my scouting career in Cub Scouts in second grade, starting with Pack 100 in New York City. I quickly progressed through the ranks up to Bear, but then I moved to a farm in Upstate New York. I quickly found a new pack, Pack 11. There I participated in all the outings and finished out my ranks, earning every possible belt loop and earning my Arrow of Light award. After that I bridged into Troop 11. The troop pushed its scouts to rank up quickly, so I was able to earn First Class in just

In first grade, my first year as a Cub Scout, my pack and I spent an afternoon at a local bowling alley. After we finished up our games, we followed the manager past the hardwood lanes and through a door located at the back of the building. Surrounded by machinery, we were behind the scenes of a game of bowling. As the balls zoomed back to the players, and the machines straightened the pins for the next round, I thought to myself, “not many kids get to see the back of a bowling alley, and I got to