The new Cub Scout program officially launches on June 1st, 2024, and with it will come a tremendous amount of planning for your upcoming Year in Scouting. Having been there, done that, I’m hoping my updated 2024 Cub Scout Rank Tracking Google Sheets will help unit leaders keep track of their Scout’s achievements (alongside ScoutBook,Continue reading “Cub Scouts: New 2024 Cub Scout Rank Tracking Google Sheets”
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Pack-to-Troop Transitions: Preparing AOLs (and their PLs) for Scout Rank
This article includes references to the Cyber Chip, which retired in 2022. Cub Scouts are now referred to “The Protect Yourself Rules” video series found at https://www.scouting.org/programs/cub-scouts/preview-adventures/protect-yourself-rules/. If you had asked me two months ago how my AOL Bridging plan was coming along, I would’ve told you I was prepared for our big April event. IContinue reading “Pack-to-Troop Transitions: Preparing AOLs (and their PLs) for Scout Rank”
Cub Scouts: Rank Tracking Sheets
UPDATED 2/11/22: With elective adventures for all ranks retiring in 2022, the trackers have been updated to reflect those changes. They’ve also been simplified into one Google Sheet for ease of use. Scroll down to the section entitled “Download Simple Rank Tracking Sheets” for the new link. Here we are – the beginning of aContinue reading “Cub Scouts: Rank Tracking Sheets”
Cub Scouts Bobcat
5 Tips for Setting-Up New Scouts to Successfully Earn Their First Rank Until the introduction of the Lions program in the last several years, the Bobcat Rank was the very first rank your Scout could earn in the Cub Scouting program. Introduced in 1938, the “Bob Cat pin” was intended to serve as an entry-levelContinue reading “Cub Scouts Bobcat”