Pack-to-Troop Transitions: Preparing AOLs (and their PLs) for Scout Rank

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. I had, after all, been dreaming about the day my den of Cub Scouts would cross into the care of their new Troops since they first donnedContinue 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”