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Written by Nick W.
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In the third week of August, the Crew sent two members, Nat W. and Nick W. to take part in Chief Seattle Council's second National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) course of the year. Nat went to experience the course as a participant, while Nick was on staff for his second consecutive year. He served as Assistant Course Leader (Program) for four of the six days.
After the original Course Leader left for a family vacation, Nick was promoted to Course Leader and worked with the Course Director directly for the remaining two days. This is astonishing due to the fact that, due to some complications, he almost didn't get to staff for a second time at all!
The second week of the NYLT course yielded an extremely enthusiastic group of participants - and an extremely high number of staff applications, with nearly the entire course seeking to serve as a staff member for the 2013 NYLT Season. A new fashion trend even emerged mid-course; wearing sleeping bags everywhere. The course photo, shown above, was even taken in this new style of dress! It will be extremely hard to choose next year's staff from such a bunch of highly-qualified scouts.
The staff experienced a great few weekends together training for the course and constructing some of the permanent NYLT structures up at Camp Sheppard. To apply for staff, you must demonstrate an exemplary performance during the year you are a participant and submit an application. To staff multiple years, you must be invited back by one of the course directors. As a reinforcement of their dedication to leadership, the staff are not paid. However, they do receive some pretty snazzy jackets. This course was noted by multiple adult staff members, including Harrison, the Camp Sheppard director, as one of the best they had ever seen. Thanks to all the participants and staff for a great week, and I hope to see you all at NYLT Week 2 2013! |
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Written by Scouting Magazine, BSA
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 It’s official: The resolution to move to one Oath and Law for Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Varsity, Sea Scouts, and Venturing was approved on October 17th by the Boy Scouts of America’s Executive Board.
Essentially, this means every Scout of any age will use the Scout Oath and Law instead of reciting separate, program-specific sayings. Cub Scouts will recite the Scout Oath and Law instead of the Cub Scout Promise and Law of the Pack. Similarly, Venturers will no longer use the Venturing Oath and Venturing Code.
Because it will take time to transition into this new approach, the changes are not immediate. The Venturing change will not happen until late 2013 or early 2014; the Cub Scout change will take effect in mid-2015. Additionally, the newly adopted resolution replaces the full-hand Venturing sign and salute with the three-finger Boy Scout sign and salute.
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Congratulations to Sam G and Robert K, who went through their Brotherhood ceremonial requirements this past weekend at Camp Pigott in the Cascade foothills with the T'Kope Kwiskwis (Chinook for Silver Marmot) Lodge of the Order of the Arrow.
While Ordeal, or entry-level membership consists primarily of physical impressions of the Order, the Brotherhood ceremony is one of deeper and quieter mental impressions. Ordeal members are entitled to all the same rights and privileges of membership in the Order of the Arrow as Brotherhood and Vigil Honor members - there are no ranks within the Order - moving on to Brotherhood membership offers an opportunity to reaffirm belief in the high purposes of the Order. Before becoming a Brotherhood member, each Arrowman makes a special effort to serve his unit. Each Brotherhood member commits to even more service to Scouting through the Order. Arrowmen may "seal" their membership after a minimum of ten months by demonstrating their knowledge of the traditions and obligations of the OA. |
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Written by Trevor N.
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 Congrats to Sam R., Zach T., and Bob T. for earning the 2011 Chief Seattle Council Venturing Leadership Award, or the VLA. The VLA is presented to Venturers and adults who have given exceptional contribution, dedication, and outstanding leadership to Venturing. The council can present 2 awards to the youth and 2 awards to the adults for up to 50 crews/ships, so this is a huge honor for not only the recipients, but for our whole Crew as well. We are proud to have among us such talented and dedicated individuals that will continue to seek truth, fairness, and adventure in our world. They will be recognized for receiving this award at the Fall Rendezvous on October 27th at 6 PM at Camp Parsons.
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Written by Chris
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Four of the Crew traveled to Philmont for the National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience, also known simply as NAYLE. The weeklong course is conducted at the Rocky Mountain Scout Camp, one of the backcountry stops on the ranch. NAYLE is based in high adventure, team building, servant leadership, and the development of ethical decision making. The program isn’t a lock-step curriculum like other BSA courses. It usually delivers a number of subjective outcomes focusing on each individual's perspective, opinion, and feelings, including growing self-awareness, growing self-confidence, growing creativity, the happiness from helping others succeed. It teaches an understanding that everyone is a leader, everyone in the group contributes in a significant way to team success, knowing leadership is a way of life.
 Sam G, Malachi, Nick W, and Chris Z all served in separate NAYLE Crews, along with others from all across the USA. In order to attend NAYLE, they first completed our Crew's Introduction to Leadership Skills Course (ILSC), and all four graduated from the Chief Seattle Council's National Youth Leadership Training course (NYLT). Two of them had even staffed NYLT. At Philmont, their "experience" included a COPE course, Wilderness First Aid training, GPS navigation and geocaching, search and rescue, Leave No Trace/LNT and conservation. These are the same training requirements for a Philmont Ranger. They also completed the requirements for the new Search and Rescue Merit Badge.
Yes, the word TRAINING makes it sound like a classroom, but it really wasn't. Learning didn’t happen in a room, but in the rugged outdoors of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Spanish for "Blood of Christ"). In fact, there are no buildings at all, and the only way to even see any buildings was to wake up at 4:30AM and climb to 9,003 feet atop the Tooth of Time. From that incredible view, you can see the Sante Fe Trail and Philmont's Camping HQ. Conventional visiting Crews at Philmont have to reach the Tooth via the gradual Trail of Tears along the ridgeline, but the NAYLE folks attack it from the aggressive Stockade Trail, 2400 feet, straight up.
It was a blast, and our guys drew some pretty strong, positive comments from the NAYLE leadership cadre. |
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