Cub Scout Pack 1776
21Apr/13

Meridian Day Camp – June 24th – 28th UPDATED INFO

To those interested in the Meridian Day Camp:

If you haven't already, please take a look (see Yuji's email here) at this opportunity for the cubs to have a fun-filled experience... which is what I gather from others who have participated in such camps in prior years.

It allows the cubs to experience activities that they otherwise wouldn't get to partake in. As such, the Meridian Day Camp has always been very popular. In fact, it becomes that enjoyable amongst both cubs and volunteers that some of them like to wear a customized rain jacket, from somewhere like Imprint, to stay dry and warm because we experience all weather here. And no one wants to miss out on all this fun, do they?

With that being said, I have been asked a few questions by some and here are the answers based on what I have learnt from the organizers:

Q: How do I get early registration discount?
A: Register online (see Yuji's email here). There is early registration discount available before 26-Apr-2013. You do not have to have all the medical forms and such approved by the organizers by that date to be able to get the discount but you must register online (see Yuji's email here) by that date to get a discount.

Q: What do I do once I have filled out the forms that I am asked to as part of the registration process?
A: Send me -- your day camp coordinator -- the following:
(a) each participating cub scout's forms
(b) your own forms (adult application and medical) if you are volunteering
(c) which days of the week you are "committed" to volunteering.
Follow up via email to me letting me know that you have mailed the above so that I can look for those in mail.

Q: Once I send the forms, does that guarantee that my son has a confirmed seat at the camp?
A: This is a tricky one. This camp is solely supported by "volunteers". Each pack is required to have volunteers (parents) from the pack participating. The required ratio of volunteers to cub scouts is "1 is to 6" at a minimum. If we fail to have enough volunteers, we will be forced to reduce the number of scouts who can participate.

Q: When will I know if my child's seat is secured?
A: As soon as the organizers have given their green signal for our pack's participation. This will require the pack to complete all requirements with respect to getting all the forms (of participating cub scouts and volunteering parents) approved by the organizers and the organizers have determined that the pack has sufficient volunteer representation. So, the sooner we (pack 1776) get our forms and volunteer plan into the hands of the organizers, the better. I -- Sunil Kulkarni -- will be the coordinator collecting your forms (cub scouts and volunteers) and volunteer participation information (which days of the week you will volunteer), putting together a binder and will work with camp organizers to get approvals of this binder. While I am not aware of any deadlines for form submission to the organizers, I would like to put a deadline for our pack of 30-Apr. i.e. please submit your information to me by that date. Please note, I cannot provide confirmation of our participation unless and until the camp organizers have reviewed the binder, approved it and given a green signal for our participation.

Q: Should I have a backup plan in case we (pack 1776) fail to get support for the camp?
A: I would strongly advise for a backup plan in the event that we (i.e. pack 1776) are unable to participate. One primary risk we have is lack of volunteers. If we do not get sufficient number of volunteers for each day of the camp, we will not be allowed to participate. So, please make sure you have a backup plan!!! I know this is tricky as alternate summer camps will fill up fast and understand you would want to know well in advance if you have your spot secured at the cub scout camp. But this is a bit beyond my control and perhaps -- assuming I am not missing some information that the camp organizers have on this -- needs to be looked into in the future by the camp organizers.

Q: If I volunteer, do I have to be at the camp all days during the camp week?
A: No. It is recognized that a parent may not be able to volunteer all days of the camp. But the pack must ensure that they have enough number of volunteers available each day to meet the minimum ratio of volunteers to cub scouts.

Q: Can volunteers rotate out during a given day (say each one providing 2 hours of volunteering on a given day)?
A: NO. This arrangement is not acceptable. It is very disruptive and hard to manage for the camp organizers.

Q: Do I need to fill out forms for myself if I am volunteering?
A: Yes. You have to be BSA registered and an adult application form has to be submitted in addition to medical forms. I think there is a background check as well as some training requirements if I recall correctly. As with applying for anything, it is very important that we perform background check procedures on all of our potential volunteers, so we are able to proceed with the best interests of our cub scouts in mind. But please, don't be afraid about this; it's a standard procedure. Please see the registration site for details (see Yuji's email below). If the scout council already has your registration on file from previous volunteering you did and the information is current, then you may not be required to re-submit your adult application form. Please let me know if you believe the council has your registration on file so that I can work with them to ensure you don't need to fill out the adult application form (although you will still be required to submit your medical forms as I understand).

Hope the above helps.

Please let me know if you have any other questions. I will gather answers from organizers and publish them periodically via an email such as this.

Best Regards,

Sunil Kulkarni
Pack 1776 Day Camp Coordinator

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31Mar/13

2013 Cub Scout Day Camp – Jungle Adventure

Pack 1776,

Meridian Day Camp Registration is now open. This is the cub scout summer day camp program the MDSC offers to the packs in the district.

Please see the attached link:

http://www.bsa-mdsc.org/events/cub-scout-events/cub-scout-day-camp/meridian-day-camp

Sunil Kulkarni, Den 4, will be the main coordinator of the event, so please let him know if you plan to attend this event as there is required paperwork (application, medical forms) that needs to be collected and submitted. We will need parent volunteer ratio of one parent for each 6 cubs that sign up for this event, so please be cognizant of this as we may not be able to participate without the appropriate volunteer ratio.

Yuji Yamada
Committee Chair

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30Mar/12

2012 Cub Scout Day Camp – Frontier Days!

Pack 1776,

Registration of 2012 Cub Scout Day Camp is now open. Early Bird sign up discounts is $165 before 4/20/2012 (that is $33/day!). Older siblings (junior helpers) can help. Younger siblings (tags) can attend. Details and registration information below.

Date: June 25 – 29th , 2012, Monday – Friday
Time: 9 am – 3:30 pm everyday, except Friday ends at 2 pm
Location: Little Hills Ranch in San Ramon, end of Bollinger Canyon Road (map)

Register early.
This camp has filled up every year!!

What: A week long camp filled with sports, archery, swimming, knot tying, engineering work, whittling, BB guns, crafts, skits, songs, and daily entertainment shows with about 400 other scouts from our district. Scouts will be able to earn various badges.  More info here.  Go here to see what our scouts achieved last year.

Cost: $165 per scouts before 4/20/2012
$180 before 5/25/2012
$195 starting 5/25/2012
$ 20 for TAGS

Who: Any scout from Tigers to Webelos II, using his Fall 2012 rank. If your scout will be an incoming Tiger (entering 1st grade) his adult needs to attend each day too. If your scout has graduated from 5th grade (entering 6th grade or above in Fall 2012 and at least 11 years old) he can volunteer as a Junior Helper for no charge. Jr. Helpers must attend one evening of training.

Volunteers: This camp is entirely organized and staffed by volunteers. Our pack must provide one adult volunteer for every six scouts attending. Adults attending all day for all the five days will receive a steep discount on the registration fee for one scout. Also, adults volunteering all week will be able to bring their potty-trained to pre-school age child to the TAG program for $20. Every adult that attends camp, even if for only half a day, needs to take the “Youth Protection Training”, needs to register as a volunteer, and fill out a medical form. Adult volunteers must attend one evening of training.

Registering for camp requires three steps:

  1. Register at: http://www.bsa-mdsc.org/events/cub-scout-events/cub-scout-day-camp/meridian-day-camp
  2. Print, fill out, and sign the medical form and shooting permission form.  Attach a copy of BOTH sides of your scout’s insurance card.
  3. Turn in a copy of your registration and your filled out medical form and shooting permission form to CC Steve. Every person at camp must register and turn in the required forms with a copy of his registration receipt.

Thanks.

Stella the webmaster

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1Dec/11

Used Bikes Needed

News from Meridian district:

Do you have a bike that is no longer being used and just collecting dust? Or perhaps you have a friend or neighbor that might have one. Ryan Mahoney of Troop 805 is collecting bikes for his Eagle Project. The project includes repairing bikes and then donating them to several nonprofit agencies in our county. If you have a bike to donate or if you or your scouts would like to help clean and repair bikes in late November and December, contact Ryan Mahoney at [email protected] or C: 786-0640.

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1Dec/11

Popcorn News

News from Meridian district:

Thank you to everyone who sold popcorn. Many of our Troops and Packs had very successful sales this year. Our top 5 overall were:

Pack 995--$30,100+
Pack 814--$12,100+
Pack 205--$11,700+
Pack 536--$10,700+
Pack 689--$10,400+

The top 5 biggest increases from 2010

Pack 995 $10,500+
Pack 205--$10,100+
Troop 216--$9,300+
Pack 814--$4,200+
Pack 1776--$3,600+

Way to go! Over all MERIDIAN DISTRICT did $150,000+ in total sales which is an increase of 28%! AMAZING JOB EVERYONE!!

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7Sep/11

2011 Cub Scout Day Camp Wrap Up

Fifteen Pack 1776 scouts had a great week at the 2011 All American Cub Scout Day Camp, held from June 20 - 24th, 2011 at Little Hills in San Ramon from 9 am to 3:30 pm. Once again Brian Wort and his volunteers directed a very well run camp. During the five days, the scouts rotated through various stations:

  • Hiking - through Las Trampas hills, learned about poison oak
  • Swimming (all 5 days) - if scout wanted to, could earned swimming pin, belt loop, or aquanaut
  • Engineering - made a Wooden Basketball Game
  • Crafts - made a Leather Bracelet
  • Archery (2 days) - 2nd day shot at moving target/balloon, earned Archery Belt Loop
  • Sports - Track and Field events such as potato shot put, long jump, hurdles
  • Knots - learned square knot, 2 half-hitch, clove hitch, bowline rescue knot, figure eight stopper knot
  • Engineering - made Marshmallow Shooters and practiced shooting with them too
  • Sports - Water Games
  • Unit Group Photos
  • BB Guns (2 days) - earned BB Belt Loop
  • Crafts - made Friendship bracelets
  • Sports - Flag Football
  • Engineering - made Wooden Beyblades
  • Crafts - made Leather Key Chains
  • Knife Safety - earned Whittling Chip
  • Soap Carving (for Bears and Wolves) - carved Ivory soap into fish, tree, etc.
  • Whittling - Webelos whittled small ax out of pine wood
  • Sports - Multiple Obstacle Courses
  • Cooking - cooked and ate Cinnamon Sugared Bread on a Stick
  • Crafts - decorated picture frame
  • Kim's Game - scout memory game
  • Sports - Relay Races
  • Patch design - Frontier theme for next year
  • Skit Practice and tryouts

In addition, the scouts were entertained with four fabulous lunch-time shows:

  • Rescue Dogs
  • Magic Show
  • Wildlife - saw kestrel, golden eagle, serval, porcupine
  • Python Ron - saw hissing cockroach, lizards, bearded dragon, various monitor lizards, various snakes (even a 90 lb albino one!)

We had fifteen scouts attending:

  • Shanay C
  • Nicholas C
  • Hayden C
  • Joshua D
  • Harrison E
  • Adam G
  • Matthew I
  • Joshua K
  • Andrew K
  • Aidan L
  • Emmett L
  • Ethan M
  • Jack P
  • Benjamin R
  • Austin S

We also had Jacob L and Nick C (from Montevideo going to Iron Horse) as our awesome and essential Junior Helpers who helped us take care of the boys in our unit. Joshua L assisted in various stations, such as Engineering and Crafts, as a Junior Helper, too.

Joe Ghatta and Ammy Pluth volunteered all day every day. Marianne Ghatta volunteered with the Tags on Monday and Tuesday, Grace Dagen volunteered on Thursday, and Ching Evans volunteered on Friday. I am so thankful to these parents to take time off work and spend their vacation time at Cub Scout Camp.

All of the 15 scouts above earned a All American Sports Patch and the BB Shooting Belt Loop.
Fourteen scouts earned the Archery Belt Loop and the Whittling Chip.

In addition, Joshua K and Jack P earned the Swimming Belt Loop and Harrison E earned both the Swmming Sports Pin and the Aquanaut Award.

It was a great week full of fun learning opportunities and classic scout activities. Looking forward to next year.

Susan Kim
Pack 1776 Day Camp Coordinator

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29Mar/11

2011 Cub Scout Day Camp – All American Sports

Pack 1776,

Registration of 2011 Cub Scout Day Camp is now open. Early Bird sign up discounts is $165 before 4/19/2011 (that is $33/day!). Older siblings (junior helpers) can help. Younger siblings (tags) can attend. Details and registration information below.

Date: June 20 – 24th , 2011, Monday – Friday
Time: 9 am – 3:30 pm everyday, except Friday ends at 2 pm
Location: Little Hills Ranch in San Ramon, end of Bollinger Canyon Road (map)

Register early. This camp has filled up every year!!

What: A week long camp filled with sports, archery, swimming, knot tying, engineering work, whittling, BB guns, crafts, skits, songs, and daily entertainment shows with about 400 other scouts from our district. Scouts will be able to earn various badges.  More info here.  Go here to see what our scouts achieved last year.

Cost: $165 per scouts before 4/19/2011
$180 before 5/25/2011
$195 before 6/06/2011
$ 25 for TAGS

Who: Any scout from Tigers to Webelos II, using his Fall 2011 rank. If your scout will be an incoming Tiger (entering 1st grade) his adult needs to attend each day too. If your scout has graduated from 5th grade (entering 6th grade or above in Fall 2011 and at least 11 years old) he can volunteer as a Junior Helper for no charge. Jr. Helpers must attend one evening of training.

Volunteers: This camp is entirely organized and staffed by volunteers. Our pack must provide one adult volunteer for every six scouts attending. Adults attending all day for all the five days will receive a steep discount on the registration fee for one scout. Also, adults volunteering all week will be able to bring their potty-trained to pre-school age child to the TAG program for $25. Every adult that attends camp, even if for only half a day, needs to take the “Youth Protection Training”, needs to register as a volunteer, and fill out a medical form. Adult volunteers must attend one evening of training.

Registering for camp requires three steps:

  1. Register at: http://www.bsa-mdsc.org/meridian/daycamp.php
  2. Print, fill out, and sign the medical form. Attach a copy of BOTH sides of your scout’s insurance card.
  3. Turn in a copy of your registration and your filled out medical form to me at home or at a Pack Meeting. There is so much paperwork, they are asking that each pack camp coordinator handle the paperwork for their own pack scouts. Every person at camp must register and turn in a medical form with a copy of his registration receipt.

Please feel free to email or call me with questions.

Thanks.

Susan Kim
Pack 1776 Day Camp Coordinator

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4Mar/11

Friends of Scouting News

News from the Meridian district:

Things are really rolling along for FOS in our district. We are at 20% of our goal having already raised just over $23K!

Top 5 FOS Units (as of Feb 23):

    1. Pack 36 - $8,270
    2. Troop 36 - $4,534
    3. Troop 805 - $2,565
    4. Pack 1776 - $2,341
    5. Troop 815 - $1,240

Thank you, Pack 1776!! There is still time if you have not contributed yet. Donations are tax-deductible and can be made online at the Council's website.

9Nov/10

Meridian Webelos Night

Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: San Ramon LDS Church, 5025 Crow Canyon Road, San Ramon

CALL ALL WEBELOS II’s

Webelos II’s and parents should plan to attend the November Roundtable meeting on Nov. 18. Learn more about the Webelos to Boy Scout transition and meet representatives from troops in your area. It’s sure to be very informative! Contact Earle Conklin, 838-5440, [email protected]

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27Oct/10

Reminder: Meridian Training Fair Tomorrow

Just a reminder that the Meridian Training Fair is tomorrow.

Meridian District Round Table (i.e. Training Fair) will be at the LDS Church (5025 Crow Canyon Road) in San Ramon.  Doors to the fair will open at 7:00 p.m.

We will be hosting:

1. Training Fair
2. Scouting for Food Kick Off Meeting (pick up maps, and door hangers)
3. Unit Re-chartering package pick up

Please come on by, enjoy the fair, get your Scouting for Food hangers, and pick up your re-charting packages!

See you all tomorrow ---- GO GIANTS!!!

Yours In Scouting,
-Ray

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