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:
- Register at: http://www.bsa-mdsc.org/events/cub-scout-events/cub-scout-day-camp/meridian-day-camp
- Print, fill out, and sign the medical form and shooting permission form. Attach a copy of BOTH sides of your scout’s insurance card.
- 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
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
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:
- Register at: http://www.bsa-mdsc.org/meridian/daycamp.php
- Print, fill out, and sign the medical form. Attach a copy of BOTH sides of your scout’s insurance card.
- 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
Cub Scout Day Camp Wrap Up
Pack 1776 families-
We had a fantastic week at Meridian's Cub Scout Camp held at Little Hills!
This year the theme was "Cubstruction" and ran from 9 am to 3:30 pm for 5 days from June 21 - 25th. The camp ended early at 2 pm on the last day with ice cream while watching skits. Our skit was one of the six they picked out of 25 units to perform for the camp. Yeah! I found that camp director Brian Wort headed up a very well run camp with plenty of volunteers and junior helpers too. They required one adult volunteer every day for every six scouts attending. I was there every day. Lisa Cheney and Cubmaster Emeritus Ed Laubach volunteered on Monday. (Thank you so much!) All volunteers were required to take Youth Protection Training and attend a 1 1/2 hour Camp Training Meeting.
Over the five days, the kids rotated through various stations:
Knife Safety
Engineering - Bridge Building over two days
Engineering - Crane Building
Decorate Unit Flag
Leatherwork
Cooking
Knots & Lashings
Chariot Building & Racing
Genius Kits
Paper Airplanes
Skit Practice
Group Photos
Soap Carving (for younger scouts)/Whittling (for Webelos only)
Kickball
Cubstruction Race
Logo Design
Den Yells
Water Sports (replaced with non-water games because of chilly weather)
Swimming (5 days)
Archery (2 days)
BB Range (2 days)
We had six scouts attending:
Brennan C
Matthew I
Andrew K
Jacob L
Ty L
Ethan M
and we had two older brothers helping as Jr. helpers:
Teagan C
Joshua L
All of the six above earned the Archery Belt Loop and the BB Gun Belt Loop.
The following four earned the Swimming Belt Loop:
Matthew I
Andrew K
Ty L
Ethan M
The following earned the Swimming Pin:
Matthew I
The following earned the Aquanaut:
Matthew I
The following earned and already received Whittling Chips and Junior USA Shooting Team 2010 patches:
Brennan C
Matthew I
Andrew K
Jacob L
Ethan M
Each scout also received a Cubstruction Patch.
It was a great week. I look forward to next year. Thanks.
Susan Kim (Andrew's mom)
Cub Scout Day Camp – Act Quick!
Date: June 21-25, 2010
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Little Hills Ranch (map)
Cost: $165 per person before 4/28/2010; $180 before 5/24/2010; $195 afterward
Pack 1776 families-
Registration of 2010 Cub Scout Day Camp is now open. Early Bird sign up discounts have been extended: $165 before 4/28/2010 (that is $33/day!). Older siblings (junior helpers) can help. Younger siblings (tags) can attend. All details and registration information on this website.
** Important: Please let me know if you sign up so we can coordinate the Pack 1776 contingent. **
Yours in Scouting,
Cubmaster Ed
