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Archives for July 2020

STEMaTHON | The Great Scouting Invitational

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STEMaTHON is a 2 day virtual event hosted by the National Capital Area Council’s STEM Commitee, which aims to encourage exploration of STEM interests, future career opportunities and hobbies.

Join us from September 5-6, 2020 for a STEMaTHON: Scouts Building Bridges and Feeding the World through the lens and tools of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This two day event includes online workshops, keynotes, tours, presentations and even activities!

The scheduled events are below, but there are also activities you can do in advance to be featured in the STEMaTHON:

– Build a bridge in the STEMaTHON Engineering Bridge competition! When you register for the competition, we will mail you the kits. You are also invited to attend the Engineering Merit Badge STEMaTHON sessions to earn your Engineering Merit Badge. Be sure to check out the attachment on this webpage for more on the competition.

– Design and execute Rube Goldberg Machine that rolls a can of food a distance of at least 1 foot, film your creation and send the video in to our channel! Details attached in the webpage.

Scheduled Events:

Saturday: Building Bridges

10AM : Welcome Keynote

11AM : STEM Careers Conference

Professional Engineer, Mr. Paul MacDonald, Career Talk & Q&A

12PM : Lunch Hour Programming

1PM : Bridges to the Point of Destruction | Live Competition

3PM : Inventions Showcase

3:30 PM : Supernova & Nova Kickoff!

Sessions for Cub Scouts & Scouts BSA on how to get started with the Nova & Supernova Awards

5PM : STEM Scouts | Season 6 Kickoff

6:30 PM: STEM Innovator Moment

Rockets & Airplanes, 30 years at NASA with Mr. Tony Springer & Q&A

8PM: Astronomy Activity

 

Sunday: Feeding the World

10AM : UMD, AGNR Keynotes

Dean Dr. Beyrouty, Chair Dr. Bowerman, Professor Dr. Ellis
               Food Security & Food Safety, Green Infrastructure & Water Quality Treatment

11AM: 4H Water Quality & Community Service

11:45PM : Engineers Without Borders | Water around the World

12:30PM : Food (In)Security and Sustainable Development

1:00PM : Einstein’s Science Fair

with NCAC Einstein Supernova recipient William Cather

2PM : Feeding The World: Rube Goldberg Machines

3PM : Bees and Honey

4PM : STEM Awards & Closing

Will you build a bridge?

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Attention, all those who are up for a challenge…

The Great STEMaTHON Invitational includes a bridge building competition that will be showcased live online, on Saturday, September 5, 2020. Will you build a bridge?

Everyone will receive the same set of materials upon registration, and have 16 days to build their bridges! You can see the full set of materials and how the bridges will be measured (or weighted, rather!) in this PDF: BridgeCompetition.

Scouts are also invited to pre-STEMaTHON sessions to help you earn the Engineering Merit Badge. Sessions will be held on August 4, 5, 17 and 18. Of course, by participating in this bridge competition, you will already earn requirement 6!

Register here for the Bridge Competition: https://scoutingevent.com/082-STEMaTHON

Be sure to join us for the whole event: September 5-6, 2020 for a STEMaTHON in which you will be part of Scouts Building Bridges and Feeding the World through the lens and tools of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This two day event includes online workshops, keynotes, tours, presentations and even activities!

 

Going, Going, Gone — To Camp Snyder!

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Hey Scout Families, the temperature is warm at Camp Snyder but the program activities are HOT! However, there is plenty of shade and cool showers any time of the day!

The second weekend of family camping just finished at maximum capacity under the COVID-19 precautions we’ve put in place. The additional benefit of limiting the number of families for any particular weekend is that the camp doesn’t seem full. But it is busy, because there is plenty to do, whether it is program activities or adventures you do on your own, like biking, fishing, geocaching, walking the nature trail or building your own campfire.

Families are rating their overall experience a 9 out of 10, so sign up to join us for one of the two last weekends of family camping. You are sure to have FUN!

Cub Scout Pack 22 “International Scouts Trash the Trash” Day

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Scouts of Cub Scout pack 22 along with their leaders and parents participated in a trash pickup day at Lee Hill Park on July 11th. It is important to do this because it helps the environment stay healthy and clean. It also keeps the animals safe from eating things that can make them sick. The scouts picked up 6 large trash bags of trash from the park. This also helps the scouts show 2 of the meanings of the scout law by being clean and helpful.

Written by Grayson Taylor, Bear Den

Cub-A-Day Program Week 7 (July 20 – July 25)

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MONDAY

This is Make Some MUSIC Monday – Recycle items from your house to make a rain stick or a drum.  Even better if you and a family member or a friend can jam together on multiple homemade instruments.

If you are a Bear – Make sure to get credit for World of Sound Requirement #3 and Webelos should get credit for Maestro Requirement #2a.

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TUESDAY

It’s Taste Something Tuesday!
Taste Something Tuesday – Every Scout should know a couple of go-to campfire desserts – We made S’mores for Family Fun Friday during week 1, so now let’s try another camp cooked treat – Banana Boats!

Here are some https://www.freshoffthegrid.com/campfire-banana-boats/ (You can use an oven if a campfire isn’t an option)

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WEDNESDAY

It’s Wander Around Wednesday!
Wander Around Wednesday – If you’ve been keeping up your ScoutStrong tracker since Week 1 – Take a celebration walk!! You should have enough entries to complete the award!

If you aren’t quite there yet – Start logging now and you’ll finish up in early September.

Get your ScoutStrong paperwork signed by an adult in your home and then sent to your Den Leader or Cubmaster.

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THURSDAY

It’s Do Something Thoughtful Thursday: 
Thoughtful Thursday – The 1st and 2nd of August is NCACs Do A Good Turn Weekend.
To get ready – Work with your Den or Pack to find a local charity and see what you can do to give them a hand.

Check out the ideas here – https://weownadventure.com/good-turn-weekend-aug-1-2/

You could start a drive-through food drive, collect blankets or bags to donate, or help organize their facility.

For example: For our Scouts in the Alexandria area – Collecting paper grocery bags to help food pantries distribute supplies could help the Mother of Light Center in Del Ray.

Service projects can earn credit for the NCAC Scouting at Home Award: https://www.scoutingevent.com/082-scoutingathomeaward

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FRIDAY

It’s Family Fun Friday:
Family Fun Friday – Work together on a task the benefits the whole family – Some laundry or cleaning around the house maybe?  It might not sound fun now, but working together as a family is a great quality family time and it improves your home!

This also completes the first activity in the Explore My Family category of the Cub Family Summertime Passport: https://public.3.basecamp.com/p/AqAQD4gKhjdXw4m2AkDEbCWn

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SATURDAY

It’s Safety Saturday…
You can still work on the Protect Yourself Adventure if you haven’t finished it already…but this week we are going to start a new theme – Emergency Preparedness.

Pick any requirement from the Emergency Preparedness Award and work on it as a family- The requirements for each rank can be found here: https://www.scouting.org/awards/awards-central/emergency-preparedness/