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SKILL AWARDS
Related Advancement:
Skill Awards: All, but especially Cit-
izenship, First Aid, Family Living,
Community Living, Communications,
Physical Fitness
Merit Badges: All, but especially First
Aid
Progress Awards: All
ScOut Literature Resources:
Scout Handbook
Scoutmaster's Handbook
Fieldbook
Patrol and Troop Activities
Patrol and Troop Leadership
Leadership Corps
ScoutSongbook
Scoutcraft Skills, No 26-058
Merit badge pamphlets as needed
some. (Star, Life and Eagle progress
reviews may be covered at the
November roundtable.)
• Check the troop or district list of
merit badge counselors: update, if
necessary, to cover as many merit
badges as possible.
• Plan a second progress review this
month for Tenderfoot through First
Class; hold it prior to the Court of
Honor.
• Review first aid skills.
• Conduct regular progress review for
Tenderfoot through First Class.
PLANNING THE COURT OF HONOR.
Normally, courts of honor are held
every third or fourth month. Badges
and certificates are presented to
Scouts who have earned progress
awards and their parents share the
spotlight. In addition, Scouts who have
earned merit badges will also receive
them.
compass use (Hiking); packs and
ground beds (Camping); knife and ax
sharpening and safety rules, or cook-
ing demonstration (Cooking); terrarium
or aquarium (Environment); drawings
of air and oxygen cycles (Conserva-
tion); fitness tests (Physical Fitness);
rescue breathing (Swimming).
Ideas and agendas for the formal
court of honor will be found on pages
279-90 of the Scoutmaster's Handbook
and pages 153-54 of Patrol and Troop
Activities. If your local council has a
chapter of the National Eagle Scout
Association, the troop leaders' council
may get additional help from, its
members.
Make your awards in ascending
order of importance: that is, skill
awards first, then merit badges, then
progress awards from Tenderfoot
through |Eagle. If you have a new Eagle
Scout, the ceremony for him should be
especially dignified and impressive.
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TROOP LEADERS' COUNCIL. (See
agenda on page 119, Patrol and Troop
Leadership.)
Meet about a week before activities
begin on this theme. Cover these items:
• Set date and plan program for Court
of Honor. See below.
• Check expertise of patrol leaders,
leadership corps members, JASMs and
adult troop leaders in various skill
awards and make assignments on who
will work with Scouts on which skill
awards.
• Ask troop committee to be prepared
to hold a late progress review in time
for the Court of Honor for Star and Life
candidates, if you are likely to have
This time we'll add a wrinkle. Scouts
who have earned skill awards this
month will be honored, too. The pur-
pose of this is to encourage Scouts
who have poor advancement records
to earn skill awards.
To entice all the troop's parents to
come, have a display of skills and
projects completed this month by all
the Scouts. This exhibit might be
opened for an hour or so before the
start of the formal court of honor. In-
clude such skills and projects as: U.S.
flag display, folding and saluting (Cit-
izenship skill award); first aid for "hurry
cases" (First Aid); home inspection
checklists (Family Living); map and
See page 283 of the Scoutmaster's
Handbook.
Court of honor planning and cer-
emonial equipment may be shown at
the November roundtable.
BUDDY BANDAGING. Equipment-
Scout neckerchiefs or triangular ban-
dages. Method—As Scouts arrive, pair
them off. Leader names a bandage
shown in Scout Handbook. On signal,
one player from the team ties it on the
other. When the leader approves, the
bandage is removed and the second
Scout ties the same bandage on the
first. Continue with two or more ban-
dages and slings.
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