Our Progress in Scouting

In September, 2000, our new den of Tigers started.   September, 2001, started Wolf advancements. The Wolves received their rank badges in March, 2002 - Picture   September, 2002, started Bear advancements. Picture The Bears received their rank badges on February 23, 2003 - Picture and got a few more arrow points in April - Picture   In May, 2003, our Bear den started working on Webelos advancement - Picture. We had our first den campout in May - Picture   We attended Webelos summer camp in July, 2003 - Picture and had thousands of mosquitos, a couple of thunderstorms, and one tornado. By surviving this campout, everything from here on will be EASY!   All scouts in the den earned Webelos rank badges on January 29th, 2004 - Picture. We had a meeting to choose a patrol name and emblem, and to create a yell and flag. We became the Caterpillar Crushing Cobras Patrol.   In August, 2004, we attended Webelos camp again. This time, we joined with a patrol from Monticello and found out that scouts all over the place play 'RuneScape' online. We called ourselves the Lama Clan for the weekend - Picture

Our Patrol Patch:

Our Patrol Flag:

 
On February 25, 2005, all 10 Webelos scouts crossed over to Troop 479 to continue their scouting experience as Boy Scouts. They were split into the Buffalo Bills and Roadrunners patrols along with some other scouts.
 
Over the next 18 months, some scouts dropped or moved away causing the patrols to merge into the Penguin patrol in September, 2006.
For a year, they continued on, advancing in ranks and growing in maturity and leadership skills. They were a patrol of 7 scouts, all of them doing very well and remaining active in scouting.
Then, the patrol of scouts a year younger than the Penguins requested a change. When they first started, there were only 4 scouts in their patrol. They were successful in recruiting 2 more, but they were just trying out scouting. In September of 2007, their patrol had 3 very active scouts left and they were struggling to feel like a patrol.
 
The Penguins accepted their request to merge patrols yet again and the Phoenix patrol was formed from scouts that had originally been in 4 different patrols.
We expect that these 10 scouts will continue on together for the next 5 years as the core leaders of their troop. But, of course, life happens.
 

 

 
Following are the badges and pins earned by each scout in our group so far...

Cub Scouts
Badge		Alvaro	Brandon	Chris C	Chris M	Jack	Joe	JohnPaul	Josh	Justin	Sam
		04/01	04/01	04/01	04/01	04/01	04/01		04/01	04/01
		09/01	09/01	09/01	09/01	09/01	09/01	09/01	10/03	09/01	09/01
		02/02	02/02	02/02	02/02	02/02	02/02		02/02	02/02
		02/03	02/03	02/03	02/03	02/03	02/03		02/03	02/03
		01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	02/04
							01/05
Aquanaut		10/03	10/03		10/03	10/03	10/03		10/03	10/03	07/03
Traveler		09/03			01/05	01/05	01/04		01/04		04/04
Outdoorsman		10/03	10/03	06/03			10/03	10/03	10/03	10/03	01/04
Naturalist		10/03	05/04				10/03	08/03	10/03	10/03	07/03
Forester		10/03	10/03		01/05	10/04	10/03		10/03	10/03	10/03
Citizen			11/03		11/03	11/03	11/03		11/03	11/03	12/03
Fitness		01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04	10/03
Craftsman		01/04	01/04		01/04	01/04	01/05	01/04	01/04	01/04	01/04
Readyman			03/04	03/04	03/04	03/04	03/04	03/04	03/04	03/04	10/03
Artist		05/04	05/04	12/04		05/04	05/04	01/05	05/04	10/04	12/03
Athlete							10/04
Sportsman			05/04		05/04	05/04	05/04	05/04	05/04	05/04	10/03
Family Member							01/05		05/04
Handyman		06/04	06/04	06/04	06/04	06/04	06/04	06/04	06/04	06/04
Geologist			07/04	07/04			07/04	07/04	07/04	07/04
Communicator							01/05	12/04			02/04
Showman		09/04	09/04		09/04	09/04	09/04		09/04	09/04	02/04
Scientist		11/04			11/04	11/04	11/04	11/04	11/04	11/04	11/04
Scholar			01/05				01/05		01/05		04/04
Engineer			01/05		01/05	01/05	01/05	01/05	01/05	01/05	01/05
		02/05	02/05	02/05	02/05	02/05	02/05	02/05	02/05	02/05	02/05
			10/02		10/02	10/02	10/02		10/02	10/02
			10/02		10/02	10/02	10/02		10/02	10/02
			10/03	10/03	10/03	10/03			10/03	10/03
Boy Scouts
Badge		Alvaro	Brandon	Chris C	Chris M	Jack	Joe	JohnPaul	Josh	Justin	Sam
		08/05	03/05	06/05	03/05	03/05	03/05	dropped 02/05	03/05	04/05	04/05
		dropped 07/06	02/06	09/05	12/05	06/06	08/05		08/05	06/06	09/05
			08/06	dropped 07/06	09/06	moved 09/06	02/06		03/06	moved 08/06	09/06
			01/07		moved 09/06		06/06		06/06		03/07
			09/07				03/07		03/07
Other Awards
Badge		Alvaro	Brandon	Chris C	Chris M	Jack	Joe	JohnPaul	Josh	Justin	Sam
							04/05		04/05		04/05