Hey, Hey, Hey. . . What a Day!

Boy, were we glad for sunshine!

Tuesday

Thank you to all the adults who have come to camp and walked around with the boys!  You should earn a hiking merit badge!

We started off with rain again, so we had to do physical training inside the classrooms. Here we have some knee-volleyball going on with a balloon.

Rain outside made robotics indoors all the more fun!  We had our first bot wars with the Webelos Scouts learning about VEX robotics.



The Wolves and Bears are working on robotics with kits called "Snap Circuits."  If you are interested in checking into a kit for your family or your pack, you can search for "Snap Circuit robot."  We purchased the ones we are using at camp from Carl's Electronics online.

The skies cleared off just in time for Wolves and Bears to take a Freak-a-Nature hike.  Webelos had a special visitor, Arli Boustead, from the Scouting program team to work on the Forester badge.  Who knew you could measure a tree with a yardstick?

In the afternoon, our special guests came from Gifford Farms with a STARLAB.  The lab was like a giant tent the Cubs could enter and watch a program about the constellations. 

We also did service projects for Iowa Western.  Wolves and Bears collected recycling materials around the College and took them to a recycling center behind student dormitories.  (We created a sport: Junk-chucking for points!  They loved throwing empty soda bottles into the opening on the side of the recycling center!)  Webelos collected trash around the campus, and they finished up their service project by spreading mulch around a courtyard garden on Wednesday morning.

Don't forget:  All people attending camp should wear closed shoes, like tennis shoes.  Also, Thursday is our last session at Iowa Western.  On Friday we will be at the park at the beginning of the Wabash Trace, on Harry Langdon Blvd (at the bottom of the hill down from Titan Hill Intermediate School).