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Optional Awards
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Arrowpoints,
there are many awards available for active and ambitious Cub Scouts
to earn.
Often, you will find that a Scout has already fulfilled most of the
requirements for a particular award and only needs to do one or two
additional requirements to finish. But the biggest obstacle blocking
him
from getting it is that neither he, his parents, nor his Scout
leaders are
aware of the award. Below is a list of optional awards and their
requirements to hopefully help everyone out. For information on the
award
placement, please visit the Uniform page.
Since it can be tough to remember all these
awards, here are some printable requirements lists that you can fold and
tape into the back of your Wolf, Bear, or Webelos Handbook:
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Attendance Pin
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have
perfect attendance at Pack Meetings for one year. For every
additional year
with perfect attendance, a new bar may be added to the bottom
showing the
number of years earned. This is worn above the left pocket like
Service
Stars. There are no special requirements other than being at Pack
Meeting
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BSA Fun for the Family
Award
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| The BSA Fun for the Family Award
program offers
activities to help strengthen all families—whether two-parent,
single-parent, or nontraditional. This program helps families
accomplish
worthy goals while building and strengthening relationships among
family
members. All family members are encouraged to participate and may
earn the
award. Recently, it has been split into 5 smaller, separate awards
to make
earning it more manageable. Your family may earn each patch and pin once
each.
Fun for the
Family Award
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Conservation Good Turn
Award
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The Conservation Good Turn Award is a an environmentally
centered
award that a Den or Pack can earn together (boys cannot earn
this
alone). It involves doing a larger service project to
benefit the
community. This is a temporary patch that may be worn on the
right
pocket. Your den or pack may earn this award once each year.
Conservation
Good
Turn Requirements (PDF)
Conservation Good Turn Application (PDF)
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Crime Prevention Award
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| Part of developing character and
citizenship is
learning about the law and how to help the local police. The Crime
Prevention award is awarded to those who learn about how Law
Enforcement
helps us and how we can help protect the public. You may earn this award
once.
Crime
Prevention
Award for Cub Scouts
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Cub Scouts Sports
and
Academics Program
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The Sports and Academics Program is too large to briefly describe
here.
Please click on the link below to navigate to a separate page all
about this
great program! The downloadable files now have more info than the
past versions. You may earn each beltloop and pin once.
Cub Scouts Sports
and Academics Program
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Donor Awareness
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For a number of years, BSA has offered to Cub
Scouts and Boy Scouts the Donor Awareness Patch shown here. It is
worn on the right pocket of the uniform as a temporary insignia.
BSA has reduced their emphasis on this program,
but has not discontinued it completely.
There are no formal requirements
for these patches. Each Unit establishes the procedure for awarding
the patch. Usually, a Donor Awareness Patch is awarded to a Cub
Scout the first time he is successful in getting an adult family
member, friend, relative, or other acquaintance to agree to become
an organ donor, and to fill out and carry an Organ Donor Card.
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Emergency Preparedness
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Part of being a Scout is being able to help
in emergency
situations. This award is for those boys who put the extra effort
into being
prepared to assist professional medics and help people when needed,
as well
as getting an early start on learning about first aid. You may earn this
award up to 3 times, but you will only receive the pin for the first
time you earn it.
Emergency Preparedness
Requirements (PDF)
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Interpreter Strip
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This patch is available to those who have
proficiency in a foreign language and shows that they can help
interpret at scouting functions for those who do not speak English.
The strip is written in the foreign language so that someone who
needs help can easily read it. Available in many more languages than
shown here. You may earn this for as many languages as you would
like.
Interpreter Strip
Requirements (PDF)
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Leave No Trace
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The Leave No Trace award encourages
environmental awareness
at an early age, and is a good start to learning about the Outdoor
Code in
the Boy Scout program. This award may only be earned once while a Cub Scout.
Leave No
Trace Requirements
(PDF)
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Lifesaving and Meritorious
Action
Awards
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These are very special awards that are reserved
for acts of exceptional heroism, character, and merit. Recipients
must be nominated by someone else after performing a heroic act.
Each medal comes with a special knot that can be worn on the shirt.
Available to both youth and adults.
Merit
Awards Nomination Form
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National Den Award
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The National Den Award recognizes dens that
have a quality,
year-round program. The award goes to dens that do service and
conservation
projects, Cub Scout Academics and Sports, field trips, character
building,
and camping. Dens earn the award as a team, not as individual den
members.
The recognition is a ribbon for the den flag or den doodle. The den may earn
this award once each year.
National
Den Award Requirements (PDF)
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National Summertime Pack
Award
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A pack can earn the National Summertime Pack
Award by doing
three pack activities when school is out for the summer—one activity
each in
June, July, and August. Packs that qualify get a colorful streamer
for their
pack flag. Dens that have at least half of their members at the
three summer
pack events can earn a den ribbon. Pack members who take part in all
three
events are eligible for the National Summertime Pack Award pin, to
wear on
the right pocket flap of their uniform. Note, beginning with
the 2009
Summer, there are differently colored pins to encourage the boys to
earn it
each year he is in Cub Scouts. See another picture of it
here.
You may earn this award once for each summer you are in Cub Scouts.
Try to get all of them!
National
Summertime Pack Award
Requirements (PDF)
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Outdoor Activity Award
and Wolf Track
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Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Scouts have the
opportunity to earn
the Cub Scout Outdoor Activity Award. Boys may earn the award in
each of the
program years as long as the requirements are completed each year.
The first
time the award is earned, the boy will receive the pocket flap
award, which
is to be worn on the right pocket flap of the uniform shirt. Each
successive
time the award is earned, a wolf track pin may be added to the flap.
Leaders
should encourage boys to build on skills and experiences from
previous
years when working on the award for a successive year. You may earn this
award once for each year you are in Cub Scouts.
Outdoor Activity Award Requirements (PDF)
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Physical Fitness Award
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| One of the main goals of the Scouting
program
is to develop physical fitness and the love of exercising. To help
promote
that, they have created this award for those who complete the
following
requirements. You may earn this award once.
BSA Physical Fitness
Award Application
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Journey to
Excellence Unit Award
(J2E)
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| The Journey to Excellence
Award recognizes outstanding packs (and also troops, teams, crews, and
ships) that have quality programs for their members. To earn this award,
packs need well-trained leaders and they must meet several other
requirements, such as holding regular pack meetings, qualifying for the
National Summertime Pack Award (above), going on an outdoor activity, doing
a service project, and having at least three-fourths of the Scouts advance
in rank. There are Bronze, Silver, and Gold versions of the award depending
on how well each unit does. What you can do to
help your pack earn this is make sure you earn your rank for the year and
attend the summer activities. All members, both youth and adults, of a pack that earns
this
award may wear the J2E emblem on their uniforms. The pack
may also
display a streamer on the pack flag. Only the most current award
may be worn
on the shirt.
J2E Pack
Requirements (PDF)
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Recruiter Patch
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To encourage Scouts to bring their friends,
the Recruiter
Patch is given to a Scout of any age or a leader who brings a new
scout into
the program. There are no formal requirements for these strips. Each
Unit
establishes the procedure for awarding the strip. Usually, a
Recruiter Strip
is awarded to a Cub Scout or Boy Scout the first time he is
successful in
getting a friend, relative, classmate, or other acquaintance to join
his
unit. You may earn this award multiple times, but you will only receive the
patch once.
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Religious Knot
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The Boy Scouts of America has
always had strong ties to religious organizations. To that end they
allow each religious organization to come up with its own award, but
the patch for it is universal. The LDS Church has 2 opportunities to
earn this patch: once as a Cub Scout and once as a Boy Scout. Small
pins indicating which version was earned are available for purchase at the Scout Office.
The requirements for this award can be found at the Faith in God
page:
Faith in God
Page
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Webelos Super Achiever Award
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The requirements for this award are
simple to explain, but not easy to complete: earn all 20 Webelos
Activity Badges. This takes a lot of dedication and good attendance
at Den Meetings. This award may only be earned once.
Will you be the first one to receive this?
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Whittling Chip Award
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The
Whittling Chip wallet card and
patch can be
earned by all Cub Scouts (even though some of the requirements
come from the Bear Book) by mastering the requirements from the file below.
The object is to teach a boy that a knife is an important tool, and not a
toy, and how to be careful with it. Even though the patch is shaped like a
pocket flap, it is placed centered on the right pocket of the uniform like
any other temporary patch. You may earn this award once.
Whittling Chip Requirements (PDF)
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William T. Hornaday Awards
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This is a series of awards for both individuals
and whole units for showing outstanding contributions and service to
conservation and ecology. Some awards are certificates, some are
medals, and some come with special knots. The various award
descriptions and their requirements can be found at the official BSA
site:
http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/Awards/HornadayAwards.aspx
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World Conservation Award
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The World Conservation Award provides
an opportunity for
individual Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Varsity Scouts, and Venturers to
"think
globally" and "act locally" to preserve and improve our environment.
This
program is designed to make youth members aware that all nations are
closely
related through natural resources and that we are interdependent
with our
world environment.
The Cub Scout version of the World Conservation Award
can be earned by Wolf or Bear Cub Scouts, and by Webelos Scouts once
during
their tenure as a Cub Scout
World
Conservation Award Requirements
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