Scouting Skills
This two-word motto reminds Scouts to always be ready for anything.
What is Be Prepared?
He is known as the founder of the worldwide Scouting movement in 1907.
Who is Robert Baden-Powell?
The meeting time and location of Troop 8
What is 6:30 PM on Monday nights in the Scout room?
The highest rank in Scouting.
What is the rank of Eagle?
The official name given to the tan uniform shirt.
What is the Field Uniform?
This knot, sometimes called the “rescue knot,” creates a fixed loop that won’t slip under load.
What is a Bowline?
This American publisher brought Scouting to the U.S. in 1910.
Who is William D. Boyce?
The items you should bring to EVERY meeting.
What is your Scout Handbook and your BSA Uniform, and a notepad/pen?
The very first rank a scout earns.
What is the rank of scout?
Rank patches are sewn onto this pocket of the uniform shirt.
This life-saving technique is used when someone has no pulse and is not breathing.
What is CPR?
The very first Scout camp took place on this island off the coast of England in 1907.
What is Brownsea Island?
The Key 3 of Troop 8. (Scoutmaster, Chartered Org. Rep., Committee Chair)
Who is Joseph Windholtz, Mr. Windholtz and Mr. LeFevre?
The amount of merit badges a scout must earn to complete their Eagle requirements.
What is 21 merit badges?
While wearing the Field Uniform, as scout should make sure their shirt is:
What is tucked in and up to date?
On a topographic map, these brown lines show changes in elevation.
What are contour lines?
The Boy Scouts of America was officially chartered by the U.S. Congress in this year.
What is 1916?
The person who can give a Scoutmaster conference.
Who is any registered adult leader!
Of the 21 badges that are required for Eagle, these 14 are mandatory.
What is a white-ringer?
The patch on the left sleeve underneath the unit number shows this.
What is the position patch?
To safely start a campfire in wet conditions, Scouts are taught to begin with this smallest, most easily ignited material before adding kindling and fuel.
What is tinder?
The Order of the Arrow, Scouting’s national honor society, was founded at this camp in Pennsylvania in 1915.
What is Treasure Island Scout Reservation?
The district and council that Troop 8 is chartered in.
What is Daybreak District and Simon Kenton Council?
This merit badge was the very first one created in 1911 and is still offered today.
What is First Aid?
This piece of the uniform, often colored and sometimes customized, is worn around the neck and secured with a slide.
What is a neckerchief?