Friday, October 13, 2006
kk people, alfred has been asking me bout this so please bear with me.As most of you by now know, i've gotten my president scout award. As for those that do not know what it is, here is a brief summary. In scouting, you are a Scout from sec 1 to 3, come sec 4 you become a Venture and in jc2 you can choose to either go for Leader training or become a Rover. Now, the Rover scheme has no real badges so the highest standard achievable is the President Scout Award under the Venture testwork scheme.
Now as to what the actual testwork involves...shall not go through all the minor details but generally you have to amass at least 30 hours of cip over 6 months, thats why i was doing the tuition service at Gracehaven last year. Another major hurdle is the hike component, a >90km 3-day-2-night hike. I did it just before the PW presentation i think some of you would remember the map i brought to school hahaha.
The final two are technically the most tedious parts, you have the project which is to plan and organise an activity for scout hq on a national level for at least 6 months or till completion(whichever is shorter) Some of these projects can be rather interesting like i know a girl (yes girls do get the award too but so far in history only 2 have gotten it) who was placed in charge of drawing up the protocol with respects to how scout units deal with girl scouts. Or it can be like mine which was a camp. Lol interestingly enough i was supposed to organise a camp for 500 people but in the end there were only 50. sigh talk about bad management in the upper ecleons of scout hq.
Finally you also have the ASPIRE, interesting name but basically its a camp during which they test you all your leadership skills, survival, first aid, pioneering, orienteering, fitness basically the works... Its tough I must admit, the statistics alone are staggering. In June this year only 1 out of 13 passed. December last year only 4 out 16. I personally do not really know how i passed i always believe and still do that God helped me a lot.
K well enough said you probably get the idea thats why among scouts this award is so prestigious. Prestigious enough to shake the president's hand hahaha... but yeah well here are the pics alfred asked for enjoy.
PS: incase your wondering, 6 people were awarded the award this year.
Me getting my award.
The PSA awardees with Mr President in the banquet hall.
Lol that my family, scout family, school representative and principal. (Thats Mr. Seow!!!)
The whole world is in this picture...sadly i look fat ): But yes guides too have President Guides Award, though it is sid to be much easier to obtain.
The 5 of us, the 6th is presently persueing further studies under an SAF scholarship.
So yup thats it, if you've reached this point i congratulate you on accomplishing an amazing feat of determination and perserverence to plow your way through such dry text.
Adam
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11:33 PM
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