Continuing Education Science Program

Level 100 Classes

CED 101
Scouting’s Most Powerful Minute
This class is for everyone who wants to better understand the power of a Scoutmasters Minute. Learn how to make this minute work for you and your Troop.

CED 111 (2 Hours)
Certifying Scouts for Alternative Requirements
This detailed course on alternative requirements will offer guidance on how to certify scouts for alternative rank advancement requirements and merit badges.

CED 115
Ultra Light Backpacking
This will cover some of the newest lightweight gear available, plus how to be creative with cost but effective gear that is also lightweight.

CED 123A   NEW 2 Hour Session
Risk Management & Trip Planning (2 Hours)
Learn the basics of risk management and how to manage risk on a trip. Complete a class exercise to plan a trip using the risk management and planning tips provided in class. This class will help you understand that a caring leader is motivated to ensure the needs of each trip participant are met while the group strives to meet the trip objectives. The trip leader strives to minimize negative risk and the impact on the environment while maximizing each participant’s learning and enjoyment. The class will provide you with the tools you need to implement a risk management framework in your unit.

CED 125
Knots
So you know the basic knots. Are these the only knots you should teach your Scouts? Come learn some the first class required knots and new knots that the youth should know!

CED 129A   NEW CLASS
Unit Committee Function
The course will cover all aspects and key positions in you unit committee. Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Venture Crew Committees will be covered. Forms and functions that are the committees’ responsibility will be discussed.

CED 130 NEW CLASS
Mentoring
Mentoring is an opportunity to help a person grow through discovery. This session will address various mentoring models and ways to be a mentor to Scouts and Scouters.

CED 131   NEW CLASS
Flag Ceremonies & Drills
Teach rudimentary drill movements to include formations, individual facing movements (stationary drill), conducting column movements, quick march, and route step. Train youth scouts in roles and responsibilities as a member of a color guard: Marching on the color, raising the colors, lowering colors, posting the colors, and other observances. Conduct and teach youth to conduct uniform inspections.

CED 132   NEW CLASS
Geo Cache Course
You will learn how to use this sport to enhance your Scouting program. Participants will learn about how the sport of geocaching (a high tech treasure hunt based on GPS technology) works, about ways geocaching can add excitement to unit and District programs while supporting traditional Scouting skills and values, and about resources to support “geocaching”.

CED 133   NEW CLASS
Star Study
Star study gives a basic start to identifying constellations to the beginner star gazer. By using the Big Dipper and the constellation Orion, the beginner will be able to locate 10 – 12 different constellations in the night sky. Participants in Star Study will be given hands on use of the plansisphere – the star map to help locate the constellations visible each month.

CED 134   NEW CLASS
Learn About NYLT
Staff from Baltimore Area Council’s NYLT course 2010 will give an overview and answer your questions about the upcoming course. National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is an exciting, action-packed two weekend program designed for councils to provide youth members with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and in other situations demanding leadership of self and others. Often called Wood Badge for youth, NYLT centers around the concepts of what a leader must BE what he must KNOW, and what he must DO. The key elements are then taught with a clear focus on HOW TO. The skills come alive during the BAC’s course as the patrol goes on a Quest for the Meaning of Leadership.

CED 135 (2 Hours) NEW CLASS
Splicing
Course Description to follow this is a brand new course being developed, list it and state coming soon course description.

CED 136   NEW CLASS
Hispanics & Scouting 101
The last census indicated that the Hispanic population is the largest, fastest-growing, and youngest minority group in the United States. As the Boys Scouts of America moves forward with it’s Hispanic Initiative, Scouters will find themselves having a more direct contact with this sector of the population. This course will provide insights on how to approach and work with Hispanic Scouts and their families. We will also discuss some issues and considerations that are universal when working with Scouts with different ethnic backgrounds.

CED 137   NEW CLASS
International Scouting Opportunities
This course provides an overview of International Scouting opportunities available to Scouts (Cubs Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Venture Scouts) and Leaders. Participants’ will learn about: the Jamboree – on- the – air and Jamboree – on – the – internet events (which connect Scouts around the world via ham radio and the internet), Jamboree – on – the – Trail, the World Jamboree (2011 in Sweden), attending summer camp at a Scouts Canada Camp (Halliburton Scout Reserve near Toronto), participating in a Scouting exchange program (Baltimore – Kawasaki exchange), supporting Scouting in developing countries through the BSA World Friendship Fund, and qualifying for the International Scouters Square Knot and the BSA international activity emblem and neckerchief.

CED 138 NEW CLASS
Long Term Strategic and Succession Planning for Your Unit
Most Scout Units do not have a long term plan. In fact, most Scouters are just happy to “get through” a program year, but having a long term plan is vital to the health and longevity of your unit. This interactive session will explore the basis of BSA’s mission, vision, and values, the importance of having a long term strategic plan for your unit, and successful strategies on how to create a succession plan for the key leaders in your unit.

CED 139   NEW CLASS
Special Needs Units / Scouts
This will be an interactive discussion of special needs issues within units, districts, and councils. What is needed and how we can address those issues.

CED 140   NEW CLASS
Managing Change in Your Scouting Unit
If it’s not broken, Break it! Is your Unit guilty of doing the same thing, the same way, with the same people in the same positions? Many Scouting Units fall into the, “If its not broke, don’t break it” trap, but interjecting (managing) change in your unit can have dramatically positive results: increased membership, better fund raising, more enthusiastic volunteers, and a better unit program.
This interactive session will explore:
The course of complacency: What’s holding you back?;
Habits and patterns: Building up an intolerance for change;
Change habits: Breaking some eggs to make positive changes;
Comfort zones: Helpful and Hurtful;
Putting it all together: Change in your Scouting Unit.