GENERAL INFORMATION

Page Last Updated On 01/21/2005

Crescent Bay District’s Spring Camp-o-ree has been scheduled for April 29 – May1, 2005 at Schabarum park in Rowland Heights. This year’s theme is “Scout Law in Motion”. Please read carefully the information in the following pages. We look forward to having you at this year's Camp-o-ree.

The Focus of Saturday’s events will be basic scout skills from Tenderfoot to 1^st class. The Program committee has put together 10 events for competition. The events are open to registered Scouts. The Patrol must complete all events before they can repeat any event. Please note: If your senior scouts are not participating in the competitive events, they will be expected to assist with officiating and other volunteering duties such as judge running (taking score cards to the administration site). Ribbons will be given out the top 3 places in each division.

What division is my patrol in?

There are three (3) divisions in our Camp-o-ree. They are the Actors, Producers and Directors. To determine the division your patrol falls in use the following rating system:

Table 1 Scout Ranking System

Add up the numbers and divide them by the number of scouts in the patrol, this will equal the rating for that patrol. Do this for each patrol participating from your troop.Note that the patrols formed for the Camporee may be different from your regular patrol divisions.

Division breakdown:

Actors: 1.0-2.5   (Red Wristbands)

Producers: 2.6-4.5         (White Wristbands)

Directors: 4.6 and up      (Blue Wristbands)

What are this year’s Wampum Events?

As well as having main competitive events there will also be Wampum events. These events are listed in Table 2. These events will add to your unit’s and patrols overall Wampum points. Wampum points will help decide this year’s best overall patrol and best overall Troop and will be used to purchase items at the Wampum Auction.

Also there will be a Troop cook off this year which will have a Ribbon for the top winners and add Wampum points for all participants (please see Cook-Off instructions later in this packet).

Our Troop has a Bugler, can he come?-

YES!! We encourage you to bring your bugler with his bugle to the camp-o-ree. Please have him check in at registration to receive information regarding Taps and Reveille.

Does our unit need to supply any adult help?

YES!! Each unit will be responsible for providing at least two adults to help out with running the program events and judging as well as supervising  other aspects of the Camp-o-ree.

Why do we need a roster, tour permit, and medical forms?

Due to the fact that this is a district, coordinated event it must be treated like any other similar event (i.e. resident camp, jamboree, etc…). These forms are vital information for use to have in case of an emergency. When you check in have a copy of each scouts medical forms, a tour permit and a legible roster listing the leader’s name, unit number, and only those scouts attending camp-o-ree. All this information will be returned to you when you check out.

Please contact Pauline Bennett, Camp-o-ree Chairperson with any questions at (310) 297-5421 9am-8pm or camporee@comcast.net (e-mail usually gets a faster response). General questions to the Camporee committee can be posted to our mailing list.  These instructions are also available for download at the Camporee website (http://www.bsatroop113.org/camporee/index.html).

We hope to see you there

Your Camp-o-ree Committee