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Welcome to Pack 740's Website

For Fun And Adventure,
Join The Cub Scouts.New Dens forming this month!New Dens forming this month!

Scouting is a program of fun with a purpose that teaches boys how to work with others, make new friends, do their best, and appreciate the outdoors. Since 1910, Scouting has offered high quality youth development experiences to our nation’s young people. Besides building your son's confidence and responsibility while having a great time, Scouting gives you the opportunity to watch him grow and mature into an active member of the community.

Cub Scouts learn a great deal including teamwork, responsibility, a service ethic, decision-making, and leadership.

It is a year-round family program designed for boys who are in the first grade through fifth grade (or 7, 8, 9, and 10 years of age). Each Scout is a part of a den of about 6-8 boys, which usually meet three times a month for about 1-1/2 hours. Each month, all the dens within a neighboring community come together as a pack. At these monthly pack meetings the whole family is invited and boys are recognized for their individual and group achievements as well as take part in games, songs, activities and skits. Leaders are volunteers and almost all parents are involved in some way to make the program work.


Cub Scouting is a membership division of the Boy Scouts of
America and is organized into several ranks:
Tiger Cubs is an exciting introduction to the scouting program for first grade boys (or 7 years old) excited to get going!   Tiger Cubs do stuff - lots of stuff - with their adult partners. This program is intended to open up the world to inquisitive minds along with the caring guidance of adults. The first steps along the Boy Scout Trail are laid here and every rank advancement through the scouting program builds on the basic categories of activity done as tigers.
If a Cub Scout has completed the first grade (or is 8 years old) and has earned the Bobcat Badge, he may start earning the Wolf rank. He receives a Wolf Scout handbook, Wolf neckerchief, and Wolf neckerchief slide when beginning the Wolf portion of the boy scout trail. He will also need a blue Cub Scout Uniform. This part of the boy scout trail is intended to take one school year, preparing the scout to begin earning his Bear rank after he completes second grade.
In the Bear scouting program, there are 4 general achievement groups: God, Country, Family, and Self and a total of about 120 individual achievement tasks. In each group, a certain number of achievements are required to earn the Bear rank badge. After earning the Bear badge, the scout may earn arrow points by completing additional achievement tasks.

Webelos is a 20 month program for 4th and 5th grade boys to prepare to join a Boy Scout troop while learning outdoors skills and participating in 20 different activity badges. A well-run group of Webelos is a gradual change from being an 'adult-run' den to being a 'boy-run' patrol ready to fit right into an adventurous scouting troop. This migration requires the parents and den leaders to give the scouts more and more control, decision-making power, and responsibility as they progress in skills, abilities, and maturity.

Pack 740 is a great place to start Cub Scouting.  The Pack is chartered to Immaculate Heart of Mary in Towson, Maryland.  Visit troop740.org for more information on the scouting program at IHM. 

 

Meetings are held Thursdays from 7:00-8:00pm on the top floor of the Parish Center.  New Dens are forming this month, contact Cubmaster Pete Z. here for more information.

 

 
For information on the content of this website please contact the webmaster at webmaster@troop740.org
Pictures and Select Text taken from http://www.joinscouting.com & http://www.boyscouttrail.com/
 

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