At our August 13th Scouts BSA Roundtable breakout session, we primarily had leaders share what Units have been doing during COVID. Below is a summary of what was shared.
- Applications Used:
- Kahoot – https://kahoot.com/
- Mentimeter – https://www.mentimeter.com/
- Jeopardy – https://jeopardylabs.com/
- Skribbl – https://skribbl.io
- Escape Room – https://www.simplemost.com/free-digital-escape-rooms/
- Discord – https://discord.com/new
- Zoom – https://zoom.us/
- Wix.com – https://www.wix.com/
- Troop Meetings – some doing weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly
- Virtual Campouts – both as a Troop and as a Patrol with cooking at home and sleeping out in the back yard.
- Service Projects
- Food Drive
- Thank you video for first responders
- Grocery Delivery
- Face Mask Deburring for Lockheed Martin Innovation Garage
- Advancement:
- Trail to First Class Advancement – mostly on Zoom, but physical fitness at local park observing proper social distancing
- Orienteering course with proper social distancing at a local park
- How to build a campfire demonstration
- Merit Badge Classes over Zoom
- Dutch Oven Dessert Competition
- BOR – both online and face to face with social distancing
- COH – both online and drive through
- Hiking
- Hiking with social distancing. Each scout must be driven by their own parent (no traditional carpooling)
- Philmont Crew joined together as a social bubble and is doing shakedown hiking together without social distancing
- Build your own hike scavenger hunt style
- Scouts created a web-based newspaper on wix.com https://troop220newspaper.wixsite.com/mysite/all-articles/categories/troop-news
- Tye Dye shirts
- Two SPLs will be kicking off a monthly Roundtable meeting – watch for an email sent to Scoutmasters and Committee Chairs