EVENT RECAP - We finally had the Cub Scout Polar Day. The weather on Saturday, February 16th was a lot nicer than our original date, February 9th. This year's Polar Day was attended by 170 people from 14 Cub Packs.
The First Annual Cardboard Classic Sled Derby was a great success with about 30 entries. Thanks to Pack 293 for taking on this event.
Thanks to all the Cub Packs and volunteers who helped make the day a success. A special thanks to Troops 33 and 19 for allowing us to share Camp Iyataka on their annual troop snow weekend at Camp Iyataka.
We're looking forward to an even better and bigger Polar Day next year. Please take a few minutes and let us know what your pack liked or didn't like about this year's Polar Day, and let us know what you think we might change. Your input is important to us.
Also, if you know what event your Pack would like to organize and host next year, let us know that too.
If you took any digital photos of any of the events at Polar Days you'd like to share, please let us know. We're looking for photos we can use for promoting next year's Polar Day.
Finally, we had a couple items turned in that are looking for their owners - a helmet and a pair or mittens. If you lost either of these items, please contact Dennis Helland at [Click for member's page] or by phone at 886-6915.
Below is the pre-event general information.
The 2008 North Star District Cub Scout Polar Day, originally scheduled for Saturday, February 9th at Camp Iyataka has been reschduled for Saturday, February 16th. Basically, the Polar Day plans will remain the same except for date. This one-day event is for all registered Cub and Webelos Scouts. Tiger Scouts may attend with an adult partner.
This event is filled with plenty of fun, adventure, and winter activities. Past year’s events included such things as sledding/tubing, ice fishing, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, igloo building (depending on snow depth), Capture the Flag, broom ball, Klondike sled races, etc.
Don't forget to bring your sleds, tobbogans, snow saucers, and inner tubes! If you have cross country skiis or showshoes, bring those along too. We have some skiis and snowshoes at camp already if you don't have any and would like to try you hand at them. If you don't have any of these, or you want to try a new challenge . . . check out the "Cardboard Classic" information near the bottom of this page.
For those with inner tubes, there is an air compressor near the tubing hill that you can use to inflate your tubes, so you don't have to haul them in your car inflated.
As this is a Cub Scout event, Cub Scout leaders, parents, and other volunteers are needed to help determine, plan and run the events. We already have a number of Cub Packs who have stepped forward to volunteer to help plan and run the various events and other Polar Day tasks.
Pack 264 will be hosting a snow ball target range; Pack 31 will be supervising the sledding hill; Pack 8 will be manning the warming room; Pack 33 will be hosting "Smoosh Board" races; Pack 38 volunteered to direct traffic and parking; Bob Vergamini will be handling the registration; Elmer Brinkman has been asked to coordinate the ice fishing again this year; Steve Hall is in charge of lunch and snacks; Troop 19 will be hosting the Snow Bowling; Pack 23 has offered to help with the skiis and snowshoes, and Pack 293 volunteered to help organize and run the first the North Star District's First Annual "Cardboard Classic". If your pack would like to host an event, or help with an event or some other duty, please let us know so we can add you to the list of hosts or helpers. (Let us know if we have the incorrect unit listed for any of the events.)
Wanted: Volunteers to serve as official event photographers. Got a digital camera or video camera? Have we a good job for you!
We're also looking for three volunteers to be the official judges for the "Cardboard Classic". Great hours and fringe benefits! This is a position that would look good on a resume!
Cost for Cub Polar Day is $8.00 per Scout , which includes an event patch, hot lunch/snacks, insurance and program materials); and $5.00 per adult or non-Scout youth. The noon meal will be served in three shifts.
Units are required to bring a ratio of 1 adult for every 6 Cub Scouts, with of minimum of 2 adults per unit attending.
Registration/check-in begins at 9:00 a.m., with events concluding at 3:00 p.m. Folks may continue to sled after that if they please. There are no rigid schedules for the events . . . . everyone is encouraged to take in each event in any order and time they please. If one event is busy, you may come back later.
Registration Form - Units can now print out a copy of the Cub Polar Day Unit Registration Form. Please start filling it out with the names of those Scouts and adults you know will be participating in Cub Polar Day. Your unit's registration form can either be e-mailed to [Click for member's page], or be dropped off at the registration station first thing Saturday morning, where names may be added or deleted. Units can settle up with the registrar when everyone from your unit has arrived.
Posted 4:00 p.m., 02/07/08 - Due to a forecast for Saturday of windy, sub-zero temperatures, with a windchill index of 35 below zero, Saturday's NS Cub Scout Polar Day has been rescheduled for next Saturday, February 16th. Basically, the Polar Day plans will remain the same except for date. If your unit signed up to host an event or help in some other way with Polar Day, and you're unable to make the switch to next weekend or find somebody to cover your committment, please let us know as soon as possible.
Those planning to compete in the Cardboard Classic will have an additional week to work on their entry.
Maps to Camp Iyataka - If you need a map to Camp Iyataka, or you'd like to see what it's like and what's there, see the Camp Iyataka Website
Lost & Found will be located in the registration/warming room. Please mark your personal items so we can get them back to you if they get lost and are found.
A warming room will be available for those who get wet or cold.
If you've never been to Polar Day before, check out last year's Polar Day photos.
If you’ve never seen this event before, click on the video links below to see what it's like and to get ideas for your entry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRpYb3-RzXQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bojp2OVawDc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kua0hRU4fo
There are three divisions being planned.
The Pre-built Division - In this division you design, build and decorate your sled ahead of time at home or at a Den meeting and bring your sled already built to Cub Polar Day.
The Built-on-Site Division - If you don’t have the time to build a cardboard sled a home, or you don’t have room in your car to haul a completed one, you have between 9:00 to 11:00 am to build one at camp. You can draw up a design at home, then put it together at the camp.
Cardboard Carpet Division - Finally, the "no-frills division", where the only thing between you and the snow is a sheet of cardboard!
Entries in each division can have either multiple or single occupants, so entries can be by indivduals, dens or packs. All entries must be constructed, registered and ready to race by 11:00 am.
Awards are being planned for the the winners of all divisions and categories, including "Best Design", "Fastest", and "Most Sluggish" - check back for more details, but start planning your entry now!
A helmet of some type is recommended - bike helmet, snowmobile, or football helmet.
In the past, some parents brought lawn chairs so they'd have a comfortable place to sit during the events.
Hint! Hint! Hint!: The bottom surfaces of your entry may be "turbo-charged" by coating with wax or colored with crayons. Sleds with rounded or curved front edges or corners move across the snow easier. Sleds can have runners if they're made of cardboard or cardboard tubes.
We're curently working on arrangements to have some cardboard and duct tape available at the camp. To insure we’ll have enough cardboard and duct tape for everyone, we strongly encourage people bring their own. If you know of a good source for large sheets of cardboard or large cardboard boxes, please let us know. Parents should also bring a box cutter or utility knife. Box cutters and utility knives are to be used by adults only.
Your Cub Pack should start making plans now for Cub Polar Day. It's become one of the most popular Cub Scout events of the year.
We're not done yet, so check this posting regularly for more information and updates.
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