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Greetings, fellow scouts and scouters!
Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Tesher and I am an Eagle Scout, Lodge Chief, and ASM from Washington Crossing Council in NJ. I took Wood Badge this past winter and the task of my ticket has given me the opportunity to build something I have long thought was needed in the scouting community. Too often, I have seen both youth and adult leaders spend hours creating documents, resources, information, guides, etc., only to use them a few times within their unit and never share them further. I've seen countless training sessions where the instructor hands out QR codes to a personal Google Drive folder with materials and slide decks that could disappear the next time their storage fills up. Thus came the idea behind ScoutingResources.org: to create a digital resource hub of documents and materials created by Scouts and Scouters that can be passed along for years to come.
I'm excited to finally launch this website! Although it's not the fanciest yet, it works, and I hope that with your help, we can grow this project into a vital resource for scouts and scouters across the country and beyond.
Firstly, we need resources. I have gathered together some documents from myself and scouts I know, but we need more. Please take a few minutes to go through your scouting documents and upload anything you think could inspire, benefit, or help another leader.
Second, we need to spread the word! Like any crowdsourced project, the more people know about it and contribute to it the better it will become. Head on over to Spread The Word to find some materials to share with others. Take 5 minutes to present it at your roundtable! Tell your scouts and adults about it! Put it in your council newsletter!
Roadmap:
I have many ideas to improve this site but here is a rough list of what will be coming in the next few months:
- Create a page full of links to other great scouting resources
- There are some great hidden gems out there that not a lot of people know about!
- Download documents as PDFs
- For those of us who don't have Word or PowerPoint or Apple Pages formatting is rough, soon all documents on the site will be available in both their original format and as a PDF.
- Better tagging
- More tags to help you find the document you need faster as well as warnings for out-of-date materials
If you have any ideas please reach out! I'd love to know how I can make this site work better for your scouting needs I hope you will find this site useful to you and your scouting family!
Yours in cheerful service,
Tesher Andres | Lodge Chief
Ajapeu Lodge 2