Cherokee/Pickens District
Atlanta Area Council, BSA

Advancement Committee Chairman - Seth Ogram - 404-839-1668

The next Advancement Committee meeting will be February 23, 2012 at Canton First UMC at 7:00 pm.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Advancement Committee Chairman, Seth Ogram, 404-839-1668 if you have questions.

Advancement Committee

John Ballard
John Gollner
Denise Michelson
Bill Miller
John Mitchell
Troy Olson
Mike Pellegrino
Charlie Pineo
Tom Rollbuhler

Advancement Committee Announcements

Each Boy Scout unit was sent a list of counselors in their recharter packet with a note to look things over and let me know who should be renewed. After I sent those out, the council decided to change the way counselors are renewed in order to fall more in line with national policy. As a result, many of you have received an email and/or a postcard asking you to renew. That is the only way to renew your merit badge counselor registration. The process for MBC registration is changing and is being finalized. Once it is, I will share that with you. The method of tracking merit badge counselor registration is also changing, so updated MBC lists will not be available until late next month.

Starting January 1, the new Eagle Scout application must be used. When applications are turned in to the program center before the board of review, all that is now required is the Eagle application and the contact page out of the project workbook. You no longer need to submit the project workbook to the program center. The program center staff will make every effort to verify the application while you wait (this will be contingent on lines and staff availability). The signed application will be returned to you before you leave.

Starting January 1, all Scouts must utilize the new Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook unless the Scout has already received district approval. Projects will no longer be reviewed at the district advancement review nights. Instead, projects will be reviewed via email. This will significantly help with turnaround time, which allows Scouts to get started on their projects much more quickly. Projects must be sent to eagleprojects@cpds.org for review. The signature page should be scanned and attached to the email as well. Please allow two weeks for project reviews.

A Life to Eagle seminar will take place concurrently with roundtable on January 5. An all-day course in Boy Scout advancement will be offered this spring. Please keep an eye out for more information.

I have updated Journey to Excellence numbers for each unit for the advancement criteria. These percentages are through the end of November. Final numbers will not be available until mid-January.

• Boards of review must be scheduled at least one week prior to the monthly board of review night and cannot be scheduled until council has verified the application

• Units are encouraged to provide at least two adults to help serve on Eagle boards of review

• Scouts must bring their handbook, the original Eagle application, and at least two copies of their project workbook

• Scouts should come in full field uniform

• Unit leaders are encouraged to introduce the Scout to the board of review
  

• Once the project proposal is completed and Scouts have signatures from their unit leader, unit committee, and benefiting organization, the project workbook (along with a scanned copy of the signature page) should be emailed to eagleprojects@cpds.org

• The project proposal will be reviewed by a member of the district advancement committee as soon as possible, but we ask that you give us two weeks for the review

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