Pinewood Derby 2016 Design Winners.

We had 63 Scout racers and 18 sibling racers in our 2016 Pinewood Derby. Thank you to everyone that contributed to making it such a fun event. Look for race times from Mr. Bill later this week.

Top Design for Pack    – Bear Joseph Ke

Den Design Winners

• Tiger                Benjamin Ma
• Wolf                 Brenda Tu
• Bear                 Luc Sa
• Webelo I           Avery Kr
• Webelo 2          Declan Tu

Pinewood Derby 2016 Race Winners

Pack Level Winners

1. Carson O – Bear
2. Aidan Fl – Wolf
3. Carmine Co – Bear

Top 3 at Den level
(Pack level winners are pulled from Den level to allow for more winners)

Note: For privacy considerations we do not publish full names of scouts on our website.

This past weekend we had an excellent “Dad and Lad Campout.” The boys shot BB guns, rode horses, went on hikes, played human Foosball and learned may valuable scouting virtues.

Of of course the Campout wouldn’t be complete without Mass with father Bob at Shrine North and a hilarious song and skit program with Mr. Tulley. A big thank you to everyone who made this weekend possible. We all had a great time!!!
 

Today the tiger scouts built fighter jets at Home Depot. Also, all scout groups helped put donation bags onto doors around the Shrine to help the less fortunate.

Dads registration for our upcoming Dad-n-Lad is now open. Please visit the event page to register you and your son for some fall camping fun.

You can stay in a tent or be inside in one of the 3 bunk rooms. Stay for the day or the whole weekend. Rain, snow or shine we will have a good time.

Still planning the event schedule so check back for updates in the next couple weeks.

We need 4 or 5 days to plan the event in advance and so far we have a head Chef, a supplies and logistics volunteer and a registrar.  We could use 2 to 3 more dads just to plan the fun events that we will do this year.

Each dad will also signup for a 2 small roles when they show up at camp (e.g. dinner setup, lunch cleanup …), each of which is about 30 minute commitment.

Register here.

Here are the results.

• 2015 Results by Pack
• 2015 Results by Rank – Tiger to Bear
• 2015 Results by Rank – Webelos

 Here are a few things I noticed when doing the statistics.

• There were 65 scout cars and 19 open class cars this year.
• This year’s participation was higher than last year, 81% vs. 73%.
• The time spread was much tighter this year at 0.9703 seconds vs. 1.6578 seconds for 2014.
• For the first time we had 100% Webelo I participation.
• For the first time we had 100% Webelo II participation.
• The fastest 10 cars all weighed more than 4.95 ounces.
• Of the slowest 10 cars all but three weighed more than 4.90 ounces.  Weight isn’t everything.
• Seven cars this year beat the 2014 winning time.  This could be because of the new timing system.

I have four cars.  They are numbers 24, 56, 107, and 204.

There were two coffee mugs, a sweatshirt, and a bag left behind.