Scout-O-Rama

Saturday was Scout-O-Rama in Tempe, a statewide event full of scouting exhibits, games, and other activities. Our Cub Scout Pack went together and helped at our Stake Booth. Our booth displayed the many uses of solar energy. I volunteer in Cub Scouts as a leader and John is a Wolf (his first year in cub scouts). Here is some of what we did. Note: We did solar energy at our booth last year and had a challenge getting our chocolate chip cookies baked in 4 hours, so this year we decided to try something simpler. Grated cheese on Nachos. Surely the sun can melt the cheese in a speedy manner and melt s'mores. We made our solar ovens out of pizza boxes. We also had a few other solar ovens there.

Our booth

Getting set up.

Propping up the pizza box ovens. The lid has aluminum foil to reflect the sun.

Cool Hand Race watches over the nachos

The chocolate is starting to melt in this oven, while the marshmallows try to melt in another oven. Then we put them together to eat. Yum yum. (we found out you don't have to wait until they're melted all the way to eat them.)

The funnest part for the boys was starting fires with a magnifying glass and burning dots on the wood. Here a boy tries to start a marshmallow on fire with the magnifying glass. It didn't work.

Working the magnifying glass.

When we finished our turn working the booth, we were free to go around the rest of the park to participate in other events and see other booths. Here John gets ready for a soapbox car ride.

Next, John went over to the monkey bridge to walk it. There were four different monkey bridges there. This one wasn't as taut as it should be. It is harder to walk than it looks.




Race is going over another monkey bridge at the same time.

Playing a game.

Shooting gallery. Rubber band guns that shot ping pong balls. See the targets on the next picture.

Shooting gallery. Look at the the fun target that this Pack made. Click on image to enlarge and then notice the Barbie doll in the lower right corner. She is sitting on a platform above a bucket of water. There is a round target to the left of her. It's a home-made dunk tank. How cool is that? By the way, while I was there, no one sent the barbie into the tank.