Council ResourcesMay 2, 2017 by Yvonne Orsini-Boone

From the Registrar

Please check with your members to make sure their most current information is listed so our records stay up to date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Effective July 12, 2021 all merit badge counselors who are not officially approved by their council to counsel a badge will have that badge removed from their approved list of badges to counsel in Scoutbook. If a merit badge counselor is connected to a Scout to counsel an affected badge that connection will be removed. The only changes to Scouts would be to drop the merit badge counselor connection for the affected badges. Scoutbook will not remove any MB progress approved by the affected merit badge counselors.

Merit Badge Counselors can check if the badge they are counseling in Scoutbook is approved by their council by going to My Dashboard, Administration, My Account, My Positions: their positions and if the badge has a blue checkmark it is approved; if the badge has a green checkmark it is not approved and you should contact your council to continue counseling that badge. Click here for more information in Scouting Forums.

New in Online Registration: The ability for parents and/or volunteers to transfer between councils using the online registration system is live now. Click HERE to view/download a user guide for how it works. This allows one to login and transfer from one council to another, and once the application is approved and the overnight sync is run all the training and advancement records for the member will follow.

Now possible to contain different Member ID numbers in My.Scouting. Your ID number from other councils and your ID number from the Midnight Sun Council can now all be listed on your account.

New Background Check Forms came out in 2019!

The 2019 Background Check Forms must be used. Please make sure new applicants use the new form, as registrations cannot be processed without them.

Youth Protection is a serious part of scouting and our council requires all adults to renew their certification each year. Registrations cannot be processed without a current certificate.

Merit Badge Counselors – Please turn in a new adult application with a 2019 updated background check form and current YPT certificate as we are updating our records. Please include a new merit badge application so we can record the merit badges you want to be a counselor for.

Please view the “Be a Scout” logo at the bottom of the webpage

Be Sure to Update BeAScout Pins to Reflect Status

Updating unit pins with early-adopter status on BeAScout is an important step in helping prospective Scouts and their families get in touch with units in your council.

Early-adopter councils: BeAScout is open for units to indicate boy-only (default), family pack, or girl-only (no date; open for business now) status.

Non early-adopter councils: BeAScout is open for units to indicate boy-only (default), family pack, or girl-only AND the date that they will begin accepting female applications.

1. Log in to your My.Scouting account select Menu at the top left

2. From the drop-down menu, select your unit

3. Select Organization Manager

4. Select the Settings tab

5. Scroll to Family Scouting

6. If remaining boy-only, do nothing (this is the default setting); otherwise, select girls only or boys and girls

7. Click Commit

Please note: Online registration is now open for EA councils to accommodate fall recruiting.

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS on how to update unit pins for the full FAMILY PROGRAM

Units will need to manage their own account by determining if their unit contact information is correct. Units can find information on how to manage their account by clicking here or contacting the BSA office at 907-452-1976

TrainingMarch 3, 2017 by Yvonne Orsini-Boone

Essentials of Merit Badge Counseling

The Essentials of Merit Badge Counseling

This PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes covers the required procedures for merit badge counseling, clarifies the role of counselors in the BSA advancement program, and discusses the appropriate approaches to use in working with Scouts. It is intended as an instructor-led presentation to counselors of any experience level and takes 60 to 90 minutes to complete.

Click here to Download PowerPoint Presentation

District ProgramsMarch 3, 2017 by Yvonne Orsini-Boone

Merit Badge Days

A merit badge event lets Scouts learn about sports, crafts, science, trades, business, and future careers.

An event may focus on a single merit badge or a variety of fields that might not normally be available. Observatories, planetariums, parks, museums, ships, colleges, universities, as well as police and fire departments may offer special events available only to Scouts and only one day each year. Scouts might learn first-hand from dentists, veterinarians, doctors, lawyers, financial planners, engineers, chemists, artists, astronomers, scientists, firemen, policemen, and other experts.

Merit badge events may also offer training in Scout Skills through First Class with a schedule similar to an Advancement Campout. Adult training, and youth leader training are often offered as well.

Often certain requirements must be completed outside of the merit badge event either as preparation or with a merit badge counselor at a later date. A merit badge event may focus on a single merit badge or offer a variety of topics such as

Art	Aviation	Chemistry	Citizenship in the Nation
Citizenship in the World	Communication	Digital Technology	Crime Prevention
Dentistry	Electricity	Electronics	Engineering
Emergency Preparedness	Energy	Fingerprinting	Fire Safety
Leatherwork	First Aid	Indian Lore	Medicine
Nuclear Science	Personal Management	Photography	Plumbing
Public Speaking	Radio	Railroading	Safety
Salesmanship	Space Exploration	Surveying	Traffic Safety
Truck Transportation	Veterinary Medicine	Weather	Wood Carving

Regardless of the setting or topics, the goal is to have fun as you learn new skills and gain knowledge.

District ProgramsMarch 2, 2017 by Yvonne Orsini-Boone

Aviation MB Day

WHEN: Saturday, May 20, 2017 – 7 am – 3 pm

WHERE: Fairbanks Aviation Day, UAF CTC Hangar – Fairbanks International Airport

Note: This is a One-Day Merit Badge program for active Scouts. Pre-Registration is required and space is limited!

Sign up at the Scout Office BEFORE May 6th, 2023!

– Scouts must be in uniform

– Bring breakfast of $10 for breakfast

– Bring sack lunch

Flying Permission Slip is required.

Permission form to fly must be brought to the Midnight Sun Council office prior to May 5, 2023 ( download below).

Weight of Scout (for flight planning purposes) must be submitted to Midnight Sun Council office by May 5, 2023.

Scout must bring Aviation Worksheet (download below) and Scout Must read Aviation Merit Badge Pamphlet prior to attendance.

Click here to download Aviation Merit Badge Day Flyer (coming soon)

Click here to download Flying Permission Slip

Click here to download Aviation Day Merit Badge Worksheet

For questions contact :

Melissa Osborn at 907-978-3788,

fairbanks.aoc@gmail.com

Tasmine Stebbins at 907-452-1976,

tasmine.bennett@scouting.org

We need at least 4 registered adult leaders for this event and please let us know if your child needs a guardian with them during the flight.

TrainingMarch 2, 2017 by Yvonne Orsini-Boone

Wood Badge

Due to the lack of registrations, the 2018 Wood Badge Course is being postponed until 2019.

We are planning to have a Wood Badge kick off/promotion scheduled later this year, in order to give everyone the opportunity to meet some of the staff and to ask questions about this fantastic opportunity.

We need at least 30 people to register to hold the course.

For questions please contact Stephen Smith at stephen.smith@scouting.org

SupportMarch 2, 2017 by Yvonne Orsini-Boone

Tired Iron

TIRED IRON

Tired Iron Picture

2022

click here or on image below to download flyer

Tired Iron Archive Pictures!!

2021

Tired Iron 2021

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This years Tired Iron event went extremely well. The new location at the Fairbanks Lions Snowmobile Fun Club house served perfectly. Thank you to Alaska Vintage Sled Club, Tired Iron, and the Lions for putting on the event. Big thanks to Wilderness Search and Rescue and our Camp Ranger for the medical coverage of the races, and special thanks go to the Scouters that came out to set up! Without the volunteers and organizations coming together it surely would not have gone so smoothly. Looking forward to doing this again next year!

Sebastian with Trophy 99 Year Old Urban Rahoi took 1st Place in the Battle of the Ageless

Council ProgramsFebruary 22, 2017May 10, 2024 by Yvonne Orsini-Boone

Clean Up Day

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2024 CLEAN UP DAY!

When: May 11th, 2024

Thank you for your interest in Golden Heart Clean Up Day! At this point if you register below, the information will be used to collect volunteer participation numbers only. Our volunteers that pick up the full trash bags from the roadside (our awesome Heavy Haulers) have been assigned their route and will only be picking up bags from previously registered areas and main roads and intersections. You can still participate! Grab some bags and join the fun. If there are people cleaning an area that you wanted, ask to join in and make new friends. If you clean in an area that is not along a main road please take your full bags to the FNSB landfill and tell them it’s clean up day trash (please secure you load) or get them to a main road or intersection by Saturday afternoon. See below for more information and thank you for your part in making our community a better place.

REGISTER HERE TO TELL US VOLUNTEER NUMBERS

2024 Clean up Day Flyer

Click links below for Safety Tips:

Clean Up Day Dos and Dont’s

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What is Clean Up Day?

Clean Up Day is a community wide volunteer initiative to clean up the trash uncovered by melting snow in the Fairbanks North Star Borough before tourist season begins.

Who organizes Clean Up Day?
The Clean Up Day Committee is made up from volunteers from many different sponsoring organizations including; United Way of the Tanana Valley; Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Adopt a Highway; Green Star of Interior Alaska; Midnight Sun Council, Boy Scouts of America; Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce; Fairbanks North Star Borough, Central Recycling Facility; The Radio Station; Cowles Heating Services; University of Alaska, Advocacy Committee, Alaska Comedy, North Pole Community Chamber of Commerce; and Golden Heart Waste Management

Recycling is Back for 2024

We are excited to offer Green Bags as an option again this year! Green Bags will be passed out at all 5 bag pickup locations. You may fill the bags with #1 and #2 plastic bottles and jugs and aluminum cans. You may leave the green bags along main roads with other Clean Up Day trash and the Heavy Haulers will get it where it needs to go. After Clean Up Day you may take your Green Bags to the Central Recycling Facility, 1855 Marika Road. For a full list of what the Central Recycling Facility accepts, outside of this event, please visit their website https://www.fnsb.gov/294/Central-Recycling-Facility

Where to get Clean Up Day bags?

Midnight Sun Council, BSA – 1400 Gillam Way, Monday – Friday 9 AM to 5 PM

Cowles Heating – 1675 Richardson Hwy, Monday – Friday 8 AM – 5 PM

Central Recycling Facility – 1855 Marika Road, Tuesday – Friday 10 AM to 5:30 PM

and Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM

Green Star of Interior Alaska – 2134 Texaco Avenue, Tuesday – Friday 10 AM to 5 PM

and Saturday 1 PM to 5 PM

Golden Heart Waste Management – 2131 Sheldon Ave, Monday – Friday 8 AM to 5 PM

Who picks up the trash bags from the roadside on Clean Up Day?
The volunteers, who pick up the trash bags from the roads on Clean Up Day and transport them to the landfill, call themselves the “Heavy Haulers.” The crew and the pickup route are organized by Justin at Cowles Heating. Many companies volunteer their time and their trucks to pick up trash bags. Thank you to all our Heavy Haulers; Alaska Waste, Horst Expediting, Shredway, Golden Heart Waste Management, 907 Diesel, Hydro Tech, Total Toyo, and Cowles Heating.

What if a group picks up an area on a different day than Clean Up Day?
If you organize a clean up crew on a different day than Clean Up Day, you will need to take the yellow bags to the FNSB landfill and let the attendant know you’re there for Clean Up Day. Please secure the Clean Up Day bags in your vehicle! You don’t want your group’s hard work to end up back on our roadways. The Clean Up Day Committee does apply for a tipping fee waiver from the Borough for about a month around Clean Up Day. The bags are weighed, and the landfill keeps track of the tonnage so we can track the community effort. If it is taken to a local transfer station, it is treated as regular household trash and will not be tallied.

ANY TRASH COLLECTED AFTER CLEAN UP DAY MUST BE DROPPED OFF AT THE BOROUGH LANDFILL

Fairbanks North Star Borough Landfill:
455 Sanduri St., Fairbanks, AK 99701
Hours of operation: Monday – Friday 8 AM to 4 PM; Saturday 9 AM to 4 PM; Sunday noon to 4 PM
Click here to view Map to Fairbanks Landfill (https://goo.gl/maps/zr6YxJiURVH2)

Thank You!

From all of us on the Clean Up Day Committee, thank you for your commitment to keeping Alaska’s roadsides beautiful.

For more information call 452-7211(United Way) or visit us

at www.facebook.com/groups/goldenheartcleanupday/

Council ProgramsFebruary 14, 2017 by Yvonne Orsini-Boone

Woadstoak

When: March 24-26, 2017

The lodge has invited the Nanuk Lodge from
Anchorage to join us that weekend.

Check your email and facebook for more
information.

Click here for WOAdstOAk Registration form

For questions contact toontuklodge0549@gmail.com or go on our webpage at https://toontuklodge0549.wixsite.com/toontuk

Midnight Sun CouncilFebruary 7, 2017May 18, 2024 by Yvonne Orsini-Boone

Spring Camporee

2024 SPRING CAMPOREE

63 Scouts had a howling good time at the Wise Wolf Camporee the weekend of May 3^rd – 5th. The scouts signed up for particular tracks of program presented to them by experts in their fields.

Scouts took part in a mock search and Rescue after receiving some training, cook delectable gourmet meals over a variety of outdoor cooking methods, practiced tying flies and casting, while others learned about traps and how to process their catch.

A great big thank you to the Midnight Sun Flycasters, Wilderness Search and Rescue, PAWS, the Alaska Trappers Association, and outdoor gourmet chef Bruce Campbell for teaching our Scouts valuable lessons. A special thanks to Mark Smurda for emceeing the campfire and to Dave Minto for cooking the meals for the staff. It was a great weekend.

Click the links below to view/download:

Wise Wolf Camporee Leaders’ Guide

2024 Wise Wolf Registration form

BSASyllabusRecipes 3 27 24 SB

We expect some classes to fill up, so when registration opens, don’t wait!

Spring Camporee Archive

Spring Camporee 2022 “Back to Basic”

Spring Camporee 2022

We held our 2021 “Eye on Conservation” Spring Camporee at Lost Lake Scout Camp May 21-23! Our Scouts participated in conservation projects and could choose from 3 Environmentally themed Merit Badges. Special thanks to Troop 1001 and Grace Edwards for leading the planning efforts for a great Camporee!

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