Scouting, Volume 56, Number 2, February 1968 Page: E1
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X P L O
P R O G R A
FOR APRIL 1968
Why are Program Helps written?
They are written with you, the Advisor,
and elected officers in mind. They seek
to provide you with some of the best
activity ideas available to help your post in planning
its program. Of course, you collect activity ideas from
the general membership of your post, and you also
get many good ideas from your post committeemen
and your sponsor. The Program Helps represent three
more ideas and are presented in such a way that you
can decide to adopt a suggestion and then plan and
run it by using the material as a guide.
How can you use Program Helps to the best ad-
vantage?
The most obvious is to make sure they are part of
your elected officers' meetings and that the activity
suggestions are discussed and their benefits under-
stood. You'll notice that each suggestion is coded to
let you know which experience areas are covered.
It's easy to see that almost any good activity idea will
certainly cover one or more of the six experience
areas. Once an activity is adopted, a copy of the
Program Helps should be passed along to the activity
chairman and his committee. Then your chairman not
only has some written guides to follow, but equally
important, he will be able to see the activity pictor-
ially displayed. Another method of getting the most
from your Program Helps is to organize and keep up
to date a file of Program Helps. It's pretty clear that
sometimes the suggested activity in a current issue may
not fit your post calendar, and yet the idea looks use-
ful. Simply file and hold the idea until later in the
year. It doesn't take long then for a post to accumu-
late a valuable resource file. The important thing to
remember is that well-planned activities build suc-
cessful Explorer posts. Proper use of the Program Helps
helps to ensure this success.
How many activities should our post plan each
month?
Three are suggested, and they break down like this:
An activity at each post meeting (remember, a post
meets twice a month). Some will be more elaborate
than others, but each meeting must have an organized
activity to keep members coming back. And a sepa-
HELPS
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rate activity—one that happens at a time other than
at a regular post meeting. It can be either a day,
weekend, or afternoon event—stag, educational, or
even a day's co-ed activity. Any one of them can be
fun for your post—the important thing is that it
happens.
"Service in Action"
One of the highlights and action programs related
to the Fourth National Explorer Delegate Conference
will be the development and planning of specific ser-
vice projects a post might use during its program year.
Each delegate will be able to bring back to his post,
district, and council, service-project ideas that will be
worthwhile and challenging to accomplish. There will
be project ideas based on the needs of the community
and neighborhood, conservation, sponsors, safety and
youth. Each project will allow post members to read,
observe, inspect, survey, discuss, and do whatever is
necessary to gain a firm understanding of the service
job ahead. All service projects will require Explorers
to do things, to apply their knowledge and skills, and
to become personally involved. If your post is inter-
ested in helping to bring the meaning of "service"
into sharp focus for your members and your com-
munity, then be sure you are represented at the Fourth
National Explorer Delegate Conference, August 1 8 to
22, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo.
Scouting Magazine is published monthly and bi-
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mailing offices. Vol. 56, No. 2, February 1968. Copyright
© 1968 by the Boy Scouts of America, New Brunswick,
N.J. Scouting Magazine is sent to Scouters as part of
their registration. Subscriptions to all others $1 a year,
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