14th Cambridge Scouts

Hi,

Thanks to all the Scouts that came on the County Cooking Competition event last weekend (Saturday 2nd April). Both teams representing the 14th did really well and made some delicious meals.

Here’s a link to a page on photobox where I’ve posted the pictures I took. [They look a bit grainy in slideshow maybe because I've uploaded them full-res files but they should print out OK]. If your parents have a photobox account you should be able to order prints of the ones you want.

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/733779165

Now we know how good you Scouts are at cooking hopefully you’ll do the meals on the next camp

Regards,

Duncan

Explorers,

What activities would like to see in the summer term programme?

Let us know by adding comments to this post.

A page showing the remaining 2010 Spring term programme has been published so you know whats coming up. See top right.

See:

http://www.survivalrivals.org/competition/about

Briefly:

This competition encourages students aged 11-19 to communicate the science behind the Survival Rivals kits in a creative way. To enter you need to conduct the experiments, then make films or take photographs of your results, showing how you have brought science to life.

How to enter

• Carry out Survival Rivals experiments. If you haven’t got a kit yet don’t worry – see the Order page for details of how to order or replenish kits or how to carry out the experiments without them (no purchase is necessary to take part in the competition)
• In groups of up to four, produce film or photography to communicate the science behind the kits – see the Enter section for details of eligible formats
• Submit films or photographs before deadline of 21st May 2010

Thought I’d add this to the top as a reminder…

CODE OF CONDUCT:
Currently, we trust that all posts will be positive and in the good spirit of Scouting. Therefore at the moment all Explorer Scouts have Author rights; thus posts will be added immediately without amendments. However, if we find any posts that have the slightest hint of anti-social content (bullying, abusive, offensive, excessively negative criticism) then the post will be amended/deleted. The first time we’ll probably give a warning and explain why we deemed the post to be over the line. The second time and for more serious incidents we will change your account to Contributor rights which means all post will have be approved by an Editor (Chris, Paul, Richard) or Admin (Guy, Duncan) before they are added to the blog. [http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/]

Cambridge Science Festival     –      8-21 March 2010

Family fun days: Saturdays 13 and 20 March 2010

The vast majority of events are free of charge
The full programme is available from www.cambridgescience.org

Some highlights I’ve spied:

* Molecules at work: aspects of life magnified two million times

* What’s the risk of getting out of bed?

* Robots for beginners

* Play a computer game with your mind

* Can you beat the lie detector?

* 101 things you can do with a laser by Dr Evil

* The master puppeteer: how the brain controls the body

* Enigma: codes and codebreaking

* Open afternoon at the Institute of Astronomy

Check out the website for more events plus when and where its all happening.

Explorer Scouts have been sent their invite emails.
[Ask your parents to check their email as it was those email addresses I was given to send out your invites.]

INTENTION:
We hope you’ll use this blog to discuss and plan meetings and activities. Also feel free to upload pictures.

We look forward to seeing your input.

Programme is subject to change

If you have any questions please contact:

Chris Ward

Old Tile Barn

Church Street

Fenstanton

Huntingdon

Cambs PE28 9JL

Chris.ward@cambridgeshirescouts.org.uk

Home: 01480 300040

Work: 0207 021 8263

Mobile: 07803 023862

Programme is subject to change

If you have any questions please contact:

Chris Ward

Old Tile Barn

Church Street

Fenstanton

Huntingdon

Cambs PE28 9JL

Chris.ward@cambridgeshirescouts.org.uk

Home: 01480 300040

Work: 0207 021 8263

Mobile: 07803 023862

Welcome to the all new 14th Cambridge Scouts Blog.

Guy Snape has kindly producing this blog website for us. This blog malarky is new to me so I’m diving in and trying to learn on the go.

I’m hoping that this will give us a forum for our group to post comments and pictures of our activities and share ideas for future activities. If you can think of anything else we can use our blog for, why not add a blog and let us know.

Many thanks to Guy.

All the best,

Duncan