Great Friendships
Your Den will be full of other Cub Scouts your age. All great kids that have similar goals, they will also likely be your best friends for years to come.
Your Den will be full of other Cub Scouts your age. All great kids that have similar goals, they will also likely be your best friends for years to come.
Den Meetings, Pack Meetings, Campouts, Hikes, and much more. There is a lot of fun to be had!
Advancing through the ranks requires new adventures. Learning about paleontology, fishing, wood shop, and much, much more, will give you the opportunity to try new things.
Located in Ahwatukee, AZ, Cub Scout Pack 178 is an active pack with leaders and parent volunteers dedicated to providing their cubs with an education and experiences that are both fun and rewarding. We are a community, and you are welcome to join us!
In Cub Scouting you’ll have lots of fun, adventure, and activities with your den and pack. But there’s more to it than that. Being a Cub Scout means you are a member of a worldwide youth movement that stands for certain values and beliefs. Cub Scouting is more than something to do. It’s all about the person you are and the person you will become.
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The Boy Scouts of America’s NOVA Awards program incorporates learning with cool activities and exposure to science, technology, engineering and mathematics for Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Venturers. The hope is that the requirements and activities for earning these awards stimulates interest in STEM-related fields and shows how science, technology, engineering and mathematics apply to everyday living and the world around them. Counselors and mentors help bring this engaging, contemporary, and fun program to life for youth members.
Cub Scout Pack 178 has FOUR optional pack campouts per year for our scouts to take advantage. Your scout’s dues pays for the Fall and Spring campouts, generally held at the famous Camp Geronimo and R-C, both in Payson, AZ.
Our Winter and Summer campouts are made to be extremely affordable through sharing of the campground costs. Our winter camp will be held in heated cabins at R-C. This will give many of our cubs their first chance to be in the snow. Summer camp is our biggest campout of the year. This year we went to the Grand Canyon!
If the four campouts aren’t enough, the Salt River District and Grand Canyon Council have camps that your cub can enjoy as well. Camp Kaibab in Williams, AZ, and Cub Scout Camp at R-C in Payson, AZ, are two of the most popular.
Outdoor events don’t stop with camping. Pack 178 has three day hikes planned every year. These hikes are local, with locations chosen so that every cub in the pack can have fun.
Many of our cubs, and parents, are new to camping. Pack 178 has day events planned that will introduce cubs to the camping experience. How to cook in a dutch oven, put up a tent, roll up a sleeping bag. There’s a lot of skill involved for a cub that’s never been camping before. We teach those skills!
Before scouts can lead, they must first become great followers and team players. But at the same time, self leadership is taught. Expectations on how to behave and interact within the den and pack are presented. Opportunities to lead are gradually presented to the cub. This could include leading a hike or flag ceremony, or teaching younger scouts a skill.
Cub Scouts wouldn’t be as successful as it is without a tremendous amount of fun. The activities that Pack 178 participates always include the teaching of a skill, and this even includes what a cub would consider as pure play time. Cub Scouts is fun!
At every level of scouting, community service is an included as an integral part of the program. A scout serves and gives back to his community.
Cub Scouts offers experiences that just aren’t available to most other kids outside the scouting program. Camping, hiking, archery/bb-gun, fishing, pinewood derby, box car racing, and carpentry, are just the tip of the iceberg. These Cub Scout experiences are the training grounds for true high adventure opportunities that are presented when the cub becomes a Boy Scout. 50 mile hikes, rock climbing, rifle shooting, and the myriad of merit badges covering virtually every aspect of life await your cub after their graduation into Boy Scouts.
Developing friendships with like-minded kids of their own age is one of the biggest reasons a scout joins and stays in scouting. Kids that join scouting at a young age and continue to grow throughout their adolescent years within the scouting program typically create lifelong relationships!
Competition, service, teamwork, taking risks, trying new things. These all offer the opportunity to develop character. A Cub Scout lives by the Scout Law and Oath, which help mold the Cub Scout experience, and hence, the cub himself.
Many of our youth rarely get the opportunity to truly experience the outdoors. Cub Scouts provides that opportunity for our cubs to enjoy and appreciate nature. To see a group of cubs playing in the wilderness puts video gaming to shame in regards to the pure joy they experience. Just as important, camping is an incredible opportunity to experience family bonding.
Cub Scouts offers the opportunity to try brand new things with other kids of their age. As a den, the group learns and bonds together as a team. Even the newest, shyest cub will find it irresistible to open up to his new best friends and enjoy the experience. Cub Scouts is one of the greatest grounds available for building great self-esteem.
Pack 178 has a great group of trained leaders and active parent volunteers. For the pack and all the dens to achieve it’s goals, cubs must be responsible for their actions and behavior. Expectations are presented in the form of the Scout Law and Oath, and sometimes, our cubs are reminded of how they need to behave. Personal responsibility is an important part of the scouting culture, and with it our cubs have a lot more fun and mature into successful, young adults.
Scouting is an amazing experience for youths, and their families! Feel free to contact us and make arrangements to visit a Pack or Den meeting. We look forward to sharing our experiences, and hopefully, welcoming you into our Pack.
