ARROW CORPs AT YAWGOOG SCOUT RESERVATION
Week Seven - August 6 - August 13
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Description: Arrow Corps at Camp Yawgoog 2023 Start Date/Time: 8/6/2023 5:00 PM End Date/Time: 8/13/2023 11:00 AM Age Requirement:13 Last Day to Register:8/1/2023 Contact E-mail: campyawgoog@scouting.org Cost:$150.00 per Participant |
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Details: Arrow Corps at Yawgoog is a one week experience at Camp Yawgoog where the principles developed during the summer of 2008 at national Arrow Corp 5 are being applied in our own camp settings. The servant leadership and conservation projects developed/carried out are used as a model for future projects at other Narragansett Council properties. The project will run from Tuesday through to Saturday; you will work from 9 AM to noon, then have the afternoon free for your personal goals (advancement, recreation, etc.) This is a chance for you to demonstrate your cheerful service in meaningful work projects which will leave your legacy on Camp Yawgoog. The fee for the week is a discounted price of $150 per person. There is a 36 Arrowman limit. It needs to be stressed that this is your second week of long term camping for this summer and is not intended to replace your week-long camp experience with your troop. |
This past year, Arrow Corps helped to work on the new ATV trail up in Sandy Beach, work included trimming brush, clearing debris, and building some new bridges to help provide some great trail improvements up past the Shea Shelter. Thank you to all the help from the Arrow Corps of 2022! |
Many lodges develop creative and innovative solutions to the challenges they face in implementing their annual program plans. In order to spread the best ideas to other lodges and areas across the country, the Order of the Arrow Lodge Innovation Award was created in 2012 to not only recognize lodges for their efforts but to share them nationwide as best practices. Up to two awards in each region can be presented annually.
Each award is accompanied by a $1,000 cash gift to the donor restricted endowment fund of the council that each lodge serves. That gift will benefit Scouting in that council in perpetuity - meaning forever. In total since 2012, local council endowment fund balances have received over $70,000 in total from the OA as a result of the creation of these permanently encumbered financial gifts.
Announced in 2019, seven lodges were chosen for the Innovation Award.
Narragansett Council’s Tulpe Lodge (Rhode Island) was one of the lodges to receive the Innovation Award. Inspired by a fulfilling experience at the Order of the Arrow’s ArrowCorps5 in 2008, Tulpe Lodge developed and implemented Arrow Corps at Yawgoog at their council camp, Yawgoog Scout Reservation. “Arrow Corps at Yawgoog is a one week experience at Yawgoog Scout Reservation where the principles developed during the summer of 2008 at national Arrow Corps are being applied in our own camp setting.”
Arrow Corps at Yawgoog is offered during one of the existing weeks of summer camp. The cost is much reduced from the regular summer camp fee. Arrow Corps at Yawgoog participants form a provisional unit at a summer camp with Adult Advisers functioning as Scoutmasters for the week and a youth chairman who functions as the Senior Patrol Leader. Participants work alongside camp rangers Monday through Friday all morning. The rest of the day they participate in camp programming and advancement opportunities.
Projects have included the construction of Adirondack shelters and trail creation and/or trail improvements. According to lodge leaders, “The program has not only strengthened our lodge, but it has also provided expanded opportunities for youth leadership and service. It has increased camp attendance, developed current and future camp staff, and offers an affordable summer camp experience for the families of southern New England.”
Each award is accompanied by a $1,000 cash gift to the donor restricted endowment fund of the council that each lodge serves. That gift will benefit Scouting in that council in perpetuity - meaning forever. In total since 2012, local council endowment fund balances have received over $70,000 in total from the OA as a result of the creation of these permanently encumbered financial gifts.
Announced in 2019, seven lodges were chosen for the Innovation Award.
Narragansett Council’s Tulpe Lodge (Rhode Island) was one of the lodges to receive the Innovation Award. Inspired by a fulfilling experience at the Order of the Arrow’s ArrowCorps5 in 2008, Tulpe Lodge developed and implemented Arrow Corps at Yawgoog at their council camp, Yawgoog Scout Reservation. “Arrow Corps at Yawgoog is a one week experience at Yawgoog Scout Reservation where the principles developed during the summer of 2008 at national Arrow Corps are being applied in our own camp setting.”
Arrow Corps at Yawgoog is offered during one of the existing weeks of summer camp. The cost is much reduced from the regular summer camp fee. Arrow Corps at Yawgoog participants form a provisional unit at a summer camp with Adult Advisers functioning as Scoutmasters for the week and a youth chairman who functions as the Senior Patrol Leader. Participants work alongside camp rangers Monday through Friday all morning. The rest of the day they participate in camp programming and advancement opportunities.
Projects have included the construction of Adirondack shelters and trail creation and/or trail improvements. According to lodge leaders, “The program has not only strengthened our lodge, but it has also provided expanded opportunities for youth leadership and service. It has increased camp attendance, developed current and future camp staff, and offers an affordable summer camp experience for the families of southern New England.”