Hello from Paul Kreckman, Wood Badge Course Director

Video Transcript:

Hello, I’m Paul Kreckman, Course Director for Wood Badge 2024. Thank you for registering for our course and for your interest in continuing to hone and sharpen your leadership skills. Your commitment to Scouting and the youth we all serve is greatly appreciated.

Last summer, our staff began preparations for this course. We continue to do so. Our goal is to make this the best possible learning opportunity for you, and an experience we hope you will always remember.

Now, with any learning experience, there comes some homework, and we have some simple homework assignments for you. But don’t worry – we’ll give you plenty of time to fit them into your schedule, and I think you’ll actually enjoy working through them.

In the future, we’ll be sending you additional short video clips like this one to help you in preparing for the course. Here’s a few of those video clips that you will be receiving.

Sandy Matos, our Health Officer, will be talking about health forms and other health-related issues.

Dave Ansell, our Senior Patrol Leader, will let you know about the equipment you will need to bring in advance, so that you can be prepared for the course.

Charlie Fleet, our Assistant Scoutmaster for Troop Guides, will be talking to you about the ticket – your ticket – and to hopefully answer any concerns you may have about that process.

Dave Anderson, our Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, will be talking to you about what it means for a Scout to be reverent during the course.

And Heather Leake, our Assistant Scout Master for Program, will be sending you any additional last-minute updates on our program notes and other items.

Now, all this information will be posted out on our website along with both the video clips and attachments that we’ll be sending to you. The website address is https://woodbadge2024.org/, so if you’re like me, and you lose this email, or any of the ones that you receive, you can always go to the website and find whatever you need right there. Or you can contact me, and I’ll be glad to assist you with whatever you need.

So, until then, I look forward to seeing you in April. Take care.