Personal Achievement Badges

In addition to the pack work on Outdoor Skills badges, the new Cub program includes a number of Personal Achievement badges that Cubs can choose to pursue on their own or in small groups. In keeping with the youth-led emphasis of the new program, Cubs can choose their own areas of interest and then select or design, (in consultation with other Cubs and leaders), four requirements in that area to earn the badge. (Leaders will likely play a larger role at the start of this new process.) The personal achievement badges are deliberately designed to be quite broad in scope, to enable Cubs to select their own interests within these general areas. The badges are:

Earth	Air	Water	Space
Summer Fitness	Winter Fitness	Year-round Fitness	Home
Community	Canada	World	Technology
Arts	Building	Hobby	Science

More detailed information on the various badge areas can be found at http://www.scouts.ca/canadianpath/download/pab/cs-pab-guide.pdf. We encourage you to talk with your son/daughter over the next few weeks to identify badge areas that he/she may be interested in pursuing. We will also be talking about this in our lairs (small groups).