What is Commitment?
What is my section Committing to?
Your section commits to supplying a skill activity for the activity rotation. Activity examples will be supplied, and an orientation on developing activities takes place during one of the early organizing meetings. Your section's activity is developed with your youth using the PLAN-DO-REVIEW method. In December, the section will submit an activity idea and brief description. After the section's idea is approved by the Activity Coordinator, the section shall write activity instructions for Patrols into an online template by the submission deadline. Note: sections are responsible for supplying any materials to operate their activity.
Your section commits to supplying a volunteer, known as a section representative, to liaise between the event and your section. Representatives can be a Venturer, Rover or Scouter in your Group, who is not already representing another section.
The section representative must attend the organizing committee's 4 virtual planning meetings, currently planned to be held on Sundays at 7:30pm, until approximately 9pm, on Nov 26, Dec 17, Jan 21, and Feb 11. Please confirm the section representative's availability for those dates before committing your section. In case of an emergency preventing attendance of the representative, the section will have an alternate attend the meeting. Failure to attend meetings or to find an alternate to attend could result in your section losing its right to register for the event, at the discretion of the Key Team.
Your section commits to supplying a volunteer to be part of the Service Team during the event. This is usually the section representative, but they do not have to be the same person. The volunteer will not accompany your section during the activity rotation
Your section commits to meeting submission deadlines, such as those established for registration, registration fee, activity idea, and activity participant instructions. See Key Dates.
Thus, before committing by completing this form, your section's team must determine whether it has enough volunteers available to support your section attending the event (i.e. 2+ Scouters attending with the section, and a Scouter, Venturer or Rover who will attend as part of the Service Team) and that a representative is available to attend the 4 virtual planning meetings on their scheduled evenings. Tip: Being able to attend Klondike Derby may be a good carrot to convince a parent to become a Scouter.
Before committing, please read the following pages: Who Are We?; What Do We Do?; FAQs; Key Dates
If this is your first time to this type of event, see What's a Winter Klondike Derby?; Timetable
In Return...
Your section will be guaranteed a place when section registration (of youth and adults) opens in January.
If the event is already full of commitments , your section will receive a place, in order, on an actively-managed waitlist.
Your Section gets to participate and vote in the theme and crest polls and contests.
Your Section Representative will receive an onboarding session to learn their role, with an experienced mentor
The meetings include orientations and learning sessions about the event and tips for sections. Additional members of your section are welcome to attend organizing meetings.
A fun day awaits for your section in February!
If you have questions before committing, contact info@carletonscouting.ca