by Shawn Wright | Participant Stories, Why I Attended
Wood Badgers Shawn Holcomb and Reed Carpenter from course S9-113 received their beads, scarf and woggle at a joint court of honor with their troop 7676. Both of them are leaders in the troop and Shawn’s son Zach received his Eagle the same night. You can read...
by Shawn Wright | Behind The Scene, Why I Attended
Think about the first time you heard about Wood Badge. Did someone ask you to go? Did you notice the mauve scarves and wood beads? I found a flyer in the packet of materials at a BALOO training event. It was enough to get me to ask around about this wood badge course...
by Shawn Wright | Behind The Scene, Staff
Weekend 2 of S9-113 is over. For over half of the staff we will move on to our units, our jobs and the next course, S9-114. The Troop Guides and participants will spend the next 18-months working their tickets. Much more on that to come later. One of the goals of...
by Shawn Wright | Recruiting
Do you notice anything different above? We have a new header! Nothing has changed at WoodBadgeAlabama.com other than the header. We will continue to post stories about course S9-113 which is happening right now. What you will notice that is different is that we will...
by Shawn Wright | Recruiting
There are two ways that a Wood Badge course is hosted. It is either two three-day weekends or one six-day event. In the Greater Alabama Council we generally follow the two weekend course model. The nice thing is that we change it up to accommodate different schedules....