Welcome to Bear!

Much of the advancement for the Bear rank is done by the scout with his family outside of the den, similarly to the Wolf rank. The parent signs off in the scout's handbook and the Den Leader records the advancements from the handbook to tracking chart or software program. The Bear program relies heavily on family involvement, but you will see this gradually change with the scout doing more with his den and more individual direction as he reaches Webelos and Boy Scouts.
To complete the Bear Trail scouts must complete twelve achievements to be a Bear Cub Scout. They have a wide choice because there are twenty-four to pick from. These twenty-four are grouped into four broad categories, God, Country, Family, and Self.
During the next year our Den Meetings will cover part of some achievements and the scout, with his family, will need to finish the rest of the tasks for that achievement. If the scout attends Cub Scout Day Camp and/or Resident Camp, they will complete some of the achievements over the summer.
Start looking at the Bear handbook now. It is very exciting and has a lot of very cool boy things to do. Scouts may start working on Achievements and Electives as of May 21, 2011. This is definitely a notch up in the scouting world form what we did as Tigers and Wolves.