Derby Daze

For weeks the boys have been cutting, sanding, painting and decorating their Pinewood Derby cars.  And Race Day has finally arrived!  With a fine coat of graphite coating their fingers, the happy Scouts presented their cars to be checked in.  Holding their breath, they waited anxiously while the Official inspection and weigh in was completed.  At last!!  It was time to send them to the parking lot and the race to begin!

A, B and Z were full of sillies

P. and E.R. got a front row seat!

C and T couldn't hardly wait!

Listening carefully to the rules of the derby.

Anddd...they're off!!!

The cars in the first heat cross the finish line. 

G is wondering when his car will race!

Cubmaster Julie is conducting interviews while a car had to go to the Pit. 

Race official Brantley watching the cars cross the finish line.

Little H is picking up some pointers for his first derby!

Looks like your car is doing well Z!

 At intermission, the scouts were busy voting for the Most Original, Most Hands Off and Most Beautiful.  After a yummy lunch of pizza, they also created a derby themed snack!

 And enjoyed some time in the game room, waiting for the races to begin again.

The coveted trophies!

Tabulating the results

Who will win?? Any ideas?

 Soon the awards began!!  I will post the official list of awards in another post, when I get all the categories.

The race officials are making sure everything is official.  We have winners!!!

Third place went to Tiger T!

Second place to Tiger P!

And First to Tiger A!  WOW!  What a day for the Tigers!!

Congrats guys!  The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd winners!

Learning to work together

Mr. Jim led our Tigers the other night, and wow, did we all get some good teamwork practice!  First, they divided into two teams.  The Tigers were presented with a bag of items (a soda can, some Tinker toys, a pencil and a shoelace).  They had 5 minutes to discuss what they wanted to make out of the items, but couldn't touch the items.  Then, the teams had a few minutes that they could build, but not talk.  They all had fun creating items, and their comments about them were priceless!  One in particular, when a Tiger piped up, "I'm chatty!", in reply to why it was hard to work without talking!   

Oh, but then it was the leaders' turn.  And we failed miserably.  Looks like we all needed the lesson on teamwork!  Thanks Mr. Jim!

A parent shared some of her photos from the Christmas parade with us!

Happy Scouting!