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4 Focuses: An Introduction

Ever wondered how our crew operates behind-the-scenes? Well, we have some good news for you! Today we’re introducing our 4 focuses; specific areas of our group, managed by dedicated Rovers that we believe will positively impact our member’s experience within the organization. Membership: The HR professionals of our group. They focus on the well-being of […]

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Highlights from Elfin Lakes

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How Our Rovers Learn by Doing

By Dylan Book In the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group, we claim to develop leaders and managers by providing real world experiences and projects that teach us. This is a bit abstract, so we thought we might use a recent example to better illustrate this. A real challenge our Crew has faced was the consistent […]

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iProj 2017: Capturing Moments in Taiwan

By Jae-Hui Song Jae-Hui Song is a Rover Scout and a contingent member of our 6th International Service Project to Taiwan (iProj, for short). Her role during iProj was as our photographer and photo editor. Below is a compilation of her original photos and her thoughts as she took them.

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iProj 2017: Mentoring & Youth Development at the ‘Scouts Fun Taiwan!’ Open Forum

By Brian Asin During the last leg of our trip in Taipei, we were hosted at the National Taiwanese Scout Headquarters. Our presenters, Eli Chan, Victor Chan, Kevin Heung, Dylan Book, and Scouter David Yuan once again shared our Rover Crew’s youth development strategy, our accomplishments and our future aspirations at a second open forum […]

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iProj 2017: Keeping Shuanglianpi’s Wetland Ecosystem Alive

By Brian Asin We do environmental service projects when we visit other countries, because it’s a great opportunity for our Rover Scouts to follow the Scouting Method—we learn by doing. This year for Good Turn Week, a contingent from our Rover Scout Group is in Taiwan collaborating in a number of service projects with youth across […]

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New Rovers: Shiyu Takes All the Chances!

As a sequel to our previous blog post about Caelan’s first impressions, we had the chance to talk to Shiyu about what she thinks of her time so far as a New Rover Scout. Hi Shiyu, thanks for letting me speak with you. Let’s start off with something easy.  What made you decide to reach […]

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How to Plan Your First Outdoor Event: PMT1 RECAP

By Sandra Lee Ever want to plan something fun with your friends, but feel that you don’t have the capacity or the skills to run an event? Have you ever found yourself stuck with an awesome idea, visualize the potential of your end product, but can barely imagine the steps in between you and that […]

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[RECAP] Public Speaking Workshop

By Brian Asin A class of Rover Scouts got together early Saturday morning at the Hastings Branch of the Vancouver Public Library to participate in a Public Speaking Workshop. The event was organized by Barton Lui, and facilitated by some of our very talented and insightful Scouters. Everyone got their first go at public speaking […]

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[RECAP] OtherHalf Stem Cell Project

By Claudia Chan Did I know anything about stem cells before volunteering with Other Half? Being a science student, I would like to think that I did. But truthfully, I probably knew the same amount as the general public, which unfortunately is not very much. Volunteering with OtherHalf-Chinese Stem Cell Initiative not only taught me what stem […]