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Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling

Almost all of us have been asked the question: “What do you want to be when you grow up”. Some of us can give quick answers such as doctor, painter, consultant, but a lot of us are stuck on this popular question. The reasons for being stumped can be as simple as not knowing what […]

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Fun in the Snow!

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How Scouting Helped My Public Speaking Skills

As someone who is new to Scouting in Canada, our new rover, Nick Pham, shares his personal experiences on how Scouting has helped him with his public speaking skills!  Whenever I tell somebody that I am a Scout, they usually have the impression that I must be only good at camping skills and survival techniques. […]

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Fun in Snow: Snow Tubing and Hot Pot

On February 11th, our Rovers headed up to Mt.Seymour to enjoy an awesome day of snow tubing and hot pot. The day was filled with laughter as everyone bonded over the fun events, while traversing the snow. This blog recaps the experiences of Alex Vu, the project manager for the event, and her time up […]

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How to Tell a Story With Your Photos

By Henry Chow, Sandra Lee, and Elvin Lai Behind every event is a story. As a photographer, it is your job to not only capture the rare and beautiful moments but also to give your audience more of a reason to care. Developing a concrete style will take time and patience. So how could you […]

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Rovers & Vancouver Outreach Program: Joint Venture in the Downtown Eastside

Vancouver Outreach Program partners with the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group in a 2-day Community Service Project, distributing care packages to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside residents. This 2-day project occurring January 27th and 28th were planned by first-time Patrol Leader and Project Manager, Vivien Wang. She and Rover Scout Nimmy Nelson organized a joint venture with […]

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The Ultimate Litmus Test

Henry Chow is a Rover Scout and the current Department Head for Information Systems. He was also a contingent member of our 6th International Service Project to Taiwan, with his role being the videographer for this trip.   I didn’t like challenges as a kid. My goal back then was to avoid every single obstacle, […]

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Highlights of 2017

2017 was an important year for our crew. Within 2017 alone, we hit two major milestones: we celebrated our 10th year anniversary and went on our 6th international service project (or iProj for short). While our 10 year celebration and 6th iProj are major milestones to reminiscent over, we cannot forget the smaller milestones and […]

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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.