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Alumni Spotlight: Amy Do

Our past membership has included a number of stellar individuals over the years. Although many have since graduated, they haven’t lost the spirit of Scouting and continue to instill positive change within (and without) the community, while bettering the lives of those around them. One such individual is an alumnus by the name of Amy […]

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Time Management: How to Kill Time

When we’re loaded with a long list of tasks, it feels as if 24 hours is never enough. We catch ourselves saying, “there are too many things to do, but not enough time”.  Keep in mind that there are people who have less time on their hands and more to do, yet they are are […]

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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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Project Management Training Level 1

During the last two weekends of January, 2012,  the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group conducted two workshops on Project Management. The main learning objective was for participants to gain a good understanding of managing a project. Topics ranged from understanding the importance of project management, to going into greater details of the key stages of planning […]

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33rd Kerrisdale Venturer Company

On Saturday, November 5th, 2011, Darren Shum and Valerie Siu of the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group held a Project Planning Workshop for the enthusiastic 33rd Kerrisdale Venturer Company. The 14-17 year old Venturers were given an important presentation on the topic of Project management. Project management knowledge is indispensable in today’s world since everything that […]

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180th Pacific Coast Scout Group Annual Planning Retreat

180th Pacific Coast Scout Group retreat update! We’ve been through 2 full days of brainstorming and have stretched our brains to the limit. The highlights of our time here have been the mock eulogies that were written in the event that the 180th Pacific Coast Scout Group ceased to exist; the award-winning speeches that were delivered in […]