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Best All-Around Chapter Competition

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The Best All Around Chapter Competition is awarded annually and is designed to judge each of the Chapters in our Lodge. Each Chapter presents a binder of information in regard to each criteria of the competition along with a presentation of the information. A PDF Version can be found here.

 

Best-All-Around Chapter
Area Responsibility Maximum Available Points
Brotherhood Conversion All eligible members are contacted each year and encouraged to seal their membership;  Achieve 30% or more Brotherhood conversion of eligible Ordeal dues-paid members 100 points
for 30% conversion
Camp Promotions Camp Promotions team contacts and visits all units to promote camping and summer camp sign-up. 50 points (1 point per 2% of eligible units)
Chapter Reporting Provide current articles
for each edition of
the Gator Tales. 		80 points (20 points per article)
Counseling Have one arrowman from
your chapter serve as a Brotherhood counselor
at each lodge weekend. 		50 points
Elangomat Have a minimum of two
youth and one Adult serve as Elangomats at each Ordeal. 		50 points
LEC Meetings Chapter Chief and Adviser attend each scheduled LEC meeting and provide a
written report. 		200 points (25 points per LEC meeting)
Membership All previous year dues-paid members contacted and encouraged to renew by 4/15.  Achieve positive
growth in dues paid
members by 12/31. 		100 points
National Treks Encourage Chapter membership to attend National Treks (Wilderness Voyage, OA Trail Crew, OAOA) For the prior summer.
 75 points (25 points for each)
FourCorps Have a minimum of two
youth attend NOAC from
your chapter. 		50 points (25 points for each)
One Day of Service Plan and carry out a Chapter "One Day of Service" Project, or participate as a Chapter in the Lodge project.. 50 points(5 points per Scout, max of 50 points)
Presentation Present a quality written
and oral report of accomplishments. 		200 points
Section Conference Encourage Chapter membership to attend
Section Conference 		50 points (1 point per 2% of chapter members)
Section Seminars Encourage Chapter membership to attend
Section Seminars 		50 points (1 point per 2% of chapter members)
Service Provide service as an OA chapter at the District level 50 points
Training Chapter Chief and Adviser attend the annual LLDC. 50 points
Troop/Team Representatives Maintain a current list of trained Troop Representatives for your chapter and actively utilize them for communicating
with Chapter members. 		20 points (1 point per 5% of eligible units)
Unit Elections Contact all Boy Scout units
in the District to schedule visitations. 		50 points (1 point per 2% of eligible units)
Weekend Events Encourage chapter attendance at Lodge weekends. 200 points (50 per weekend - 1 point per 2% of members)

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