Pack 345 is made up of scouts in kindergarten through 5th grade. The Cub Scout year follows the school year — over the summer we have activities, but no formal meetings.
The dens
Three to eight scouts in the same grade, with one or two parent den leaders.
Lions
Kindergarten
Tigers
1st grade
Wolves
2nd grade
Bears
3rd grade
Webelos
4th grade
Arrow of Light
5th grade
After 5th grade, scouts cross over into a Scouts BSA troop or a program like Venturing. We hold
a ceremony every year to mark it.
Who meets when
Den meetings
Once a month, usually a weeknight at a member’s house, a park or a library. Dens
work on rank badge requirements. Parents stay for the whole meeting, and
we try to include them in the fun.
Pack meetings
Roughly monthly, deliberately not always in the same room. This year: Parkside Square, the
Sea Scout Base, Ocean Beach and the Elks Lodge, Friday evenings at 6 or Saturday mornings at
9:30. Badges, a theme, and guests to lead something special.
Every date →
Weekend activities
Day hikes, three campouts and a couple of service Saturdays — roughly one a month across the year. See the calendar.
Pack Committee meetings
Quarterly. Pack leaders and any interested parent, working through upcoming events, fundraisers and anything else that needs deciding. Everyone is welcome.
Who’s who
Akela
Any adult role model — parent, guardian, teacher or leader. (In The Jungle Book, Akela leads the pack.) Every scout takes part with theirs.
Cubmaster
Leads the pack, runs the program, and is its primary representative.
Den leader
Plans the den’s monthly meetings and coordinates the den’s part in the pack meeting. Always a parent volunteer.
Pack Committee
Supervises the pack and handles the administrative work. Chaired by the Pack Committee Chair.
Chartered organization
The organization that sponsors the pack. Ours is the SF Scout Skill Academy.
How we communicate
We email through ScoutBook, to the address you used for my.scouting.org, with
[Pack 345] in the subject line. Add every parent in your household who should
get it.
Check your spam folder for the first week
Pack email is sometimes filtered as junk until you mark it otherwise.
The pack year
Our year runs summer to summer, alongside the school calendar. We publish the whole thing in
advance, so you can see what you’d be signing up for before you sign up.
