CCA Openhouse at Unity - Scouts

It is time of the year for CCA openhouse at Unity Sec again. I have always looked forward to this event. I hardly do any pioneering and knots these days. Wonderful to 'rough it out' a bit and build some structures. Pioneering fulfills a number of education aims which cannot be learnt in a classroom setting:

1. Teamwork: regardless of how good a person is, if he does not cooperate with others, be a team player, he cannot build a structure by himself. Pioneering a project is a team effort. Visit a scout unit and look at its pioneering project. It does not show how good one or two individual scouts' skill is ,but it reflects how strong and capable the team is.
2. Accountibility: every knots count; Safety is at stake. It teaches a scout to be accountable for their action. In this case, any negligence in tying the lashing may be catastrophic.
   
3. Esteem: You can take a lift up a 20th storey building and look down at the scenery. But it never beat looking down at a 2 storey structure you build from scratch.
   

The pride of a scout troop is
as high as the flag
mounted on its pioneering structure.

A group photo: