2013 Jamboree Highlights

Apr 1, 2011 by WebNews

 

Showcase a Visitor Experience Very Different than the Participant Experience

• Visitors and participants can come together in the 90-acre Summit Center.
• Access to program areas will be limited to jamboree participants.
• In the Summit Center, visitors will be offered a “jamboree lite” experience with a sampling of jamboree activities, constant entertainment and activities in the arena area, in addition to the exhibit and display areas.
• Jamboree visitors will be provided an improved experience and charged a reasonable but appropriate fee.

Enable a Volunteer-Driven, Professionally Guided Jamboree Staff Opportunity

• Staff mantra—“volunteer–driven, professionally guided.” No duality of one volunteer and one professional in each major assignment.
• Less management, more customer-engaged staff.
• Emphasis on recruiting younger staff members by providing shorter commitments than entire jamboree.
• OA will provide more than 600 Arrowmen for programs such as Jamboree Trek and Day of Giving Back.
• Jamboree staff camp will be separated from participant camps, with vast majority of staff housed at this camp.
• Adult staff camp will provide first-class facilities and food.

Go Green, Go Healthy, and Go Safe

• Jamboree will use absolute best practices of eco-friendly camping—an example to other camps.
• Embrace conservation practices and Leave No Trace camping.
• Promote childhood health and fitness.
• Everyone will walk everywhere.
• Healthy food and drinks offered.
• Maintain high standards of Going Safely that was benchmark of 2010 jamboree.

Sustain the Scouting Movement for the Next 100 Years

• Jamboree will preserve the best of jamboree traditions while creating new ones.
• Scouts, staff, and visitors will be introduced to the World Brotherhood of Scouting at The Summit.

Offer Scouts, Scouters, and Visitors a True, Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience

• A jamboree at The Summit will truly be that once-in-a-lifetime experience for all who attend.