PINEWOOD DERBY RESULTS!!!!!

Granville Cub Scout Pack 3 hosted the 2008 Pinewood Derby on Saturday, January 26 at GIS for the Granville Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts.

The racing action featured homemade models shaped as shiny race cars, silly school buses, pencils, hot dogs, lizards, catsup bottles, wedges of cheese, army tanks, slices of pizza, lightning bolts, the silver surfer, a snow man, and other imaginative designs concocted by first through eighth graders who are in the Granville scouting programs.

Granville Lumber helps many scouts to cut their wood blocks into shapes. They keep a running tally with a year-to-year record marked on the side of their band saw.

82 Girl Scouts, 121 Cub Scouts, 6 Boy Scouts and 42 Open Class entrants competed for trophies in age-based race events on Cub Scout Pack 3’s twin aluminum tracks. Times for over 250 four-car races were electronically measured, tracked by computer and projected on two large screens for audience viewing.

This is a big event made possible by over a dozen parent volunteers and numerous Boy Scout, Girl Scout and Cub Scout helpers dressed in striped Race Official shirts.

See www.newarkadvocate.com for a photo gallery and video clip of this event; the 24 photo gallery is at --
Pinewood Photos (click link)

Trophy Winners were as follows:

Girl Scout Daisies and Brownies
Place Driver/Race Team Grade Avg. Speed (mph)
1 Corinne Sutliff 1 218.5
2 Riley Bruck 2 215.2
3 Danielle Miller K 213.7
4 Madilynn Smith 2 213.2

Girl Scout Juniors and Cadets:
Place Driver/Race Team Grade Avg. Speed (mph)
1 Heather Windley 6 218.5
2 Rachel Windley 4 217.3
3 Taylor Bruck 4 216.3
4 Riley Rosinski 6 215.0

Girl Scout Best of Show:
Lizzie Gabel (7th Grade) The Weiner Mobile

Girl Scout Most Original Design:
Sarah Gabel (4th Grade) Swimming Otter

Cub Scout Tigers:
Place Driver/Race Team Grade Avg. Speed (mph)
1 Garrett Sutliff 1 219.0
2 David Blacksten 1 212.0
3 Jack Owen 1 210.2
4 Sammy Benjegerdes 1 210.0
Turtle Ethan Sergio 1 134.5 (slowest car to finish)


Cub Scout Wolves:
Place Driver/Race Team Grade Avg. Speed (mph)
1 Matthew Vecchione 2 214.6
2 Luke Pritchard 2 213.6
3 Nathan DeMent 2 213.3
4 Kevin Miller 2 211.8
Turtle Andrew Lowery 2 140.8 (slowest car to finish)

Cub Scout Bears:
Place Driver/Race Team Grade Avg. Speed (mph)
1 Alexander Chisolm 3 216.0
2 Chris Crum 3 213.5
3 Kenny Fisher 3 212.8
4 Max Budd 3 211.5
Turtle Daniel Brnjic 3 169.4 (slowest car to finish)

Cub Scout Webelos I:
Place Driver/Race Team Grade Avg. Speed (mph)
1 Ben Bressoud 4 212.7
2 Will Kosling 4 212.2
3 Matthew Thompson 4 208.9
4 Matt Hills 4 203.0
Turtle Duncan Bartlett 4 141.9 (slowest car to finish)

Cub Scout Webelos II:
Place Driver/Race Team Grade Avg. Speed (mph)
1 John Wagner 5 220.6
2 Sam Hollingsworth 5 216.7
3 Adam Miller 5 214.4
4 Andrew Peden 5 212.2
Turtle Andrew Sneed 5 108.3 (slowest car to finish)

Cub Scout Pack Championship Runoff:
1 Garrett Sutliff 1 219.6
2 John Wagner 5 219.0
3 Sam Hollingsworth 5 214.8
4 Alexander Chisolm 3 214.0 (slowest car to finish)

Boy Scout Troop 65:
Place Driver/Race Team Grade Avg. Speed (mph)
1 Chris Bets 8 209.1
2 Christian White 8 207.8
3 Albert Dantzer 8 206.2
4 Chris Duncan 7 205.6
Turtle Brendan Lowell 8 198.0 (slowest car to finish)

Open Class (any age, including adults):
Place Driver/Race Team Grade Avg. Speed (mph)
1 Corinne Sutliff 1 221.8
2 John Wagner 5 221.4
3 Garett Sutliff 1 220.7
4 Lisa Ridenour Adult 218.2

You liked your paper airplane at the pack meeting?

Click this link, please -- i can't find confirmation, but i hope this is true, just because it's sooooooo cool:
http://inventorspot.com/articles/origami_rules_paper_airplane_set_9997

Pinewood rules and helps -- Scroll down!

There's some new info at the Yorktown trip blog linked just below (or on the link that will stay to the right). If you're clicking in for Pinewood stuff, just scroll down, but you might want to read this first . . .

For all den leaders and other pack officers, think about "New Leader Essentials" (NLE) training on Sat., Feb. 23, in Newark at Central Christian Church on Mt. Vernon Rd.

If you've ever taken NLE, you don't need to do it again, but if you've never had it, this would be a great chance. The training day starts at 8:30 am, and there's always a good pile of bagels and donuts and fruit along with the coffee and juice. If you are just wanting NLE, you can leave at lunchtime, but if you want to get the extended training for den leadership, Cubmastering, Committee chair/treasurers, or advancement, lunch is served and they'll have you out by 2 to 3:30 depending on which specialized training you sit in with.

Pack 3 will get some major financial incentives (starting with free advancement, which could save us $700 plus per year) if we have at least half of our key leaders trained, so it is a day that helps you work with the Cubs, and gives you a way to help the Pack. Look at it that way, and you're making $100 an hour for us by participating!

If you think you can make it, give Jeff Gill a call or e-mail, but you can just show up; they're just wanting to make sure to have enough food. There's anywhere from 12 to 40 at one of these winter training days. You learn about the Scouting program as a whole, and get a good sense of what your child can do over the next few years in Cubs, Boy Scouts, Venturing, and even some of the High Adventure activities available.

Pinewood info is just below; for Yorktown info:
http://granvillepack3yorktown.blogspot.com