Daniel Latyshev 4/2/14 Philmont Grant
Scouting had definitely been and still is one of the most offering experiences I have ever taken part in. Scouting literally gives you back everything you put into it and it will have an impact on my future life. Scouting has taught me many things about teamwork but the most important one being that you cannot always succeed by yourself. There is an acronym which describes this perfectly. T.E.A.M.- Together Everyone Achieves More. All of scouting focuses on working together and there are many small teams within bigger teams in the troop. For example, your patrol is a team within your campsite (at Lyle and campsites) within your troop which is the most important team of all because we all work together to make it run better and more efficiently. As with all teams, there is always a captain, or leader. Your patrol leader, senior patrol leader, and scoutmaster are the most obvious examples. Teamwork is built into as soon as you join through leadership and the EDGE method. Some of the skills relating to teamwork directly relate to the scout law. Being loyal, helpful, friendly, obedient, cheerful, and brave are the closest to teamwork. You have to be loyal both to yourself and your team as long as needed. Being helpful at all times is a huge part of a team because if everyone is being helpful at once, many tasks can be completed much quicker than expected. Friendly and cheerful can get people out of tough times and overall increase the enjoyment of everything. Next, being obedient can increase the effeiciency of a team. Finally, being brave in a team can affect those around you and, in essence, make both you and those around you better people.
Philmont is one of the most important places to focus on teamwork for several reasons. We all work together through our trek whether it would be 50 miles or 80 miles. If we want to make it on time to every site and event, we would have to constantly be on the same page. We have 12 or so scouts going and one of them will be the crew leader who will leads us and control our teamwork through the whole trek. Honestly, I feel that the whole 11 days on trail would be both a personal journey and a team-wide adventure. Those 6 skills mentioned before are of the utmost importance at Philmont. Loyalty within your crew will keep everyone on the same page and working together. Helpfulness will have a great impact on campsite maintinance and the service project on trail. Friendly and cheerful will keep everyone in a good mood whether we are walking 13 miles through the rain or a challenge course at one of the event sites. Obedience will have a similar impact as loyal, but this one would be more of listening to advice and instructions from either your guide, adults on the trip, or crew leader. Being brave will be one of the most important skills at Philmont because this trip isn't easy and we need the team as a whole to be brave no matter what is happening around us. The skills scouting has taught will help me be more successful at Philmont and, eventually, later in my life. I'm very excited to spend 2 weeks of my summer hiking through the New Mexico Rockies.=
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