Prepare for a travel-free jamboree

Your Scouts can expertise the thrill of a world Scouting occasion – with out leaving residence!

Every yr, in the course of the third weekend of October, greater than 2 million Scouts from greater than 170 nations log in on-line or activate a ham radio and be part of the most important Scouting occasion on the planet: Jamboree-on-the-Air and Jamboree-on-the-Internet (JOTA-JOTI).

This yr’s occasion will likely be Oct. 17-19, with actions accessible across the clock.

Scouts can be part of actions that foster international citizenship, work together with different cultures and develop friendships via shared Scouting traditions. Sharpening their communications expertise, contributors join via moderated chatrooms, group video calls, dwell reveals and Minecraft.

As they discover the JOTI Activity Hub, Scouts can earn digital badges. They will encounter partaking applications, resembling expertise reveals, video games, the “Challenge Valley” for offline exercise concepts and a digital go to to the World Scout Centre in Switzerland. Program areas additionally promote life expertise, wholesome dwelling and methods for Scouts to make an impression on their communities.

Scouts can even go browsing to World Scouting’s proctored Minecraft server to construct, discover and join.

You can take a look at the directory of participating groups, together with their group title, location and call data. This characteristic can assist you join with different teams, presumably constructing connections that final for years to come back. Leaders can even go to the Activity Hub’s Leaders’ Corner.

What you want

Check together with your native council to see if occasions are already deliberate for JOTA-JOTI.

If not, for JOTI, you have to an Internet-enabled machine, like a pc, laptop computer, pill or cell phone.

If you may have a ham radio, you need to be good for JOTA. Many Scouts select to go to an area beginner radio operator’s ham shack or a ham shack at a council camp. You can even contact native radio golf equipment hosted by the American Radio Relay League, which is the nationwide affiliation for beginner radio and cooperates intently with Scouting America.

How to attach

Because it is a international occasion, you have to to register on World Scouting’s JOTA-JOTI website, and you have to to have a World Scouting username and password that’s completely different out of your Scouting America username and password.

The web site additionally supplies methods to enroll in video calls and chatrooms, and you may evaluate safety rules and codes of conduct on this web site.

Yes, there’s a patch

This yr’s Scouting America JOTA-JOTI patch, accessible on the Scout Shop, consists of a variety of new options. Designed by Tristan Dalley, a Scouting America JOTA-JOTI committee volunteer from the Orange County Council, the patch incorporates different Scouting components and imagery.

• This is the primary yr the title Scouting America is featured on the patch. The new JOTA-JOTI brand can even be emblazoned on future occasion patches and swag.
• If your Scout has earned the Radio merit badge, you would possibly acknowledge the design above the JOTA lettering.
• Radio Scouting is represented by the red globe with the headphones.
• The purple border represents the colour used for World Scouting.

CubChat Live!

Watch this interview with JOTA-JOTI Chair Greg Wojcicki about all of the thrilling issues occurring at this yr’s occasion:

Quick hyperlinks

For extra assets on the occasion, test these hyperlinks:

During JOTA-JOTI, you possibly can share your expertise on social media utilizing these hashtags: #JOTAJOTI or #JOTAJOTI_USA or #JOTI_USA

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