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Cub Scout Ranks - What Are They?
Date: 9/1/07
CUB SCOUT RANKS
Boys of different school grades have different ranks in Cub Scouting. As you go from Tiger Cub (1st grade) to Webelos Scout (4th & 5th grades), you learn new things and new skills that you can use to meet new challenges as you get older. The first badge earned by a boy entering cub scouting for the first time is the Bobcat Badge. Earning these requirements teaches new scouts basic scout information to guide them throughout their scouting career, such as the Cub Scout Promise and the Cub Scout Motto. Once this badge is earned, new scouts can begin work on the appropriate ranked badge below.
* Tiger Cubs - First-grade boys join a Tiger Cub den, where each boy works with an adult partner in both the family environment and in the den to earn his Tiger Cub Badge.
* Wolf Cub Scouts - Second-grade boys graduate into a Wolf den. They attend bi-weekly den meetings and monthly den outings. Requirements are achieved through family, den, and pack events.
* Bear Cub Scouts - Boys in the third grade are members of a Bear den. They also work with their families, den, and pack to complete requirements for the Bear Badge, but boys this old have enough knowledge and skill to take on more of the work themselves.
* Webelos Scouts - Boys in the fourth and fifth grades become Webelos Scouts. These scouts do more advanced activities to get ready to graduate into Boy Scouting.
Where you begin in Cub Scouting depends on your age at the time you join. If you join when you are in first grade, you will begin as a Tiger Cub. If you do not join until the third grade, you'll begin as a Bear Cub Scout. You won't have to go back and earn the Tiger Cub and Wolf Cub badges.
THE ARROW OF LIGHT AWARD
The highest award in Cub Scouting is the Arrow of Light Award, which you will begin working on as a Webelos Scout. It is the only Cub Scout badge (other than a religious emblem badge earned as a Cub Scout) that you can wear on the Boy Scout uniform when you enter a Boy Scout troop. As you work on the Arrow of Light Award, you practice outdoor skills, get physically fit, and learn more about citizenship and working with others. All of these activities prepare you for the next stage of scouting, Boy Scouts.
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