JTE Report from District

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It’s that time of year 🎼 🎶 . . . no, no, no, not that. The JTE report time of year.

As we are wrapping up Rechartering, we have a better idea of what the year’s end 2017 Journey to Excellence report will look like.

First a refresher on definitions. Gold level means that a unit, district, or council has scored in the 80th percentile or better. For those of you who are not currently in my son’s statistics class, that means the unit, district, or council has scored as well as or better than 80% of the units, districts, or councils, respectively, out there. Silver is the 51st to 79th percentile. Bronze is 20th to 49th percentile.

So with those definitions in mind, the drum roll, please! 🥁🥁

As of the report this morning, North Star District has 33 of 40 units scoring Gold:

  1. Packs 18, 35, 105, 171, 174, 175, 358 (all five tribes), 514, 625, and 830 (total packs: 14);
  2. Troops 18, 35, 56, 69, 72, 73, 174, 180, 269, 343, 358, 512, 514, and 804 (total troops: 14); and
  3. Crew 358 and 408.

North Star has 2 units scoring Silver, Pack 180 and Crew 56 (chartered in December 2016).

The District has one unit scoring Bronze, Pack 64.

Three units reported but did not qualify for any JTE award. One unit has tendered no report yet. Pack 73 is too new to have any historical data yet on which to generate a report. Consequently, this looks like the final results.

So what does this mean for the District? With the November End of Month report (preliminary data, subject to revision), North Star has 2250 points, qualifying for District Gold again for the third year straight. Unfortunately, Del-Mi has slipped into a 25 point lead with 2275. This would break a streak of North Star wins.

Right now, we do not have all the results of Unit JTE Reports entered. Based on the information above, the categories that we can still improve on before year’s end are as follows:

  1. Cub Scout Camping: Worth an additional 50 points for us. This will come out the JTE reports, so we expect this to increase. We are 25 Cub Scouts short of necessary, but some of the JTE reports have not been processed yet. If you think that you have additional reports that could help (like October or November family camps that were not included), email Jessica Hofman to clarify where your pack stands.
  2. Boy Scout Camping. Worth 25-75 more points, depending on the reports made. For the mechanics, it is nearly identical to the Cub Scout Camping described above. If your unit did summer camp out-of-council or did high adventure but not on high national council base, we need your numbers. We need 73 boy scouts reported camping from outside local council or national council camps or high adventures or specialty camps (like STEM). Email Jessica if you think your boys were not reported as having done long-term camping.
  3. Additional Service Man-Hours: We need 3,274 more man-hours reported. That works out to about 80 man-hours per unit. Please make sure to login to http://servicehours.scouting.org with your Internet Advancement login and password to make sure your unit’s records are up to date through December 2017.
  4. Unit JTE Gold: We have met this criteria, but it is not scoring yet. That will be worth an additional 150 points.

Your outgoing Key 3 is working on a few tasks to boosts these numbers a bit more yet from the administrative. Let’s keeping working to put Del-Mi behind us.

Even so this is all very good news. You should be proud of the efforts that you are making on behalf of your youth!

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