Cub Scout Pack 673

05/31/2026

End of May camping was a great success. Hope you all had a blast. looking forward to the next adventures with you. #

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05/19/2026

What a fun learning experience from Bellevue police department K9 unit police officers! Thank you very much 👮

05/04/2026

If you build it, they will come. We kicked off the Lake Trails Pinewood Derby - the first territory Pinewood we've had for 10 years. Wonderful to see kids from across the district, and also from Seattle and Issaquah, come and compete. We're grateful for all the volunteer help we received to run the event - not only the adults, but also Scouts and Cub Scouts.
Perhaps the best part - The Marketplace at Factoria let us use their space for the event, allowing us to also bring a selection of STEM experiments for non-racers to check out. Scouting-in-the-community - love it!

04/28/2026

Wolf Den scouts had a great time making and flying paper kite :)

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04/25/2026

The Lake Trails Pinewood Derby at Factoria Marketplace is tomorrow. If you are feeling hungry and want to support the event, ordering online or eating in person at our sponsors will offset our costs - a portion of the check will be returned to the event on orders made on Saturday, Apr 25th via their Marketplace at Factoria locations.

** Red Robin **

- Online, follow these instructions:https://redrobin.force4good.com/file/bc7b098d-0daa-4810-9772-2ae211a729a3/flyer/fundraiser-flyer.pdf

- In person: Mention, "CHIEF SEATTLE COUNCIL, LAKE TRAILS PINEWOOD DERBY" to your server.

** Panda Express **

- Online: Use 3859264 for orders placed on order.pandaexpress.com or via the Panda app.

- In person: Show or bring the event flyer: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pilpq38zmokialu0o1vx9/px-community-flyer-3859264.pdf?rlkey=rn8mzvdi1hihfxlubdxihas06&e=1&dl=1

If you'd like to watch (or bring a car and enter!) the Pinewood Derby, details are here:
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03/27/2026

Got a duct fan lying around? Turn it into gentle competition with a lesson to teach. The Lions and Tigers learned about what makes a sycamore leaf effective. We built our own paper helicopters to see which designs get the most hang time when blasted into the air.

01/08/2026

Something every scout should know? Where do trees come from? The substance of the tree? Its mass? And particularly the parts of a tree that are not water? Does it come from the ground around the tree, sucked up by its roots? We learn as children how trees live. And we learn that trees inhale carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen, just as we inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. But we also learn that we eat, putting stuff in our mouths, and that this stuff is how we grow heavy and tall. And so too, we might imagine, that a tree "eats" the earth around it through its roots, and so grows upwards using the stuff in the earth that its roots can reach. Isn't it so? An excellent exercise in experiential STEM is to find a great tree and stand next to it and ask, "*if* the tree grows out of the stuff in the ground, why isn't there a great depression in the ground where all the stuff of the tree came from?"

Richard Feynman, here, encourages you to pay attention and look for what you can't explain, and to use your imagination when you can't explain what you see. He also reminds us that we can see physics at work in nature, and we should not forget that nature *is* physics. And that to stand fully in awe of nature, one should also learn to view it through the lens of physics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITpDrdtGAmo

Derek Muller from Veritasium, here, is also asking the same simple questions to grown adults who have never been invited to stand next to a tree, and to look it up and down, and examine the ground around it, and to ask where they think all the "stuff" of the tree came from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZb2_vcNTg

Now! High quality version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ww1IXRfTAPhysicist Richard Feynman talks more about jiggling atoms and heat, and about what fi...

12/27/2025

*Many* parents in our pack chose to take Woodbadge, and for good reasons! Attending Woodbadge is a great way to receive leadership training, a great way to serve the kids in your community, and a great way to connect with many wonderful, kind and multi-talented people across the state. Recommended for all!
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If you are Wood Badge trained "you know", you also know how these 5-days shaped and shifted your focus and gave you the tools to lead with vision and intent. Now is the time to share your testimony with others and invite them to be a part of the amazing journey called WOOD BADGE! Don't let others miss a chance to experience Wood Badge, send them to https://bit.ly/cscwoodbadge to learn more and to fill out the online interest form.

12/16/2025

Fun time learning how to juggle :) Have a great winter break and see you all again in January 2026!

11/21/2025

You can't escape STEM in scouting. The process that makes our camping gas cannisters ice up is caused by nothing more than lowering the pressure in the gas cannister as the gas is released. The same process (adiabatic cooling/expansion cooling) is used to prevent rocket engines from melting. Pressurized rocket fuel is fed through channels in the engine's housing, dropping in pressure as it goes and keeping the engine cool. 🤯 Camping - it's literally rocket science