Pack 352 - Raleigh, NC

04/28/2026

🇺🇸 Pack 352 Families — New At-Home Opportunity for Our Scouts! 🇺🇸

As we celebrate America’s upcoming 250th birthday, Scouting America has launched a special program: the Liberty in Action: 250th Anniversary Challenge—and it’s something your Scout can work on right at home with your family!

This once-in-a-generation challenge invites Scouts to explore what liberty, citizenship, and service mean today through fun and meaningful activities. Scouts can earn a special commemorative patch by completing simple, flexible requirements between now and early 2027.

✨ Activities include things like:
• Talking about what freedom and fairness mean in everyday life
• Creating a short video, poster, or even designing a patch
• Visiting a historic site (in person or virtually!)
• Learning about local history
• Completing a service project together as a family

The best part? These activities are designed to be done at your own pace and can easily fit into family time, weekends, or even dinner table conversations.

This is a great way for Scouts to connect Scouting values with real-life experiences while celebrating a huge milestone in our country’s history. 🇺🇸

👉 Learn more and get started here:
https://www.scoutshop.org/blog/liberty-in-action-250th-anniversary-challenge.html

Let’s help our Scouts make history—together! 💙💛

Discover everything you need to know about the Liberty in Action 250th Anniversary Challenge. Celebrate America250 with Scouting America!

04/28/2026

A huge thank you to Representative Mike Schietzelt for taking the time to speak to Den 2 tonight! He was so good with the kids and completely down to earth. Taught them how important it was to be trustworthy and to find ways to serve their community and what a difference it can make!

03/25/2026

Hi Pack 352!

I am so excited to let you all know that the 2025 Popcorn Patches are finally here! I brought them to the Pack Meeting/AOL Crossover last week but we will continue to have them at our future Pack Meetings or if you need to pick up at a separate time, please let me or David know!

Thanks for making our Popcorn season such an amazing success- we couldn't have done it without all of you!!!

Yours in Scouting,
Alex

03/19/2026

Tonight, we celebrate a major milestone in Scouting. Our Arrow of Light Scouts have officially crossed the bridge—marking the end of their Cub Scout journey and the beginning of their next adventure in Scouts BSA.

03/19/2026

From their first den meetings to this unforgettable moment—tonight our Arrow of Light Scouts crossed the bridge.

This ceremony represents more than just advancement. It’s growth, friendship, perseverance, and the transition into the next chapter of Scouting.

We couldn’t be prouder of each Scout as they take this big step forward. The future is bright—go lead the way.

02/08/2026

Happy 116th birthday, today, to BSA!!🎉

A heartfelt thank you to St. Francis of Assisi Church for being our charter organization and for your continued support.
Thank you to our Scouts and their amazing leaders for the incredible work you do in our community, and to everyone who came out to be part of Scout Sunday today.
We are proud of and grateful for:
Troop 352 • Pack 352 • Troop 219 • special guests -Troop 347 • Troop 104
Your service, dedication, and spirit truly make a difference. 💙💛

02/03/2026

Annual Catholic Scout Camporee
March 13-15, 2026
Camp Bowers, White Oak, NC

Austin Faur, Director of Youth Faith Formation at Our Lady of Lourdes, will be our retreat presenter.

Activity highlights include: Target activities, rocketry, cooking demonstrations, nature activities, bracelet making, basketball and GaGa ball.

Register online before February 28 to take advantage of the early registration discount!

Registration info:
https://dioceseofraleigh.org/scouting/catholic-camporee

01/23/2026

🏁🏁🏁Pinewood Derby's a Go Using Compressed Schedule🏁🏁🏁

Great news, we are a go for the Pinewood Derby this weekend!! We do need to be out of Jacoba by mid afternoon which means we'll be using the compressed contingency schedule that was emailed last night (and that is shown again below).

In the compressed schedule, there is overlap in the awards and registration windows. So while awards are being given out for one rank, the next rank’s scouts will arrive in preparation for their races. It will be tight, but we need to keep things moving. Though, as always, our priority is to ensure a fun time for the Scouts!

Friday, January 23 – Weigh-ins, Registration, and Family Race

Weigh-ins and Registration: 7 - 9 pm
Family Race: 8:15 pm (but arrive by 7:30 for registration)
Saturday, January 24 – RACE DAY

Schedule: see below.
If you do not make weigh-ins/registration on Friday, it is very important that you arrive at least by the beginning of the registration window for your rank. The last thing we want is for a car to be overweight or outside of the measurements and not have time to make adjustments.
ARROW OF LIGHT

Registration 7:45 am - 8:00 am
Race 8:00 am – 8:30 am
Awards 8:30 am – 8:45 am
WEBELOS

Registration 8:30 am – 8:45 am
Race 8:45 am – 9:15 am
Awards 9:15 am – 9:30 am
BEARS

Registration 9:15 am – 9:30 am
Race 9:30 am - 10:00 am
Awards 10:00 am – 10:15 am
WOLVES

Registration 10:00 am – 10:15 am
Race 10:15 am – 10:45 am
Awards 10:45 am - 11:00 am
15 Minute Break for Pit Crew

TIGERS

Registration 11:00 am – 11:15 am
Race 11:15 am – 11:45 am
Awards 11:45 am - 12:00 pm
LIONS

Registration 11:45 am - 12:00 pm
Race 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Awards 12:30 pm – 12:45 pm
Breakdown will commence as soon as we're done with the Lions.

Thank you and enjoy the races,

01/23/2026

🚨❄️🚨Please check your emails for changes being made to The Pinewood Derby tomorrow:

With the impending weather on Saturday, we developed a weather contingency schedule for Saturday. We’re hopeful the Pinewood Derby will still go on, but compressed the schedule so most of the races occur in the morning. Since we’re holding this on St. Francis property, ultimately, they have final say as to what time the campus closes. This contingency schedule is based on the St. Francis campus closing no earlier than 2 pm Saturday.

I will send out another email on Friday once we receive word on St. Francis’ plans and what our final derby schedule is.

In the contingency schedule, there is overlap in the awards and registration windows. So while awards are being given out for one rank, the next rank’s scouts will arrive in preparation for their races. It will be tight, but we need to keep things moving.

We’ll still hold the main registration Friday evening. If you’re able, we encourage you to attend this registration window. While scouts can register their cars on Saturday, there is less flexibility and the fewer cars we need to register on Saturday the less stressful it will be for everybody.

Speaking of Friday night registration, we could still use a few more volunteers to help. We have more than 90 scouts in our Pack and want this to go as smoothly as possible.

VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP

The Registration Form is attached to this email. Fill out only the FIRST 6 ITEMS and bring with you to registration to help with our registration flow. They are also available onsite.

Saturday registration volunteers: we have good coverage here, thank you. With the contingency schedule, naturally the time slots would be different than shown on the sign-up. It looks like most folks signed up for the rank of their scout, so maintain that same idea for the contingency (i.e., arrive 15 min before the registration window of your rank).

And now for the Friday and Saturday schedules...

Friday, January 23 – Weigh-ins, Registration, and Family Race

Weigh-ins and Registration: 7 - 9 pm
Family Race: 8:15 pm (but arrive by 7:30 for registration)
Saturday, January 24 – RACE DAY

Schedule: see below.
If you do not make weigh-ins/registration on Friday, it is very important that you arrive at least by the beginning of the registration window for your rank. The last thing we want is for a car to be overweight or outside of the measurements and not have time to make adjustments.
ARROW OF LIGHT

Registration 7:45 am - 8:00 am
Race 8:00 am – 8:30 am
Awards 8:30 am – 8:45 am
WEBELOS

Registration 8:30 am – 8:45 am
Race 8:45 am – 9:15 am
Awards 9:15 am – 9:30 am
BEARS

Registration 9:15 am – 9:30 am
Race 9:30 am - 10:00 am
Awards 10:00 am – 10:15 am
WOLVES

Registration 10:00 am – 10:15 am
Race 10:15 am – 10:45 am
Awards 10:45 am - 11:00 am
15 Minute Break for Pit Crew

TIGERS

Registration 11:00 am – 11:15 am
Race 11:15 am – 11:45 am
Awards 11:45 am - 12:00 pm
LIONS

Registration 11:45 am - 12:00 pm
Race 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Awards 12:30 pm – 12:45 pm

01/20/2026

Check out some pretty cool Cubs doing pretty cool things!