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2016 HIGHLIGHTS 4,748 new

Cub Scout families!

23,688

Youth members

8,409

Adult members

470

Eagle Scouts

206,090

service hours

17,375

merit badges

partners

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

As a result of the enhanced relationship between the financial district and Scouting through Trading Tech 300, the LaSalle Street Trading Tech Awards raised 200% more revenue over 2015.

• 217 Scouts served • 277 Merit badges earned • 21 New merit badge counselors • Participants primarily from underserved areas of the city of Chicago • Several unsolicited parent emails praising the program after each clinic • Kept kids safe 11 days they had off from school • Established 8 new program partners composed of Chicago’s major financial industry players

• Energy Merit Badge Program Partner • Hands-on merit badge requirements and instruction at a NIPSCO facility by NIPSCO volunteers • Financial support to execute and market the merit badge program event • Additional volunteer support from NIPSCO/NISOURCE employees to the Scouting program

2016 outdoor adventure 6,592 PTAC Scouts enjoyed a camping experience this year

4,088

Boy Scouts

2,465

Cub Scouts

39

VEnturers

PTAC CAMPS - 5,228 Scouts attended our PTAC CAMPS • Camp Napowan Boy Scout Camp • Owasippe Scout Reservation - home to Blackhawk and Wolverine Boy Scout Camps, Carlen Webelos Camp, and Reneker Family Camp • Camp Frank S. Betz • Cub Scout Adventure Camp • Cub Scout Day Camps

400

Camperships given to Scouts in need of financial assistance

PTAC invested over

$350,000

in our camp facilities and program equipment in 2016

10,817

merit badges completed New programs • ATV, welding, mountain boarding • Multi-firearm air soft and paintball target shooting • STEM-based programs at Cub Scout camps • New BSA Shooting Sports Awards at Cub Scout camps

PROGRAM INNOVATION • • • •

Co-ed program for boys and girls in grades 3-12 Weekly, fun, hands-on science, technology, engineering, and math activities Rotating roles encourages development of teamwork and life-long leadership skills Older STEM Scouts have the opportunity to publish their work through an online, peer-reviewed journal

STEM Scouts 2016 highlights: • • • •

218 STEM Scouts in 19 Labs Labs at each level: Elementary, Middle, and High School Labs in each of the council’s four communities 7 new STEM Scout Labs including British International School of Chicago Lincoln Park, Iroquois Community School and Chicago Hope Academy • 147.7% membership gain in STEM Scouts • 90% growth in STEM Scout Labs

OUR VISION Shape the workforce of tomorrow by engaging and mentoring today's youth in career and lifeenhancing opportunities.

• 22.7% growth in Exploring in PTAC • 11 new Exploring Posts including Welding at Oak Forest High School, Skilled Trades at IBEW Local Union 134, Health at Roseland Hospital and MacNeal Hospital • GO Exploring - new girls outdoor junior exploring program for grades 6th - 8th • Peggy Fossett - Helped support the 22.7% growth in Exploring • Collins Engineers, Inc. - Sponsored a ‘Quad Copter Show and Do’ and the Career Exploring Day at the University of Illinois at Chicago • Johnson Family Make the World a Better Place Fund - working to get local libraries to host middle school Exploring clubs

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

STEM in SCOUTING

Our new Diversity and Inclusion Department will work with charter partners to start units in economically challenged neighborhoods in the South and West sides of Chicago and in Northwest Indiana to give all young people the opportunity to join Scouting, regardless of their circumstances.

• Exploring Post 49 competed in the International Marine Advanced Technology Education ROV Competition • Post 2400 and Troop 209 are putting the final touches on research experiments they designed and built and are awaiting a launch date when their projects will be sent to the International Space Station