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10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Scouts and the entire family will enjoy visiting hundreds of booths with fun activities and crafts, learning Scout skills, meeting new friends and tasting the delicious outdoor cooking. Meet leaders and Scouts from your neighborhood. Sample the amazing dutch oven creations and other delicacies in the outdoor cooking area. Watch demonstrations, interact with participating booths from our community partners and pick up free offers.
Scout Fair is open to the public and is free; NRG parking is typically $12. There are hundreds of activities at Scout Fair that the entire family will enjoy. Packs, troops, crews, ships and posts from around the council set up interactive booths to show our community what Scouting is all about, and to share Scouting skills with fellow Scouts and Scout leaders. Booths have typically included crafts, games, rope making, orienteering, obstacle courses, first aid activities, art, hobbies, gardening, leatherworking, music, nature activities, outdoor cooking, rope bridges, putt-putt golf, catapults and much more. Scouts and parents work together to set-up and run the booth. For more information regarding booth registration, ideas and rules and regulations, please refer to the leader information. Bring comfortable walking shoes and a camera. Share your Scouting memories with us on social media and remember to tag the Sam Houston Area Council.
Plan your day to capture the many activities at Scout Fair:
Indoor booths - Visit hundreds of fun, hands-on activities and crafts
Outdoor booths - Sample dutch oven creations and other camp food delicacies
Scouting resource booths - Receive information about the council’s exciting programs
Scout Shop - Shop for all of your Scouting needs
Fleet - Sea Scouts demonstrate their unique boating opportunities
The Conservation Corner has exhibitors from a variety of businesses, non -profits and city, state, and federal agencies that display information and hands-on activities related to the natural sciences, resource stewardship, and animal science. learn how to have fun in the outdoors while offering service opportunities and ideas to help manage our resources for future generations. Areas of interest on display:
Geology and Natural Resources featuring fossil and mineral identification and hunting, gold panning, conventional and renewable energy exhibits, forestry and an opportunity to have your picture taken with TRex or Smoky Bear.
Area Parks and Museums featuring program and service opportunities as well as live snakes, insects and other critters.
Aquatic Ecology featuring Fishing’s Future Aquatic Ecology Arena with touch tanks with live marine critters, casting area to catch plastic fish, fishing knot tying as well as the ability to work on parts of A Bear Goes Fishing Elective, Fly Fishing, Fish and Wildlife Management, Soil and Water Conservation, Oceanography and Kayak Merit Badges.
The STEM areas feature demonstrations and hands-on activities related to some of the latest exciting developments in science and engineering as well as often overlooked technology that makes modern life possible. Exhibits include demonstrations on robotics, astronomy in the portable planetarium, welding, etc. The University of Houston Atmospheric Science truck will also participate in two instrumented balloon launches from their research instrumented truck. It also offers an opportunity to learn about careers in related areas.
Scout Fair
Scout Fair
April 6, 2019
April 6, 2019
NRG Arena
NRG Arena
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Scouts and the entire family will enjoy visiting hundreds of booths with fun activities and crafts, learning Scout skills, meeting new friends and tasting the delicious outdoor cooking. Meet leaders and Scouts from your neighborhood. Sample the amazing dutch oven creations and other delicacies in the outdoor cooking area. Watch demonstrations, interact with participating booths from our community partners and pick up free offers. Please visit the SHAC Website if you would like to see pictures from previous Scout Fairs
If you would like to volunteer to work at the Pack 293 booth, please visit our Sign Up Genius and pick your time slot.
Plan your day to capture the many activities at Scout Fair:
Indoor booths - Visit hundreds of fun, hands-on activities and crafts
Outdoor booths - Sample dutch oven creations and other camp food delicacies
Scouting resource booths - Receive information about the council’s exciting programs
Scout Shop - Shop for all of your Scouting needs
Fleet - Sea Scouts demonstrate their unique boating opportunities
Conservation Corner - exhibitors from a variety of businesses, non -profits and city, state, and federal agencies that display information and hands-on activities related to the natural sciences, resource stewardship, and animal science.
Entrance - Scout Fair is Free and open to the public.
Parking - $12, Cash only. The preferred entrance is #4 on Fannin. See the NRG parking map file below for more information.
Booth Location - Pack 293 will be operating a 10x20 booth teaching Chess Skills. We will be in Hall B, booth 636. See files below for maps and additional information. Please check in at our booth as soon as you arrive and pick up your Scouts prize points and / or patch. Please consider donating an hour of your day to help work our Pack 293 booth !
Prizes - Scouts that attend Scout Fair, participate at Scout Fair or sell Scout Fair Coupon Books will receive a participation Scout Fair participation patch. Scouts who sell 15 Coupon Books will receive a super salesman patch, and can choose from many awesome prizes.
Scouts earn one point for every Coupon Book sold. Points are available in denominations of ten, five and one. If a Scout accumulates less than the 15, the points can be redeemed at the Winner’s Circle at Scout Fair only. Prizes in the Scout Fair prize brochure begin at the 15 prize point level.
Dress Code - This is a major scouting event for the Houston area and we would like to represent our pack properly. If possible, Scouts should be in their official field (AKA Class A) uniform. Parents and family are encouraged to wear their pack t-shirts.
Free Rides on METRORail to Scout Fair
METRO is partnering with the Sam Houston Area Council to provide free rides to Scout Fair at NRG Arena. Scouts and leaders in uniform may ride free of charge that day. Experience riding METRORail with the family or with your unit! Don’t forget - there are museums, parks and the Houston Zoo along the way. Save on parking costs, and grab a bite at one of the many fun restaurants off the rail. Check out some of the parking options near the rail stations METRO Fannin South Parking and Transit Center, Interactive Downtown Parking Map.
Remember: Safety first when riding the rail. Always STOP LOOK and LISTEN Video!
Check out the METRO Bus exhibit at the Scout Fair, and learn more about free rides all summer with the METRO Summer of Fun Program!
Please contact us at FUMCPack293@gmail.com if you have any questions.
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