Muddy boots. Big ideas. Every Monday.
Campfires, water rockets, pinewood cars that go way too fast, and 78 kids figuring out what they are capable of. Pack 3049 has been doing this in Leo for more than 90 years. Kindergarten through 5th grade, boys and girls, everybody welcome.
Scouting Kick-Off
Kick off a great year of Scouting with Pack 3049. Every Scout and every family is invited, and so is anyone who is simply curious. Come see what a year with us looks like, meet the leaders and the other families, and sign up on the spot if it feels right.
What's there
- Games and activities
- Scout Shop on site
- Food and treats
- Meet leaders and families
- Sign up for the year
- And much more
Bring the whole family. Free to attend, and you can register that night.
Questions? Contact us
What Cub Scouts actually looks like
Most weeks your Scout meets with their den, a small group of kids in the same grade. They build something, play a purposeful game, learn a skill, and work on an adventure toward their rank. It takes about an hour.
Once a month the whole pack gets together with families for a pack meeting: skits, awards, a theme, and a lot of noise. Between those, we hike, camp, race cars, tour the fire station, launch water rockets, and hand out more than a few pies to the face.
Scouting is a family program. Parents are not dropping kids off and leaving. You will be right there, and that is most of the point.
Where and when we meet
Den meetings: Mondays, 6:30 to 7:30 PM
Pack meetings: one Monday a month, 6:30 to 8:00 PM
Committee meetings: Thursdays at 7:00 PM, all adults welcome
Cedar Creek Church
12606 Leo Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46845
Dens usually meet two to three times a month. The pack takes off for school breaks and most holidays.
Find your den
Every Scout joins the den that matches the grade they are entering. Each rank has its own handbook, its own adventures, and its own patch to sew on.
Short meetings, a grown up at every one, and a whole lot of firsts.
Exploring the neighborhood and meeting the people who run it.
Outdoor skills, and the first real taste of doing it themselves.
Tools, camp cooking, critters. Bears run the pumpkin contest.
Camping gets serious and Scouts start running things themselves.
The highest Cub Scout rank, and the bridge into a Scouts BSA troop.
The STEM is the fun part
Nobody in this pack calls it STEM. They call it launching a bottle rocket over the parking lot, or figuring out why the fast car is fast. Same thing.
Water rockets and launch day
Air pressure, fins, water volume, and a lot of arguing about whose design goes higher. Then they change one variable and try again. That is an experiment, and they never notice.
Pinewood Derby physics
A block of pine, four wheels, and a hard cap on weight. Scouts learn about friction, mass, and center of gravity by losing a heat and figuring out why.
Nature, up close
Tracks in the mud at Metea Park, water bugs in a creek, constellations from the campsite. Field science, done in the field.
Build it and use it
Knots that hold, fires that light, a pocket knife used correctly, a meal cooked over coals. Practical engineering with immediate consequences.
Nova awards
Scouting America's own STEM program. Scouts who want to go deeper earn Nova awards in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Fix the thing that broke
Tents in the wind, a wheel that wobbles, a plan that fell apart at 9 PM. Troubleshooting under real pressure is the most underrated skill Scouting teaches.
What they actually walk away with
Nerve
Knocking on a stranger's door to sell popcorn is terrifying at seven. It is not at nine.
Leadership
By Webelos they are running den meetings, teaching younger Scouts, and leading a flag ceremony in front of a hundred people.
Grit
Rain on the campout. Losing the derby. Do Your Best is not a participation trophy, it is a standard you hold yourself to.
Service
Food drives, park cleanups, flags on veterans' graves. Kids learn that a community is something you maintain.
A year in Pack 3049
Fall
Recruitment night, the popcorn sale, a pack hike at Metea Park, the corn maze, and the fall carnival with the Bears' pumpkin contest.
Winter
Pack camp-in at the church, the pie in the face pack meeting, crossover, and the Pinewood Derby.
Spring
Blue and Gold banquet, rank advancement, service projects, and getting back outside the second the weather allows.
Summer
Resident camp at Camp Chief Little Turtle, day camp, the Grabill Days parade, and pack picnics.
The Scout Oath
On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
The Scout Law
A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
The Cub Scout motto
Do Your Best.
You will hear those three words constantly around here. It is the whole standard. Not win, not be the best. Just do your best.
Come see for yourself
New families are welcome any time of year, not just in the fall. Show up on a Monday, say hello, and let your kid try a den meeting before you decide anything. Call or text either Cubmaster with any question at all.