Colin is joining with some of his fellow classmates (6 boys and most of the girls in his year) to earn the DoE (Duke of Edinburg) award. What is this you may ask? Let me tell you!
The DoE is a service award for kids that do not belong to a uniformed service organization, like scouts. There are three different levels to the award and the level of award that you earn is dependent on your age. When you are 14, your work on the bronze level, when you are 15 (Colin is) you work on the silver level and when you are 16 you can work on the gold level. I think that you can earn them all if you it is of interest. You have until you are 25 to complete the requirements.
With the silver award, Colin has 4 skills he has to do for varying times. One skill of for 3 months, one is for 6 months, another is for 9 months and the last skill is for 12 months. One of skills will be his drum lessons, another will probably be his Tae Kwon Do, he was close to a black belt before we left the US, he wants to use his Yu-gi-oh card playing and collecting as another and we are still trying to find the last one. Fencing is something that Colin is interested in learning. He also needs to do volunteer hours for an organization.
Along with the skills that he has to work on they are also doing a hike and an overnight. For their expedition, they are heading to Scotland to Hadrian's wall. So, knowing that that was part of his expedition, we managed to see Hadrian's temple while we were in Rome! To prepare for their expedition, we had to buy some outdoor equipment. Colin got a new pair for Berghaus hiking boots. Berghaus is the British outdoor brand. He also needed some gators and a new compass. We found out after his first training weekend that he also needs Goretex pants and some zip off nylon pants as well.
Colin has 3 more training days/weekends filled with various activities to prepare and the final expedition is in September. Then there is a group presentation that needs to prepared and presented to the parents at the beginning of October. Their progress is tracked every month as they have a meeting with their advisors.
I am really excited that he decided to do this and as I started looking into it, I found out that it is also offered in the US. When we come back I am going to consider leading a group and see how it goes.
The DoE is a service award for kids that do not belong to a uniformed service organization, like scouts. There are three different levels to the award and the level of award that you earn is dependent on your age. When you are 14, your work on the bronze level, when you are 15 (Colin is) you work on the silver level and when you are 16 you can work on the gold level. I think that you can earn them all if you it is of interest. You have until you are 25 to complete the requirements.
With the silver award, Colin has 4 skills he has to do for varying times. One skill of for 3 months, one is for 6 months, another is for 9 months and the last skill is for 12 months. One of skills will be his drum lessons, another will probably be his Tae Kwon Do, he was close to a black belt before we left the US, he wants to use his Yu-gi-oh card playing and collecting as another and we are still trying to find the last one. Fencing is something that Colin is interested in learning. He also needs to do volunteer hours for an organization.
Along with the skills that he has to work on they are also doing a hike and an overnight. For their expedition, they are heading to Scotland to Hadrian's wall. So, knowing that that was part of his expedition, we managed to see Hadrian's temple while we were in Rome! To prepare for their expedition, we had to buy some outdoor equipment. Colin got a new pair for Berghaus hiking boots. Berghaus is the British outdoor brand. He also needed some gators and a new compass. We found out after his first training weekend that he also needs Goretex pants and some zip off nylon pants as well.
Colin has 3 more training days/weekends filled with various activities to prepare and the final expedition is in September. Then there is a group presentation that needs to prepared and presented to the parents at the beginning of October. Their progress is tracked every month as they have a meeting with their advisors.
I am really excited that he decided to do this and as I started looking into it, I found out that it is also offered in the US. When we come back I am going to consider leading a group and see how it goes.
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