Pinewood Derby
Every Scout builds a car from a block of pine and races it. Woodworking, physics, and a lot of cheering — and the pack pays for the car.
What We Do
A year in the life of the pack — and what your Scout will be doing in their den.
Pack 9 makes everything we do fun. Scouts learn outdoor skills while camping and hiking, woodworking while racing cars in the Pinewood Derby, thermodynamics while shooting off rockets, plus cooking, knots, skits, sportsmanship, salesmanship, and lending a helping hand.
Camping and hiking
Outdoor skills learned the way they stick: outside. Campouts are family events, and siblings come too.
Rockets
Thermodynamics, disguised as launching rockets into the sky.
Baking and cooking
Real cooking skills, from the campfire to the kitchen.
Blue and Gold banquet
The pack's birthday celebration, and the night Arrow of Light Scouts cross over toward a Scouts BSA troop.
Service and fundraisers
Popcorn and camp card sales teach salesmanship and pay for everything the pack does — which is how we keep it free.
Dens, by grade
Every Scout belongs to a den of kids their own age and works through that rank's adventures over the school year. Dens meet on Tuesday evenings; the last Tuesday of the month is the whole-pack meeting.
Lions
Kindergarteners just joining the fun. Lions earn adventure loops while getting their first taste of the Scout Oath, the Scout Law, and the Outdoor Code.
An adult partner 18 or older stays for every activity.
Tigers
First graders with a desire to be outside. Tigers earn adventure loops, keep working on the Scout Oath and Law, and learn alongside their parents and den leaders.
An adult partner 18 or older stays for every activity.
Wolves
Second graders with a passion for action. Wolves earn adventure loops and spend a lot of time working on teamwork.
Parents aren't required to stay, but are highly encouraged.
Bears
Third graders seeking knowledge of craft. Bears earn adventure loops, earn their Whittling Chip, and spend their time doing instead of watching.
Parents aren't required to stay, but are highly encouraged.
Webelos
Fourth graders who want to be leaders. Webelos earn pins rather than belt loops, and work on leadership skills indoors and out.
Parents aren't required to stay, but are highly encouraged.
Arrow of Light
Fifth graders putting the whole program together. Arrow of Light Scouts earn pins and visit Scout troops to find the right fit for themselves and their family.
Parents come along on troop visits, but aren't required at den meetings.
Den meetings and pack meetings
Den meetings are the weekly hour where your Scout learns new skills and works toward adventure loops, pins, and rank. Scouts bring their handbook so their den leader can initial what they've finished.
Pack meetings happen on the last Tuesday of the month at the Razorback Moose Lodge. This is where the awards Scouts earned that month get presented, in front of everyone. It's for the whole family — bring siblings, bring grandparents.
How advancement works
Each grade has its own rank, and each rank is made up of adventures — themed sets of activities a Scout completes with their den and at home. Finish the adventures, earn the rank. Younger Scouts earn belt loops they wear on their belt; from 4th grade, they earn pins instead.
Because the pack participates in both district fundraisers, rank advancements cost families nothing — the pack covers them.
For the full requirements of each rank, see Scouting America's Cub Scout pages — they're the source of truth, and they change from time to time.