Weekly Challenge:
Virtually “visit” America’s National Parks and collect a National Park Passport stamp and a Junior Ranger badge.
Traveling to National Parks is a great way to explore the variety of what this country offers us while learning about the current and historical significance of the places we visit. Unfortunately, we’re stuck at home! So, let’s do the next best thing and virtually visit!
Details:
National Park Stamp
Traditionally National Park Passport stamps are physical rubber stamp prints collected at the parks themselves. As you can’t visit National Parks right now, a few are offering “virtual” stamps for touring the sites electronically. These stamps are meant to be printed and glued into you passport.
1) Choose your stamp.
Identify and choose a location that you’d like to virtually visit. You can find a list of locations that are offering virtual passport stamps here. (If you find other locations offering virtual stamps, let us know and I’ll add them to the list!)
2) Earn your virtual passport stamp! Enjoy what the site has to virtually offer, and then print your stamp! (If you don’t have a printer, no worries. Just save the image for later.)
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Junior Ranger Badge
Wait, but aren’t Junior Ranger Badges exclusively for kids? No! There are plenty of adults who enjoy the hobby of collecting Junior Ranger Badges. It’s time for you to give it a try.
3) Choose a Junior Ranger program that can be done from home. (Some Junior Ranger badges are site dependent, and therefore won’t work for this challenge.) There is a list here that you can choose from. (Again, if you find more options, let us know!)
4) Earn your Junior Ranger badge. We encourage you to go “above and beyond” what is asked of you, and do your best to really get something out of an activity originally designed for kids. Asked to do 3/10 activities? Consider doing them all! Take your time to to a good job.
5) Apply for your badge! Mail in your completed Junior Ranger booklet and await your badge in the mail.
6) Take a photo to document any of the above five steps and post it on our Facebook Page as a comment on our post title “Weekly Challenge- National Park Virtual Visits.” Include in your description both a) which virtual passport stamp and Junior Ranger badge you collected, as well as b) something you found interesting from collecting each.
Star:
7) To collect your star, you must:
-Earn BOTH a virtual national park stamp AND a Junior Ranger Badge
-and post an image showcasing yourself completing any portion of steps 1-5 on our
Post your photo to the Facebook post mentioned above, (Step 6)
-before April 20, 2020
-while holding an active Quest Scouts membership.
No membership required to participate in challenges, and we hope members and non-members alike will join in on the fun.
Members receive the added bonus of collecting a star for completing the weekly challenge. (Not a member, but interested in collecting stars? You can become a member here.)
Stars will be manually tracked by Quest Scouts. Earn 10 stars and receive your first Star Catcher achievement badge.
