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North Shore District Excellence Award
In May 2025, the North Shore District launched new planning tool & unit award inspired by the old Journey to Excellence system. The new award aims to help units continue to plan and strive for excellence in many important areas of scouting AND also help the entire district work together to achieve goals that are specific to our North Shore community!
As units across the North Shore District plan and navigate another amazing year of scouting, the North Shore District Committee wants to remind unit leaders of a new planning resource that was announced this past May: the new North Shore Excellence Award!
The new NSD award was modeled after the old Journey to Excellence system. The new award aims to help units plan and strive for excellence in many important areas of scouting. It also aims to help the entire district work together to achieve goals that are specific to our North Shore community!
Unit leaders are encouraged to use these new rubrics in monthly planning meetings throughout the year and to submit their scorecards next June.
An important difference for units to note is that the new North Shore Excellence Award aligns with the academic or program year, rather than the calendar year as was the case with the old Journey to Excellence award. The scorecard should reflect data from the program year, beginning June 1st and ending May 31. Therefore, the deadline to submit scorecards for unit recognition will be May 31st each year (rather than December 31st) , and the North Shore District’s Annual Awards ceremony will be held in June rather than early Spring to accommodate this change.
**SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO THE END OF JUNE 2026**
The district is asking that all units submit a rubric regardless of whether the unit has earned any award status this year.
(This will help the district better serve and connect units with resources and support in the year ahead & will help the district achieve our goal of 100% participation from North Shore District Packs & Troops! All that we need to achieve that goal is for all packs and troops to submit the completed rubric forms below. )
PACKS:
2025-2026 North Shore District Excellence Award
(A JTE-Inspired) Planning Tool & Scorecard for Packs
TROOPS:
2025-2026 North Shore District Excellence Award
(A JTE-Inspired) Planning Tool & Scorecard for Troops