Category: Team

 

ReQuest2021 Podcast Ep. 26

EPISODE 26 – Wed 1st December 2021– We celebrate Antarctica Day today and the Antarctic Treaty, catch up with all of the team before we go and we have the ReQuest interview with Jeffrey Bozanic from Scout Crew 774, Orange County Council California and also his son John-Aaron. Jeffrey is a California Scout Leader who is taking a large team of Scouts down to Antarctica as well this season. He is also a qualified diver with lots of experience of diving in polar conditions. John-Aaron is an eagle scout, a crew leader and also has experience of diving in Antarctica.

A podcast documenting the Kent Scouts #ReQuest2021 Research Project all the way to Antarctica and back again! Interviews, Scouting historical links, events and research project work recorded along the way. Part of Alan Noake’s Antarctic Soundscapes project.

SHOW NOTES

Crew 774 from Orange County Council California who will also be leading an expedition to Antarctica in December 2021https://scoutinginantarctica.org

Antarctica Day – 1st December – British Antarctic Survey (bas.ac.uk)

ReQuest2021 Podcast Ep. 25

EPISODE 25 – Mon 1st November 2021– A good luck message from Chief Scout Bear Grylls, a big plug for our REQUEST2021 YouTube channel – there are some great videos now of our Thames Event held on 17th September 2021 along with all sorts of other videos including craft activities for young people and the ReQuest interview with Helen Smith. Helen has bravely stepped up to join the ReQuest2021 team very late in the day. Helen is a civil servant in her day job and is District Scout Network Commissioner for Gravesham District. She was one of the original applicants for ReQuest back in 2018 and has been waiting in the wings as first reserve for the senior participants ever since. So having interviewed all the other project participants it was only appropriate that I interview Helen as well before we go.

NOTE: I have done my best to edit out the background noise, but it was recorded in a busy pub and it has proved impossible to remove all of it.

A good luck message from Chief Scout Bear Grylls
REQUEST2021 YouTube Channel

A podcast documenting the Kent Scouts #ReQuest2021 Research Project all the way to Antarctica and back again! Interviews, Scouting historical links, events and research project work recorded along the way. Part of Alan Noake’s Antarctic Soundscapes project.

Helen is joining REQUEST2021!

Helen Smith, now the District Scout Network Commissioner of Gravesham District, originally applied to go on REQUEST2021 as a young person way back in April 2018 and attended the original selection weekend. Unfortunately, at the time she was not one of those selected because she turned 25 years old before we sail. So, Helen sat patiently in the wings as first reserve should any of the project senior leadership team be unable to go. She has stepped up to take on the challenge in true Scouting fashion.

Helen is an active Kent Scouter and as a network scout she delivered a fantastic #KeepKentClean project to gain her Scouts of The World Award back in 2019. She is finalising the details of her REQUEST2021 personal project but it is likely to be based around plastics in the oceans or on a similar theme.

Team sad to lose Laura

The whole REQUEST2021 team are really sad to lose Laura at this very late stage who is now unable to go to Antarctica due to personal reasons. We all want to wish Laura well and thank her from the bottom of our hearts for her participation thus far. You will be there with us in spirit Laura! Take care.