Submitting a Proposed AY Honor

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Q: How do I/my club submit a new proposed AY Honor?

A: We are developing our own published manual to describe that process, but in the meantime, here is the best resource for doing that:

http://www.xtremeyouthresources.org/ayhonordevguidegc.html

There are several distinct steps:

  1. Requirement development
  2. Answer key development
  3. Piloting the proposed honor (3 clubs)
  4. MAKING the changes recommended by the instructors and/or earners of the proposed honor during the piloting stage
  5. Letter of recommendation from Youth/Pathfinder Conference Director
  6. Patch design concept/idea (an idea starter is great, we have designers that can take "sketches" and turn them into nice patches)
  7. EMAIL all of it (in digital editable formats) to Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spambots. Es necesario activar Javascript para visualizarla before the end of the calendar year.

 

Notice other honors for the "format" of a typical honor:

First, requirements dealing with "book knowledge." They usually begin "Identify" or "Explain".

Second, requirements on safety (as necessary....) should include descriptions, but also challenge honor earners to "demonstrate" their knowledge in some way

Third, Experiential requirements (do one of the following....) OPTIONS are very important.

Fourth, the last requirement should be a spiritual component. Discussion and other critical thinking skills as part of this requirement are preferred over "memorize this Bible text."

REMEMBER, you are proposing an honor for the WHOLE NAD, and thus must have a subject matter that is "broad enough" that persons from around the NAD (and for many that are later adopted as GC honors a global focus) can earn it. Examples that don't work: an honor on the Grand Canyon honor (focus is too narrow -- notice that the Geology honor has a broader focus)

Our Process:

The AY Honors Taskforce meets Jan-March of each calendar year, reviews all proposed honors they have received, and recommends to the Pathfinder Advisory which honors they feel meet the goals of honors and thus should be approved. Once an honor is approved the AY Honors Committee Recording Secretary sends the edited/grammatically correct requirements, key, and patch design to AdventSource (March - August). They in turn create the physical patch and requirement pages (July-October typically though some take MUCH longer at ANY stage listed above).

All things being equal, the new approved honor should be available for earning/purchase the winter of the year it was approved. However, since the committee meets only ONCE per year, if a proposed honor is approved "in concept" but needs a lot of work (incomplete requirements, incomplete answer key, no patch design submitted, no evidence of piloting and corrections from that piloting) then it can be "tabled" until the next year. Some honors that have been approved have unfortunately taken 2-10 years from start to finish.

 

Do you want to "run rough drafts" by someone?  email Mark O'Ffill Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spambots. Es necesario activar Javascript para visualizarla .  As the AY Honors Committee Recording Secretary, he will gladly give you some guidance if you request it.