The International Spirit Award recognizes Scouts and Scouters who learn more about Scouting around the world. By doing the requirements for this award, Scouts and Scouters learn to appreciate different cultures. The International Spirit Award emblem is worn as a temporary patch centered on the right uniform pocket.
Check out the requirements below - most of them can be met just by attending den meetings and completing the adventures we’re already doing!
If you would like to try and earn this award, let a leader know and we’ll be happy to help!
Requirements for Cub Scouts
1. Earn the Cub Scout World Conservation Award. Learn more about this award here. If you attend all your den meetings and participate in our outings and activities, we’ll make sure you earn this award!
2. Learn 10 words that are in a different language than your own.
3. Play two games that originated in another country or culture.
4. Participate in Jamboree-on-the-Air or Jamboree-on-the-Internet. This is a free online “jamboree” with scouts from all over the world. You can join with your parents, or we can do this as a pack or den. It takes place on the third weekend each October.
5. Organize a World Friendship Fund collection at a unit meeting or district roundtable.
6. Complete two of the 10 Experience Requirements below. Don’t worry - if you are working toward the International Spirit Award, your den leader will help you set up these activities!
Host an international Scout or unit at a local Council camp and plan activities to help you learn about Scouting in their country. *Please note that hosting in private homes is not considered an official Scouting activity.
Learn about another country and prepare a dinner traditionally served there. Explain what you learned to friends or family over the meal.
Participate in a World Scout Jamboree, international camporee, or another international Scouting event. Share the experience with your unit or at a district roundtable.
Take a trip to another country as an individual or with your family or Scouting unit. Make sure to visit a Scouting event or unit in that country. When you return home, share your experience with another unit.
Organize and participate in a Messengers of Peace project. Share the experience with your unit or at a district roundtable, making sure to explain which dimensions of the program your project promoted.
Earn the interpreter strip.
Research Scouting in another country. Make a presentation at a unit meeting or district roundtable.
Contact your local council’s international representative and assist them with at least two items they need help with promoting.
Research the process of obtaining a U.S. passport. Create a fact sheet for your unit or district to assist them with requirements for traveling internationally.
Research a region of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. Make a presentation at a unit meeting or district roundtable.