Troop 4 Scouts Earn Language Award

On Saturday, January 10th, eight Scarsdale Scout Troop 4 scouts earned the Interpreter Strip, a scouting foreign language award. Half of the participating scouts earned it in more than one language. Local volunteers, who are native in French, Mandarin, and Spanish. assessed the scouts to attest their aural, oral, and written proficiency in those languages. Amongst several requirements, the scouts were required to:

- Carry on a five-minute conversation in the relevant foreign language,
- Translate a two-minute speech, address, or article
- Translate 200 words from an article.

Congratulations to the polyglot scouts!

French

Delfina Kirkendall-Rodríguez, Tiago Rodríguez, and Julia Ruiz Fraile.

Mandarin

Tian Dong, Christian Kirkendall-Rodríguez, Delfina Kirkendall-Rodríguez, Andrew Li, and Jayden Li.

Spanish

Christian Kirkendall-Rodríguez, Delfina Kirkendall-Rodríguez, Tiago Rodríguez, Tomi Rodríguez, and Julia Ruiz Fraile.

Additionally, nearly 30 Troop 4 scouts worked on earning their Camping, Citizenship in the Nation, Family Life, Golfing, Law, Personal Fitness, Programming, Radio, Reading, and Sustainability Merit Badges. Scouting America’s nearly 140 badges allows scouts to enjoy learning about the arts, crafts, civics, community service, history professions, sports, and STEM.

Troop 4 Scoutmaster Heather Kolb and Asst. Scoutmaster for Merit Badges and Special Projects Mayra Kirkendall- Rodríguez sincerely thank all Hitchcock Presbyterian Church parishioners for kindly allowing Troop 4 to use their facilities. Many thanks to all the merit badge counselors who led the merit badge sessions, the foreign language assessors, and to the parent volunteers who lent support during this busy day.