About Our Pack
Pack 80 Cub Scouting is made up of Kindergarten through 5th Grade boys and girls. Cub Scouts have a lot of fun doing a lot of interesting things! There are games to play, codes and skills to learn, places to see and new friends to meet. Cub Scouts all help each other, and try to help other people too. During a month you'll get together with other kids your age and be led into adventure! You'll wear your own Cub Scout uniform to show you're one of us. And you'll be able to collect special badges to put on your uniform to show your achievements. We spend weekends away together camping, hiking, and exploring. We camp overnight at Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. We go to the zoo, the museum, visit our local fire station and police station. And of course, we build and race Pinewood Derby Cars every year! There are so many fun things that Cub Scouts do! Why not come along and find out?
Pack 80 is Chartered by the First Presbyterian Church of Mountain View, CA. We are part of the Stanford District , Pacific Skyline Council (https://pacsky.org/) under the national Boy Scouts of America organization (https://www.scouting.org/). We primarily serve four schools in the Cuesta Park vicinity: Bubb, Imai (formerly Huff), Landels, and St. Joseph Mountain View, however any boy or girl in Kindergarten though Fifth Grade from any school is welcome to join.
Established in 1953 Pack 80 is proud to be the longest running Pack in Mountain View.
If you have any questions or would like to talk to us about joining our Pack, please email us at info@pack80-psc.org.
What is Cub Scouting?
The Cub Scout program is designed for boys and girls in Kindergarten through 5th Grades. Children in Kindergarten enter as Lions and progress through ranks of Tiger (1st Grade), Wolf (2nd Grade), Bear (3rd Grade) and Webelos I (4th Grade) and Webelos II (5th Grade). At the completion of the Cub Scout Program the boys and girls are ready to join a Scouting Troop. Children can join the program at any rank, you do not have to start only at Kindergarten age.
BSA is our nation’s foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training, which helps young people be “Prepared. For Life.” The BSA organization is composed of approximately 2.2 million youth members between the ages of 5 and 21 and approximately 800,000 volunteers in local councils throughout the United States and its territories. Since its inception in 1910, more than 130 million young men and women have participated in the BSA’s youth programs. More than 35 million adult volunteers have helped carry out the BSA’s mission.
To learn more about how a Cub Scout Pack in the BSA is structured, see here: https://www.scouting.org/programs/cub-scouts/how-cub-scouting-is-organized/.
To learn more about the Cub Scout Ranks and the requirements for Rank advancement, see here: https://www.scouting.org/programs/cub-scouts/what-cub-scouts-earn/cub-scouting-adventures/.
For our Pacific Skyline District new families welcome page with several helpful resources on getting started in scouting, see here: https://pacsky.org/new-families/.
BSA Mission, Oath, and Law
BSA Mission: Prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
Scout Oath: On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
Scout Law: A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.