Our church has always been a supporter of the scouting program. For boys ages 8 and up, the program is available at little to no cost for the families. Jake's 8th birthday just happened to fall the day before our scouts annual pinewood derby and so he was invited to participate. Chad told Jake a story about how his brother made a pencil car when he was a cub scout and won the pinewood derby. Jake thought that sounded cool and so he wanted to make a pencil car too.
Well, pinewood derbys have come a long way and several dads in our area go to great lengths to help their children create a winning car. Having said that, Jake still ended up placing second in the wolf pack and forth overall. His cute little blue pencil car actually won every heat it competed in, but according to the electronic timer and some complex mathematical equation he missed getting first by a couple hundredths of a second. Way to go Jake, pencil cars rule!
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