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Simi Federation Awards
strengthen relationships within the Y-Adventure Guides Program.

Tribe Awards:
The Federation encourages each tribe to have an active "Award Program" to
award child members for special achievements.  Achievements can be for
attendance, learning the slogan, memorizing our AIMS or the program
purpose, getting a good report card, losing a tooth, reading a special book,
doing a project with their parents, etc.
A tribe award can be a bead, patch, pin or any other appropriate award that
the tribe desires.  The criteria, guidelines and manner of awarding is at the
discretion of the tribe, and the awards should be presented in a
non-competitive way to reinforce behavior consistent with the program's
AIMS.  The cost of the awards is paid by the tribe.

Federation Order of the Coup:
The Federation Order of the Coup program recognizes and rewards
individuals for participating in events and activities which support the
program's goals.  These individual awards are presented by the Federation
Captain.  These are come of the awards:

Award:                        Criteria:
AIMS patch                  Completion of AIMS goals

Bronze Arrow               Recruitment of a new member

Silver Arrow                 Community Service Project
                       Approval by Federation Council

Gold Arrow                  Perfect Attendance of all events from
                      Induction Camp though Family Camp

Black Arrow                Outstanding effort or deed - given out
                      by the Federation Captain                                 
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