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I have seen elaborate gateways, bridges and towers lashed together at Scout events but have yet to see anything remotely like the giant pioneering projects lashed together by these Israeli Scouts. (see more in my post Pioneering Unleashed)

Characters from video games, movies, cartoons, and folklore are all featured. The slideshow includes some models of the projects revealing the amount of time and planning put into building them.

Pioneering elevated to a medium for sculpture. The sheer number of these amazing pioneering projects is astounding. Wow! These are the coolest pioneering projects I have ever seen, can’t wait to build something like them!

I found these on a website for Israeli Scouts, or “Tzofim”

Founded in 1919, the Tzofim is the only official “National Youth Movement” in the country. It was the first egalitarian Scouting movement in the world, where boys and girls participate together on an equal basis.  The number of active Tzofim has grown by over 55% in the last 10 years alone, while almost all other youth movement in the country have greatly decreased in membership. There are over 160 tribes (troops).

The Tzofim is the only major youth movement which has religious and secular members and holds joint activities for them in order to build bridges of understanding for over 10,000 Tzofim every year.

I first saw these at  Ropes and Poles a great pioneering blog from South Africa