Challenge Award Resources
Challenge Award Resources
“How do I keep track of everything I’ve done?”
As you work through your Challenge Awards and Top Awards, it’s important to capture what you’ve done, what you’ve learned, and how you’ve grown. There’s no single way to do this, but these tools can help if you want something simple and structured.
Challenge Award Logbook
The Challenge Award logbook is a short, straightforward way to record your project as you go.
It follows the Experience Principles:
- Discover
- Create
- Solve
- Mobilise
- Experience
- Reflect
These help guide what you do and how you think about your progress, without boxing you in.
You don’t have to use a logbook, but it can be helpful if you want a clear way to track your ideas, actions, and reflections in one place.
Challenge Award Logbook
A simple logbook to help you record your Challenge Award using the Experience Principles.
Editable Challenge Award Logbook
An editable version of the logbook so you can type, adapt, and personalise how you track your project.
KSA Activity Tracker
If you’re thinking longer term, the KSA Activity Tracker helps you record your journey from age 14 all the way to 24.
It’s designed to track:
- Your Challenge Awards and ICV activities
- What you did and when
- Your Nights Away
Keeping this up to date makes a big difference later on. When you come to complete your King’s Scout Award logbook, everything you need is already recorded, saving you time and helping you show the full picture of your journey.
KSA Activity Tracker
Editable KSA Tracker
An editable tracker to keep an ongoing record of your progress from Explorer to King’s Scout Award.
What to focus on
- Making tools available without making them mandatory
- Helping Explorers understand why tracking matters
- Supporting reflection, not just recording activity
What to avoid
- Requiring everyone to use the same format
- Treating the logbook as a “tick box” exercise
- Focusing on evidence over learning
How you can support
Encourage Explorers to choose how they record their journey
Suggest the logbook or tracker as a helpful option, not the only one
Use prompts like:
- “How are you keeping track of this?”
- “What have you learned so far?”
- “How will you show this when you finish?”
These tools work best when they support the experience, not control it.