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Postcards - Advanced

Overview

The Advanced Postcards Honor takes postcard collecting to the next level by combining local history, geography, preservation, creativity, and research. You’ll build a much larger collection while discovering how postcards can tell the story of your community and the world.

Requirements

1. Have the Postcards honor.

2. How is the history of your city or state/province/region told in postcards? Collect postcards (or pictures of postcards) that illustrate events or distinctive scenery found in your area.

3. Explain what you have done to preserve your postcards. (Postcards from the basic honor)

4. What is the latest development in postcards?

5. What are the present regulations for sending custom made postcards through your local post office and getting the postcard rate?

6. Make a collection of at least 150 postcards. (No two postcards alike.) Your collection should include the following:

  • a. At least 2 postcards depicting significant historical or cultural heritage in your area/region.
  • b. Postcards from at least different 20 states/providences/countries.
  • c. At least 25 cards on the same theme (mountains, beaches, waterfalls, travel, religious, seasons, sports, animals, hobbies, art, et. al.).

7. Do two of the following:

  • a. Create your own postcards. Mail 5 of your personally created postcards in order to encourage someone.
  • b. Copy a map of U.S. and/or world map showing where your postcards are from and display at an event. Display your postcards of your choice topic. (You do not need to display the entire 150 postcards)
  • c. Create a game using postcards as game pieces.
  • d. Create a digital album or media presentation that illustrates the history or scenery of the cards in your collection (minimum 30) in more detail.

Answer key & resources

Master awards

This honor counts toward:

Investiture Achievement

This honor is required, suggested or listed as an option in:

Adapted from AY Honors/Postcards - Advanced on the Pathfinder Wiki, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. See the original page's history for its authors.
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