The Founder’s Award was created in 1981 by the National Order of the Arrow Committee to honor and recognize those Arrowmen who have given outstanding service to their lodge. The award is reserved for an Arrowman who demonstrates to his fellow Arrowmen that he memorializes in his everyday life the spirit of achievement as described by OA’s founders E. Urner Goodman and Carroll A. Edson.

The Honor Chapter award was created and first presented in 1999. Unlike the Chapter of the Year award, the Honor Chapter award had written requirements that parallel the National Quality Lodge requirements.

The award has been presented to the following chapters for the respective years:

Chapter of the Year Award

The Chapter of the Year award was created in 1989 and was presented to one chapter each year that performed outstanding service to the Lodge and within its chapter. The award was discontinued after the 1998 presentations, in favor of the Honor Chapter award.

The Chapter of the Year award was presented to the following chapters:

National Service Award

The National Service Award was established in 1999 to recognize lodges in each region that have performed outstanding service, both in a qualitative and a quantitative sense, to their council. Two lodges per region are awarded the National Service Award each year.

Madockawanda Lodge is proud to be one of eight Lodges to be awarded the National Service Award in the first year of presentations in 2000, and to be the first Lodge in the Northeast Region to earn it three times.

Madockawanda Lodge has earned the National Service Award in the following years under the following leadership:

National Service Grant

Madockawanda Lodge was selected to receive a $5,000 National Service Grant from the National Order of the Arrow Committee in 2006. Madockawanda Lodge was selected for this grant for the proposed project of an archery range at the new Cub Camp Bomazeen.

National Quality Lodge

Madockawanda Lodge earned its first National Quality Lodge award in 1991. Since then, Madockawanda Lodge has consistently earned the award, serving as a testament to the quality of the program the Lodge provides.

The Lodge has earned the National Quality Lodge Award in the following years under the following leadership: