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There's been at least half a dozen times in my/my son's Scouting career where we were the only two who showed from our Pack/Troop for a Council event. We both love to camp so if there's an opportunity we try …
It's been 9 years since America was attacked on our own soil. 9 years of our country reacting, reflecting and rebuilding. I still remember it like it was yesterday.At the time I was working as an IT consultant. I had …
The results of the geocaching/recruiting event weren't nearly as good as I'd hoped. The majority of attendees were members and leaders from our Cub Pack. We introduced the Pack to geocaching a few years ago and a number of families …
Each of the 12 micro-caches (35mm film canisters) will have one point of the Scout Law and a brief description of that point. Beneath that is a brief explanation of Geocaching and what to do, whether the cache was found …
Our Troop is hosting a Geocaching event the first weekend of September. Our intent is to use this as a recruiting event as well as to spread awareness of Scouting in our community. We've mapped out 12 waypoints (one for …
It's been a week today since returning from Jamboree. The encouragement that weekend gave me was astounding. I can't imagine the impact it could have had if we'd been there as part of a weeklong contingent. One of the photos …
One of my favorite podcasts related to Scouting is Clarke Green's Scoutmaster podcast. Clarke speaks from 25 years of experience as a Scoutmaster. What I appreciate most is that despite years of experience, Clarke tends to guide his listeners not …
70 hours, 700 miles, 2 days visiting the BSA 2010 National Scout Jamboree. In a word, Amazing. Scout Spirit to the extreme! [Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]
The Internet and social media have changed the landscape of Scouting. This has been especially evident with the 2010 Jamboree. In near real time we're seeing all kinds of reports from the field – thousands of Scouts and Scouters sharing …
There has been a lot of discussion and debate as to whether or not President Obama supports the Boy Scouts of America. After his inauguration he accepted the honorary position of President of the Boy Scouts of America – a …
It's been building up for a while now but really kicked into high gear a couple weeks back. Between the news lists I follow and Twitter, I was being bombarded by people's excitement and enthusiasm for the 2010 National Scout …
I had been working with Scott on his swimming merit badge for a few months. Most of the work wasn't on the badge itself as much as coordinating when and where to take care of things. It was at my …
Last night turned out to be the last official Troop meeting of the (school) year. Next week is graduation for 3 or 4 of our Scouts, including the Scoutmaster's son. Although he indicated that it was his last meeting, there …
I've been planning a geocaching/recruiting event for September. Being so worried about the Troop (and my son's Scouting) future I decided to do a end of year pitch to the schools in town. Since the Scouting year will likely be …
Two great podcasts to listen to today… MISS Show (subject:recruiting – how timely for me) and Clarke Green interviewing David Scott about his book "The Scouting Party." . The book is "a thoroughly researched, unflinching account of the founding and …
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Today I worked on my Family Life and Gardening and Home Improvement merit badges… wait a minute, leaders can't earn merit badges – must have been a "Honey-Do" list.
Day 96: * RE-enabled Troop listing on beascout.org * Began to look at what other Troops were in the surrounding area * Plagued all day with worry/dread/despair at the possibility of folding the Troop Day 97: A good day of …
Troop meeting night – Well there was no call to tell me the Scoutmaster wasn't coming but by 7:15 that was obviously the case. The lack of air conditioning at our meeting hall resulted in us deciding to host the …
Got some great information and resources from @Scoutsigns on Bugling (position and Merit Badge) – My son is interested and we're hoping to start it as a new Troop tradition… (link) Located and distributed BSA ID's to Pack Membership (response …
