Lock-in

Greetings all,

Troop 209 will be having our lock-in at MSPC on Dec 14-15. Friday night we will head to Get Air to have some fun and on Saturday morning head to Hands against hunger to do a service project. We will wrap up around noon on Saturday so Scouts can get some studying done.
When: Dec 14 6pm- Dec 15 noon
Where: MSPC
Forms: Due by Tuesday Dec 11
Please turn in the Troop permission slip and the youth waiver. The HAH Registration form is for the adults attending the project.

 

Here is the link to Get Air’s online form for the Lock-in:

Fill out online waiver at https://westchester.getairmanagement.com/Waiver2.html.

Nov 6th: Election Night

Reminder that today, Nov 6th, is election day. We will be meeting in the back room. Scouts should enter through the side door and not walk through the voting area set up in the Fellowship hall.

Troop 209 NEWS

This post covers:
Elections: Nominations
Elections – Date Change
Spook-o-ree
Camp Conservation Day
Philmont 2017 – 50 miler award
Elections: Nominations
Nominations for the next Senior Patrol Leader is tomorrow (10/9).
Elections – Date Change
Originally we planed to have Troop elections on 10/16. They are now scheduled for 10/23. There is a choir concert on the 16th that a significant number of the boys are performing in.
Spook-o-ree
Spook-o-ree is a halloween themed event for Cub Scouts and they are looking for Boy Scouts to volunteer. Volunteers get dinner, a staff t-shirt, and a patch. Oct 20th is the suggested date as the other overlaps our Oct camp out. More info: http://www.danbeard.org/spookoree , click “Be on staff”. Scouts need to provide there own transportation.
Camp Conservation Day
Help maintain and improve Camp Freidlander. On Nov 10th is camp conservation day. Help plant trees, remove honeysuckle, etc. The event runs from 9am – 2pm and they provide lunch. The Troop will meet at MSPC at 8:15am and drive to Camp Friedlander and return around 2:30pm. This project counts as conservation hours.
Philmont 2017 – 50 miler award
Philmont crews from 2017, you have one last award you can complete. You have most of the 50 miler award done. All that’s left is to finish the conservation hours requirement. If you attend all of Camp Conservation day on Nov 10th you will complete the required hours.

Meeting schedule and merit badge counselor list

The Troop had a great week at Summer Camp. Hopefully your Scouts have recovered from all the fun.
In this post:
Meeting Schedule
Mark your calendars
Trailblazer
Blue cards
Partial Merit Badges
Meeting Schedule
7/24 – Meeting
7/31 – Off
8/7 – Meeting & PLC
8/14 – Off
8/21 – Meeting, return to meeting every Tuesday
Mark your calendars 
Summer camp 2019 will be July 7-13. Mark your calendars now because camp is celebrating it’s 100th year and it’s bound to be FUN.
Trailblazer 
Scouts that took Trailblazer (Hot heads) at Summer camp should bring their handbooks to the Troop meeting. They learned many Scout skills and we want to test those skills and sign off, while it’s still fresh. If your Scout can’t the meeting, we will get this done at their next meeting.
Blue cards
Keep those blue cards safe! Blue cards for incomplete badges (partials) were returned to the Scouts at the end of camp. Blue cards are used to track a Scout’s progress towards a Merit Badge. They are the only record of what requirements have been completed and if lost, the work will have to be repeated. Note: The blue cards for merit badges completed at camp were given directly to our Advancement chair so they can be presented at our next COH.
Partial Merit Badges
Scouts have several options for finishing their incomplete merit badges. They can return to camp during camp open time and work with their Summer camp counselor to complete their requirements (call ahead to coordinate). The Troop also has counselors for many of the merit badges, especially Eagle required badges (see the list below). Finally, Scouts can work with any qualified counselor to complete their badge. I can provide a list of qualified counselors to Scouts that ask.
Badge 209 Counselor
Backpacking Zubelik
Camping Wegenhart
Camping Winters
Citizenship in the Community Carpenter
Citizenship in the Community Wegenhart
Citizenship in the Nation Carpenter
Citizenship in the Nation Zubelik
Citizenship in the World Carpenter
Citizenship in the World Zubelik
Communications Carpenter
Cooking Winters
Digital Technology Zubelik
Engineering Shefcik
Engineering Zubelik, K
Environmental Science Wegenhart
Family Life Wegenhart
First Aid Corgan
Fish and Wildlife Management Wegenhart
Hiking Zubelik
Law Carpenter
Medicine Corgan
Nature Wegenhart
Personal Management Zubelik
Programming Zubelik
Scholarship Carpenter
Soil and Water Conservation Wegenhart
Space Exploration Zubelik, K