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We had an excellent meeting reviewing our outdoor skills before the upcoming Troop Challenge this weekend. Here are some announcements from the meeting:
-There are a few upcoming merit badge camps for some Eagle required merit badges. Make sure to look at the information in WhatsApp and sign up for these classes if you are interested.
-The troop challenge is this weekend! Make sure you bring your foods for your menus and pack accordingly. Detailed information about the Troop challenge was sent in an email to all so make sure to reveiw that aswell.
The South Windsor Troop Challenge is this weekend!
For those of us camping Friday night, we’ll meet at the Avery Street Church at 5:30 PM and will plan to be on the road by 5:45 PM Friday 11/13.
Eat first or bring your dinner for the road. Have your flashlight or headlamp on you, as we’ll be setting up our site 8B (same place we go to summer camp) in the dark.
It’s going to be cold during the day with temperatures in the 40s, and dip below freezing at night. Make sure you are wearing winter weight clothing including a coat, warm gloves and hat as we’ll be outside all day. Layers, avoid base layers of 100% cotton, extra socks, shoes for rough terrain. Bring a water bottle and you may want snacks for during the day between breakfast and lunch, and/or between lunch and dinner.
Don’t forget your food assignments which were communicated on the PLC chat. Double check with your Patrol leader if you’re not sure. Bring your mess kit if you have one.
For sleeping at night, you must have winter weight sleeping gear. If you only have a summer weight sleeping bag, you can add another sleeping bag or comforter or blankets. You must have some kind of pad between you and the cold ground. I recommend a knit hat or balaclava to sleep in.
Bring a day pack to carry your water bottle, snacks, clothes layers during the challenge.
Bring the usual items you’d need for a campout including a light source, toiletries, extra socks and maybe a base layer to sleep in.
Patrols: As we discussed during our meetings, each Patrol should have at least 1 charged cell phone capable of making calls and navigating during the challenge. Also recommend at least one day pack carry the 10 Scouting essentials and a Scoutbook.
There is a Merit Badge Class day coming up on 11/21 for anyone interested.
Over 20 merit badges will be offered, providing Scouts with opportunities to explore new interests, develop valuable skills, and work toward advancement alongside knowledgeable instructors and community volunteers.
See the details here if interested, and I'm guessing some MBs will fill up!
I’m a Merit Badge Counselor for the Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge.
I’ll be running a group class over 4 dates on Thursday nights from 7-8 PM, starting next Thursday 11/19, location to be announced.
I’m offering this class to Troop 186 and Troop 682 on a first come, first served basis, and I’ll close registration if the class fills up. I’ll try and make sure both Troops have an equal number of opportunities. I will make sure we have a female adult leader as well.
Each class will focus on specific requirements scheduled for each class. To keep the 1 hour focused, we will not be working on or signing off other requirements.
Each class, including the first class, has homework to be done in the Scouts notebook or worksheets before the start of class.
If you can't make a night, we can work on it during the final wrap-up/make-up night or other times by appointment after the classes have completed.
Scheduling note: Requirements 3a, 4b, 7c, and 8 involve activities that may take place outside the three class hours. The volunteer requirement alone calls for at least eight hours, so plan it separately and allow time for the
presentation and required discussions. Get the specified approvals before starting those activities.
We had an excellent meeting tonight working on meal planning for the upcoming Troop Challenge and participating in activitws that improved our patrol cooperativeness. Here are some announcements from the meeting:
- Scouts, If you have not signed up from troop challenge and you are planning on attending, please sign up by Wednwasay night or Thursday morning. Please do not forget to do this if you are attending. The Troop Challenge is November 13-15. The sign up information and more information is in WhatsApp.
- Our annual Scouting for Food volunteer opportunity is coming this weekend on November 7th and 8th. If you are available, look at details in WhatsApp to sign up for a shift and volunteer to get food donations. Scouts can receive service hours for this.
- We have some merit badge classes coming up soon. Citizenship in the Community and possibly Personal Fitness will be beginning in the near future, so stay tuned for information on that if you have not achieved thise badges and are interested.
- The theme of the month this.month is Animals!
The folks over at the Troop Challenge have us a blurb about this year's theme. The blurb is written as follows: " Troop Challenge 2026: Into the Wilderness
This year's Troop Challenge takes us back to the days of Daniel Boone, when outdoor survival depended on skill, resourcefulness, and quick thinking.
Imagine you're deep in the wilderness on a long hike or campout. What happens when someone gets injured? The weather turns against you? You're faced with an obstacle, missing equipment, or a situation you weren't expecting?
How well do you know your Scouting skills? Could you make use of what nature provides? Do you know how to keep yourself and others safe, improvise with limited supplies, or solve a problem when the obvious solution isn't available?
Think about the skills that have been part of Scouting for generations: outdoor survival, first aid, pioneering, campcraft, and the ability to adapt when things don't go as planned.
You'll be challenged to put those skills to use, but just as importantly, you'll need to communicate, lead, and work together as a patrol.
You won't know exactly what's waiting for you in the woods.
Brush up on your skills, expect the unexpected, and be prepared!"
Next weekend is a *Scouting for Food* weekend and we need volunteers to help out!
Scouting for Food is Saturday November 7th and Sunday November 8th at Stop & Shop. Saturday will be 10AM to 4PM and Sunday will be 11AM - 4PM.
The links below are for the sign-up genius for scouts and leaders to sign-up for their time slots like last year. The hour they work on scouting for food count as service hours.
Scouts can sign-up for one hour slots. We want to give every scout an opportunity to participate so please only sign-up your scout for one shift. If we need more volunteers we will open up later this week so scouts can work more than one shift if they want to.
We will need adult leaders at both Stop & Shop and the Community Center during most of these hours to cover two-deep leadership requirements. We will also need drivers. The Leader and Driver sign-up are under the Troop sign-up.
