Troop 302, St. Lawrence Parish, Cincinnati OH

Tonight’s meeting –

We will be reviewing the prepared schedule and planning out our welcome night as well as promotions

Skill: How to work a camp stove.

 

We’re getting into popcorn season. Check out this document to get selling to support the troop! It will help you create an account. We’re doing direct online sales. Once you create an account with Trails-end, look at the training assets!

popcorn instructional

Our troop goal is to sell $1500 in popcorn! If we reach this goal, the troop will have an ice cream party. If we pass $2000, scout with the most sales revenue can pie an adult leader of their choice.

On 8/4, we will be discussing popcorn sales and putting together a calendar of activities for the year as we enter into recruitment season. Be sure to come!

On 7/28, Scoutmaster Cory was gifted a parting collage of his time with troop 302. He has to Philadelphia. Terry Aufermann has stepped into the role of Scoutmaster. Joining the leadership team with Terry and Doug, we have Ryan and Megan Mahoney!

We’re hoping to return to in-person troop meetings this week or next.

As a “welcome back”, we will have pizza and play games. Then, our first order of business is to design troop T-shirts!

1. Average local temperature increases with the amount of clothing packed.
2. Tent stakes come only in the quantity ‘N-1’ where N is the number of stakes necessary to stake down a tent.
3. Fuel in sealed bottles spontaneously evaporates.
4. Fuel in stove reservoirs evaporates 10x as fast as fuel in sealed bottles.
5. All available humidity and moisture will congregate on match heads.
6. If no match heads are in the vicinity, all moisture will congregate inside waterproof clothing.

Hello Scouts and parents, since you can’t come to the Scouting program right now, we’re going to bring it to you.

• We will start doing virtual meetings at 7pm on Tuesdays; Terry will send a TEAMS invite
  • Meetings will have themed topics and we’ll work on incorporating a virtual game towards the end
  • Following this, we’ll do weekly report out’s of rank progress during our meeting
• Scouts are encouraged to work on advancement in between meetings and can reach out if they need help
• Check scouts302.com for any updates; We will also utilize email
• There will be some weekly challenges of things to do between meetings
• Anytime you are working on scoutstuff, utilize #scoutingathome if you post on social media
• We will notify you of virtual Merit Badge sessions. It is on you if you want to participate

 

4/7 – VM – Scoutbook training to use the online rank advancement system

*Reminder: Terry will provide a hammock for anyone that reaches First Class

4/14 – Plant and animal identification (Terry)

4/21 – Cooking at home (Cory)

4/28 – How to pack a hiking backpack w/ backpacking stove demonstration (Terry)

Y’all, we won’t be having scouts until we are permitted to. (looking at early April…maybe)

Until then, check out these requirements for the Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge: https://www.scoutbook.com/mobile/references/boy-scouting/merit-badges/emergency-preparedness-merit-badge-requirements.asp

 

Hopefully, we won’t have to meet in secret like they did during war times in Europe.

Be sure to come to the meeting on 3/17.

You’ll need to bring $10 if you’re coming on the camping trip, and come in uniform because we’re going shopping!

1. The need to urinate at night increases in direct relation to the hour past midnight, layers of clothing worn, occupants in your tent, and inches of rain since sunset. Curiously, it increases in ‘inverse’ relation to the outside temperature.
2. The ground under shoulders compresses without sunlight while the ground under feet expands.
3. Rocks and sticks rise above dirt when irritated by tent flooring fabric.
4. Feet expand when removed from hiking boots. The same law applies to tents and tent bags, clothing and backpacks, and sleeping bags and stuff sacks.
5. Backpack strap widths decrease with the distance hiked. To compensate, the weight of the backpack increases.