Scoutmaster Minute: Today we wrapped up another successful Merit Badge University with lots of energy and motivation. Thank you to all the Merit Badge Counselors for the time and effort in helping our Scouts grow, ASM Matt Conner for organizing everyone and The Taylor's for the generous meeting space. On Friday evening, we had the honor of [...]
Scoutmaster Minute: Fun day with the Daytona 500 happening and President Trump taking a pace lap to lead the field as we celebrate President's Day tomorrow. Personally I am pulling for #24 William Byron...Eagle Scout! Lots of goals being set today, so hope that our Scouts are setting their sights on the next stage in their journey which [...]
Scoutmaster Minute Leadership is a key element of Scouting, especially as a Scout seeks to complete the ranks of Star, Life and Eagle. On March 3, we will begin the process of transitioning to the Spring 2020 term by electing a new Senior Patrol Leader and Patrol Leaders. All those planning to run for SPL should [...]
Scoutmaster Minute Today was a great start to our annual Merit Badge University. AND a day like this has not happened for over 900 years (11/11/1111) and will not happen again until 12/12/2121. More specifically, 02/02/2020 is called a palindrome, meaning it reads the same forwards and backwards. I am so glad I was able to [...]
Scoutmaster Minute GRIT = passion and perseverance for long-term and meaningful goals. This is a trait that the Scouting journey seeking to instill in our young people. It is easy to be distracted by electronics and social media that offer instant gratification misdirect us from seeing the big picture. The quick, small and meaningless "rewards" from a [...]
Scoutmaster Minute Neither snow nor rain nor [mud] nor gloom of night stays these [Scouts] from the swift completion of their [Klondike Derby]. What a great weekend. Based on boys attitude and spirit you would never know we had some cruddy weather on Saturday. It may have has a little to with pied pipers (Mikey and Bryan) who were impressive with [...]
Scoutmaster Minute 2020 is like 2019 since our first meeting of the new year was cancelled again. The few flakes of snow that fell seemed to be too much for the NoVa area to handle. As a kid, I had one of the biggest newspaper delivery routes in town. The elementary school was at the end [...]
Scoutmaster Minute: Welcome to 2020. Hard for me to reconcile with the fact that I rekindled my relationship with Scouting just over 10 years ago...wow. Highlights included marching in the 100 year anniversary parade, being a Tiger Den Leader and then Cubmaster for Pack 127, a most incredible adventure to Philmont with the awesome Crew of [...]
Scoutmaster Minute It was great to see a bunch of Scouts coming out over the weekend to help another Scout complete his Eagle Project. Tis the season of giving, and often the best gift is not material. Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.- Booker T. Washington Rank Advancement [...]
Scoutmaster Minute We had an huge fun last evening at Vertical Rock climbing center...clearly some of these Scouts are part spider monkey. They were exposed to the basic fundamentals of the Climbing MB and I received several requests for blue cards. A session or two here may be on a few wish lists. This certainly put [...]
