Troop Calendar

Recent changes are marked in RED

January:

  • 4: Scout job check-ins on Zoom with the SPL and SM
  • 9: Meeting: Klondike Derby Prep, Snow campout planning. PLC
  • 10: Skating – $10
  • 23: Meeting: Scout Skills practice
  • 24: Fundamentals of Training course (EDGE). For senior Scouts/adults- $25
  • 25: Skating (wrap-up ice)
  • 30-Feb 1: Klondike campout – $10
  • TBD: Snow campout

February

  • 1: Happy 7th birthday, Troop 2018!
  • 6: Meeting: Astronomy, SPL election, OA election, job changes, uniform inspection, t-shirt paint. At MUMC.
  • 20-22: OA Fellowship Weekend
  • 27: Meeting: PLC
  • 28- March 1: ILST campout at DFRC

March

  • 1: ILST campout, last day
  • 6: Meeting: finish Astronomy or Communication, PLC
  • 7: Day hike
  • 13: Meeting, Nuclear Science
  • 20-22: Gettysburg campout – $40
  • 27-29: IOLS Totin’ station staffing/Den Chief training campout at DFRC
  • TBD: Nuclear Science USNA trip

April

  • 10: Meeting: TBD. PLC: Plan CoH
  • 11: USNA STEM NESA Merit Badge day
  • 17-19: Merit Badge Mania campout, Camp Saffran – $30
  • 24-26: Janes Island State Park camp and kayak

May

  • 1-3: Assateague campout
  • 8: Court of Honor
  • 29: Meeting: Clean barn service or Open House night, PLC
  • TBD: Backpacking weekend
  • TBD: Sea Grass conservation service

June

  • 5: Meeting, PLC
  • 12-14: SM Surprise campout, cost depends/shared campsite
  • 19: Meeting: Summer camp prep and uniform inspection
  • 22-26: Camp Riverhawk service

July

  • 3: Meeting (?)
  • 4: Parade with WKA?
  • July 5 – 11: Camp Heritage – $499
  • 17: Meeting: PLC (plan September open house)
  • 18: Bike B and A trail
  • 18: Trash pickup at a park

August

  • 7-9 Guppy Gulch campout – $37/day to camp and swim
  • 14: Meeting
  • 28: Meeting: job changes and SPL election. PLC (plan book drive)
  • Make wreath order plan

September

  • 5-6: Fall IOLS Course for adults
  • 11: Meeting: Recruiting Open House
  • 12-13: Bengies campout
  • 18: Court of Honor, PLC
  • 25-27: Smallwood State Park campout
  • TBD: Book drive

October

  • 2: Meeting: Disabilities Awareness
  • 3: Morning hike, and then afternoon Annual Planning Conference
  • 16-18: Spook-o-ree campout, $ TBD
  • 23: Meeting, PLC (plan SFF)
  • 24: Haunted House event, $40
  • TBD: Camping with Pack 2018?

November

  • 13: Meeting
  • 14: Volunteer Training Summit
  • 20: Meeting, PLC
  • TBD: Scouting for Food
  • TBD: Dog shelter service

December

  • 4: Meeting: Secret Scout. PLC
  • 11-13: Caving Campout ($20-30 pp for campsite split)
  • 20: Holiday service project for the unhoused at Temple Beth Shalom
  • TBD: Every Child 365 toy drive at WKA
  • TBD: Breakfast with Santa at the Kiwanis Club?
  • Snow campout backup

Fit in’s:

Long weekend/TBD: Greenbank radio telescope museum/Green Bank Observatory – free science center, free walking/biking tour, guided bus tour $10, high tech tour $25

Fit in/Fall weekend: Backpacking overnight

TBD: Pool time for swim check, advancement and merit badge work

TBD/additional options to squeeze in:

  • Several more service projects
  • Cook and hike some more?
  • Climbing
  • Gettysburg day trip or campout
  • Metalwork
  • Basketry
  • Archery
  • Beekeeping
  • Rifle
  • Geocaching
  • Coin Collecting
  • Fishing
  • Weekend rock climbing
  • Scoutsgiving
  • Council orienteering event
  • Wilderness Survival
  • American Heritage
  • Den Chief training
  • NYLT
  • Any sports days? Navy/Blues, Blast?

Possibly in work for 2027 and beyond:

  • TBD: Fundraiser Dinner – spaghetti, salad, garlic bread and dessert.
  • TBD: Fundraiser Dinner – Meat loaf, mashed potato, vegetable & dessert
  • Babysitting fundraisers
  • Spring and Summer, lots of car washes!
  • October Kiwanis Club Haunted House Fundraiser
  • December Kiwanis Breakfast with Santa
  • March: OA elections
  • December, March, June, September: SOQ votes
  • Jan/Feb: Klondike Derby
  • Sept: Bengies’ Drive in Campout
  • February and September job and patrol changes