To all Scouts and adults in Troop 96: In order to comply with BSA’s Youth Protection standards, please copy at least one other adult whenever an email or text message is sent between a Scout and an adult. This applies to communications sent by Scouts or adults.
Late on Wednesday night (24 July), the 260 Scouts from the Northeast Illinois Council’s Jamboree Contingent (including 17 Scouts from Troop 96) returned home from ten fantastic days at the Summit in West Virginia. This was the first ever Jamboree at the Bechtel Summit Reserve and what an event it was. Almost 40,000 Scouts, leaders and staff enjoyed this new premiere Scouting base. We couldn’t do all the activities, but we sampled a lot: the archery course, the stand-up paddleboards, the waterfront obstacle course, rock climbing, scuba diving, pioneering, service project, ropes course, a rock concert, fireworks, patch trading, world record-breaking, meeting and patch trading with Scouts from all across the U.S. and foreign countries, mud slides…
Did Scouts stand in long lines? Yes. Did they get dirty? Yes. Did some miss out on doing things they had hoped to do? Yes. Did they dislike some of the food? Yes. Are their hiking boots so mud saturated they are unusable now? Yes. Did they have the best time of their short lives, and accumulate a ton of memories and skills that will stay with them forever? YES.
Check out the pictures on the BSA’s Flickr site to get some idea of all that happened.
This week at the National Jamboree two new merit badges were released.
Programming, will introduce scouts to the world of software coding, explore the many uses of computer code and explore various career opportunities in programming.
Sustainability, will become an Eagle required merit badge as an option to Environmental Science. Sustainability will involve conservation and stewardship of our natural resources. Requirements address consumption, conservation, recycling and reuse of all the things that we use in daily life, both natural and man made.
The Troop meets every Monday evening at 7PM except on some major holidays. Meetings are normally held at the St. Gilbert Chapel in the lower lever Chapel Hall. The entry is on the east side of the building. Meetings in July and early August are often held outdoors at the Jones Island Park on North Alleghany Road.
The Chapel is at 301 E. Belvidere Rd. Grayslake, Il 60030 Belvidere Rd. is Rt 120 the location is west of Rt 83. Google Maps