Senior Patrol Leader's Page
Notes from the SPL- April 2014
From
what I have seen at the meetings, many of our newer scouts are very anxious to advance
in rank. Once you get past First Class, there is something you need to do that
is both important for your rank and for the community. This would be volunteering(community)
and receiving service hours(for you).
For ranks Star and up, you need at least 6 hours of service. Volunteering is a good
way to show what BSA does for our community, but it is also terrific
advertisement for our troop. While doing the greater good for our area, you will
sometimes have potential scouts ask us. All in all, service is needed for
ranking up, it is wonderful support for our community, and is great way for our
troop to shine. There are many opportunities coming up including
Geocaching with Cub Scouts, Highway NN Trash Pick Up and Maxwell Street
Days. So join us and volunteer! ~ Victor ![]() |
Notes from the SPL - March 2014
Merit badges are great, right? So isn't it just great to now have a new and refurbished Troop Library where all of the troop's merit badge books are stored? There are, give or take, 25 new additions to the Library, including: Archery, Astronomy, Climbing, Geocaching, Robotics, Search and Rescue, Shotgun Shooting, and Sustainability.
With all these books, there should be at least one book for every merit badge offered at Summer Camp this year. In this new Library, we have the new Sustainability merit badge book that is an Eagle required alternative to Environmental Science. Cooking merit badge is now Eagle required and the library has the new Eagle required version of the book. The contents of the library are online and the link to see this is as follows: http://www.troop363.us/forms-downloads. I hope this gets you guys more excited for going out and trying new and entertaining merit badges, ~Victor
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Notes from the SPL - February, 2014
This upcoming month is going to be a great time for our troop, jam packed full of activities. First we have Leave No Trace training coming up on the 8th, a great course to learn about the wilderness and how to keep it wild, so I would recommend anyone who can go to attend it. Next up is a time where we can show Wisconsin how great our troop is by doing color guard at a Marquette Basketball Game on the 18th. If you should go and help out with this, you can get free admission to the game and, as mentioned earlier, it is a great way to show off our troop and support scouting. Finally, to end the moth off we are having an extremely fun outdoors activity at Wilmot Mountain where we all can have an awesome time with snow tubing, snowboarding, and skiing. The activity will be on the 21st. I hope that you all will consider going to these great scout activities this month. ~Victor ![]() |
Notes from the SPL - January, 2014
Electronics weekend is
coming up, and I’m guessing not all of you know what it is. It’s not just an
outing were we can bring our electronics to use the whole weekend, but it’s
where the troop decides what we will be doing the whole year for outings and activities.
Be sure to do research and then bring your ideas for outings and activities you
would like to see happen. At the Electronics weekend we discuss and vote on
everyone’s choices. At the 1/23 meeting, you will meet with your patrols
to discuss where to find information on outings. You can also use that meeting
to share ideas you've found so far. Please don’t wait until the last minute,
start looking for ideas now. ~ Victor ![]() |
Notes from the SPL - December 2013
Here
are some of the things I hope to accomplish as the new SPL. I hope to make
meetings more entertaining and fun for those who are getting bored of the same
thing over and over. I want to add a inter-patrol activity at almost all
meetings so each patrol will have a time to work with each other in a fun,
educating way. I am also going to try to make the meetings more productive by
having a new seating chart where no one is sitting behind another person so there
is less talking and disruption through the meeting. - Victor ![]() |