Hi Troop 136!
Duty to God Meeting at 6 pm:
Below is the meeting code for the Duty to God that we
started in February but was delaying the start when school was closed.
Jim Rose will lead the event tomorrow at 6 pm.
Grades 9-12 https://www.praypub.org/god-life
Grades 6-8 https://www.praypub.org/god-church
It is not too late. This meeting will start at 6 pm
tomorrow night.
Here is a link for more information in case you want to join
us:
Join Hangouts Meet
Join by phone (501) 943-5673 (PIN: 162166910)
Troop Meeting at 7 pm:
Here is the link for our normal troop meeting tomorrow
night:
Join Hangouts Meet
Join by phone (417) 719-9449 (PIN: 247184485)
Here is the meeting plan:
Advancement:
A few of the Scouts have been very studious during their
time away from our normal daily school activities. I want to be sure that
you know the proper way to start a merit badge in our troop. When we had
our normal meetings, you would see me for a blue card and after the Scout
completed the blue card, I would sign the card and send the Scout to see Jason
Wright, our Advancement Chair. Mr. Wright would give you a few names
of the merit badge counselors that you may contact and start the merit badge.
He would also record who you were working with so that we would know who
to contact regarding your advancement in the merit badge. With the recent
change of us not meeting weekly, we are changing the process until we
start to meet again in person. You may send me an email requesting
to start a merit badge. I will forward your request to Jason Wright who
will respond to you with a list of merit badge counselors for you to work with
by email.
What about rank advancement and prerequisites for summer
camp?
In another email that I will be sending the updated
guidelines for advancement from the national office. There are some
changes to rank advancement and merit badges. I will also include
both of the lists of merit badge prerequisites for the summer camps so
that you can think about starting on the prerequisites for the merit
badges.
Merit Badge College for Troop 136:
I am excited to share with you that I am starting our very
own merit badge college for our Scouts. I will offer an opportunity
for Scouts to begin working with Merit Badge Counselors using Google Classroom
learning platform. This will be within our troop so that you could be
completing the requirements for the merit badge on your own and submitting for
the merit badge counselor to review and schedule a time to discuss the items
with you along the way. I will be sharing with the troop tonight. I am
sending an email to the other leaders in the troop who might be willing to lead
an online merit badge college for the merit badge. I will be setting
those up over the next few weeks. This will not be a short term goal for
you to use. We will be using this going forward as a way to help you
obtain merit badges and for you, your parents, the Advancement Chair and
Scoutmaster to know your progress toward completion of the merit badge.
If you have questions, you will be able to ask tonight. I will begin Public Health
and Emergency Preparedness Merit Badges tonight.
Adults - if there is a merit badge that you have offered in
the past for Scouts in our troop in the past and are willing to use this
platform, please let me know and I will start to create a merit badge classroom
for you. I will add Jason Wright and myself in the classroom as well.
Look very soon to a second email about the advancement
changes from national and the prerequisites for summer camp.
--
Phillip Freeman
Scoutmaster, Troop 136 in Grove City, OH
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