AVIATION Merit Badge

We will begin working on the Aviation merit badge on Wednesday, Nov 6.  We will meet in the basement priesthood room at 7pm.  We will build an FPG-9 airplane!  Doesn't that sound exciting!  It will once you fly it!

Our thanks for this activity (and the upcoming visit to an aviation musuem or site) goes to our resident pilot - President Cawley!

From Troop Historian: Corbin Woods-

 All the planes did was loop around us and crash. But didn't burn.

Century of Honor

We are excited that 4 of our boys have been accepted on the production team for the Church's "A Century of Honor".  This is the Church's centennial celebration of Scouting in Utah and the Church.

Century of Honor Broadcast

The boys have been working hard.  School during the day and rehearsals all night for the last week+.  They all have great parts and are in good positions to be seen on camera during the broadcast on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 to most of the Stake Centers in the USA.

Make sure to take your cell phones to the event - you'll be asked to use them!  President Monsen is scheduled to speak as will the President of the BSA, President David Beck - YM General President and President Wixom - General Primary President.

President Beck said at Jamboral that there would be rapellers and kayakers in the Conference Center, along with some other surprises - I "wonder" how that will work?!  It will be awesome!

Congratulations to Justin Palmer, Thomas Irvine, Adam Johnson & Devin Palmer for their hard work and dedication.  This will be an event that won't be forgotten!

Pictures coming!

here are a couple of pictures from the Deseret News Story

 Justin's photo (above) what printed in the Church News section as part of the coverage of this event.

The broadcast can be watched AND dowloaded from  scouts100.lds.org

More pictures will come.

ASTRONOMY Merit Badge

The boys will be earning this merit badge on SATURDAY, November 2, 2013.  Please meet at 8:30 am at Mark Palmer's home.  They will be home around 12:30 for lunch.

What a Successful activity!!  The boys (and leaders) were able to learn new things about the stars and constellations - Can they explain to you what an ASTERISM is (an example is the Big Dipper)?  I didn't before this class!

We learned about telescopes, eclipses, before watching the night skies fly through time in the Dome theater.  We accomplished in two hours what would have taken weeks with out this great technology!

Thomas S. Monsen Award Recipients

Congratulations to those that have earned the 2013 Thomas S. Monson Award:

Ryan Trump (Twice!  Once at the National Jamboree in July and once at the Council Jamboral)

Stephen Rechis

Thomas Irvine

Corbin Woods

Adam Johnson

Jackson Haight

Josh Born

Devin Palmer

Justin Palmer

John Haight

Stan Andrews

Ron Veater

Mark Palmer

Corbin Goble

To earn the Thomas S. Monson Award, we were required to complete the following two requirements and at least four electives.

Requirements

1. Visit the 100 Year Scouting Exhibit at the Church Musuem.

2. Watch “Run, Boy, Run,” and write your feelings about this story in your journal.

Electives

1. Complete at least two requirements toward earning the Genealogy merit badge.

2. Complete at least two requirements toward earning the Family Life merit badge.

3. Memorize the thirteenth article of faith, and discuss with your family or a leader how this article of faith and the Scout Law support each other.

4. Meet two youth outside of your area and discuss with them how Scouting has benefited your life or the life of a Scout you know.

5. Share your feelings about doing your duty to God with your family, a friend of another faith, or a leader

Link to the LDS BSA website for the award.

2013 Council Jamboral & Thomas S. Monson Award

We had a great time at the 2013 Great Salt Lake Jamboral  (Sept 27& 28, 2013)!  We celebrated the 100th anniversary of Scouting in Utah.

 

We may not have been this large, but we were part of a large crowd of Scouts!

 

We each received 15 of one card (middle row far right: 1965) and traded with the other Scouts to get a complete set of the BSA Handbook cards.  It was fun and we each received a patch for getting the whole set.

General Young Men's President David Beck came a spoke to us.  We are happy that he joined us for a Troop Photo.

Each of the boys stayed up late on Friday and tried to watch Elder Monson's General Conference talk "Run, Boy, Run" from 25 years ago.  The rock concert across the field drowned us out.  So we went to the award booth and earned it there, watching the video and learning how Scouting can influence boys, men and events.  Congratulations to all the Scouts and Leaders who earned this award taking advantage of a once in a lifetime opportunity

Court of Honor Date Change

Our Next COURT OF HONOR will be held Wednesday, September 18th at 7pm in the Church building.

Progress

Well, we're making some progress on building the site out.  We've drafted ideas on advancement (We are still trying to get accurate data), and have put up the next 2 months of activities.

So check out our pages (links are at the top of the screen).

We'll get there...!