Troop 60

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Scout Parent Fundamentals

• Outline of Training
• Training Objectives
• Boy Scout Organization
• Troop Organization
• Calendar
• Patrol Method
• Boy Run
• Advancements
• Outings
• Fund Raising

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Aims of Boy Scouts

• Growth in Moral Strength and Character
• Develop Participating Citizenship
• Development of Physical, mental, and Emotional
  Fitness

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For Every 100 Boys who join Scouting

• 12 will have 1st contact with Church or Synagogue
• 5 will earn their religious emblem
• 1 will enter the clergy
• 18 will develop hobbies that last thru their
  adult life
• 8 will enter a career learned through a merit
  badge
• 1 will use Scout skills to save a life
• 1 will use Scout skills to save his own life
• 17 will become Scout volunteers
• 2 will become Eagles

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For every 8 boys who join Troop 60 in March

• 2 will quit by June
• 2 will quit after Tomahawk
• 4 will earn 1st Class by next March
• 2 will earn Life

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How to Maximize your Sons Benefit from Scouting

• Realize he is responsible
• Understand what he says he wants to do
• Hold him accountable
• Help when requested
• Encourage
• Make Volunteer Commitments
• If he sees Scouting is important enough to you,
  then .

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Training Objectives

• Familiarize Parents with Scouting Program
• Make it easy to Participate
• Review important policies
• Two deep leadership
• Boy Run

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Boy Scout Organization

• National
• Council
• District
• Chartered Organization
• Troop

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Troop Organization

• Troop Committee
• Scoutmaster and Assistants
• Patrol Leaders Council (PLC)
• Patrols

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Troop Organization
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Job Descriptions

• Committee Chair
• Organize Committee Meetings
• Insure all committee positions are filled
• Recruit Scoutmaster and assistants
• Work Closely with Scoutmaster
• Prepare Rechartering documents

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Job Descriptions

• Outings and Activities
• Site Reservations
• Arranges Trip Leader
• Tour permit
• Prepare Outing Signup Sheets
• Collects Signup Sheets
• Prepares Outing Roster
• Arranges Transportation
• Arranges Trailer hauler
• Gives Final Food Count to Cooks
• Attends PLCs
• Has a Checkbook

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Job Descriptions

• Treasurer
• Balance Troop Checkbook
• Collect Checks
• Maintain Scout Account Records
• Conduct Friends of Scouting Campaign
• Reimburses cash expenses w/ receipts
• Has a Checkbook
• Reports on Troop Finances at Committee Meeting

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Job Descriptions

• Tomahawk Chair
• Arranges Trip Leader and adult coverage
• Tour permit
• Maintains Troop Medical Records
• Keeps current copy in Troop 1st Aid Kit
• Prepare Collects Signup Sheets
• Prepares Outing Roster
• Arranges Transportation
• Arranges Trailer hauler
• Merit Badge Signups
• Gets needed Merit badge books

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Job Descriptions

• Secretary
• Minutes of Monthly Committee Meeting
• Newsletter
• Mailing List Maintenance
• Registration of Adults and New Scouts

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Job Descriptions

• Chartered Partner Representative
• Liaison to King of Kings
• Reserves meeting rooms
• Encourages service to King of Kings
• Arranges to sell product after services
• Signs adult applications
• Gets Pastor Ralphs signature when needed

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Job Descriptions

• Fund Raising
• Fall and Spring Fundraisers
• Arrange wreath or plant supplier
• Recommend prices to Troop Committee
• Prepare Timetable
• Prepare order sheets
• Collect Order sheets-give checks to Treasurer
• Send in order
• Arrange delivery time
• Organize volunteers for distribution
• Final accounting

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Job Descriptions

• Advancement
• Arrange and Conduct Board of Reviews
• Maintain Advancement Records
• Secure Badges for Courts of Honor
• Arrange Hosts for Courts of Honor

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Job Descriptions

• Quartermaster
• Trailer maintenance
• Insurance
• License
• Gear Ready for Weekends
• Replace worn out gear
• Fill Propane Tanks
• Check in gear from outings
• Has a Checkbook

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Job Description

• Scoutmaster
• Train and guide boy leaders to run the troop
• Work with and thru responsible adults to bring
  Scouting to boys
• Help boys to grow by encouraging them to learn
  for themselves
• Guide the boys in planning the troop program
• Help the troop committee recruit other troop
  volunteers
• Conduct Scoutmaster Conferences

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Calendar

• Meet every Monday year round 700-830 pm
• Monthly PLCs 700-830 pm (may finish early)
• Troop Committee 2nd Sunday of month 700 pm
• No School No meeting
• Quarterly Courts of Honor
• Monthly Weekend activities
• Day activities December, January, July
• Presidents weekend Ski Trip Welch Village
• April/May 1st tent outing Whitewater State Park
• Tomahawk 1st or 2nd week in August

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Job Description

• Assistant Scoutmasters
• New Patrol
• Works closely with group during first year
• Other duties assisting Scoutmaster

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Calendar Slide
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Patrol Method

• Senior Patrol
• SPL Elected by Troop
• Others appointed by SPL with guidance from
  Scoutmaster
• ASPL
• Scribe Minutes from PLC
• Quartermasters Assist with gear
• Troop Guides Work with new scout patrol til 1st
  Class
• Librarian Maintain merit badge library
• Webmaster

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Patrol Method

• New Scout Patrol (8 boys max)
• Formed from incoming Webelos dens
• Patrol leader appointed by Scoutmaster
• May rotate
• Works together on all activities
• 1st year focus on reaching 1st Class by March
• Experienced Patrols

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Boy Run

• Monthly PLC run by SPL
• Plan weekly meetings
• Choose merit badges
• Plan outing themes and activities
• Attended by
• Senior Patrol
• Patrol Leaders
• Scoutmaster and Activities Chair
• Weekly meetings run by SPL
• Outings run by SPL

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PLC Agenda

• PLC Agenda
• 2/26/01 
• Review Troop Calendar 
• Review Welch Village and last months activities
•  Plan meeting 3/5/01
•  Plan meeting 3/12/01
•  Plan meeting 3/26/01
•  Plan Campout 3/30/01 Cannon River
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• Theme_____________
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• Objectives
• A.     1st Year Scouts
• 1. 2nd Class
• 2.
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• B.     Older Scouts
• 1. Earn Personal Management Merit Badges
• 2.

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Troop Meeting Plan Date______________  
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Advancements

• Ranks
• Scout
• Tenderfoot
• 2nd Class
• 1st Class
• Star
• Life
• Eagle
• Eagle Palms
• Merit Badges

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Advancement Process

• Work on requirements during Troop meetings and
  campouts
• Can be from any rank
• Scoutmaster Conference
• Board of Review

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Scoutmaster Conference

• Short review
• Not a test
• Which requirement are they proudest of
• Set a goal for next rank/talk about upcoming
  requirements
• Chance to set expectations
• Chance for boy to give feedback on anything
• Scout Spirit in every day life
• 2, 4, 6, 9, 12 Specific examples of points of
  Scout Law

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Board of Review

• 3 Adults, not SM, not parent
• Short review
• Pleasant Conversation

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Scout Rank

• Joining rank
• Scout Book
• Oath, Law, Motto Slogan
• Square knot
• Review with parents, Parents Guide to
  Protecting Children from Abuse
• Describe Scout Badge
• Scoutmaster Conference

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Tenderfoot

• Camp once
• Assist with Cooking
• Two half hitches, tautline hitch
• Physical Fitness 30 days
• First aid
• Scoutmaster Conference
• Board of Review

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2nd Class

• Map Compass
• 5 mile hike
• 5 outings
• Knife and axe
• Firebuilding
• Cook over open fire
• First aid

• Swimming
• DARE
• Scoutmaster Conference Scout Spirit
• Board of Review

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1st Class

• Map and compass
• Cook whole weekend outing
• 10 outings
• Elected Official
• Lashings
• First aid
• Swimming
• Scoutmaster Conference Scout Spirit
• Board of Review

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Star

• 4 months in Position of Responsibility
• 6 merit badges
• 4 required
• 6 Service Hours
• Scoutmaster Conference Scout Spirit
• Board of Review

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Positions of Responsibility

• SPL ASPL
• Patrol Leader
• Scribe, Quartermaster, Webmaster, Librarian,
  Troop Guide

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Required Merit Badges

• First Aid
• Citizenship in the Community
• Citizenship in the Nation
• Citizenship in the World
• Communications
• Personal Fitness

• Emergency Preparedness or Lifesaving
• Environmental Science
• Personal Management
• Swimming or Hiking or Cycling
• Camping
• Family Life

Tomahawk Badges
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Merit Badges

• Work on non-Tomahawk Eagle Badges in troop
  meetings.
• Recruit Counselors from parents
• Look for other opportunities
• Merit with Experts
• Camporees

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Life

• 6 months in Position of Responsibility
• 11 total merit badges
• 7 total required
• 6 Service Hours
• Scoutmaster Conference Scout Spirit
• Board of Review

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Eagle

• 6 months in Position of Responsibility
• 21 total merit badges
• 12 total required
• Plan, develop and give leadership to others in a
  service project helpful to your community
  (100-200 manhours).
• Plan must be preapproved by District Advancement
  Chair
• Scoutmaster Conference Scout Spirit
• District Board of Review

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Eagle Palms

• Active in troop 3 months
• Earn five additional merit badges
• Scoutmaster Conference
• Board of Review
• Bronze 1st five
• Gold 2nd five
• Silver 3rd five
• Combinations

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Outings

• Warm Season Tents
• Cold Season Cabins
• December/January Day Activities
• 2 hour driving radius
• Themes
• Advancement
• Service
• Outing costs paid by participants
• 15 typical cost
• Adults free for most activities

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Outings

• 600 pm Friday Departure
• 1200 noon Sunday Return
• Meals cooked by patrols
• Sat Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• Meals from Scratch
• Sun Breakfast (Quick)
• Food purchased by cooks
• Adults bring Lawn chairs

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Typical Menu

• Sat Breakfast French Toast from Scratch
• Brown and serve sausage (too much grease from
  fresh
• Orange Juice
• Butter and Syrup
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• Sat Lunch Sandwiches (bread, butter, cheese,
  meat)
• Apples and Oranges
• Chips
• baby carrots
• Oreos
• Bug Juicebv
• Sat Dinner Dutch Oven Pot roast
• Beef roast 1/3 per person
• ¼ cup vegatable oil
• salt and pepper
• ¼ onion per person
• ½ potatoe per person
• 6 large carrots

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Duty Roster Blank Form
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Duty Roster

• Cook Prepare meals, purchase food, lead grace,
  organize clean up
• Cleanup Clean patrol cook gear, organize patrol
  box for next meal
• Water Keep water supply full, help cook
• Site Clean Keep site and latrine clean,
  organize non-cooking patrol gear
• No job assignment Help where needed, organize
  personal gear
• Take Home Tent Clean tent, dry, fold, bring to
  next meeting, report missing items
• Take Home Cook Kit Thoroughly clean and dry,
  bring to next meeting, report missing items
• Take home patrol box Thoroughly clean, dry, and
  organize, bring to next meeting, report missing
  items
• Parents This is the boys job, not yours. You
  may assist if requested.

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Camp Standards

• Dishwashing Proceedure
• Hot Wash (minimum amount of soap)
• Hot Rinse
• Cold Rinse with 5 drops bleach 30 sec soak
• Hang Dry in nylon Mesh Bag

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Camp Standards-2

• Meal Cleanup
• Patrol Box is repacked and closed
• Cook Kit is repacked and stowed or hanging to dry
• Utensil kit is repacked and stowed
• All food returned to cooler
• Stoves and Table wiped clean
• All garbage removed from site
• Water jug is full
• All personal gear stowed

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Camp Standards-3

• Cleanup Responsibility
• The whole patrol is responsible for cleanup
• The person listed on the duty roster for cleanup
  is in charge
• No one can start any other activity until cleanup
  is complete

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Camp Standards-Adults

• Two deep leadership
• Adult never alone with boy
• Adult may not have any boy except his son in a
  tent.
• If you need to transport a boy, bring another.
• Guide to Safe Scouting

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Troop Equipment

• Covered Trailer 1 7/8 ball
• 6 Patrol gear sets
• Patrol gear box, utensil roll, and cook kit
• Propane Stove, lantern, tank
• 2 gal water jug
• Dining Fly
• 4 Dutch ovens

• Scoutmaster box
• Miscellaneous gear
• 3 folding saws
• Hatchet
• US Flag
• 14 Eureka Alpine Meadows 4 man tents

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Patrol Gear Box

• bakepacker size pot with 6 bowls
• griddle
• pot gripper handle
• utensil bag
• slotted spoon
• flipper/spatula
• 2 wood spoons
• can opener
• Scoop
• large knife
• small knife
• 2 rubber scrappers
• fork
• extras bag
• 4 dish pans
• dish washing kit
• Dish Soap
• Bleach
• scotchbrite

• 2 qt water bottle
• cutting board
• rain fly and rope
• trash bags (8)
• storage bags 5 each size (gal., qt., pt.)
• aluminum foil
• paper towel
• toilet paper
• stake bag (6 stakes, extra rope and mallet)
• butane starter lighter
• mesh dish drying bag
• salt and pepper shaker
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• Cook Kit in Day pack________
• 2 fry pans
• 3 pots
• 1 pitcher
• 4 lids
• 1 handle

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Fund Raising

• Wreaths in Fall
• Plants in Spring
• 1st 30 profit goes cover quarterly dues
• 50 Profit goes to Scouts camp account
• Camp account may be used to pay for outings or
  gear
• Collect money at time of order
• Scout picks up order at Church, delivers to
  customers

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What to bring on an Outing

• Essentials
• Clothing Appropriate for range of weather
  conditions w/ extras
• Rain Gear
• Extra Shoes
• Sleeping bag (foam pad optional)
• Plate, Cup, bowl, knife, fork spoon
• Pocket knife (NO Large knifes, hatchets or axes)
• Water Bottle
• Matches
• Compass
• Flashlight batteries
• Pack in duffel or backpack NO GARBAGE BAGS
• Personal hygiene items and towel
• Scout Book, paper and pen
• Sun Screen/Mosquito repellant
• No Walkmans, GameBoys, or other electronic items

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Scoutmasters Highlights

• Been more valuable to my career than any
  management class
• 50 mile bike trip
• Weekend camping very relaxing
• Get ideas about what my son is thinking
• Relationships with many boys
• Witness true joy in accomplishments/experiences
• Climbing wall
• Aviation Camporee
• Skiing merit badge
• Big Horn Trip
• Cleanup inspection

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Day 3. Genius teens.
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Day 6 Cliff Lake Comfortable at 10,000 ft
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Whats Next

• Make a volunteer commitment
• Get training
• Dont wait to be asked
• Have fun

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Troop 60 Volunteer Opportunities
Scoutmaster __________ Asst. Scoutmasters _____
______ ____________ ____________ Committee
Chair __________ Asst. Chair __________ Treasu
rer ____________ Asst. Treasurer ____________
Secretary ____________ Asst. Secretary ________
____ Transportation _____________ Campout
Coord ____________ ____________ Tomahawk
Coord ____________ Medical
records ____________
Quartermaster ___________ Asst.
QM ___________ Fund Raising Chair ____________
Spring 01 Helpers ____________ ____________ Fa
ll 01 Helpers ____________ ____________ Court
of Honor Coord June 2001 ____________ August
2001 ____________ Charter Partner Liaison
___________ Webelos Transition ___________l Cha
plain ___________ Seamstress ___________ Adva
ncement ____________ Asst. Adv __________