Mercer Area District September 2009 Roundtable

 

Date: Wednesday, Sep 2, 2009

Location: Ewing Presbyterian Church, 100 Scotch Road, Ewing NJ

Directions can be found at http://mad-bsa.org/roundtable/

 

SCHEDULE

7:00 – 7:30 PM

  • Popcorn Training
  • Gathering - District Director and Commissioner's Staff members available to answer questions.

 

7:30 – 7:45 PM

Announcements/Joint Session

  • General Announcements
    • Rechartering and Chartarama
    • Centennial Cubarama and Camporee
  • District Executive’s Announcements

7:50 – 9:00 PM

Cub Scout Breakout Session

  • Theme of the month –  Jungle Safari
  • Webelos Activity Badges –  Citizen and Showman
  • Highlighted Book – Cub Scout Leader Book

7:50 – 9:00 PM

Boy Scout Breakout Session

  • Announcements
  • International Scouting Presentation
  • Changes in the Scouting Handbook
  • Changes in Boy Scout Advancement for 2010

 

 

PRESENTATIONS

 

If you would like to communicate something to the group at the Joint Session, Boy Scout Breakout, and/or Cub Scout Breakout, please contact David Mitchko, david.mitchko@navy.mil before the Roundtable, thanks. You will need to supply flyers to hand out. If you are in attendance, you will be introduced so that interested people can talk to you later, but verbal presentations will be limited.

 

BOY SCOUT ADVANCEMENT NEWS

 

Our district advancement web page, http://mad-bsa.org/advancement/, has links useful for Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Venturer advancement. The latest Merit Badge Counselor list is dated August 29, 2009 – if you would like a copy, please email Bruce Wentworth (bruce@wenthome.com), identifying your troop affiliation.

 

We are looking for experienced troop Eagle advisors able and willing to serve as Eagle advisors on the district advancement committee. If you can recommend anyone for this critical district function, please contact advancement chairman Gene McDermott at genemcdermott@aol.com.

 

LEADERSHIP TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

 

Leadership training is key to providing a quality program – every scout deserves a trained leader! Our district training web page (http://wenthome.com/training/) lists upcoming training opportunities in our area. Please note the Cub Scout Leader Specific training on Thursday, September 10, at Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church.

 

NEW ONLINE TRAINING AVAILABLE

 

BSA National has released the on-line course “This is Scouting”, which replaces the classroom course New Leader Essentials as the introduction to the Basic Adult Leader training track.  You may access this new training from the e-learning section of the MyScouting web site, http://MyScouting.org/.


 

CALENDARS

 

The following program calendars are available on-line in PDF format:

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

 

Thurs-Sep-10, 2009

MAD Cub Scout Leader Specific Training at Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church

http://wenthome.com/training/flyers/MAD-CLST-09-2009-flyer.pdf

 

Fri-Sep-25 -- Sun-Sep-27, 2009

MAD Frontier Adventure Boy Scout Camporee at YCSR

http://mad-bsa.org/frontier2009/

 

Fri-Sep-25 -- Sun-Sep-27, 2009

Diocese of Trenton Catholic Committees on Scouting Annual Retreat

http://www.dotccs.org/

 

Sat-Oct-17 – Sun-Oct-18,2009

51st World Jamboree On The Air (JOTA)

http://mad-bsa.org/radio/

 

Sun-Oct-18,2009

DVOA Scout Orienteering at Quail Hill

http://www.dvoa.org/events/sked/

 

Sat-Oct-24, 2009

Scouts To The Rescue 2009

http://mad-bsa.org/rescue2009/

 

Sat-Oct-31,2009

DVOA New Jersey Scout Orienteering Championships at WCSP

http://www.dvoa.org/events/sked/

 

Fri-Jan22 – Sun-Jan-24, 2010

MAD 2010 Klondike Derby

http://mad-bsa.org/klondike/

 

 

 

For updated event information, please check http://mad-bsa.org/

 

Next Roundtable is Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Gathering at 7:00 PM

Location: Ewing Presbyterian Church