PLC notes

PLC Notes 5/9

• New Scouting Year Calendar
• September Campout- Float trip in same location, need more kayaks than past years
• October Campout- Webelos Woods
• November Campout- Huntsville State Park normal campout split between traditional campout and backpacking 101, Ouchita over thanksgiving break- Eagle Rock Loop
• December Campout- Double Lake
• January Campout- Lake Ratcliffe
• February Campout- E-Rock
• March- Cunningham Ranch
• Apirl- Camporee
• May- Schlitterbahn Galveston
• Summer Camp Ideas: Michigan, Bear Creek, Tahosa High Adventure Base CO, Summit, Camp Bartle

5/16 meeting- elections
5/23 meeting- COH w/ reception

PLC Notes 4/4
Camporee:

• Need more preparation
• It was still fun
• Leadership positions
• Brody needs access to the website(ironic)
• Training positions doing good, however more attendance needed

We should have skill days practicing skills for camporee because this past camporee wasn’t pretty
Meeting Ideas: Stretcher relays, outdoor skills (orienteering, fire building, cooking), merit badge requirements, scouting skills kahoot, australian outback survival skills presentation, meal prep instructions
4/11 Meeting

• Teach lashings

4/25 Meeting

• Lashing structure building competition
• Potentially Baz?

5/2 Meeting

• Teach people how to meal plan, then meal plan

Future meetings: Healthy competition within patrols about a certain skill each month
​November 5, 2018 - PLC NOTES
Attendance:
(Bold Indicates Attendance)

• Jack Benish
• David Asare
• Ethan Brumburger
• Max Crocker
• Jonathan Qu
• Matthew Trotter
• Owen Hulshof
• Will Willems
• Forest Willems
• Garrett Smoak
• Cooper Smoak
• John McKenna
• Travis McKenna
• Zack Black
• Ben English
• Corwin Loomis-Price
• Readon Knight
• Jack Landau
• Serge Frazier
• Griffin Keene
• Carson Posey
• Christopher Kulis
• Luc Gregoire
• Carson Pyle
• Calvin Nyeholt
• Luca Bisono

Important Announcements


ILST ON NOV. 10
 
Next Monday-- We will be planning upcoming camping trips
 
New Leadership Position System

• Scouts will be allotted 6 months to complete the requirements for their leadership positions. Specifics are to be determined...

Webelos Woods

• Great turnout!
• Need to be more efficient in packing up in the morning
• Good job engaging with the Webelos
• Try to implement new patrol method during upcoming campouts

 


FOR ANYBODY IN A LEADERSHIP POSITION:

• If you will not be at an event or meeting, make sure to find a replacement through your assistant patrol leader.
• Make sure that if you hope to advance/change positions that you find and recruit a replacement for your current position beforehand.
• Make sure to coordinate all check-outs of tents/gear through the quartermaster.

September 27, 2018 - PLC NOTES
NO MEETING ON COLUMBUS DAY
Attendance:
(Bold Indicates Attendance)

• Jack Benish
• David Asare
• Ethan Brumburger
• Max Crocker
• Jonathan Qu
• Matthew Trotter
• Owen Hulshof
• Will Willems
• Forest Willems
• Garrett Smoak
• Cooper Smoak
• Travis McKenna
• Zack Black
• Ben English
• Corwin Loomis-Price
• Readon Knight
• Jack Landau
• Serge Frazier
• Griffin Keene
• Carson Posey
• Christopher Kulis
• Luc Gregoire
• Carson Pyle
• Calvin Nyeholt
• Luca Bisono​

Important Announcements
NYLT registration now open for the 26th-31st of December
SKILLS DAY
Sign up ASAP!
DOUBLE LAKE

• Sign up as soon as possible.
• David, John, Calvin, and Luca will plan activities for the Webelo Scouts. Initial ideas included the following: Axe/knife throwing, axe yard, firebuilding, orienteering activity, geocache, cooking, or skynine/other game.
• Meals for Webelos cooked by older scouts.
• Arrow of light requirements completed.
• Swag exchange for younger scouts? (Too-small clothes, old equipment) Organize through quartermaster.

FOR ANYBODY IN A LEADERSHIP POSITION:

• If you will not be at an event or meeting, make sure to find a replacement through your assistant patrol leader.
• Make sure that if you hope to advance/change positions that you find and recruit a replacement for your current position beforehand.
• Make sure to coordinate all check-outs of tents/gear through the quartermaster.

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July PLC
1. Update website

• Send pictures to Luke.
• Update the calendar for upcoming activities.

2. Summercamp likes/dislikes

• Likes

Weather
Scenery
Staff
Food
Majority would like to go back

• dislikes

Distance

​3. Leadership opportunities

• Flag ceremony needed practice.
• Plc meetings should be performed daily at camp.
• More opportunities to go above and beyond.
• Didn’t set up the gate.
• More participation during 5 mile hike.
• Knockout swim test here at the YMCA.
• Lack of input from senior scouts.
• What could have been done earlier to make departure smoother?
• Problem with noise after lights out​

5. Troop

• Mr. Posey will be doing the chemistry merit badge Aug. 11.
• Merit badge university Aug. 18 at Lonestar campus.
• Raedon will be the new merit badge organizer.
• Merit badges will be rotating fun, eagle, STEM, and repeat.
• Need ideas for sept. and beyond
• October SPL elections.
• Outdoor ASPL, Scribe, Historian, and Chaplain aide needed.
• Partials from trip can be completed monday Aug. 6.
• Traffic safety partial completion TBD.
• Trailer will be getting updated with decals.
• Trailer will be repacked for quartermaster day (date TBD).

March PLC
No meeting on March 12 - Spring break.


Campout

• Travel in class A to campsite
• Improve on waking up, and getting together quicker
• Older scouts need a bigger role in the setup and helping of getting younger scouts organized.
• Scouts must wear troop attire during travel as to appear uniform. As to make sure to that scouts are accounted for.

March 5th - Regular meeting - Rank advancement

March 19th - Last meeting before campout - Cunningham Ranch
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