PLC notes

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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