Important Troop Organization Meeting On 02-23-09

“It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.”

Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)

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At our regular Monday Night Meeting on February 23rd, we will be reorganizing the troop into similar-age patrols.   This will allow each of the patrols to undertake the scouting method in a way that is appropriate and achievable by their age group.

Following the regular meeting opening, we will have announcements and then those scouts that wish to be a part of, and meet the Troop 108 minimum requirements for the Venture Patrol (age 13 and Star Rank), will move to the Buzzards Nest (the meeting room behind the main meeting room) to get organized, elect their youth leaders and to start planning their first outing as a Venture Patrol.

The remaining scouts will be given some time to organize themselves into two patrols on their own.   If they fail to be able to do that within the allowed time, the adults will have to have them “draw a number out of the hat” and then put like-numbers together in patrols.   Once these patrols are formed, they will select a mascot elect their patrol leaders, assistant patrol leaders and scribe/webmasters.

We will then bring the entire group back together to talk about patrol spirit and patrol competition and how we plan to kick it up a notch in the coming months.

It is human nature to want to keep things the way they are – even if it isn’t working as well as we would like for it to.   But sometimes you just have to take that brave step forward to embrace change and to give it your best effort.