Mercer Area District April 2010 Roundtable

 

Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010

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

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

 

7:00 – 9:00 PM

Order of the Arrow – Sanhican Chapter Meeting.

 

7:00 – 7:30 PM

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

 

7:30 – 7:45 PM

Announcements/Joint Session

  • General Announcements
  • District Executive’s Announcements

7:50 – 9:00 PM

Cub Scout Breakout Session

  • Theme for the month – In the Spotlight
  • Webelos Activity Badges –  Outdoorsman and Artist
  • Highlighted Book –  Den Chief Handbook

7:50 – 9:00 PM

Boy Scout Breakout Session

  • Announcements - Centennial Camporee Update
  • Roundtable Discussion - Boy Scout Recruitment

 

 

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.

 

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

 

Fri-Apr-23 – Sun-Apr-25, 2010

MAD Centennial Celebration Boy Scout Camporee at Quail Hill

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

 

Sat-Apr-24, 2010

MAD Centennial Celebration Cub-A-Rama at Quail Hill

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

 

Sat-May-1, 2010

Mid-Atlantic Scout Orienteering Championships at FCSP, PA

http://www.scoutorienteering.com/masoc_downloads.htm

 

Sat-May-15, 2010

MAD Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training

http://wenthome.com/training/flyers/MAD-BSALT-2010-05.html

 

Fri-May-21 – Sun-May-23, 2010

Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills

http://wenthome.com/training/flyers/MAD-BSALT-2010-05.html

 

Fri-Jun-11 – Sun-Jun-13, 2010

MAD Special Olympics Service Camporee at TCNJ

http://www.mad-bsa.org/olympics/olympics2010.htm

 

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

 

Next Roundtable is Wednesday

May 5, 2010

Gathering at 7:00 PM

Location: Ewing Presbyterian Church