Our troop’s charter renewal is coming up in December, which is just a few weeks away.  This year, BSA has established new Youth Protection Training requirements that will affect our troop’s charter renewal. 

Any adult with a YPT certificate that expires during 2022 or before will not be allowed to register with the troop’s charter renewal this December.  This is a significant change that affects almost all of our adult volunteers.   Please plan to recomplete your YPT training at your earliest convenience so your registration will not be affected. 

If you have a YPT training certificate that expires in 2023 and you have not forwarded me your certificate, please do so at your earliest convenience and I will add to my file.

Currently, we only have about 12 adults who have sent in their certificates and are eligible for recharter.  That leaves around 25 who still need to recomplete the training to become eligible.

The YPT course is online and broken into three parts: Overview and Policies, Sexual Abuse and Bullying. It will take about 1-1.5 hours to complete. You can access the training video and questionnaire at: http://www.scouting.org/Training/YouthProtection.aspx. 

Once you have completed the training, please send me a copy of your completion certificate and I will print and keep on file. Please note it takes about an hour after course completion for your certificate to be available to download.

Thanks so much,

Shelley Perdue shelleyprd@troop928.org 

Cave Exploring (Hidden Passages and Wild Cave Experience) plus a Pizza Party afterwards!

Cave Location: Inner Space Cavern

Event Details: December 3 - 5th

Cave Location: Inner Space Cavern TWO TOURS Options

Must be 13-year-olds and up – WILD CAVE TOUR

Wild Cave Tour will take you deep underground into a complex maze of passages and chambers, not open to the general public, where we will enjoy the natural beauty created by rock and water over thousands of years. Led by experienced staff, you wear gloves, helmets with lights and knee pads and to enjoy ~2 hours of hiking, crawling, climbing, and squeezing through tight spots to view beautiful formations and large decorated rooms.  Limited to first 20 persons to sign up.

Younger Scouts or Adults – HIDDEN PASSAGES TOUR

The Hidden Passages tour will provide you with flashlights and a guide to take you into a newly opened section of the cave on an undeveloped trail with some climbing in order to explore delicate formations on a rugged, intimate tour of the cave.  Limited to first 24 persons to sign up.

January’s campout is going to take us to three different great locations. The first stop on Saturday will be at the Alamo where we will have a couple of hours to tour the Alamo and learn about its history. The second stop will be Sea World where we will take a nighttime behind the scenes tour of the park and sleep on the floor in the shark enclosure.  After eating breakfast on Sunday we will feed the stingrays and dolphins and then travel to Corpus Christi and board the USS Lexington where we will be able to tour the ship, go on a history scavenger hunt and spend the night in the crew bunks. This is a great 3-day 2-night trip that will take place during the 3-day weekend/ Martin Luther King holiday.

Cost: Scouts $230.00 / Parents $190.00

Includes: All travel, accommodations, and meals for scouts. Bring additional money for souvenirs.

Transportation: Will be provided by the parents attending the trip.

Accommodations: Both Sea World and the Lexington will have separate sleeping areas for any Moms who want to make the trip.

Everyone attending the will be required to complete a Release Packet required by Sea World. It will be available for download next week.

DEADLINE for signups is November 22nd. Any signups after that date will be on space availability at the USS Lexington. Since this is a holiday weekend spaces fill up early. To guarantee your spot sign up as soon as possible.

Departing 9:30 am Saturday Jan 15^th, Returning approx. 4:00 pm Monday Jan 17^th   

Please note registering for this event is a commitment for payment. The fee we must pay to Sea World and the USS Lexington is not refundable in the event you are unable to attend. If someone else takes your place on the roster after the date of your cancellation fees paid will be refunded.

WCKids

Youth Volunteers for Christmas Festival 2021

Students sixth grade and up may volunteer and earn community service hours at the WC Christmas Festival on Wednesday, Dec. 1. Students will volunteer in two hour shifts and may sign up for more than one shift. If you have any questions or need to talk about a specific time frame, please contact Ms. Denise.

Date: 12/01/2021 (Wed.)

Location: White's Chapel United Methodist Church

Please signup using this link. 

Community service is a part of Scouting. Summer is a good time to volunteer. Here’s a list of organizations often needing a helping hand.

Bob Jones Nature Center & Preserve (Note: conservation community service)
355 E. Bob Jones Rd.
817-748-8019
https://www.experiencesouthlaketexas.com/428/Bob-Jones-Nature-Center-and...
Contact: Hannah Nyquist, bjncp@cityofsouthlake.com

Need to Complete a Merit Badge?  It’s possible you already completed some requirements in school! Click below to read the entire article.

Top 5 merit badges Scouts could earn while completing assignments for school

• Scholarship
• Reading
• Theater
• Programming
• Athletics