At the most recent planning meeting the troop senior leadership committee came up with the following goals that they are going to work on incorporating throughout the next couple of months. Here they are in no particular order:

• Advancement, everyone advance at least 1-rank. All present Scouts to First Class.
• Functional Pre-Opening
• Incorporating non-Eagle Required Merit Badges into our pre-openings.
• Each Patrol reach National Honor Patrol
  Scout skills – emphasize importance
• Improve patrol functionality 
• Specific patrol based activity (Advancement opportunity)
• Communication
• Menus/Food list 
• Boys communicating better with their parents
• Quartermaster Issues
• See flags at patrol meetings
• Show more spirit at troop meetings
  Do a better job breaking the skills selection of our meetings into
• ranks for the boys continue to be challenged as they age. 
• Rank based/proportioned
• Improved attendance through improved meetings
• Service to the community
• Have the list of goals at the PLC so they stay in mind every year. 
• Everyone knows the troop cheer
• Everyone earns the troop monkey fist knot

Troop 746 Turned 60 In 2012

A couple of years ago Troop 746 celebrated its 60th anniversary. Colin, one of our scouts designed the Anniversary patch. If you would like to see a short blurb about the activities of the weekend visit this page. Thanks to everyone who helped out and also to everyone who attended. We hope you had fun, we did. Here is a link to the video on You Tube that was professionally produced by George Stover of Adventure Productions. If you would like to have a copy of the video, here is a link from our website. Use Windows Media Player to play the video if using the link from this site.

Do you want a Troop 746 Tee Shirt? One of the hottest things going on is the appeal of our very own Troop 746 tee shirts. Our very own Mr. Mike Cox is leading the effort to see that every boy in the state of Maryland, I mean everyone in Troop 746 has his own 746 tee shirt. If you want to know the what is available just print and fill out the order form and turn it in to Mr. Mike Cox with a check made out to Troop 746 to pay for the stuff you are ordering.

Every three years the Troop 746 takes a two-week long range trip.  If you are curious about the trip, take a look at the photos from 2004, 2008, and 2011.  Troop 746 scouts selected a Pacific Northwest trip.  We depart Sat.12 July--Return 27 July.  Tour week is 12-20 July and will visit Seattle, Puget Sound, Olympic NP, Mt. Rainer NP, and the Columbia Gorge. Summer Camp will be at Camp Meriwether located on the Pacific Ocean in northern Oregon from 20-26 July. 

Detailed information on the trip is posted on our Scoutlander Site.  We also are seeking volunteers for the Out West 2014 trip planning committee, which meets the same time as PLC..

If a Scout is going on one of our trips, it is imperative that an up-to-date Boy Scout Medical Form be completed and on file. The lastest BSA page with all the medical forms can be found here. Chris Shoul manages these forms for Troop 746.

The next meeting will be 9 April 2014 at 7:00 PM. All Scout parents are invited to attend the Troop committee meeting. If there are any issues that need to be addressed please contact Mrs. Kathy by phone.
 
Kathryn Holmes,
Committee Chair

According to Troop 746 guidelines, if the weather forces a cancellation of school activities, then all Scout activities will also be cancelled.

We have an Interactive STAND Volunteer Certification Form and also a Merit Badge Counselor Application form that is interactive. Just open them up in the latest version of Adobe Reader and type away.

For a link to Seabase click here.

For the Philmont website click here.