Since the troop had such a great time climbing this weekend, we were considering signing up for the NCAC Climboree in October 2025. The signup is in late April, so we need to decide now if there is enough interest in GT8 attending. The event runs from Friday, October 10 through Monday, October 13. Please be ready to talk about your interest in attending at the meeting on Monday, March 31.

If you are attending summer camp this year (June 16-21), please ensure that you are signed up on the GT8 website ASAP. There are some critical deadlines and updates.

Join GT8 and BT8 on Saturday, March 29 from 1:00-3:00 pm at Jessup-Blair Park (Silver Spring, MD) for a park clean up! This clean up can go towards conservation projects and scouts can also earn SSL hours.

Our third session of the Firsat Aid Merit Badge will be Monday, March 31, at 7:30 pm, for session 3 of the First Aid Merit Badge. We will be meeting again in the community room in the North Chevy Chase Christian Church. If you missed session 2, we will have to make up what we covered at another time. Here is a schedule of what we are doing for session 3. Some of these are things we didn't finish this week, but I added more requirements to the list.

I have updated the information in the calendar entry for the March outing this weekend. I pasted the entirety below. Please ensure all scouts come with 2 liters of water, sneakers, lunch and snacks, a rain jacket, comfortable, non-restrictive clothing, and a day pack to carry your items. We are meeting at the Carderock Recreation Area at 8:15 AM on Saturday. Links to the dropoff and pickup locations are in the calendar entry.

Our second session of the First Aid Merit Badge will be this Monday, March 24, at 7:30 pm. We will be meeting in the community room in the North Chevy Chase Christian Church. This is the same information I sent before last week's cancelled meeting, so hopefully the scouts have their prep work done, but just to be sure, here is a schedule of what we are doing.